Grafit publishing house

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Grafit publishing house
Grafit Verlag logo.svg
founding   1989
Seat   only Dortmund, since 2019 Cologne
publisher   until 2010 Rutger Booß, until 2018 Ulrike Rodi, since 2019 Hejo Emons
Publisher number   89442
genus   Detective novel
Website   http://www.grafit.de/

The graphite Verlag was founded in 1989 in Dortmund founded. He has been part of Emons Verlag in Cologne since January 1, 2019 .

history

Grafit Verlag's car not far from the former publishing house in Dortmund

In 1989, Rutger Booß founded an independent private publisher in Dortmund, in which he published non-fiction and detective novels , the rights of which he had taken over from Weltkreis-Verlag. Weltkreis was a publishing house of the political left , which was taken over in 1987 by the DKP close Pahl-Rugenstein Verlag . In 1989, the Pahl-Rugenstein Verlag , for which Booß had worked as an editor, went bankrupt . The publisher's name Grafit goes back to a suggestion by the author and journalist Werner Schmitz , who wanted “something handy”. New books were already published in the founding year, such as the detective novel "The Disgust of Datteln " by Reinhard Junge and Leo P. Ard (actually Jürgen Pomorin) . In the early 1990s, Pomorin's partner, Birgit Grosz , published travel guides about East Germany (“Overnight stays in the new federal states”), which were the publisher's most successful book titles until the mid-1990s. Nonetheless, German crime novels were increasingly used, most of which are set near the place of publication, such as the Ruhr area , Münsterland or the Eifel . With Jacques Berndorf , Jürgen Kehrer and Horst Eckert, the publishing house soon published successful representatives from the area of ​​so-called regional thrillers . Berndorf and Kehrer are also represented in Jochen Schmidt's “Typgeschichte des Kriminalromans” (p. 984–993) in the chapter “About regional crime stories from Germany” as the representatives of this genre. In the mid-2000s, Grafit was considered the market leader in German-language crime novels, with around two million D-Marks in sales per year and now six employees. In 2010, Rutger Booß announced his withdrawal from the publishing business and handed over the management of the publishing house to Ulrike Rodi, who had worked at the publishing house as an editor since 1992 . In the same year Booß was awarded the Glauser Prize for special merits in the detective novel. In view of the overall decline in sales opportunities for small publishers, the publisher tried to distinguish itself by publishing German crime literature. At the end of 2018, Grafit-Verlag gave up its independence and was taken over by Cologne-based Emons Verlag, which publishes regional crime novels .

program

While the publishing house still published non-fiction books and detective novels at the beginning of its activity, only German detective novels were published from 1999 onwards. The publisher published around 20 new book titles per year. With Jaques Berndorf Grafit published an author whose works regularly made it onto the bestseller list . Jürgen Kehrer's books were also successful and the publishing house also sold film rights through him for the first time for its Wilsberg series. With books by Horst Eckert the publisher won renowned literary prizes , such as the Marlowe in 1998 and the Friedrich Glauser Prize in 2001. Since Grafit only published detective novels, international book titles from this genre have also been published, especially suspense literature from Finland . By Matti Rönkä managed an international graphite-author in 2007 with the top 10 crime leaderboard . Since 2005 the publisher has also published historical novels , in particular the bestselling author Beate Sauer . Hardcover editions of his book titles were published by Grafit from 2006. With Lucie Flebbe (at that time still under the name Lucie Klassen) in 2009 and Marc-Oliver Bischoff in 2013, two authors from Grafit-Verlag came to the Friedrich-Glauser-Preis for the best Debut novel were awarded.

Authors at Grafit

literature

  • Daniela Völker: The book for the masses: paperbacks and their publishers. Tectum Verlag, Marburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8288-3353-1 .
  • Jochen Schmidt: Gangsters, victims, detectives: a type history of the crime novel. KBV, Hillesheim 2009, ISBN 978-3-940077-69-1 .

Web links

Commons : Grafit  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Address book for the German-speaking book trade. Marketing and publishing service for the book trade , accessed on January 18, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Emons takes over Grafit Verlag , buchmarkt.de, published and accessed on October 8, 2018.
  3. ↑ Small Inquiry 7/4232 on: German Communist Party , Bundestag printed paper , October 29, 1975, accessed on February 13, 2019.
  4. ↑ Dortmund Grafit-Verlag celebrates 25 years of a crime thriller career , Funke Mediengruppe , May 13, 2014, accessed on February 13, 2019.
  5. ↑ Criminally successful with local color , Stern , August 1, 2006, accessed on February 13, 2019.
  6. ↑ How is the publishing thriller going, Ms. Rodi? , Book Report , October 14, 2012, accessed on February 13, 2019.
  7. ↑ Dortmund Grafit-Verlag goes to Cologne competition , revierpassagen.de, October 9, 2018, accessed on February 13, 2019.
  8. ↑ Grafit-Verlag made murder socially acceptable , Die Welt , September 19, 2014, accessed on February 14, 2019.

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