Frankfurt publishing group

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Frankfurter Verlagsgruppe Holding AG

logo
legal form Corporation
Seat Frankfurt am Main , Germany
management Ingrid R. Donath (Managing Director)
Michael Montagu-Scott (Chairman of the Supervisory Board)
Branch Cost publishing
Website frankfurter-verlagsgruppe.de

The Frankfurter Verlagsgruppe Holding AG is a group of cost - or pseudo - publishing companies for the creation of self - publications . According to its own information, the group looks after 3,000 authors in Germany and publishes up to 400 new publications per year. She describes herself as part of the media group Dr. from Hänsel-Hohenhausen .

Publishing group

The group founded by Markus Hänsel, born in 1961, left his company Dr. Hansel-Hohenhausen produced German university publications. The group of companies includes the Frankfurter Literaturverlag GmbH , the Fouqué Literaturverlag , the August von Goethe Literaturverlag , the Cornelia Goethe Literaturverlag , the Weimarer Schiller-Presse , the Frankfurter Taschenbuchverlag GmbH , the Public Book Media with misleading word mark components such as “Verlag” or “Bibliothek” , the Deutsche Hochschulschriften Dr. Hänsel-Hohenhausen and the German Library of Sciences . To the media group Dr. Until 2016, von Hänsel-Hohenhausen directly owned Brentano-Gesellschaft mbH , which saw itself as a literature service provider and operated state-approved distance learning with the Cornelia Goethe Academy . It also organized an annual poetry competition, from which the “Frankfurt Library” emerged. Since then, these services have been offered by Brentano-Gesellschaft - an imprint of the Frankfurter Verlagsgruppe AG in Offenbach am Main .

Economic data

Michael Montagu-Scott is the chairman of the supervisory board of the Frankfurt publishing group, his predecessor was the author Barbara von Braun-Lacoste, who publishes through this group of companies and who is currently shown as honorary chairwoman. Her predecessor as the "oldest chairman of the supervisory board in the world" was Ilse Pohl from 2003 until her death in 2010 . The managing director is Ingrid R. Donath. The total assets of the Holding Aktiengesellschaft amounted to € 397,000 in 2011 and € 559,000 in 2010. The balance sheet total of the subsidiary Frankfurter Literaturverlag GmbH was € 680,000 in 2011 and € 738,000 in the previous year. The share capital is € 50,000.

Engagements

In 1999, the then Goethe Gesellschaft Frankfurt / Main mbH published an anthology for the Goethe anniversary with the title In the Name of Goethe! , in which, among others, Günter Grass , Friedrich Schorlemmer , Alfred Grosser , Ralph Giordano took part - albeit in the erroneous belief that the publisher is the renowned Goethe-Gesellschaft Weimar.

Business model

The companies grouped under the umbrella of the Frankfurter Verlagsgruppe work predominantly as cost or pseudo-publishers where the authors pay for the publication. The Regional Court of Munich I has ruled that there are "no publishers like the conventional publishers, as they are known to the interested public but also to the general public". This judgment was confirmed by the Munich Higher Regional Court, Ref .: 4 6 U 2250/09.

The company's business practice led to critical statements from the press and associations that a number of melodious names and terms that were very similar to renowned publishers and associations were deliberately chosen in order to deceive potential authors. According to the highest court rulings, "the systematic expressed in the choice of company names ... indicates an awareness of deception."

The group of companies or its subsidiaries took legal action against critical reports in several cases without success. So she sued against an article published by the authors' house publishing house , which suggested that the group of companies would be linked to the Bund Deutscher Schriftsteller , the World Writers Association (WWA) and the Brentano-Gesellschaft Frankfurt mbH . In 2006, ZDF also reported critically on the group's activities in its WISO program , as did Hessischer Rundfunk . The group of companies sued Wikimedia Germany and was unsuccessful in May 2008 before the Cologne Regional Court . The judgment was confirmed on December 16, 2008 by the Cologne Higher Regional Court and is final. The corporate group as a whole or through the subsidiaries of the company's founder, Hänsel-Hohenhausen, who also calls himself “Donatus Prince von Hohenzollern” and “Leopold von Emden”, has conducted over a hundred proceedings against critics. His objections to the designation "pseudo-publishing house" and "non-noble name bearer" were rejected by the courts.

