Connewitzer publishing house

The Connewitzer Verlagbuchhandlung Peter Hinke is a bookshop and a publisher in Leipzig.

history

Company formation

The Connewitzer Verlagbuchhandlung was founded in the spring of 1990 by Peter Hinke as a bookshop and publisher. Since there was no shop yet, the first sales were made in street sales, especially with literature that was not available in GDR bookshops before the fall of the Wall , and with the title Jetzt oder nie from Leipziger Forum Verlag , a documentation of the Monday demonstrations and the Opposition movement in Leipzig.

Bookstores

In July 1990 - shortly after monetary union - the first business premises in Fritz-Austel-Strasse 37 (today Bornaische Strasse) in Leipzig- Connewitz were moved into. Right from the start, the profile was characterized by sophisticated literature in the fields of fiction, contemporary history, humanities and art.

The first small branch was opened in the Leipzig city center for the Leipzig Book Fair in spring 1992, and in autumn this branch moved to a larger store in the Messehofpassage . After the business in Connewitz had to be closed for economic reasons at the end of 1994, the current business premises in Specks Hof were moved into in October 1995 . In 2006 a small branch was opened under the name Wörtersee in the Peterssteinweg in Leipzig .

Publishing development

The first publishing step was the publication of the Connewitzer Kreuzer , a monthly culture magazine as a supplement to the Leipzig DAZ - Die Andere Zeitung , between January and April 1991. From the group of employees at this magazine, the Kreuzer , a Leipzig city magazine, emerged in 1991 .

The first book program with two volumes of photographs and two volumes of poetry was published for the Leipzig Book Fair in spring 1992. Since then, the publishing program has been steadily expanded, today it includes over 100 titles from the fields of fiction (with a focus on poetry), contemporary history, visual arts, photography and regionalia, including works by Thomas Böhme , Moritz Götze , Kerstin Hensel , Thomas Kunst , Gerda Leo , Georg Maurer , Gerda Raidt , Andreas Reimann , Hans Reimann , Ulrike Almut Sandig and Karin Wieckhorst .

From 1995 to 1997 the publisher presented reprint editions of 5 titles from the series “ Was nicht im Baedeker”, which was popular before the Second World War . The series, most of which had been made by Walter Trier , was published by Piper Verlag from 1927 to 1938 and also contained a volume by Hans Reimann on his hometown Leipzig. Another reprint for the title Saxon from 1931 from the Piper series “ What is not in the dictionary ” was organized by the same author in 1995 .

Honors

• 2015 Kurt Wolff Award
• 2015 German bookstore award in the excellent bookstore category
• 2016 German bookstore award in the category of particularly outstanding bookstore
• 2018 German bookstore award in the excellent bookstore category
• 2019 Saxon Publishing Prize

Important titles in publishing history

• Arno Fischer : Photographien , 1997, ISBN 978-3-928833-93-6 . Awarded the 1998 Kodak Photo Book Prize
• Lene Voigt : Works . Published by Monica Schütte, Wolfgang U. Schütte and Gabriele Trillhaase on behalf of the Lene-Voigt-Gesellschaft eV Connewitzer Verlag-Buchhandlung Hinke, Leipzig 2004–2011, ISBN 978-3-928833-16-5
• Ilka comes to Merkur with a deer , edited by Frauke Hampel and Peter Hinke, with illustrations by Thomas M. Müller , 2005, ISBN 978-3-937799-07-0 - Awarded the 1st prize of the Book Art Foundation in the Most Beautiful competition German books 2005
• Kerstin Preiwuss : Message from New Stars , Poems, 2006, ISBN 978-3-937799-21-6 - Award of the Edition Wörtersee series in the competition The Most Beautiful German Books 2006

Web links

• Website of the Connewitz publishing house

Individual evidence

1. ↑ German Bookstore Award 2015 for Connewitzer Verlagbuchhandlung , accessed on May 2, 2019.
2. ↑ German Bookstore Award 2016 for Connewitzer Verlagbuchhandlung , accessed on May 1, 2019.
3. ↑ German Bookstore Award 2018 for Connewitzer Verlagbuchhandlung , accessed on May 2, 2019.
4. ↑ The Saxon Publishing Prize 2019 goes to the Connewitzer Verlagbuchhandlung , accessed on March 8, 2019.