The great books

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Tollen Hefte were a bibliophile book series that was published between 1991 and 2012 by Armin Abmeier and after his death in July 2012 by his wife Rotraut Susanne Berner until 2019. The series combined prose and illustration .

The series

Inspired the tunnel books of the series "The tunnel books" that in the 1920s was published years ago by Elena Gottschalk Publisher. Based on this series, Armin Abmeier decided in 1991 to create a modern, literary illustration series - Die Tollen Hefte . The models for his series were the comic and adventure books Nick the Spaceman and Prince Eisenherz .

Before the series was discontinued, a total of 50 of the lavishly designed booklets had been published in small editions. Renowned artists such as Rotraut Susanne Berner , Axel Scheffler , Volker Pfüller , Anke Feuchtenberger and ATAK have illustrated texts by TC Boyle , Julio Cortázar , Gertrude Stein , Charles Bukowski and others for the Tollen Hefte in recent years . Abmeier's favorite author, Walter Serner , opened the series with his crime story Wong Fun .

Each of the copies is thread-stitched and, with the exception of booklets 5 and 7, printed as a multi-colored original flat-screen graphic. In addition, a graphic in the form of a small poster is enclosed with each issue. The first 15 great books were published by Maro Verlag , the following were published from 2001 by Edition Büchergilde ( Büchergilde Gutenberg ). Gimmicks were often included with the early editions .

Since it was founded in 1991, the series has won numerous book and graphic prizes, including the Prize of the Book Art Foundation and the Luchs (literature prize) from the weekly newspaper Die Zeit . Exhibitions in New York, Berlin, Leipzig and Frankfurt am Main have also been devoted to the illustration series in recent years. On September 3, 2010, Armin Abmeier and Rotraut Susanne Berner opened the Tolle Galerie in Munich, which - like the Tolle Hefte - is dedicated to the connection of text and images. The first exhibition showed illustrations by Blexbolex , who designed the 29th Great Booklet . In September 2011, for the 20th birthday of the series, an anniversary issue was published, Character is Just Obstinacy , which is illustrated by 20 artists.

In April 2016 the anniversary exhibition 25 years of Tolle Hefte took place during the children's book fair in Bologna. The exhibition showed the creation, history and printing technique of the booklets. In 2019, the series Die Tollen Hefte with another favorite author of Abmeier, Philip K. Dick , was discontinued.

The printing process

In the case of the original flat- screen graphics , color for color is added together, resulting in the whole picture. When drawing, the different colors are drawn separately on individual foils. In the printing process, color by color is then separately printed on top of each other.

