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founding   1831
Seat   Munich , Germany
publisher   Thomas Rathnow
Publisher number   641
Publishing group   Random House
genus   Fiction , poetry , non-fiction
Website   www.randomhouse.de

The Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt ( DVA ) is a German book publisher based in Munich . It goes back to the Hallberger publishing house founded in Stuttgart in 1831 . Later owned by Robert Bosch and the Fazit-Stiftung , Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt has been part of the Random House publishing group since 2005 . The most successful title is Maya the Bee and Her Adventures by Waldemar Bonsels . In addition, the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt became known through numerous political biographies. Today the program includes sophisticated fiction , poetry and non-fiction books as well as works from the fields of architecture, garden and living.

history

Portrait of Eduard Hallberger

In 1831 Ludwig Hallberger founded the Hallberger publishing company in Stuttgart . He was one of the first publishers to rely on well-known regular authors, which was crucial for the further development of his company. In 1848 his son Eduard Hallberger founded his own publishing house, whose program was shaped by the German Revolution of 1848/1849 . Eduard Hallberger also entered the young market for magazines . In 1873 both publishers were united and moved into a joint publishing house. At that time, the publisher was already one of the most important players in the industry. After Ludwig and Eduard Hallberger died, the company was converted into a stock corporation in 1881 under the name "Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt" . The management of the company took over Karl Berger Hall, brother of Edward. At that time, the printing, bookbinding, paper and cellulose factories of the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt also played a major role in the business. Half of the shares in Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt were owned by Ludwig and Eduard Hallberger's heirs, the other half were held by three banks.

In 1910 Gustav Kilpper took over the management of the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt. Under his aegis, economic success continued, especially thanks to new authors such as Thomas Mann . In 1920 Robert Bosch acquired 54.6 percent of the company's shares at the request of southern German liberals. The most important goal of the participation was to prevent nationalistic influences on the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt. In the early 1920s, the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt bought the competitors Schuster & Löffler, Egon Fleischel & Co. and Friedrich Andreas Perthes. With these publishers, the program was significantly expanded. After Hitler came to power , the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt came into conflict with the National Socialists. They temporarily arrested Gustav Kilpper on charges of publishing critical magazines. In 1936, Robert Bosch had to sell his shares under pressure from the National Socialists . The Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt was incorporated into the regime-loyal publisher Franz Eher Successor . The publishing house was bombed in 1944.

After the end of the Second World War , the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt received a printing license from the military government in 1945. Due to the extensive backlist , the company developed into one of the largest German publishers again over the next few years. The program also took poetry play an important role. In 1950 the shares in the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt were returned to the heirs of Robert Bosch. In the post-war years, the company's headquarters were provisionally located in Mörikestrasse, before it returned to its headquarters in Neckarstrasse in 1958. They bought the Engelhorn Verlag , which in the field of popular fiction was very successful. In addition, the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt participated as a founding partner in the German paperback publishing house . The range of magazines was expanded again, including the first issue of Bild der Wissenschaft appeared in 1964 .

In 1974 the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt got into a crisis: the management decided to close the loss-making printing company. 450 jobs were affected, which is why the decision was discussed in a broad public. In order to prevent the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt from losing its reputation, a new ownership structure was implemented in 1980: a third of the shares were taken over by the DVA Foundation, which was founded with funds from the heirs of Robert Bosch. The remaining two thirds of the publishing house was bought by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . At this point in time, the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt had a turnover of around 40 million marks. In 1997 the DVA Foundation gave up all of its shares in order to concentrate on promoting science, research, education and international understanding. The sole shareholder of the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt was now the Fazit-Stiftung , which is also behind the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. In the meantime, the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt had taken over Manesse Verlag , which is known to this day for its "library of world literature".

In 2000, the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt moved its headquarters from Stuttgart to Munich. In 2001 she took over the Munich-based Kösel Verlag . In the same year, the cooperation between the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt and Spiegel-Verlag began with a book about the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 . In 2002 the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung got into economic difficulties, which is why the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt was to be sold. In 2003 the Konradin Media Group initially acquired the magazines of the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, so that the company became a pure book publisher. In 2005 the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung sold the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt including Kösel and Manesse to the Random House publishing group .

