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Feder & Schwert GmbH
legal form	GmbH
founding	1989 (as Verlag Feder & Schwert GbR)
Seat	Cologne
management	Management: Patric Götz
Branch	Fiction
Website	www.feder-und-schwert.de

Feder & Schwert GmbH is a Cologne publisher for fantastic literature . The publisher became known in particular for the German translation of various role-playing products from the world of darkness , such as Vampire: Die Maserade and its successor Vampire: Requiem .

history

The publishing house, founded in 1989, initially devoted itself to the horror , SF and fantasy genres. Some games that Feder & Schwert made popular in Germany were implemented as a computer game by Activision and Interplay (" Vampire: Die Maserade - Redemption " or " Hunter: The Reckoning ") and even by Aaron Spelling as a television series (" Clan der Vampire ") Adapted. In 2001, the role-playing game Engel , its own multimedia game product, came onto the market. Also in 2001 F&S expanded its publishing program to include the German version of the cartoon comics series Dork Tower by John Kovalic . With the vampire thrillers by Tanya Huff , he also ventured into non-game-related fiction . From 2004 to 2009 the publisher was also the German licensee of the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons by Wizards of the Coast . In addition, the German version of the Warhammer Fantasy RPG has been part of the product range since 2005 .

In the summer of 2006, due to a lack of sales, the publisher announced a discontinuation of the German translation of all world of darkness products and a stronger orientation towards Dungeons & Dragons , the Warhammer fantasy role-playing game and fiction. At the end of November 2008, the publisher announced on its website that after December 31, 2008, it would no longer be in possession of the license from Dungeons & Dragons .

Since 2007 the publisher has been giving new authors and ideas in the field of fantasy a chance as part of the origin series ; the very first origin title, Oliver Plaschka's Fairwater or Die Spiegel des Herr Bartholomew , won the German Fantastic Prize 2008 as the best debut novel and Ju Honisch followed this model with Das Obsidianherz 2009.

In the years that followed, the company dedicated itself entirely to fantastic fiction with occasional excursions into its old field of activity, the storytelling game. In doing so, the publisher attaches great importance not to overly accommodating the mainstream of the genre, but rather to focus on the quality of the stories.

In 2016, Feder & Schwert was taken over by Uhrwerk Verlag . In 2019 he announced bankruptcy.

Products

The company stands primarily for the high-quality German-language implementation of various role-playing licenses such as White Wolf's World of Darkness , Wizards of the Coasts Dungeons & Dragons and Games Workshops, Warhammer Fantasy RPG and Warhammer 40,000 - Shadowhunters and Free Traders .

In addition, the company relocates game-related fiction to the Dungeons & Dragons game worlds, Eberron and Forgotten Realms . With the origin series, the publisher has been publishing fantastic novels by young German-speaking authors since 2007. At the end of 2009 Feder & Schwert founded the sub-label Steampunk in order to give this literary genre more attention in Germany. Since 2010, the publisher has ventured into the crime scene for the first time and publishes novels without any fantastic reference, but remains essentially true to fantastic literature.

Publications

Fiction

Kage Baker

• The wives of Nell Gwynne's
• The anvil of the world
• The deer's house

Jim Butcher

• The dark cases of Harry Dresden 1-16
• Harry Dresden short story volumes (part-time jobs, commissioned by the Yeti, case studies)

Simon R. Green

• Stories from Nightside Volumes 1-12 (anthologies 1-3)
• The Demon Wars Volume 1-4
• Shaman Bond Vol. 1-3, 6-9
• Ishmael Jones Volume 1-

Marion G. Harmon

• Wearing the Cape 1-3

Charlaine Harris

• The Sookie Stackhouse Series Vol. 1–3
• Silent anger
• The Aurora Teagarden Series Volumes 1–8

Tanya Huff

• The Chronicles of the Blood Volumes 1-5
• The Tony Series Volume 1–3
• The Chronicles of the Guardians Volume 1–3
• The silver ones
• The witch chronicles volume 1-2

Richard Kadrey

• Sandman Slim Volume 2

Jens Lossau & Jens Schumacher

• The cases of the IAIT 1-6

Henning Mützlitz

• Hexagon - The Pact of Six

Elke Pistor

• The portal

Rows

origin

• The Game of Asen by Ulrich Drees
• Three days until the full moon from Hagen Haas
• The monk in Weimar by Alexander Röder
• Teufelsacker by Carsten Steenbergen

