Corvinus press

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The Corvinus Press is a publishing house in Berlin, whose books mostly in special bibliophile design in the traditional hand-set as well as special, handmade Japanese bond as artists' books are produced and the press prints. In 2009 the Corvinus press was awarded the Victor Otto Stomps Prize .

Publishing history

The Corvinus press was founded by Hendrik Liersch in Berlin during the fall of the Berlin Wall . The first book came out in April 1990. Over 200 books have been published since then. The publishing program contains poetry, aphorisms , prose and literary texts by German and international authors.

Bibliophile production and publishing concept

Most books are in the original hand-movement form of the manual hot metal produced even by the publisher as well - mostly in Japan bond - hand bound. Each book is compiled in a different bibliophile process, so that books are created with "individuality characteristics that can be experienced through the senses". The volumes catch the eye because of their “careful and imaginative design. Each book is different from the other in terms of paper, typesetting and format. Each one contains one or the other graphic that is not to be understood as an illustration to the text, but as an independent work. ”The taz wrote about the small publishing house:“ While the big publishers are getting bigger and bigger by incorporating the small ones, beyond this it thrives Cutthroat competition is a weed that, because of its fertility, seems ineradicable: the small publishing house. And because at this level, always hard on the capitalist turf, there is no profit to be made anyway, one can make such ruthlessly beautiful books here, such as Hendrik Liersch and his Corvinus press ”. According to Uwe Grüning  , the publisher is looking for his authors among those who have fallen into oblivion or those who have not yet arrived, he has “a weakness for the extraordinary” and for “the publication of an apparently little-sought-after literary genre that the larger publishers are increasingly refusing to offer: the Poetry. "

Because of the craftsmanship of its books, the publisher mainly restricts itself to the literary forms of poetry, aphorisms and short prose. The publisher sees himself "in the tradition of the legendary V. O. Stomps , whose raven press the name Corvinus Presse refers to". More books appear in machine print.

Well-known authors and books

The German-speaking authors whose bibliophile books have appeared in the Corvinus Press include the writers and lyric poets Petrus Akkordeon , Hans Bender , Henryk Bereska , Horst Bingel , Wilfried M. Bonsack , Theo Breuer , Hansjürgen Bulkowski , Ingo Cesaro , Harald Gröhler , Aldona Gustas , Anna Hoffmann , Peter Huckauf , Otto Jägersberg , Adrian Kasnitz , Hans Neuenfels , Heinrich Ost , Uve Schmidt , Victor Otto Stomps and Guntram Vesper . There are also books by the Czech poets Emil Juliš and František Listopad as well as the Polish writer Tadeusz Różewicz and the US poet Kenneth Rexroth .

Numerous artists worked with the authors and the publisher to create a total work of art from the books with graphics and drawings. In addition to the Chilean artists Guillermo Deisler and Pablo Lira , the Greek painter Litsa Spathi , the draftsman and graphic artist Horst Hussel , Bernhard Jäger , Hans Scheib , Arno Waldschmidt , Kay Voigtmann , Zoppe Voskuhl, Schoko Casana Rosso and Johannes Vennekamp were among the most important Contributions involved.

Exhibitions

The publisher's bibliophile editions, which are also valued by collectors, have been shown in several solo exhibitions, for example

The artist's books can be found in renowned libraries at home and abroad, for example in the USA at Princeton University and Harvard University , in England at the University of Oxford and the University Library of Cambridge or in Germany in the Duchess Anna Amalia Library .

Secondary literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Cornelia Staudacher : Sensing the thirties. The publisher Hendrik Liersch. In: Der Tagesspiegel . April 11, 1992.
  2. Bernd Imgrund in the taz of December 11, 1993.
  3. New times . 17th July 1993.
  4. Latin Corvinus , the little raven ' .
  5. Florian Neuner: Everything that has been misplaced can be found again. 10 years Corvinus press. In: Scheinschlag . Issue 09-2000, accessed on June 18, 2020.