The Bertelsmann - subsidiary thus strengthened its position in the German market. This has been criticized by observers and other publishers. Nevertheless, the Federal Cartel Office approved the takeover. Even after the sale, the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt remained an independent publisher under the umbrella of the publishing group.

program

"Daheim" magazine from 1868

Ludwig Hallberger published novels by Carl Spindler and travel reports by Hermann von Pückler-Muskau . His work Allusions about landscape gardening was the first architecture book of the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt and was available until the 1990s. With Nikolaus Lenau , a prominent author switched from Klett-Cotta to Ludwig Hallberger. The first publication of his son Eduard were Wehrmanns Lieder , the title was intended to benefit the German Revolution of 1848/1849 . An important product of Eduard Hallberger were magazines and magazines such as Gartenlaube , Daheim , Illustrierte Welt and Über Land und Meer . After the merger of the two family businesses, the publishing house published works by Otto Julius Bierbaum , Ricarda Huch and Theodor Fontane as well as translations by the authors August Strindberg , Lev Nikolajewitsch Tolstoy , Iwan Sergejewitsch Turgenew , Mark Twain and Émile Zola .

Under Gustav Kilpper, the authors Max Bense , Karen Blixen , Maurice Maeterlinck and others came to the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt. In the 1920s, the program was expanded through acquisitions by Waldemar Bonsels , Börries von Münchhausen , Ina Seidel and Clara Viebig . German authors, including Heinrich Lersch , Gottfried Benn and Erich Kästner , gained in importance. In 1923 Thomas Mann published the confessions of the impostor Felix Krull in the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt. It was a leader in the field of biographies and memoirs of politicians such as Otto von Bismarck . “Die Literatur” developed into an important journal for literary criticism and literary communication , but it made permanent losses.

After the Second World War, the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt initially used its backlist . Paul Celan became known with the volume of poems Poppy and Memory , published in 1952 . In general, poetry played a major role. In 1964 one of the first popular science magazines was launched under the name “ Bild der Wissenschaft ” . In the 1970s, another well-known author, Marcel Reich-Ranicki, joined the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt. This helped to win Sarah Kirsch and Ulla Hahn for the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt. Well-known authors of non-fiction books include Peter Scholl-Latour , Frederic Vester and Ian Kershaw with his biography of Hitler. Angela Merkel wrote a book on the subject of environmental protection with the title "In the Long Term". In recent years, the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt has published books by Christopher Clark , Le Corbusier , Michael Kleeberg , Peter Merseburger , Wolfgang Pehnt , Holger Reiners , Thilo Sarrazin , Hans-Peter Schwarz , and Tiziano Terzani, for example .

