Frohmann publishing house
The Frohman Publishing is an independent German small publishing house in Berlin-Pankow with the program priorities genuinely digital literature and cultural studies .
Publishing history
The publishing house was founded in 2012 and is a one-person company by Christiane Frohmann with several hundred free contributors.
In the years 2012 to 2015 only e-books were published. Printed titles have also been appearing since 2016, such as the hybrid text Auf See. The story of Ayan and Saamir (2016) by Michaela Maria Müller , which developed from the e-book Before Lampedusa (2015) by the same author. In 2013 the digital culture science series Generator started . Since 2014, several versions of the collaboratively written e-book Thousands of Deaths, edited by Christiane Frohmann, have been published. In 2015, the At one table series, jointly managed by Asal Dardan , Michaela Maria Müller and Christiane Frohmann, was added. The e-book series Hausbesuch , published by the Goethe-Institut, was published from January to March 2017 with ten individual titles by Marie Darrieussecq , Guy Helminger , Katja Lange-Müller , Michela Murgia , Jordi Puntí , Sasha Marianna Salzmann , Gonçalo M. Tavares , Annelies Verbeke and David Wagner as well as an anthology compiling all texts. Also in 2017, and in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut, European Angst was published with texts by Klaus-Dieter Lehmann , Herta Müller , Slavoj Žižek and others.
program
Frohmann Verlag takes a look at new cultural forms, including genuinely digital literature and collaborative writing on the Internet.
Since the publishing house was founded, Twitter's program has included short text collections, by Anousch Mueller , Jan-Uwe Fitz and Ute Weber , among others ; Since 2015, these have been taken out of the context of Twitterature and viewed as small forms and published: in 2016, the print series Kleine Formen emerged, the first volume of which was seats in the bus by Claudia Vamvas in September 2016 . Match Deleted followed in 2017 . Tinder shorts by Sarah Berger , booklets out, dictatorship! by Oliver Grimm and @blutundkaffee by Ianina Ilitcheva .
The collective 0x0a , consisting of Hannes Bajohr and Gregor Weichbrodt , publishes genuinely digital literature as books at Frohmann, but the corresponding texts can also be read online at the same time.
The Generator series includes titles on new phenomena in the field of digital culture, such as cat content , algorithm and bot literature, Twitter nature and the aesthetics of e-books .
In the series At a table , texts and podcasts are published that result from the series of talks with refugees of the same name. It all started with the blog texts nominated for the Grimme Online Award by Hammed Khamis about the autonomous jungle camp in Calais , which was published under the title I Am Not Animal. The Shame of Calais have been published as a book and e-book.
The e-book Writing a Thousand Deaths contains short texts by people who have had or are dealing with death professionally or privately. Contributors include Zoë Beck , Sarah Berger , David Bernet , Isabel Bogdan , Alan Posener , Clemens Setz , Daniela Seel , Sookee , Margarete Stokowski and David Wagner .
Web links
- Frohmann publishing house website
- Home visit project page
- Nils Kahlefendt: “Frohmann Verlag. The aesthetic and social potential of e-books ", in: Deutschlandfunk , September 30, 2015 (accessed on September 12, 2016)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Publisher's editorial (accessed November 30, 2017)
- ↑ Holger Schulze: “Going to drink. Traveling by bus: e-books and small forms ", in: MERKUR, issue 800, January 21, 2016 (accessed on September 12, 2016)
- ↑ “Die Nominierte 2016” on grimme-institut.de ( Memento of the original from May 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on September 12, 2016)
