Chronos Verlag Martin Mörike
Chronos Verlag Martin Mörike is an imprint of the Hamburg publishing house for children's theater , which belongs to the Friedrich Oetinger publishing group . Chronos Verlag Martin Mörike holds the performance rights to all plays by Erich Kästner .
Publishing history
Chronos Verlag was founded in Ludwigsburg in 1921 . Initially founded as a stage distributor for the Deutsche Verlagsanstalt , Chronos Verlag relocated to Stuttgart under the direction of Martin Mörike and opened a branch in Berlin. At this time the publishing house was passed to Mörike and became a theater publisher. The first works by Erich Kästner appeared in this publishing house as arrangements for the theater. After Martin Mörike's death in 1946, his wife Sofie Mörike continued to run the publishing house. The publishing house became Kästner's in-house publishing house. The first work was the radio play "Life in this time" published in 1929 . Other authors included Kurt Heynicke , Ludwig Thoma and Gunnar Gunnarsson .
On June 15, 1950, Chronos Verlag secured the exclusive stage distribution rights as well as the right to broadcast broadcasts to Eberhard Keindorff's comedies "Frau nach Mass", "His Majesty Gustav Krause" and "Relatives are also people", which he submits in cooperation with Kästner published under the pseudonym "Eberhard Foerster".
In 1970 Uwe Weitendorf took over the publishing house and shortly afterwards also founded the publishing house for children's theater. While the latter is aimed at children and young people, Chronos Verlag's target audience is adults. Both publishers are now based in Hamburg. In 1982 the publishing house was transferred to Weitendorf. His daughter Julia Bielenberg has been running the publishing house since his death in 1996.
In addition to the Kästner works, today's publishing program also includes stage pieces by classics such as Ben Jonson , Sophocles , Ferdinand Raimund , Oscar Wilde and Friedrich von Schiller , as well as contemporary pieces by Maurice Braddell , Renate Uhl , Dieter Waldmann and Hanns Dieter Hüsch .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Kästner biography. Kästner on the net, accessed on October 20, 2009 .
- ↑ Stefan Neuhaus: The secret work: Erich Kästner's collaboration on plays under a pseudonym . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2000, ISBN 3-8260-1765-X , p. 68-69 .