The miracle horn
| Publishing house Das Wunderhorn GmbH | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1978 |
| Seat |
 Heidelberg
|
| management | Angelika Andruchowicz,
Manfred Metzner |
| Branch | Book publisher |
| Website | www.wunderhorn.de |
The Wunderhorn is a German book publisher based in Heidelberg .
history
The publishing house was officially founded on July 17, 1978 by Angelika Andruchowicz, Manfred Metzner and Hans Thill .
Publisher profile
The focus of the publishing program is on contemporary prose and poetry, on Francophone literature, books about art , as well as on literary and intercultural series such as B. the project German trip to Plovdiv . The publishing program includes book series (" Edition Künstlerhaus ", "Deutsche Reise nach Plovdiv ", "Poetry of the Neighbors", "VERSschmuggel"), artist books, design (Bruno Munari, Ralf Christofori), exhibition activities (Pierre Verger, Ré Soupault), collaborations with Museums (Museum Prinzhorn , Museum Ritter , Kurpfälzisches Museum Heidelberg , Völklinger Hütte ), with art associations (Heidelberg, Mannheim, Ludwigshafen, Stuttgart) and the Heidelberg Theater.
The work edition by the French surrealist Philippe Soupault and the photographic work by Ré Soupault have a special place in the publisher's program . An important focus is on research into National Socialism using the example of Heidelberg and its university ( Emil Julius Gumbel , Medicine under National Socialism, Jewish life in Heidelberg). The publishing house traces the literary and cultural life of Heidelberg with Michael Buselmeier's “Literary Guided Tours”. With the Deutschlandfunk poetry calendar and numerous anthologies, the publishing house was and is one of the most prominent poetry publishers in Germany. In intercultural dialogue Wunderhorn has for years with Édouard Glissant (culture and identity), Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio ( Nobel Prize for Literature in 2008), Abdelwahab Meddeb (The Malady of Islam, between Europe and Islam), Dany Laferrière ( International Literature Prize - House of cultures of the world 2014 for the novel The Riddle of Return ), Patrick Chamoiseau special accents. Since 2010, authors of contemporary African literature have been translated in the book series "AfrikAWunderhorn", such as Helon Habila , Binyavanga Wainaina , Maaza Mengiste , Lebogang Mashile etc.
management
From 2000 to 2010, the managing director Manfred Metzner was also chairman of the board of the Kurt Wolff Foundation , which awards the literary prize of the same name for discerning publishers.
Awards
- 1996 and 2018: Baden-Württemberg State Prize for literarily ambitious small publishers
- 2012: Kurt Wolf Prize
- 2019: German Publishing Prize
literature
- Theo Breuer : Wunderhorn Verlag . In: Theo Breuer: From the hinterland. Poetry after 2000 , Edition YE , Sistig / Eifel 2005, pp. 188–189.
Web links
- www.wunderhorn.de
- Verlag "Das Wunderhorn" celebrates its 40th birthday , publisher portrait on Deutschlandfunk from June 19, 2018
supporting documents
- ↑ see: GND profile
- ↑ Press release of the Kurt Wolff Foundation Leipzig January 10, 2008 ( Memento of the original from March 30, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Press release of the Kurt Wolff Foundation Leipzig August 30, 2010 ( Memento of the original from November 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ 2018 regional award for literary ambitious small publishers , boersenblatt.net from June 15, 2018, accessed June 20, 2018
