Photo cinema publisher

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Photo cinema publisher
legal form State-owned company ,
from 1990 GmbH
founding 1957
resolution 1991
Seat Halle (Saale) , from 1964 Leipzig
Branch Book publisher,
magazine publisher

The VEB Fotokinoverlag was a book and magazine publisher in the German Democratic Republic, which existed from 1957 to 1991 and published mainly specialized literature for the photo and film work. It emerged from the Wilhelm-Knapp-Verlag, which had been founded in 1838 and had published magazines from 1887.

history

Since 1838 was in Halle an der Saale of Wilhelm Knapp Verlag , who had since about 1887, specialized in the publication of journals for photography. From the 1920s, photo and film magazines were also published here. From 1927, the first amateur film magazine, Film für alle , was published by this publisher . After the war , the publishing house was put back into operation in its old form in 1948. In addition to film and photo books, other specialist literature with a predominantly technical focus, such as industrial processes, mining, chemistry or agriculture, was also published. In 1950 the owners of the publishing house were expropriated and founded a new Wilhelm Knapp publishing house in Düsseldorf with a similar focus. At the same time, the publishing house in Halle was continued under the name VEB Wilhelm Knapp Verlag . The photo magazine Foto-Falter was published here since 1955 and in 1956 the magazine Film für alle was revived.

With retroactive effect to June 1, 1957, VEB Fotokinoverlag Halle was founded on August 24, 1957 as the successor to Knapp Verlag and took over from it the part of the publishing program, magazines, employees, real estate and technical facilities specializing in film and photography. In 1960 the publishing house was based at Mühlweg 19 in Halle. Today a branch of the Saxony-Anhalt State Office for Agriculture, Land Reorganization and Forests is housed here. In 1962 the magazines Foto-Falter and Film were merged for everyone and continued under the title Fotokino-Magazin until 1991.

In 1964, the Fotokinoverlag was incorporated into the Fachbuchverlag Leipzig and initially continued as an imprint . The publishing house in Halle was given up and merged with that of the specialist book publisher in Leipzig at Karl-Heine-Straße 16. Around 1965 the Fotokinoverlag became its own publishing house again, although it worked under the umbrella of the specialist book publisher. The publishing house remained in Leipzig until the end. In 1967 the publishing house received a new logo on the occasion of its tenth anniversary.

As a result of the turnaround , the Fotokinoverlag was merged again with the specialist book publisher and jointly converted into a GmbH . In 1991 this GmbH was sold by the Treuhandanstalt to the publishing house TÜV Rheinland GmbH in Cologne. While the specialist book publisher was continued by this, the operation of the photo cinema publisher and the publication of the magazines were stopped in the same year. The office of an insolvency administrator is now located in the building on Karl-Heine-Straße.

Publications

The German National Library lists around 780 publications that have been published by Fotokinoverlag, including 23 magazines. There are also numerous titles published by Wilhelm Knapp Verlag after the war. The publisher's best-known magazines are Bild und Ton (1948–1992, from 1969 to 1990 in the Fotokinoverlag), photography (1947–1991, 1947 to 1957 in the Knapp-Verlag, then in the Fotokinoverlag) and the Fotokino-Magazin (1962–1991).

literature

Miriam Halwani: Reading Photography. On the history of Wilhelm Knapp Verlag . In: Photo history , issue 110, vol. 28, 2008.

Web links

oN: Publishing history Knapp became a photo cinema. www.mz-web.de ( Mitteldeutsche Zeitung ), November 26, 2014, accessed on June 21, 2017 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Knapp (1840–1908), German publisher
  2. ↑ One of the first publications was the yearbook for photography and reproduction technology in 1887 . Other photographic magazines followed . (Source: Miriam Halwani: read photography. On the history of Wilhelm Knapp Verlag .)