Edition Erdmann
| Edition Erdmann GmbH - publishing and media agency | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1956 |
| Seat | Lenningen |
| management | Miriam Zöller |
| Branch | publishing company |
| Website | www.edition-erdmann.de |
The Edition Erdmann (or the Erdmann Verlag ) is an in Lenningen -based publisher who moved since its inception more than 150 historical travelogues, which currently have more than 100 are available. According to the company, this represents the largest collection of old travelogues in the German-speaking area. From 1976 to 1986, the 10-volume library of Arabic classics appeared in the Erdmann edition .
history
Founded in 1956 by Horst Erdmann as the “Publishing House for International Cultural Exchange” in Berlin , the publishing house soon moved to Bad Herrenalb (Black Forest). The publishing house moved on to Tübingen in 1967 under the name “Horst Erdmann Verlag für Internationale Kultur Austausch” (Horst Erdmann Verlag for International Cultural Exchange) and stated about its programmatic orientation: “To bring peoples closer to one another through the medium of literature and to break down prejudices, [...] a world-wide perspective To expand the meaning and to provide the readers with reliable, clear information about what it really looks like outside "as well as" to give distant peoples a knowledge of the German present and its literature. "
In 1981 the publishing house was taken over as an imprint by the Stuttgart publishing house K. Thienemanns Verlag . 2001 another takeover by the Swedish Bonnier Group and renaming to "Erdmann Verlag". In 2003, the publisher Hansjörg Weitbrecht re-established Edition Erdmann GmbH - publishing and media agency as a publishing house with headquarters in Lenningen . Together with the editor Gudrun Kolb-Rothermel, Weitbrecht built up an independent company. In January 2008, Wiesbaden-based marixverlag again acquired Edition Erdmann, owned by publisher Lothar Wekel .
Travel reports
For the individual travel reports and their authors, see the overview in the list of titles in Edition Erdmann .
Web links
- Homepage
- Table of contents of the Erdmann book: Modern narrators of the world: Canada , Ed. Walter E. Riedel, series: Modern narrators of the world, 51. Tübingen 1976
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans Widmann: Tübingen as a publishing town . Mohr, Tübingen 1971, ISBN 3-16-933021-7 , p. 203.
- ↑ In the eleventh year. Erdmann Almanac. Tübingen, Basel: Horst Erdmann Verlag for International Cultural Exchange (1968), p. 7. In addition: Complete directory 1970/71
- ↑ Presentation of the company's history on the homepage ( Memento of the original from February 25, 2005 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.