Publications

  • Great issue 1 (1991): Walter Serner , Volker Pfüller (Ill.): Wong Fun. Crime story. With a comment by Thomas Milch.
  • Great Book 2 (1991): Uli Becker , Rotraut Susanne Berner (Ill.): The naked life. Man and woman in words and pictures.
  • Great Book 3 (1991): Oskar Pastior : UROLOGE KUESST NABELSTRANG. Scattered anagrams 1979–1989.
  • Great issue 4 (1991): Rotraut Susanne Berner: Noodle soup. A catalog from A – Z. Foreword by Michael Krüger.
  • Great issue 5 (1993): Anselm Glück : milking until blood comes.
  • Great issue 6 (1992): Axel Scheffler: Verbiesterte Welt.
  • Great book 7 (1993): Dmitri A. Prigow: Fifty blood droplets in an absorbent environment. Taken from the Russian manuscript by Günter Hirt and Sascha Wonders.
  • Great Book 8 (1993): Wolf Erlbruch : Ratten. With the poem Schöne Jugend by Gottfried Benn.
  • Great Issue 9 (1993): Atte Jongstra, Rotraut Susanne Berner (Ill.): Festive Lexicon. Translation from Dutch by Fritz van Lingen.
  • Great Book 10 (1994): Alphonse Allais , Volker Pfüller (Ill.): The Templars and A Good Parisian Melodrama. Two novels. With a match letter from Umberto Eco. Translated by Burkhart Kroeber.
  • Great booklet 11 (1996): Rotraut Susanne Berner: Body and stomach poems. From Artmann to Zürn.
  • Great issue 12 (1996): Volker Pfüller: Sketches and grimacing book.
  • Great issue 13 (1996): Yvonne Kuschel: I am very happy.
  • Great issue 14 (1997): TC Boyle, Sophie Dutertre (Ill.): My evening with Jane Austen. From the American by Werner Richter.
  • Great issue 15 (1998): Peter Wawerzinek , Moritz Götze (Ill.): Scurvy.
  • Great issue 16 (2001): TC Boyle, Thomas M. Müller (Ill.): The hard rock heaven. From the American by Werner Richter.
  • Great issue 17 (2001): Yvonne Kuschel: The future belongs to the brave.
  • Great issue 18 (2002): Anke Feuchtenberger: Die Skelettfrau.
  • Great issue 19 (2002): Axel Scheffler: About keeping squirrels. Translated from English by Harry Rowohlt.
  • Great issue 20 (2002): Henning Wagenbreth: The secret of the island of St. Helena.
  • Great booklet 21 (2004): AL Kennedy , Rotraut Susanne Berner (Ill.): The dictionary of the Mausbock family. From the English by Ingo Herzke.
  • Great booklet 22 (2004): Armin Abmeier, Rotraut Susanne Berner (Ed.), Thomas M. Müller (Ill.): Food means. What children need. 26 contributions by German-speaking authors.
  • Great issue 23 (2004): Michael Ondaatje , Stefanie Schilling (Ill.): The last ride of Billy the Kid. Translated from the English by Werner Herzog.
  • Great issue 24 (2005): Yvonne Kuschel: Never be solo and other palindromes.
  • Great issue 25 (2005): Gertrude Stein , ATAK (Ill.): Ada.
  • Great issue 26 (2006): Ernst Herbeck , Katrin Stangl (Ill.): When you look through the world like that.
  • Great issue 27 (2006): Marco Denevi , MAX (Ill.): A dog based on Albrecht Dürer's engraving "Ritter, Tod und Teufel". Translated from the Spanish by Elke Wehr.
  • Great issue 28 (2007): Charles Bukowski , Thomas M. Müller (Ill.): A rejection notice and the consequences. From the American by Carl Weissner.
  • Great issue 29 (2007): Blexbolex : The Flight to Abecederia. Translated from the French by Susanne Schardt.
  • Great issue 30 (2008): Stephann Krass, Kitty Kahane (Ill.): Poetischer Doppelpass.
  • Great issue 31 (2008): TC Boyle , Christoph Niemann (Ill.): Windsbraut. From the American by Dirk van Gunsteren.
  • Great issue 32 (2009): Christoph Feist: Orfeus & Eurydike.
  • Great issue 33 (2010): Ingrid Bachér , Rotraut Susanne Berner: The child and the cat.
  • Great booklet 34 (2010): Julio Cortázar, Franziska Neubert (Ill.): Story with deep water. Translation from Spanish by Wolfgang Promies.
  • Great issue 35 (2011): Brigitte Kronauer , Gosia Machon (Ill.): Im Gebirg '. ISBN 978-3-940111-81-4 .
  • Great issue 36 (2011): Armin Abmeier (ed.): Character is just obstinacy. ISBN 978-3-940111-89-0 .
  • Great issue 37 (2012): Merav Salomon: Frostbeulen. ISBN 978-3-940111-95-1 .
  • Great issue 38 (2012): Jens Bonnke: The other car was absolutely invisible, and then it disappeared again. ISBN 978-3-940111-79-1 .
  • Great issue 39 (2013): Henning Wagenbreth: Honky Zombie Tonk. The blue ghosts of New Orleans. ISBN 978-3-86406-026-7 .
  • Great issue 40 (2013): Katherine Mansfield , Sophia Martineck: Die Fliege. ISBN 978-3-86406-028-1 .
  • Great issue 41 (2014): Nicolas Robel: Topo Limbo. ISBN 978-386406-036-6 .
  • Great issue 42 (2014): HG Wells , Katja Spitzer (Ill.): The strange orchid. ISBN 978-3-86406-042-7 .
  • Great issue 43 (2015): Hans Traxler : A storm low over the Hausen outdoor pool ISBN 978-3-86406-046-5 .
  • Great book 44 (2015): Kristin Foltan : Der Kunstraub von Rotterdam ISBN 978-3-86406-059-5 .
  • Great booklet 45 (2016): Nadia Budde : Durch & Durch ISBN 978-3-86406-065-6 .
  • Great issue 46 (...): Philip K. Dick: Oh, as a Blobbel it's difficult.
  • Great issue 47 (...): Michael Ondatje: Jasper needs a job.
  • Great issue 48 (...): Katharina Stangl: The house cat is rarely white.
  • Great issue 49 (...): Michael Hammerschmidt: Schlaraffenbauch.
  • Great issue 50 (2018): Bret Harte: Muck-a-Muck.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ große-hefte.de
  2. ↑ Armin Abmeier
  3. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Cheekiness wins. Retrieved July 4, 2020 .
  4. ↑ The "Tollen Hefte" are discontinued. Retrieved July 4, 2020 .