context Verlag Augsburg

context Verlag Augsburg
legal form	GbR
founding	2006
Seat	Augsburg , Germany
management	Martin Kluger
Branch	publishing company
Website	www.context-mv.de

The context verlag Augsburg deals primarily with regional products, cultural tourism and history. The geographic focus is on Augsburg , the Bavarian Swabia , the bordering Baden-Württemberg as well as Nuremberg and Regensburg . The publisher mainly publishes cultural travel guides, non-fiction books and illustrated books on these key areas.

History and program

The publishing house was founded in 2006 by Martin Kluger and Manfred Lehnerl. The thematic focal points of the publisher's range are city guides, cultural travel guides and non-fiction books on personalities and history topics associated with southern Germany ( Fugger , Mozarts , Elias Holl etc.) as well as illustrated books. For example, the history of the Fugger and the Augsburger Fuggerei is treated in several titles.

The editors in context verlag Augsburg have so far been the Swabian district , the Fürstlich und Graeflich Fuggerschen foundations, the cities of Augsburg , Donauwörth and Gersthofen , the Augsburg municipal utilities , several tourism associations and clubs as well as media companies based in Nuremberg, Regensburg, Aschaffenburg and in the Allgäu. One of the most famous authors is Karl Ganser , the "architect of the new Ruhr area".

In 2011, context Verlag Augsburg published the EU- critical book Europa? , a collection of speeches and texts by the President of the Czech Republic Václav Klaus .

The publisher also publishes the annual travel magazine Augsburg on behalf of Regio Augsburg Tourismus GmbH . Wittelsbacher Land & Augsburger Land .

Context verlag conceived the declaration of interest submitted by the city of Augsburg in 2012 to protect historic water management in Augsburg as a UNESCO World Heritage site ( hydraulic engineering and hydropower, drinking water and fountain art in Augsburg ) and published the booklet on historic water management and water art in Augsburg . Since then, numerous other books on this topic have been published by context, including the title Augsburg's historical water management in 2015 . The route to the UNESCO World Heritage published.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alois Knoller: A fruitful relationship . Augsburger Allgemeine , July 2, 2010, accessed on July 15, 2016.
   Worth reading and seeing: stories, pictures and information about the people of Fugger . Website of the Fürstlich und Gräflich Fugger Foundation Administration, accessed on July 15, 2016.
   Alois Knoller: Book: Das weite Land der Fugger . Augsburger Allgemeine, June 2, 2012, accessed July 15, 2016.
2. ↑ Angela Bachmair: Pearls of industrial culture . Augsburger Allgemeine, December 1, 2010, accessed on July 15, 2016.
   Karl Ganser: Industrial culture in Augsburg: pioneers and factory locks . Published by Regio Augsburg Tourismus GmbH. Context Verlag, Augsburg, 2010, ISBN 978-3-939645-26-9 . Published on the online publishing platform Issuu, accessed on July 15, 2016.
3. ^ Václav Klaus: Notes on the presentation of the book "Europe?" In Nuremberg . Speech on the occasion of the presentation of the book “Europe? Selected speeches, lectures and texts by the President of the Czech Republic 2005–2010 ”, Marble Hall of the Nuremberg Academy, Nuremberg, January 13, 2011. Website of Václav Klaus, January 13, 2011, accessed on July 15, 2016.
   Book presentation: Vaclav Klaus on the way on an anti-euro tour . Die Welt , January 13, 2011, accessed July 15, 2016.
4. ↑ Augsburg's water management: UNESCO World Heritage? ( Memento of the original from April 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Regio Augsburg Tourismus GmbH, accessed on July 15, 2016. 
5. ↑ Augsburg? As special as hardly any other city Augsburger Allgemeine, accessed on November 26, 2018.