Gerstenberg Publishing House
| Gerstenberg Verlag GmbH & Co. KG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | 1792 |
| Seat | Hildesheim |
| management | Daniela Filthaut, Daniel Gerstenberg |
| Branch | publishing company |
| Website | www.gerstenberg-verlag.de |
The Gerstenberg publishing house is a German publishing house for children, youth and adults books with headquarters in Hildesheim . In the adult program there are illustrated books, photo-text books by Ute Karen Seggelke and women over 50 are permanent sales. Robert Nippoldt designed illustrated volumes with special features . His book Jazz was named the most beautiful book of the year by the Book Art Foundation . Among other things, the publisher publishes a successful cookbook segment with illustrated crime fiction collections with recipes such as Murder Between Knife and Fork, illustrated cookbooks and international bestsellers by Sophie Dudemaine such as Sophie's Cakes . Furthermore, the non-fiction book series 50 classics appears in the publishing house .
history
1792-1980
In 1792 Johann Daniel Gerstenberg founded a publishing bookstore in Saint Petersburg . In 1797 he moved to Hildesheim, where the publishing house is still located on the historic market square today. The Gerstenberg Verlag published books, which it also sold through the Gerstenbergsche Buchhandlung; a printing company was attached. In the 1850s, when the publisher was still printing notes in particular , the lithographer and later photographer Franz Heinrich Bödeker worked in the lithography of the " Gebrüder Gerstenberg ". The Hildesheimer Allgemeine Zeitung soon became the most important publishing branch . The Gerstenberg company is still a family business today, now in the seventh generation. At Christmas 1871 , the Gerstenberg brothers advertised the oldest known, large-format Hildesheim views by the photographer Georg Koppmann , two of which were signed works were found in the Roman and Pelizaeus Museum .
1981 – today
In 1981 the publisher built up the children's book program. A little later, Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar appeared . In 1989 Gerstenberg Verlag began publishing the series of children's non-fiction books, seeing-amazement-knowledge. In 1999, the collection of poems for children illustrated by Rotraut Susanne Berner , Dark was it, the moon shone brightly, was the first of Gerstenberg's “house books”. Further illustrators of the house books are Jutta Bauer , Julian Jusim , Claudia Lieb , Kat Menschik , Reinhard Michl , Renate Seelig , Philip Waechter and Linda Wolfsgruber . Gerstenberg Verlag's picture books are designed by artists such as Rotraut Susanne Berner, Eric Carle, Katy Couprie and Antonin Louchard , Antje Damm , Ulf K. , Miriam Koch and Antje von Stemm . The Wimmelbücher by Rotraut Susanne Berner, actually a cycle of images novels, will present more than 80 characters in the course of the year and will appear in 17 countries. As a new in-house production, the publishing house developed the children's non-fiction book series Adventure & Knowledge by Maja Nielsen in 2006 . In 2009, for the 40th birthday of the Very Hungry Caterpillar, a non-book range came onto the market for the first time. In children's and youth literature, authors such as Timothée de Fombelle , Laura Gallego García , Jan De Leeuw , Joke van Leeuwen , Gunnel Linde , Frida Nilsson, Gudrun Pausewang , François Place, Lilli Thal and Floortje Zwigtman are represented.
Gerstenberg Verlag GmbH & Co. KG owns 7.3 percent of the shares in the Madsack publishing company , which is involved in numerous media companies.
literature
- Publishers in Hildesheim: looking back over five decades . Dr. Bruno Gerstenberg on his 75th birthday on November 15, 2007. Gerstenberg Verlag, Hildesheim 2009, ISBN 978-3-8067-8709-2 .
- Paul Raabe (Ed.): From St. Petersburg to Hildesheim. Festschrift for the 200th anniversary of the Gerstenberg house 1792–1992, Verlag Gebrüder Gerstenberg, Hildesheim, ISBN 978-3-8067-8127-4 .
- D. Lomtev: Germans in Russia's Musical Infrastructure . BMV-Verl. Burau, Lage (Westf.) 2012, ISBN 978-3-93500-083-3 , pp. 37-44.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Ludwig Hoerner : Photography and Photographers in Hanover and Hildesheim. Festschrift for the 150th birthday of photography. Published by the Hanover and Hildesheim photographers' guilds , produced in the Bad Pyrmont vocational promotion center in the training professions typesetting, repro photography, printing form production, flat printing and bookbinding as part of the retraining, 1989, p. 77 f.
- ↑ Ludwig Hoerner: Photographien und Photographen ..., p. 76.