literature

  • Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt 1848–1923: 92 manuscripts by the publisher's authors with a historical introduction and a list of books . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1923, DNB  362400814 .
  • In the 110th year: Almanac of the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt Stuttgart in the year its publishing house was rebuilt . 1848-1958. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1958, DNB  452168260 .
  • 125 years of DVA . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1973.
  • 175 years of DVA . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2006.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Stephan Meyer leaves DVA. Thomas Rathnow is his successor. In: Book Market. October 31, 2006, accessed January 12, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Address book for the German-speaking book trade. Marketing and publishing service for the book trade , accessed on January 18, 2016 .
  3. ↑ The "Maya the Bee" was the absolute top title . In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten . October 23, 2010, p. 18 .
  4. ↑ a b c Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt celebrates its 175th anniversary. (No longer available online.) In: schwaebische.de . May 30, 2006, archived from the original on May 12, 2016 ; accessed on January 12, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schwaebische.de
  5. ↑ Books A – Z. Random House Publishing Group, accessed March 31, 2016 .
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  8. ^ A b c d Reinhard Wittmann: Success with the "speculative direction" . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . September 22, 2006, p. 31 .
  9. ↑ a b Bettina Langer: A child of the revolution leaves Stuttgart . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . July 17, 2003, p. 13 .
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  11. ^ A b Irene Ferchl: Stuttgarter speculative direction . November 1996, p. 115 .
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  13. ^ A b c Thomas Oser: Much more than just a "Chancellor Publishing House" . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung . June 24, 2006, p. 6 .
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  15. ^ Günter Bolle: Robert Bosch 1861–1942 . Stuttgart 1986, p. 98 .
  16. ↑ Freed from a thousand uncertainties . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . October 20, 2010, p. 31 .
  17. ↑ Ulrich Quiel: "At that time" updated . In: horizon . November 6, 1992, p. 104 .
  18. ↑ Nothing more . In: Der Spiegel . No. 44 , 1974 ( online ).
  19. ^ Heidi Dürr: Newspaper publishers pick up books . The big press houses have discovered the book business. In: The time . May 15, 1981.
  20. ^ Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt goes to FAZ-Gruppe . In: Handelsblatt . April 2, 1997, p. 19 .
  21. ↑ FAZ Group takes over Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . March 29, 1997, p. 14 .
  22. ↑ Frogs, owls, lions . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . December 29, 2001, p. 62 .
  23. ↑ Farewell in installments . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . May 6, 1999, p. 33 .
  24. ↑ takeover . DVA buys Munich-based Kösel-Verlag. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . June 30, 2001, p. 15 .
  25. ↑ Bad times. "FAZ" checks business investments . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . September 20, 2002, p. 57 .
  26. ↑ FAZ adjusts portfolio . In: Tages-Anzeiger . October 4, 2002, p. 63 .
  27. ↑ FAZ puts the DVA up for disposal . In: German printer . October 4, 2002, p. 4 .
  28. ↑ Michael Heller: FAZ sells DVA magazines . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . March 25, 2003, p. 13 .
  29. ↑ Back to the core business . In: horizon . March 27, 2003, p. 4 .
  30. ↑ Hans-Peter Siebenhaar: Random House buys book publishers from the FAZ . In: Handelsblatt . September 14, 2005, p. 19 .
  31. ^ Ijoma Mangold: The book business has its own time . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . September 14, 2005, p. 13 .
  32. ↑ Hans-Peter Siebenhaar: Book publishers defend themselves against random house . In: Handelsblatt . September 15, 2005, p. 16 .
  33. ↑ The need to grow in an industry . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . September 23, 2005, p. 44 .
  34. ↑ Cartel Office approves takeover of DVA Verlage by Random House. In: buchmarkt.de. October 13, 2005, accessed January 12, 2016 .
  35. ↑ Four specialist titles complement the DVA's book program . In: horizon . May 8, 1992, p. 53 .
  36. ↑ Wolfgang Ignée: Success with figureheads . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . April 12, 1996, p. 0 .
  37. ↑ a b 175 years of the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt - Greatest success with Maya the Bee . In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten . June 1, 2006, p. 16 .
  38. ↑ At best ridiculous . In: Der Spiegel . No. 36 , 1952 ( online ).
  39. ↑ In the footsteps of the poet Paul Celan . In: Heilbronn voice . December 31, 2013, p. 22 .
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  41. ↑ "Now you need good nerves" . In: Focus . November 24, 1997, p. 120-123 .
  42. ↑ Volker Ulrich: The double Prussia. Brilliantly told, fair in the judgment: Christopher Clark's masterpiece about the Hohenzollern state . In: The time . February 15, 2007.
  43. ↑ A Le Corbusier classic is being reissued . In: Berliner Morgenpost . April 8, 2015, p. 22 .
  44. ↑ Peter Mohr: Charly's Confessions . In: Wiener Zeitung . February 14, 2015, p. 42 .
  45. ^ Daniel Friedrich Sturm: Of many highs and many lows . In: Welt am Sonntag . April 26, 2015, p. 6 .
  46. ↑ The middle is in the mix . In: Der Tagesspiegel . June 10, 2009, p. 23 .
  47. ↑ Timeless elegance, appreciation of ideas . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . August 7, 2015, p. 55 .
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  50. ^ Memories of lost worlds . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung . January 2, 2012, p. 10 .

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