Despite the previous judicial rejections, the “August von Goethe Verlag” subsidiary claimed on its website until 2010 in the sense of an advertising statement: “The successful work of AUGUST VON GOETHE LITERATURVERLAG in favor of the new, not yet established authors even stimulated the writers' union to create . the term "Fairlag" on "
to this quote put the one of the signatories of the action Alliance for fair publishing ( Fairlag belonging) Montsegur Author Forum already in July 2009 that" in fact, the term "Fairlag" refers as that of the writers' union and other initiators of the Fairlag action alliance is used, expressly not on the August von Goethe literary publisher. Rather, the alliance expressly warns against business practices such as those encountered in pseudo-publishers. "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c All press releases from Frankfurter Verlagsgruppe. prcenter.de, accessed on May 6, 2013 .
  2. ↑ a b Cologne Higher Regional Court, judgment of December 16, 2008, Az .: 15 U 116/08
  3. ↑ a b c Frankfurter Verlagsgruppe. Frankfurter Verlagsgruppe AG, accessed on May 6, 2013 .
  4. ^ Frankfurter Verlagsgruppe Aktiengesellschaft. In: Business Register. On behalf of the Federal Ministry of Justice, October 17, 2012, accessed on May 6, 2013 (search for “Frankfurter Verlagsgruppe Aktiengesellschaft” on the website).
  5. ^ Frankfurter Verlagsgruppe Aktiengesellschaft. In: Business Register. On behalf of the Federal Ministry of Justice, October 17, 2012, accessed on May 6, 2013 (on the website search for “Frankfurter Literaturverlag GmbH”).
  6. ↑ Markus von Hänsel-Hohenhausen (ed.): In the name of Goethe! ' Frankfurter Literaturverlag, 1999, ISBN 978-3-86548-998-2 .
  7. ↑ a b Writers publicly defend themselves against deception by the printing subsidy publishing group. (PDF) Federal Association of Young Authors eV, May 14, 2008, p. 2 , archived from the original on July 31, 2009 ; Retrieved May 6, 2013 .
  8. ↑ cf. District Court Berlin (Az. 96 O 168/06); Regional Court Munich I (Az. 4 HK O 19361/06), Higher Regional Court Munich (Az. 6 U 3140/07), Regional Court Munich I (Az. 9 HK O 12295/07), Regional Court Hamburg (Az. 324 O 102/07 )
  9. ^ Regional Court Munich I, judgment of February 5, 2009, Az .: 4 HK O 4090/08 -
  10. ↑ Munich Higher Regional Court defines “pseudo-publishing”. BuchMarkt Verlag K. Werner GmbH, August 7, 2009, accessed on May 6, 2013 .
  11. ^ The Frankfurter Verlagsgruppe Holding AG August von Goethe at the 2006 Book Fair. Authors-Magazin.de, October 6, 2006, accessed on May 6, 2013 .
  12. ↑ Gerhild Tieger, Manfred Plinke: The worldwide network. Sheep in wolf's clothing - or vice versa? In: German yearbook for authors, female authors 2005/2006 . 1st edition. Authors' House, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-932909-33-7 , p. 943 ff . ( online ).
  13. ↑ Hänsel Hohenhausen grant publisher Fouque determined in the ZDF broadcast Wiso. Authors-Magazin.de, accessed on May 6, 2013 (broadcast on December 19, 2006, length of stay in the ZDFmediathek already exceeded). Video Wiso determined: Hänsel Hohenhausen grant publisher Fouque (December 19, 2006)  in the ZDFmediathek , accessed on January 26, 2014. (offline)
  14. ^ Hessischer Rundfunk Fernsehen: Critical report on Frankfurter grant publisher. Authors-Magazin.de, accessed on May 6, 2013 (broadcast on June 1, 2008, length of stay in the media library already exceeded).
  15. ↑ Torsten Kleinz: Court: Wikimedia Germany is not liable for Wikipedia. Heise.de, May 16, 2008, accessed on May 6, 2013 .
  16. ↑ Read: Publishing group also loses before Cologne Higher Regional Court. Heise.de, January 28, 2009, accessed on May 6, 2013 .
  17. ^ August von Goethe Literaturverlag, publishing house of the Frankfurter Verlagsgruppe. Archived from the original on March 11, 2010 ; Retrieved on May 6, 2013 (meanwhile changed on the website).
  18. ↑ August von Goethe Literaturverlag misleads authors , entry on the website of the Montségur authors' forum of July 24, 2009, online at montsegur.de

Web links