Eichborn Publishing House
| Eichborn publishing house in Bastei Lübbe AG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | AG |
| founding | 1980 |
| Seat | Cologne , Germany |
| management | Dominique Pleimling (Program Manager) |
| sales | EUR 11.4 million (2010) |
| Branch | Publishers |
| Website | www.eichborn.de |
The calibration fount publishing house is a publishing house in Frankfurt am Main . The name and rights of the publisher were sold to Bastei Lübbe AG on November 1, 2011 .
history
In 1980 Vito von Eichborn, then editor of the Fischer publishing house, and Matthias Kierzek, co-owner of the Fulda publishing house, founded the publishing house.
Books by cartoonists Erich Rauschenbach and Walter Moers achieved their first major sales successes . In 1989, Eichborn took over the series Die Andere Bibliothek from Greno Verlag, edited by Hans Magnus Enzensberger . Eichborn audio book was published until 2009 under the name Eichborn Lido .
In 1992, the publishing program also added merchandising products, which did not improve the economic situation, which had meanwhile been battered.
Vito von Eichborn left the publishing house in 1995 and handed over his shares to the previous co-owner Matthias Kierzek. In 2000 Eichborn AG went public. In the same year, the Berlin office for professional strategy GmbH was taken over, but sold back to its founder in 2003.
After a charge of tageszeitung (taz) , published in 2002 at the calibration fount publishing house Lexicon of Cities abuse of Walter Kramer was plagiarized been the publisher compensated several authors of the original desolate places for the acquired unmarked passages and agreed with the damaged publishers Reclam , Hoffmann and Campe and Suhrkamp . According to its own statements, the taz also received a fee with an infringement surcharge. Before the District Court of Berlin Walter Kramer lost his lawsuit against the taz . In the opinion of the court, the author did not use the term “straightforward plagiarism” in the legal sense, but made a journalistically permissible assessment.
In 2010 the company switched from the General Standard of the regulated market to the Entry Standard (Open Market) on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. For a time in 2011, the majority shareholder was Matthias Koch, publisher of the Aufbau-Verlag .
For 2011, the Eichborn Verlag was planning to move to Berlin as part of a merger with Aufbau-Verlag. The 48 employees fought against the move, as it should be associated with redundancies for operational reasons . On June 16, 2011, Eichborn Verlag filed for insolvency due to impending insolvency , which meant that the merger with Aufbau-Verlag had failed. In November 2011, however, it was announced that Die Other Bibliothek would continue to operate as an independent publisher based in Berlin within the construction group.
At the end of September 2011, the insolvency administrator announced that the publishing house was to be permanently closed on June 30, 2012, as the creditors' committee had rejected all takeover offers. There should therefore no longer be a spring program for 2012; the first employees should leave the publishing house at the end of 2011. Then, however, the Cologne-based Bastei Lübbe Verlag took over the publisher's name, the publisher's logo, the websites, the warehouse, the rights of the Eichborn publisher and some employees and author contracts with retroactive effect from November 1st. Felix Rudloff initially acted as publishing director, and Dominique Pleimling has been responsible for the Eichborn Verlag program since 2014.
One of the first books by the Cologne-based publisher was the bestseller He is Back by Timur Vermes . Other authors include Neil Gaiman , John Darnielle , Yan Lianke , Amanda Palmer , Svealena Kutschke , Sarah Stricker , Monika Held , Annegret Held and Hajo Schumacher .
Others
In addition to the fly, picture books and calendars about yoga - cows that appear somewhat acrobatic, were almost a landmark. The picture books were removed from the publishing program in 2012, the yoga cow calendars appeared in 2014.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eichborn Verlag is sold to Bastei Lübbe. Retrieved December 7, 2011 .
- ↑ Michael Ringel : Rotten fish in a stew . In: the daily newspaper . October 26, 2002
- ↑ Johannes Eberhorn: A language guard and his mission. Spiegel online from August 13, 2003
- ↑ Matthias Koch returns majority of shares [1]
- ↑ Birgit Walter: Eichborn and construction: Publisher: The game of publishers with the shares. In: Frankfurter Rundschau of January 21, 2011. ( Online)
- ^ Claus-Jürgen Göpfert: Eichborn move: Off to Berlin. In: Frankfurter Rundschau of January 21, 2011. ( Online)
- ↑ Eichborn employees do not want to move to Berlin (January 25, 2011)
- ↑ Board of Directors of the Frankfurter Verlag files for insolvency (June 16, 2011)
- ↑ Filed for bankruptcy ( memento of June 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), press release of June 16, 2011
- ↑ The merger of Eichborn with the structure burst . June 16, 2011. Retrieved July 23, 2011.
- ↑ Berner Zeitung , November 15, 2011: Aufbau Gruppe takes over Enzensberger's «Die Andere Bibliothek»
- ^ Frankfurt: The Eichborn publishing house is discontinued . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . September 29, 2011. Retrieved October 22, 2011.
- ↑ DPA-InfolineRS: Literature: Bastei Lübbe: Eichborn purchase perfect. In: Focus Online . December 5, 2011, accessed October 14, 2018 .
- ↑ Personalia / Dominique Pleimling becomes the new head editor of Eichborn / boersenblatt.net. In: www.boersenblatt.net. Retrieved August 25, 2016 .