Edition Nautilus

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The Edition Nautilus is an independent German publisher of biographies , fiction and political nonfiction based in Hamburg .

history

Edition Nautilus was founded in 1974 by Pierre Gallissaires , Hanna Mittelstädt and Lutz Schulenburg (1953–2013). All three were shaped by the 1968 movement - not only in Germany, but especially during the May 1968 in Paris . Against the background of the authoritarian left-wing political tendencies that emerged in the 1970s, they tried to keep the spontaneous, undogmatic spirit of that time alive - not least by trying to rediscover the political and literary, left-wing, undogmatic avant-garde of the 1920s and reissue. They started with the publication of the magazine MaD under the name MaD-Verlag (which playfully stood for “materials, analyzes, documents”). After a lawsuit by the MAD magazine of the same name , they renamed the publisher in 1975 to Edition Nautilus .

Lutz Schulenburg died in 2013; Hanna Mittelstädt continued to run the publishing house. At the beginning of 2018, she handed it over to five employees who have managed it collectively since then.

In 2018, the collective with the K.-H. Zillmer Publishers Prize from the Karl-Heinz Zillmer Foundation, a sub-foundation of the Hamburg Cultural Foundation . The jury praised the merits: "Edition Nautilus is the German publisher that still upholds the ideals of 1968 in 2018 - and for that reason seems to remain forever young."

program

Right from the start, the publisher's program included political, anarchist , Dadaist and situationist writings - which soon included literary texts by newer authors such as Ingvar Ambjørnsen , Franz Dobler , Sean McGuffin and Johannes Muggenthaler . The publisher's largest project was the first complete edition of Franz Jung's works, published in twelve volumes between 1981 and 1997 . Also in 1981 the title of Franz Pfemfert's magazine Die Aktion was revived (see Die Aktion (Nautilus) ).

In more recent times the Edition Nautilus has published books by and about, among other things

An essential trademark of the publisher is still the "Small Library for Hand and Head", in which numerous, long-forgotten texts of classical modernism , etc. a. by Enrico Baj , Max Ernst , Richard Huelsenbeck , Francis Picabia , Kurt Schwitters , the Surrealists and Tristan Tzara will be and have been reissued. With the crime thriller series and the debut work Tannöd by the author Andrea Maria Schenkel , who received the German Crime Prize 2007 for her novel , the publisher made it to “number 1” in the fiction category for the first time in the bestseller list determined by the specialist magazine buchreport . In 2008 the author Andrea Maria Schenkel received the German Crime Prize for the second time for her novel Kalteis .

Awards

literature

  • Jan-Frederik Bandel: “There's no such thing as a mess here!” A conversation with Hanna Mittelstädt and Lutz Schulenburg, the publishers of Edition Nautilus. About minority positions, the 1970s and books to be proud of . In: Junge Welt from December 30, 2006
  • Hanna Mittelstädt and Anna Rheinsberg: Dear Hanna, your Anna. Letters about love and literature . Hamburg, 1999. ISBN 3-89401-299-4 (Among other things, everyday publishing is discussed).
  • Twenty thousand miles for anarchy. Nina Nadig and Bernd Drücke in conversation with Edition Nautilus publishers Hanna Mittelstädt and Katharina Picandet . In: Bernd Drücke (Ed.): Anarchism Hoch 3. Utopia, theory, practice. Interviews and discussions . 1st edition. Unrast Verlag, Münster 2016, ISBN 978-3-89771-219-5 , pp. 65-75 ( online in Grassroots Revolution No. 390, Summer 2014 [accessed November 25, 2018]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sebastian Hammelehle: Political publisher: Lutz Schulenburg died. In: Spiegel Online . May 2, 2013, accessed May 2, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Hajo Steinert: The progressive indomitable. On the death of the publisher Lutz Schulenburg . In: dradio.de
  3. ↑ Christoph Twickel: To the death of Lutz Schulenburg - A radical optimist . In: Spiegel Online , May 3, 2013.
  4. ↑ Stefan Kleie: From the senses of the cephalopods. Left feat: the Hamburg edition Nautilus has been in business as a small publisher for more than forty years. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , September 26, 2016, p. 13.
  5. ↑ The crew arrives. In: boersenblatt.net , April 26, 2018, accessed September 30, 2018.
  6. ↑ Zillmer publisher award goes to Edition Nautilus . In: Badische Zeitung online, July 7, 2018, accessed on September 30, 2018.