Conbook publishing house
| CONBOOK publishing house | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Conbook Medien GmbH |
| Seat | Neuss |
| Branch | literature |
| Website | www.conbook-verlag.de |
The CONBOOK publishing house for travel literature , based in Neuss , publishes books that deal with foreign cultures and societies.
Publishing program
The most famous series of the publishing house are the Fettnäpfchenführer : In the Country editions of the series foreign cultures and societies are presented, are sent into the fictional protagonists in the distance and there commit unintentionally various faux pas. The episodes are supplemented by well-founded explanations, additional knowledge boxes and footnotes. From April 2019 appears with the Fettnäpfchenführer Bayern by Nadine Luck , the first regional edition of Travel Knigge series.
In addition to the 27 country editions published so far, there are also four city editions in the faux pas guide series, which show a metropolis as otherwise only its inhabitants know it. The city editions provide practical tips on how to make a city visit particularly intense and tell about the people who, as residents, give a city its typical character.
The home books are intended to introduce German regions and the people who live there. Most of the authors come from the local cabaret / comedy scene. The Heimatbuch Berlin was z. B. written by the comedian Murat Topal , the music cabaret artist Sarah Hakenberg presents the Heimatbuch München and the slam poet Frank Klötgen presents the Heimatbuch Ruhrgebiet .
151 is the name of a new series of country documentaries in book form which show a different culture from different perspectives in a balanced mixture of images and texts. Spain 151 was penned by Lisa Graf-Riemann , so far Australia 151 , China 151 , India 151 , Japan 151 , Korea 151 , South Africa 151 , Thailand 151 , Turkey 151 and Vietnam 151 have also appeared.
The Guide to Business Culture Compact offers business people tips for business contacts with partners from other nations in a compact form. The previous editions of the series deal with the Arab Gulf States, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, France, Great Britain, India, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Spain and the USA.
In 2014 the publisher started the country crime series . This is where the genre of crime fiction and travel literature are combined to form novels that, in the guise of a crime story, provide insights into foreign societies. So far, the Indian crime thriller Bangalore Masala and the two Japanese crime thrillers Yoyogi Park and Roppongi Ripper have been published , in autumn 2015 the series will be expanded to include a Vietnam crime thriller: Hanoi Hospital .
In addition, the publisher publishes the daily in… -Ratgeber for emigrants and route guides for individual tourists.
In addition to its established series, the publisher also repeatedly includes individual titles from the field of culture and travel literature in its program, most recently including the autobiographical travel-adventure-surf-love-cult novel Boarderlines by Andreas Brendt , the satirical Netherlands portrait Holland speciaal , the cultural guide Der Chinese in itself and in general and the title Die Navel der Welt , a collection of the bizarre baby customs from around the world.
The publisher is a member of the German Book Trade Association .
Authors
Well-known authors in the publishing house include Christian Bartel , Andreas Brendt , Michael Kühntopf , Nadine Luck , Sandro Mattioli , Ludwig Wolfgang Müller , Detlev Schönauer , Hubert vom Venn and Misha Verollet .