Evangelical publishing house
| Evangelical publishing house | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1946 |
| Seat | Leipzig |
| management | Sebastian Knöfel |
| Branch | Book and magazine publisher |
| Website | eva-leipzig.de |
The Evangelische Verlagsanstalt - also called EVA for short - (today in Leipzig ) was founded in Berlin in 1946 and is a denominational media company . Partners are the joint venture of Evangelical Journalism and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony . The managing director is Sebastian Knöfel.
Book publisher
The range includes numerous theological and scientific publications, religious education , church literature including calendars, as well as Christian fiction with a focus on biographies and stories .
newspapers and magazines
The Theological Literature Newspaper , the Ecumenical Review , the Berlin Theological Journal and the Praxis Congregation Education (formerly Die Christenlehre ) appear at the EVA .
Private broadcasting
Evangelische Verlagsanstalt GmbH is a shareholder in private radio stations . In addition, employees of the Evangelische Verlagsanstalt work as church radio editors for the Saxon broadcasters Hitradio RTL and Radio PSR .
History 1946–1989
The Evangelische Verlagsanstalt GmbH, based in Berlin, was founded in 1946 under license number 54 of the Soviet military administration ; In 1953 a publishing department was added in Leipzig. The later church councilor Friedrich Bartsch became the first publishing director .
The first publication, the Christmas carol book Ihr Kinderlein kommet , was immediately sold out despite a considerable initial print run of 28,000 copies. In the following years the number of publications rose steadily, so that the publisher ultimately developed into the largest Protestant publisher in all of Germany.
Those Protestant private publishers in the GDR that had not received their own license also published under the umbrella of the EVA ; the publisher's profile was correspondingly broad: from scientific theology to church literature , Christian fiction to edification literature and Christian calendars. Some classics appear to this day, for example the official church calendar or the daily tear-off calendar Sonne und Schild . Every book had to go through the mills of the censorship authorities of the GDR before it was published : from appraisals by state censors to discussions with the publisher that lasted months or even years to the state paper allocation.
History since 1989
With the peaceful revolution in the GDR and German reunification , the situation of the EVA also changed fundamentally. After a change of shareholders, the publishing house was relocated to Leipzig in 1991. Effective January 1, 2010, the Hansische Druck- und Verlagshaus GmbH Frankfurt (HDV) took over the majority of the shares in the Evangelische Verlagsanstalt GmbH Leipzig (EVA) from the property of the previous sole shareholder, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony (EvLKS). The EvLKS remains involved in the publisher and is the sole shareholder of the Evangelische Medienhaus GmbH Leipzig , which bundles the journalistic activities of the Saxon regional church.
By the 60th anniversary of its existence in 2006, around 11,000 titles had appeared with a total print run of around 150 million copies.
The publishing house is an institutional member of the Forum Thomanum Leipzig eV