Emons Publishing House
The Emons Verlag was founded in 1984 by Hermann-Josef Emons. In its first year, Emons launched the Cologne thriller »Tödlicher Klüngel« by Christoph Gottwald, the first German local thriller, and thus pioneered the »regional thriller« genre. There are now over 80 regional crime series at Emons Verlag, from north to south, from east to west. Since 2009 Emons thrillers have also been playing abroad (Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Italy and many more). Best-selling authors such as Frank Schätzing, Friedrich Ani, Volker Kutscher and Nicola Förg have published at Emons. Emons crime novels are also successful abroad: from Japan to the USA, from Slovenia to Finland - translations are published in over thirteen countries. In 2014, publisher Hejo Emons was awarded the Ehrenglauser Prize from the Syndicate authors' association for his services to German-language crime literature. In 2019, Emons took over Grafit Verlag in Dortmund. In 2008 the publisher created the first volume in a new series of books entitled »111 Cologne Places that One Must See«: Discovery guides that lead to remote places and are not only aimed at tourists, but above all also at locals who are new to their homeland want to discover, judge. The numerous volumes are now available for metropolises at home and abroad as well as for tourist travel destinations worldwide. The most successful volumes in this series are available in numerous translations and are distributed by Emons in the USA, UK, Italy and France itself. The publisher has made a name for itself in the non-fiction area with its carefully edited illustrated books and monographs. Photo books by well-known photographers have been part of the publishing program from the very beginning.
Founding of the publishing house
In 1984 Hermann-Josef "Hejo" Emons founded his publishing house of the same name in Lütticher Straße, Cologne. In 2015 the publishing house moved to Cäcilienstraße in Cologne. The first published title was the city guide Cologne between Himmel und Ääd , which presented unknown views and other perspectives of the city of Cologne.
Development of the publishing program
In the first few years the publisher concentrated on titles about Cologne and the Rhineland. In the meantime, titles that go beyond the Rhineland borders are also part of the program, but without giving up the regional concept. (With a few exceptions: In August 2009, for example, the novel Kalte Wut by Volker Mauersberger was published, which is distributed and sold nationwide.)
- "We do everything that the big publishers do, but with a regional focus." (Quote from Hejo Emons)
This also expresses the current programmatic motto regionally worldwide . Around 100 titles were published in 2010, 111 new titles in 2011, and 150 new publications are planned for 2012.
Program focus
Crime series Cologne Crime
Emons published the first German "regional crime thriller " in the Cologne crime series , which was also marketed as such. The first title appeared in 1984 Tödlicher Klüngel by Christoph Gottwald, who was based on American authors Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung summed up: "The otherwise cozy Cologne appears here in the gloomy flair of those American cities through which Humphrey Bogart once walked. That's a lot for a German crime thriller." The Cologne crime thrillers were soon followed by various sub-series: The children's crime thriller Cologne Thrillers for Pänz and Teens , the Kommissar Löhr-Krimis by Peter Meisenberg and the Köln Krimi Classics , which take place in historical Cologne.
Worldwide regional - regional crime series
The program was gradually expanded to include newer cities and landscapes, so that there are now 40 regional crime series: Aachen, Allgäu, Alps, Badische, Bergische, Berlin, Lake Constance, Düsseldorf, Eifel, Elbdeich, Franconia, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hinterm Deich, Itter, Cologne, coasts, Main, Munich, Munster, Lower Bavaria, Lower Rhine, Lower Saxony, Upper Bavaria, Oberland, Palatinate, Rheingau, Rheinhessen, Rhine-Main, Rhine-Ruhr, Rhine Valley, Saarland, Sauerland, Swabia, Stuttgart and Westphalia detective stories . There are also the regularly published historical crime novels and a series of real crime cases, the true crimes . With the Mallorca, Vienna, Alpine and Switzerland crime thrillers, titles appeared for the first time since 2009 with the focus of action outside Germany.
Historical novels
The theme series “Historical Novels” includes crime and history novels, the plot of which extends from the 16th century to the early 20th century. Authors of this genre include Brigit Hermann, Pia Rosenberger, Ina Knobloch and Meinrad Braun .
