Edition Olms
| Edition Olms AG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1977 |
| Seat | Oetwil am See , Switzerland |
| management | Manfred Olms ( Managing Director and Board of Directors ) |
| Branch | publishing company |
| Website | www.edition-olms.com |
The Edition Olms AG is a Swiss publishing house based in Oetwil am See . The publisher particularly publishes non-fiction books on chess , music , film , graphics and design .
history
The publishing house was founded in 1977 in Zurich by Manfred Olms. He carried on a family tradition in book trade and publishing that had begun almost a hundred years earlier. Already his great-grandfather, Hermann Olms, founded in 1886 in the German Hildesheim a bookstore, which later today, by his father Walter Georg Olms run, Georg Olms Verlag emerged. Edition Olms moved from Zurich to Erlenbach in 1992 , to Hombrechtikon in 1994 and to its current location in Oetwil am See in 2007.
program
The chess program comprises the three book series Progress in Chess , Praxis Schach and Tschaturanga and is the largest chess program in German-speaking countries. It also includes books by the world chess champions Viswanathan Anand , Anatoli Karpow and Garri Kasparow as well as by Viktor Korchnoi .
The music program is mainly focused on illustrated books about rock music and includes, but works on the Beach Boys , The Beatles , Led Zeppelin , Monkees , Pink Floyd , Queen , Rolling Stones , Jimi Hendrix , Bob Marley and Neil Young . The area of graphics and design includes a diverse range of topics, ranging from tattoos and album covers to color management for logos or packaging design.
In addition, Edition Olms has a so-called 1001 series with extensive reference works on various topics.
Web links
- Edition Olms AG website
- Literature by and about Edition Olms in the catalog of the German National Library