Knabe Verlag Weimar
The boy Verlag Weimar is a publishing company based in Weimar . It existed from 1932 to 1983. In 2007 it was revived.
history
After several years as a publishing director for the Panses Verlag Weimar in Lutherhof, Karl Friedrich Knabe founded the Weimar printing and publishing company Gebrüder Knabe in 1932.
The publishing house, with its printing and bookbinding operations, produced local fiction until 1945 . After the war, the brothers Gerhard and Wolfgang Knabe tried a new start. First of all, Gerhard Knabe's Small Foreign Words Verdeutschungs-Buch was published .
Some time later, the Colorful Toy Village , a children's book with drawings by Horst Michel , then a professor at the State University for Architecture and Fine Arts in Weimar, was published. This was followed by children's picture books such as A Summer's Day with the Bees , until when the license was granted for the Thuringian publishers' consortium, the profile was set to the age group 8-16 years. The license for the Thuringian Publishers Working Group was canceled in the spring of 1953, the Knabe brothers did not receive an individual license.
After the uprising of June 17, 1953 , Knabe-Verlag received a license for children's and young people's literature for ages 8-16, including vocational school and high school age, especially short stories and novels, as well as historical biographies.
Especially the series Knabes Jugendbücherei since 1949 made the publisher famous.
The publisher's symbols were orchid and bumblebee. Around 300 titles had been published by Knabe Verlag by 1983. Rowohlt Verlag reprinted five titles by Martin Selber in the "rororo rotfuchs" series between 1972 and 1984.
Gerhard Knabe died in 1961. After the death of the younger brother Wolfgang Knabe in 1984, the publishing house was dissolved and became the Postreiter Verlag . The publisher's archive is considered lost.
In 2007, Steffen Knabe, a great-grandson of the founder, as well as Denis Wollenhaupt and others revived "the still existing brand". Knabe's youth library hopes for a renaissance of the great success with today's parents, mostly with new editions . In March 2011, Knabe Verlag Weimar intended to work closely with Greifenverlag and to strive for synergy effects in press work, sales, event management and publisher delivery.
In March 2014, Reinhard Griebner's Mauerspechte was the first new publication in Knabe's youth library in 30 years.
In 2015 the publishing house took over the bookstore "Die Eule" in Weimar as a publishing bookstore.
In 2016, Imprints Tourist Verlag, Greifenverlag and Burghügelverlag were taken over and introduced.
Authors
- Walter Basan
- Walter Conrad
- Hans Jürgen Geerdts
- Wolfgang hero
- Walter Paul Kettel
- Bodo Kühn
- Fritz Lattke
- Hans Joachim Malberg
- Heinrich Wolfgang Seidel
- Martin Selber
- Harry Thürk
- Kurt Turk
- Rudolf Weiss
- Reinhard Griebner
literature
- Jens Kirsten: root princesses, detectives and a youth library full of adventure. The history of the Gebrüder Knabe Verlag Weimar, Weimar 2009. ISBN 978-3-940442-90-1 .
Web links
- Knabe Verlag Weimar
- Overview of the Knabes youth library books in the GDR ( Memento from June 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- Complete list of boys' books in the catalog of the German National Library
- Nils Kahlefendt: Survival in the niche. The two lives of the Knabe-Verlag . Presentation of the history of the Knabe publishing house in "Books for Young Readers" on Deutschlandfunk. Posted on February 16, 2019.