The special book (beautiful volumes with special equipment)

• Christian von Aster's Baker Street Artifacts (Ed.)
• True fairy tales 2 by Annie Bertram (Ed.)
• The first game master by David Kushner

Angel

• Novels from the Angel Universe , Volumes 1-7

Shard Moon novels

• Night over Herathis by Anton Weste
• The pyramids of Pirimoy by Christian Lange
• Phoenix & Monkey by Judith Vogt
• Everything in the appearance of Vincent Voss
• Cold as ice from Felix Münter

Pathfinder saga

• Prince of Wolves by Dave Gross
• Winter Witch by Elaine Cunningham
• Lord of the Devils by Dave Gross
• The Crusader Street by Michael Stackpole
• The Queen of Thorns by Dave Gross
• King of Chaos by Dave Gross

The world of ice & steam

• Ice & Steam (anthology) by Judith and Christian Vogt (eds.)
• The broken doll by Judith and Christian Vogt
• Judith and Christian Vogt's lost doll
• Christian Lange's Egyptian machine

The Chronicles of the Fog Wars by Thomas Finn

• The silver dream
• The infinite light
• The icy shadow
• The last flame

Science fiction

• Imagery by Christoph Marzi
• Oscuridad - crash into the unknown by Eric Nowack

Out of stock

Role play

• Vampire: The Masquerade (Template for the PC games Vampire: Redemption and Vampire: Bloodlines )
• Hunter: The Retribution (Template for the PC game Hunter: The Reckoning )
• Magus: Enlightenment
• Werewolf: The Apocalypse
• Changeling: The dream
• Mummies: The Rebirth
• Demons: The Fallen
• Vampires from the old world
• Trinity
• The world of darkness
• Vampires: Requiem
• Werewolf: The Forsaken
• karma
• Nephilim
• Angel
• Small fears
• Exalted
• Dungeons and Dragons
• Warhammer Fantasy RPG
• Warhammer 40,000 RPG: Shadowhunters
• Warhammer 40,000 RPG: Free Traders

Novels

• Fairwater or The Mirrors of Mr. Bartholomew by Oliver Plaschka

Steampunk

• The mechanical heart of Dru Pagliassotti
• The Crystal Palace by Oliver Plaschka , Matthias Mösch and Alexander Flory
• The Gods of Whitechapel by SM Peters
• Matamba by Kirsten Brox

Terri Persons

• The Cases of Bernadette Saint Clare Volume 1–3

Casey Daniels

• The Pepper Martin Series Volumes 1–4

Ju Honisch

• Salt Dreams Volume 1–2
• Swing made of stone
• The obsidian heart
• Beyond the carousel

D&D: Forgotten Realms

• Counselor & Regents Volume 1–3 (novel)
• The Avatar Chronicle Volume 1–5 (novel)
• The Return of the Archmage Volume 1–3 (novel)
• The Year of the Renegade Dragons Volume 1–3 (novel)
• The Sembia Series Volume 1–6 (Novel)
• The Spider Queen's War , Volumes 1-6
• The Penitent , Volume 1–3
• The Deep Water Series Volume 1–4 (novel)

D&D: Eberron

• The dreaming darkness Volume 1–3 (novel)

