Edition diá
The diá Edition is an established in 1984 publishing house based in Berlin, specializes in cultural education in the broadest sense.
Originated from the Latin American cultural association diá in St. Gallen, Switzerland, which the Brazilian ethnologist and photographer Edgar Ricardo von Buettner founded, and the Third World Store in Wuppertal, in which the bookseller Helmut Lotz was involved, the focus of the first programs was on text-picture books and photo paperbacks on Brazil as well as on the so-called “product books” at the time, which tried to trace the way from coffee, tea and spices to us in a socio-economic sense.
The series of cookery reading books “Dishes and Their History” developed from “Brazilian Cooking”, which has been continued since 1998 in cooperation with the publishing house Die Werkstatt in Göttingen and in which there are now almost 40 volumes.
Through a collaboration with the zebra literaturverlag of the two translators Frank Heibert and Thomas Brovot , the fiction program focused on Brazil was expanded to include authors from Cuba ( Reinaldo Arenas and Severo Sarduy ), North America ( Jim Grimsley and Phyllis Burke) and Europe (Patrick Gale and Guy Hocquenghem ). Reinaldo Arenas' autobiography " Before Nightfall" received a lot of attention .
Edition diá became known to a larger audience through the biographies of Lotti Huber , Charlotte von Mahlsdorf , Napoleon Seyfarth , Georgette Dee and Gad Beck and other Berlin “greats” in the “It goes differently” series.
In 1995 Kai Precht joined the publishing house as the third managing director and expanded the program to include German-language literature (Andreas von Klewitz and Zé do Rock ).
From 1997, Edition diá published around 30 original editions in Deutsches Taschenbuch Verlag and later in Parthas Verlag and, as an agency, brokered numerous book projects for other publishers.
In 2012 Edition diá began publishing e-books that continue the program lines: biographies, fiction, cookbooks and other non-fiction books that convey culture. In 2015 the first complete edition of the literary work by Hanns Dieter Hüsch was published , in 2016 a 21-volume work edition of the novels and short stories by Emmanuel Bove . In the spring of 2017, Edition diá again presented a printed program with nine new publications and six new editions after two decades.