Greifenverlag

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Greifenverlag

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legal form registered cooperative
founding 1919; Established in 2009
Seat Rudolstadt
management Insolvency administrator Kerstin Jeska-Zimmermann
Branch Book publisher

The Greifenverlag was a German publisher that existed from 1919 to 1993, the new establishment under the old name from 2009 only existed until 2011.

history

The first Greifenverlag was founded in 1919 in Hartenstein by members of the Wandervogel movement. The black griffin was a symbol of this movement. The co-founder and managing director was Karl Dietz . From 1921 the publishing house was based in Rudolstadt , Thuringia , and from September 1926 on the local Heidecksburg. For example, the "Greifenkalender - an annual group for young art" appeared, an annual book for art with numerous art images, magazines, and travel logs. Then sexual education titles, especially from the Berlin doctor Max Hodann, attracted spectacular attention. Political and literary works by Karl Grünberg , Johannes R. Becher , and Paul Zech follow later . He published works by left-wing writers from the Weimar Republic as well as works by ethnic authors. For example the book by Klara Boesch, published in 1925, entitled Schöpfer und Deuter deutscher Weltanschauung . In 1930 production was severely restricted due to economic problems. The publisher continued to exist. In the time of National Socialism , Karl Dietz tried to find new products. He tried to formally serve himself to the National Socialists by producing postcards , but was unsuccessful. Like other entrepreneurs, Dietz became a supporting member of SS-Standarte 11/47 in 1934.

After the Second World War , the Rudolstadt-based private publisher was allowed to work again in 1945 as one of the first publishers with a Soviet license. There were, among others, Lion Feuchtwanger , Victor Klemperer , Karl Barthel and Inge von Wangenheim added as authors. After Karl Dietz's death in 1965, his daughter Gundel Dietz-Elgers sold the publishing house to the state, which converted it into a state-owned company (VEB). From then on, the Greifenverlag lost its literary influence and increasingly published entertainment literature, including the Greifenkrimis. After the reunification , the Treuhandanstalt made two attempts at privatization , which failed in 1993 when the publisher went bankrupt . In both cases, the Treuhandanstalt failed to scrupulously examine the investors.

In January 2009 the publishers Matthias Oehme, Frank Schumann and Holger Elias re-founded Greifenverlag in Berlin. As of May 15, 2009, the publishing house, as a publishing cooperative, was back in Rudolstadt, Thuringia. After the dissolution of the civil law company founded by the three in May 2009, the publishing house was run as a cooperative. In March 2011, this cooperative had to file for bankruptcy. On July 20, 2011, the Gera District Court decided to discontinue the business operations of Greifenverlag zu Rudolstadt and Berlin eG.

program

According to its own information, the publisher published around 80 titles from 2009 to 2011: Kleine Klabund series, Jakob Wassermann series, books on contemporary history, contemporary novels and fiction classics by Ernst Barlach , Friedrich Glauser , Nikolai Gogol , Georg Heim , Ödön von Horváth , Erich Mühsam , Alexander Puschkin , Rainer Maria Rilke , Adalbert Stifter , Bertha von Suttner , Kurt Tucholsky , Émile Zola . Books by the Thuringian authors Norbert Klaus Fuchs , Klaus Jäger , Ulla Spörl and the Hamburg novelist Dirk C. Fleck have also appeared .

archive

The archive of the Greifenverlag, which dates back to the founding time, is located in the Thuringian State Archives in Rudolstadt . The estate of the last chief editor up to 1993, Helmut Nitschke, is also stored there. In the library of the German Literature Archive Marbach , the partial archive of the publishing house production of the Greifenverlag has been kept as a closed library, a total of 773 volumes, since 1993.

literature

  • Frank Esche: Finding aid of the Thuringian State Archives Rudolstadt: Greifenverlag zu Rudolstadt (1913 - 1993) (PDF file; 1.17 MB), Rudolstadt, July 2007
  • In the fiftieth year. Greifenverlag: 1919 - 1969. With 50 illustrations and a list of the titles published between 1945 and 1968. Greifenverlag, Rudolstadt 1969
  • 65 years of Greifenverlag in Rudolstadt. Greifenverlag, Rudolstadt 1984
  • Ursula Steinhaußen: 70 years of Greifenverlag in Rudolstadt: 1919 - 1989. Publishing bibliography. 1946 - 1988. Greifenverlag, Rudolstadt 1989, ISBN 3-7352-0165-2
  • Carsten Wurm, Jens Henkel, Gabriele Ballon: The Greifenverlag zu Rudolstadt 1919 - 1993. Publishing history and bibliography. Writings and testimonials on book history 15. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2001, ISBN 3-447-04501-9

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Finding aid of the Thuringian State Archives Rudolstadt: Greifenverlag zu Rudolstadt (1913 - 1993) (PDF; 1.2 MB) Section Institutional History, page IV
  2. ^ Wurm et al.: Der Greifenverlag zu Rudolstadt 1919-1993 . Pp. 11-13
  3. ↑ Ulrike Kern in the Ostthüringer Zeitung of May 22, 2012 in her review of the exhibition about the Greifenverlag that took place in Rudolstadt in the same year, reproduced on the homepage of the Thuringian Literature Council [1]
  4. ^ Carsten Wurm, Jens Henkel, Gabriele Ballon: Der Greifenverlag zu Rudolstadt, 1919-1993: Publishing history and bibliography. Harrasowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2001, ISBN 3-447-04501-9 , page 61.
  5. ↑ Literature on the Resterampe June 20, 2008 From ZEIT No. 26/2008 by Christoph Links
  6. ↑ http://www.insuedthueringen.de/regional/feuilleton/th/fwfeuilleton/art83476,1643536
  7. ↑ http://www.buchreport.de/nachrichten/verlage/verlage_nachricht/daten/2011/05/16/neustart-zu-ende.htm