Novels about film

• Swords of the King - Dungeon Siege (Roman) by Severin Rast

Awards

• Nyctalus Award 2005, best translation for "Blutschuld" (Tanya Huff)
• Deutscher Phantastik Preis 2008, Best German-language debut for "Fairwater or the mirrors of Mr. Bartholomew" (Oliver Plaschka)
• German Phantastik Preis 2009, Best German-language debut for "Das Obsidianherz" (Ju Honisch)
• German Fantasy Prize 2011, Best National Novel for "Beyond the Carousel" (Ju Honisch)
• German Fantasy Prize 2013, Best National Novel for "The Broken Doll" ( Judith & Christian Vogt)
• Seraph Literature Prize 2013, Longlist Best Debut for "Machine Spirit" (Chris Schlicht)
• German Phantastik Prize 2014, Best Anthology for "Ice & Steam" (Eds. Judith & Christian Vogt)
• Seraph Literature Prize 2014, Best Book for "Swinging from Stone" (Ju Honisch)
• Seraph Literature Prize 2014, Shortlist Best Debut for "The Monk in Weimar" (Alexander Röder)
• Hombuch Prize 2015, nomination for "Ice and Steam" (Eds. Judith & Christian Vogt)
• Seraph Literature Prize 2017, Longlist Best Book for "The Lost Doll" (Judith Vogt)
• Seraph Literature Prize 2016, Longlist Best Debut for "Matamba" (Kirsten Brox)
• RPC Fantasy Award 2017, 3rd place for "Splittermond 1: Night over Herathis" (Anton Weste)
• Seraph Literature Prize 2018, Longlist Best Debut for "Drei Tage bis Vollmond" (Hagen Haas)
• Seraph Literature Prize 2018, Longlist Best Debut for "Splittermond 1: Night over Herathis" (Anton Weste)
• RPC Fantasy Award 2018, 2nd place for "The first game master: Gary Gygax and the creation of D&D" ( David Kushner )
• RPC Fantasy Award 2018, jury award for "Splittermond 3: Phoenix and Monkey" ( Judith Vogt )
• Goldener Stephan 2018, category comic & graphic novel for "The first game master: Gary Gygax and the creation of D&D" (David Kushner)
• Kristallner Stephan 2018, category fantastic literature for "Career: Superheldin: Wearing the Cape 1" (Marion Harmon)

Web links

• www.feder-und-schwert.com
• Feder & Schwert-Verlag in the Luding games database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.uhrwerk-verlag.de/?p=4002
2. ↑ Feder & Schwert announces bankruptcy | Pen & sword. Retrieved June 6, 2019 (German). 
3. ^ Nyctalus - The Winners . In: Nicole Rensmann / everyday crumbs . November 7, 2005 ( nicole-rensmann.de [accessed June 7, 2018]).
4. ↑ German Fantastic Prize | Literature Prize Winner. Retrieved June 6, 2018 (German). 
5. ↑ German Fantastic Prize | Literature Prize Winner. Retrieved June 6, 2018 (German). 
6. ↑ Guido Latz: German Fantastic Prize 2011: The winners. Retrieved June 6, 2018 (German). 
7. ↑ Guido Latz: German Fantastic Prize 2013: The winners. Retrieved June 6, 2018 (German). 
8. ↑ Seraph Literature Prize 2013: the longlist - PhantaNews . In: PhantaNews . January 9, 2013 ( phantanews.de [accessed June 6, 2018]).
9. ↑ Guido Latz: German Fantastic Prize 2014: The winners. Retrieved June 6, 2018 (German). 
10. ^ Prize winners - Fantastic Academy e. V. Accessed on June 6, 2018 (German). 
11. ^ Prize winners - Fantastic Academy e. V. Accessed on June 6, 2018 (German). 
12. ↑ Longlist of the Seraph and indie price that is not an indie price - PhantaNews . In: PhantaNews . January 12, 2016 ( phantanews.de [accessed June 6, 2018]).
13. ↑ Award 2017 - RPC Germany | RPG & Fantasy Fair Cologne . In: RPC Germany | RPG & Fantasy Fair Cologne . ( rpc-germany.org [accessed June 6, 2018]).
14. ↑ Award 2018 - RPC Germany | RPG & Fantasy Fair Cologne . In: RPC Germany | RPG & Fantasy Fair Cologne . ( rpc-germany.org [accessed June 6, 2018]).
15. ↑ Award 2018 - RPC Germany | RPG & Fantasy Fair Cologne . In: RPC Germany | RPG & Fantasy Fair Cologne . ( rpc-germany.org [accessed June 6, 2018]).
16. ↑ GOLDEN STEPHAN 2018: Audience Award for Escapism, Nerd Culture & Fantasticism (PEN & P) - The results! - NERDS-GEN-STEPHAN.DE. Retrieved December 4, 2018 . 
17. ↑ GOLDEN STEPHAN 2018: Audience Award for Escapism, Nerd Culture & Fantasticism (PEN & P) - The results! - NERDS-GEN-STEPHAN.DE. Retrieved December 4, 2018 .