The healthy sending of people
The healthy human dispatch is a Swiss book publisher specializing in spoken word and slam poetry and based in Lucerne . It was founded in 1998 by Matthias Burki and Yves Thomi and is one of the most successful spoken word publishers in German-speaking countries.
From 1998 to 2012 the publisher published the magazine “the magazine that wanted to change its long name”. Matthias Burki has been the sole publisher since 2007. In 2009 the publisher launched the “Edition SpokenScript” series.
In addition to authors such as Katja Brunner , Nora Gomringer , Michael Fehr , Pedro Lenz , René Schweizer and the Bern collective, the portfolio also includes the musician King Pepe . The 2010 novel Der Goalie bin ig by Pedro Lenz was sold over 35,000 times as a bestseller .
Awards
The publisher received the following awards:
- 2006: Sponsorship award for cultural mediation in the Canton of Bern
- 2007: Migros Jubilée Award in the literature category
- 2014: Swiss Publisher of the Year, elected by the Swiss Booksellers and Publishers Association (SBVV)
- 2016: Bern Literature Prize , "Continue writing" category
- 2018: Prize from the Landis & Gyr Foundation
Web links
- Publisher's website
- Publications by and about The healthy shipping of people in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
- For the 20th anniversary: There is plenty of space in this niche , Der Bund, March 9, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ The healthy sending of people: Portrait. In: www.menschenversand.ch. Retrieved September 7, 2015 .
- ↑ a b c "I prefer fractions" . In: Central Switzerland on Sunday , April 23, 2017
- ↑ the booklet that wanted to change its long name on the publisher's website, accessed on April 23, 2017
- ↑ Matthias Burki receives the Landis & Gyr Foundation Prize 2018. Accessed on March 9, 2018 .
Coordinates: 47 ° 2 ′ 39 " N , 8 ° 18 ′ 27.1" E ; CH1903: 666029 / 210712