The arsenal

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Arsenal - Verlag für Kultur und Politik is a literary-oriented small publishing house based in Berlin-Charlottenburg .

history

The Arsenal was founded on July 14, 1977 by the bookseller, doctorate in German studies and former lecturer Peter Moses-Krause , who still runs the publishing house today with the help of his wife Jutta Siegert. Emerging from the left-wing movement of 1968 in Berlin, the publishing house had a pronounced political program in the first few years. Meanwhile, the focus is on the small literary forms, especially essay writing and the urban literary feature pages, as well as on dealing with Jewish-German topics in the shadow of the Holocaust . In doing so, the publisher maintains a clearly secular profile that is oriented towards the Enlightenment.

program

The arsenal made numerous z. Some of the German-Jewish columnists of the first half of the 20th century are accessible again, including Arthur Eloesser , Victor Auburtin , to whom an edition of the work is dedicated, Karl Wolfskehl , Hans Siemsen , Béla Balázs , and above all Franz Hessel , whose strolls in Berlin under the Title A Flaneur in Berlin became one of the great successes of the publishing house.

The contemporary authors of the small form published in the Arsenal in German-speaking countries include a. Heinz Knobloch and Christine Wolter . In addition, Das Arsenal also publishes translations a. a. from French, Italian and Hungarian. In 2013, Das Arsenal published the first German-language edition in decades by the father of the French feuilleton, Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve . In commemoration of the anti-Jewish pogroms , Moses-Krause launched the Library of November 9th series in which u. a. Giacomo Debenedettis on October 16, 1943 and Claude Vigée with his autobiography Un panier de houblon under the title Bischweiler or the great Lebold appeared.

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