Erich Maas (publisher)
Erich Maas (born June 18, 1952 - † April 12, 2001 ) was an artist, graphic designer and publisher.
Life
Publishing activity
Erich Maas and Carsten Wettreck founded “Maas Verlag” in Berlin in 1990, in which books by 4000 , Thomas Kapielski , Funny van Dannen , Matthias Baader Holst , Peter Wawerzinek and Harry Hass appeared in the following years . Authors such as Iceberg Slim , Kathy Acker and Darius James have been published by Maas Verlag in the first German translation .
The publication of the anthology Die Hormone des Mannes , compiled by Wolfgang Müller with contributions by Françoise Cactus , D. Holland-Moritz , Cord Riechelmann , Tabea Blumenschein and other authors failed because Müller insisted on completing his introductory text with the comments made by Erich Maas To publish deletions and corrections. In 2008, Müller's text with the handwritten corrections and Maas' notes transferred to transparency was published as an artist's book by Hartmut Andryczuk's Hybriden Verlag in an edition of 15 copies.
In 1992/1993 Frank Nowatzki joined the “Maas Verlag”, which had to discontinue its German-language Black Lizard series and found a new home for a number of pulp / noir crime novels with the Pulp Master series. The authors of the series include a. Buddy Giovinazzo , Garry Disher , Charles Willeford and Joe R. Lansdale .
In 1997 Erich Maas founded the Internet platform TXT together with Ulf Schleth , with which both independent publishers wanted to facilitate the way to the Internet and work on new forms of sales and marketing for these publishers. Another aim was to do something to counter the big companies whose dominant role was emerging.
In 1998, Erich Maas started the company “Maas Media” in collaboration with Mario Mentrup at the same time as “Maas Verlag ”. This label was also meant as a corruption of mass media (English for mass media ). “Maas Media” became a pioneer of printing on demand , which made it possible to finance the publication of various titles in short runs. In some of the “Maas Media” titles, Maas urged his readers to obtain ISBN from the book trade association and to set up printing-on-demand publishers themselves. Maas used the new technology on the one hand to remind readers of forgotten literary gems (including Die Klasse and Die Mutümmelten by Kafka's contemporaries Hermann Ungar and Reineke's tragic end by Louis Pergaud ; first published in Germany in 1927). On the other hand, “subcultural” texts were increasingly published under “Maas Media” (e.g. print identities by Mario Mentrup, Helikopter Hysterie by Heinrich Dubel ).
After the death of Erich Maas in 2001, Carsten Wettreck continued to run the “Maas Verlag” and the book series J book for Japanese literature was created (editor Etsuko Sakamaki). No other titles have been published by Maas Verlag since 2006. He went bankrupt in 2006 under Carsten Wettreck. Mario Mentrup and gallery owner Gundula Schmitz (Galerie Laura Mars Grp. , Berlin) continue to run “Maas Media Verlag” as an independent company. In 2012, Mentrup and Schmitz decided to rename “Maas Media Verlag” to “Fantôme Verlag”. Frank Nowatzki also runs Pulp Master Verlag on his own.
literature
- Mario Mentrup: Schalk in the neck. In: Die Tageszeitung , April 17, 2001.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Maas, Erich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 18, 1952 |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 12, 2001 |
| Place of death | Berlin |