Friedenauer press

The Friedenauer Presse was founded in the Berlin district of Friedenau in 1963 by Andreas Wolff, the grandson of the Saint Petersburg bookseller and publisher Moritz Wolff . 36 printed works had appeared there by 1971. From 1983 to 2017 Katharina Wagenbach-Wolff ran the publishing house, which was awarded the Kurt Wolff Prize in 2006. The reason stated:

“Verlag Friedenauer Presse was awarded the Kurt Wolff Prize for its persistence in bringing Russian literature closer to the German public , for the joy of discovery with which it presented finds from world literature - especially international classical modernism - for reprinting , with which he commemorates the age of the revolution and the Holocaust and, last but not least, for the reliability with which the publisher gives the books a careful design and lively physiognomy . "

- Award ceremony of the Kurt Wolff Prize 2006

The publishing activities were also recognized by the Antiquaria Prize for Book Culture 2002 and the Zillmer Prize of the Hamburg Cultural Foundation in 1994.

After it was announced at the end of January 2017 that Wagenbach-Wolff wanted to close the Friedenauer Presse for reasons of age at the end of March 2017, shortly before this date it was announced that the company under the umbrella of Matthes & Seitz Berlin would be managed by Andreas Rötzer and Friederike Jacob with effect from 1 June 2017 is to be continued. Currently (as of May 2020) the publishing house is managed by Friederike Jacob.

literature

• Gudrun Blankenburg: Friedenau - artist's place and idyllic residential area. The history of a Berlin district . Frieling, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-8280-2350-9 (with register and enclosed monument map).
• Christel and Heinz Blumensath: The other Friedenau - walks through 125 years of art, literature and building history. District Office Schöneberg, Berlin 1996.
• Alfred Bürkner: Friedenau - streets, houses, people . Stapp-Verlag, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-87776-065-1 .
• Stefan Eggert: Walks in Schöneberg. Berlin reminiscences. Volume 78. Haude & Spener, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-7759-0419-0 .

Web links

• Official website
• Doris Liebermann: The Tsar of Books. In: Die Zeit , October 1, 2003.
• Nicole Henneberg: Saint Petersburg and Berlin. Katharina Wagenbach-Wolff and the Friedenauer press . In: Sinn und Form , 4/2014, pp. 532–541.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ publisher's announcement. Retrieved October 12, 2018 . 
2. ^ Kurt-Wolff-Prize - acceptance speech by Katharina Wagenbach-Wolff. (PDF; 15.4 kB) Accessed June 30, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Welcome to the Friedenauer press
4. ^ Antiquarian price
5. ↑ Karl-Heinz Zillmer Prize for meritorious publishing work. ( Memento from October 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ From after more than 50 years: Friedenauer Presse will be closed at the end of March In: buchmarkt.de, January 31, 2017, accessed on February 1, 2017
7. ↑ Katharina Wagenbach's “Friedenauer Presse” lives on at Matthes & Seitz , In: buchmarkt.de, March 21, 2017, accessed on March 21, 2017