Elefanten Press Verlag
| Elefanten Press Verlag | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1978 |
| Seat | Berlin , Germany |
The Elefanten Press Verlag existed in Berlin from 1978 to 2000 , before the name and the youth book division were sold to Bertelsmann and the remaining stocks have since been sold under the Espresso Verlag label . Before being sold to Bertelsmann, he belonged to the Schmidt und Partner media group (MSP) .
history
In 1972, students from the Department of Cultural Studies at the TU Berlin, including Tom Fecht , founded the Elefanten Press Galerie , first on Dresdener Strasse on Oranienplatz and later on Zossener Strasse 32 in Berlin-Kreuzberg .
In 1978, Tom Fecht founded the Elefanten-Press-Verlag, based in Oranienstraße, together with Patric Feest , Wieland Giebel , Norbert Gravius (since 2004 Federal Treasurer of the PARTY ), Maruta Schmidt and Erik Weihönig .
Initially, the gallery's exhibition catalogs were published, and later non-fiction books , stories and cartoons .
In 1987/88 they took over the satirical magazine Titanic, which was about to go bankrupt .
In the 1990s, Elefanten-Press-Verlag took over various publishers from the GDR .
At the beginning of 1990, the Deutsche Volkszeitung was re-established under the name Volkszeitung and then merged with the GDR cultural weekly newspaper Sonntag to form the first East-West magazine, Der Freitag .
In April 1991 MSP bought the former FDJ - Zentralorgan Junge Welt and in July 1991 also the Treptower publishing house and the tribune printing house. The former FDGB central organ tribune was discontinued, the subscriber file was taken over by Neue Zeit .
The Elefanten Press Verlag, which temporarily had 320 employees, was sold to Bertelsmann in 2000 under the management of Maruta Schmidt , who wanted to continue the children's and youth book range under the brand . Works that have already been published are still available under the name Espresso Verlag . Various reprints are also available for two thousand and one .
Publishing program
The publishing program comprised comics (cartoon caricature calendar), catalogs , thrillers , political literature (current affairs) and the Antifa edition published by Jens Mecklenburg ( anti-fascism , anti-racism ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Elefanten Press Verlag in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Vera Gaserow : Elefanten Press scares tenants. In: taz . July 5, 1989. Retrieved August 18, 2018 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.espresso-verlag.de/
- ↑ Is a left-wing media group emerging in Berlin? , by Christoph Seils , Neues Deutschland August 19, 1991
- ↑ on page 260 in The fate of the GDR publishers: privatization and its consequences , Ch. Links Verlag , 2010 - 352 pages
- ↑ Is a left-wing media group emerging in Berlin? , by Christoph Seils , Neues Deutschland August 19, 1991
- ↑ https://digit.wdr.de/entries/135152
- ↑ Gallery founded by Tom Fecht in Berlin in 1972, from 1978 as a publisher under this name.
- ↑ Small picture negative: Elefanten Press Galerie, 1981
- ^ Small picture negative: Exhibition by A. Paul Weber, Elefanten Press Galerie, 1977
- ↑ Small picture negative: Weber discussion, Elefanten Press Galerie, 1977
- ↑ http://www.die-partei.de/2014/12/01/sponsoring-aufruf/
- ↑ https://www.fr.de/politik/geld-partei-statt-gold-11185941.html
- ↑ Patrick Bahners: Voting is serious. In: FAZ.net . July 31, 2009, accessed October 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Thomas Loy : Maruta Schmidt: Forward and not forgotten - The publisher manages the downfall of left-wing projects , in: Der Tagesspiegel , July 17, 2000.
- ↑ Captain, we're sinking brand eins Issue 08/2001 - What moves people
- ↑ Is a left-wing media group emerging in Berlin? , by Christoph Seils , Neues Deutschland August 19, 1991
- ↑ Thomas Loy: Maruta Schmidt: Forward and not forget - The publisher manages the downfall of left-wing projects. In: Tagesspiegel. July 17, 2000, accessed August 19, 2018 .