Non-fiction
The non-fiction books on the culture and history of Cologne, the Rhineland and many other regions form a further focus of the program at Emons Verlag. In 2001 started with Cologne. The historical-topographical atlas is a series of city atlases which, with the complex follow-up projects, The Munich Atlas (2003), The Historical Atlas Cologne (2003), The Düsseldorf Atlas (2004), The Leipzig Atlas (2005), Cologne and its surroundings in old Maps (2006) and Der Nürnberg Atlas (2007) was continued. In addition, there are numerous illustrated books by renowned photographers as well as gastronomy and travel guides, cookbooks, cultural guides, address books and children's books (My first Cologne / Sylt / Bavaria book) .
111 places that you have to see
The series 111 Places in Cologne, Berlin, Berchtesgaden, Paris, Mallorca, Dusseldorf, Munich, in the Cologne area, in the Munich area, in the Saarland ..., which you have to see has been published since 2008 and is travel, adventure and discovery guide rolled into one. The slogan of the series is travel was yesterday - discovery is today . Due to its great success, 111 locations have now appeared 362 times in cities and regions, plus 111 locations for children and editions in English and Italian (as of February 27, 2019).
National Socialism Documentation
In 1994 Emons Verlag took over the publication of the NS Documentation Center of the City of Cologne. In the series of writings of the NS Documentation Center of the City of Cologne 14 volumes have so far been published. In 2009 the volumes forced sterilization in Cologne 1943–1945 and the fight against crime and social exclusion in the National Socialist Cologne were published . With these books, the publishing house publishes standard works on research into Jewish life and National Socialist terror in Cologne. On the 60th anniversary of the end of the war in March 2005, Emons also published a film documentary for the first time, the DVD 1945 - End of War in Cologne , a contemporary document with previously unpublished film material.
media
From 1992 to 2005 the publishing house published the media manual for Cologne and Düsseldorf , which was a research book for the Rhenish media landscape for many years and which has been reissued several times. Other media focuses are non-fiction books on the subjects of production and technology (scriptwriting, sitcom. A manual for authors, continuity & script for television and film) as well as practical instructions for creative writing. Examples of this are the works of James N. Frey, whose books provide practical and systematic instructions on how to write novels for both laypeople and professionals.
Edition Cologne Texts
Together with the Kulturstiftung der Stadtsparkasse Köln ( SK Stiftung Kultur ), the publisher oversaw the Cologne Texts Edition for six volumes , a series with poetry, short prose and stories. The series has since been discontinued.
calendar
In 2004 the first Cologne Vertical 2005 calendar was published with black and white photos in portrait format by the Cologne photographer Björn-Eric Kohnen. Today the calendar appears under the title Cologne in portrait format . The first tear-off calendar Cologne 2007 , which provides interesting and entertaining information about the cathedral city for every day, is published annually.
Italian audio book series
In 2007, Hejo Emons founded the Emons Italia publishing house together with Viktoria von Schirach and Axel Huck . The publisher publishes audio books for the Italian-speaking market. The audio books published so far include bestsellers of contemporary Italian literature but also international children's book successes such as Pippi Longstocking and regional or country-specific titles from the edizione contromano of the Italian publisher Laterza.
Authors
The authors who publish with Emons Verlag include: Friedrich Ani , Marlene Bach , Miriam Broicher , Patrick Brosi , Oliver Buslau , Christoph Ernst , Nicola Förg , Edgar Franzmann , Doris Fürk-Hochradl , Brigitte Glaser , Christoph Gottwald , Lisa Graf-Riemann , Sabine M. Gruber , Ina Haller , Carsten Sebastian Henn , Rudolf Jagusch , Michaela Kastel , Lutz Kreutzer , Manuela Kuck , Volker Kutscher , Harry Luck , Dietmar Lykk, Volker Mauersberger , Michael Moll , Ralf Nestmeyer , Ottmar Neuburger , Edgar Noske , Frank Schätzing , Jobst Schlennstedt , Christian Schnalke , Martin Schüller , Hermann-Josef Schüren , Klaus Seibel , Helmut Vorndran and Stefan Winges .
Honors / awards
In May 2014 Hermann-Josef Emons received the Friedrich-Glauser-Ehrenpreis for his commitment to the German-language crime literature. The laudation was given by Frank Schätzing .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Topic series historical novel | emons :. Retrieved January 20, 2018 .
- ↑ Number of titles published at www.emons-verlag.de; accessed on February 27, 2019.
- ↑ note on die-criminale.de from May 28, 2014