German publishing award

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The German Publishing Prize has been awarded as part of the Frankfurt Book Fair since 2019 and is endowed with a total of over one million euros. It is intended to strengthen the "economic competitiveness of small, independent publishers in Germany ".

The prize was awarded by the Minister of State for Culture, Monika Grütters . In 2019, three publishers each received a seal of approval and the top price of 60,000 euros, and up to 60 other publishers each received a seal of approval and 15,000 euros. Three publishers with a turnover of more than 3 million euros received an undoped seal of approval.

The selection from the 312 applications was made by an independent jury headed by literary critic Denis Scheck . The prizes for 2019 were presented on October 18 at the Frankfurt Book Fair. The top prizes went to Hädecke Verlag , kookbooks and Spector Books .

In 2019 , endowed prizes went to the publishers Alexander , Argobooks , Argument , ars vivendi , AvivA , Berenberg , binooki , Buchkinder , Buchkunst Kleinheinrich , cass , CulturBooks , Deutscher Architektur Verlag , Edition Assemblage , Edition Faust , Edition Nautilus , Elfenbein , Felix Meiner , FVA , Guggolz , Anton Hirsemann , Jacoby & Stuart , bankruptcy book , Kröner , Kulturverlag Kadmos , kunstanstifter , Lehmstedt , Liebeskind , Lilienfeld , Mabuse , mairisch , mare , Maro , Matthes & Seitz Berlin , mikrotext , MDV , Mixtvision , Peter Hammer , poet shop , psychiatry , Reprodukt , Schirmer / Mosel , Schöffling & Co. , Secession , speak low , supposé , Theater der Zeit , Transit , Tulipan , VBB , Ventil , Verbrecher , Wunderhorn , Hermann Schmidt , Wagenbach , Verlagshaus Berlin , Klostermann , Voland & Quist , Walde + Graf , Weidle and zu Klampen . The undoped prizes went to the Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft , Schwaneberger Verlag , Reclam Verlag and Edition Michael Fischer .

In 2020, a total of around 1.4 million euros were awarded to a total of 66 independent publishers, 60 of which were awarded a seal of quality and a premium of 20,000 euros each, while three publishers again received a top premium of 60,000 euros and three larger ones Publishers an undoped seal of approval was awarded. The three top prizes, a seal of quality combined with a premium of 60,000 euros each, went to the publishing houses DOM publishers , Liebeskind and Matthes & Seitz Berlin in 2020 .

The criteria for awarding the award are the publishing profile, cultural commitment, innovative and digital projects and the quality of the publishing work.

Publishers can apply to participate. All publishers based in Germany that are independent of a group, have existed for at least three years and have published at least four titles per year by different authors are eligible to participate. Endowed quality seals are only given to publishers with a turnover of less than 3 million euros. Publishers that have received the top prize are not eligible to participate in the following year. The prize money of the endowed prizes may not be used for private purposes.

criticism

Gunnar Schedel, the managing director of Alibri Verlag , complained that half of the 2020 winners had received the award for the second time. Since the award practice by a jury would lead to an increasing “two-tier society” among small publishers, he suggested a random distribution of the prize money.

Web link

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Conditions of participation and procedural rules, www.deutscher-verlagspreis.de, March 29, 2019, accessed September 28, 2019
  2. ↑ a b Prize winners of the first German publishing house award / “Lighthouses of our diverse literary landscape”. Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
  3. ↑ German Publishing Prize: Main prizes go to Hädecke, kookbooks and Spector Books. In: buchmarkt.de. October 18, 2019, accessed October 19, 2019 .
  4. ^ Minister of State for Culture honors 66 publishers , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, May 18, 2020, accessed on May 19, 2020.
  5. ↑ The winners of the second German Publishing Prize have been announced , buchmarkt.de, published and accessed on May 18, 2020.
  6. ↑ Prizewinner 2020 , deutscher-verlagspreis.de, accessed on May 25, 2020.
  7. ^ "Replace the publisher's award jury with a random generator". In: www.boersenblatt.net. June 9, 2020, accessed June 15, 2020 .