Publishing house Hentrich & Hentrich

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Publishing house Hentrich & Hentrich

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legal form one-man business
founding 1982
Seat Leipzig
management Nora Pester
Branch Publishing
Website www.hentrichhentrich.de

The Hentrich & Hentrich publishing house is a publishing house for Jewish culture and contemporary history from Berlin / Leipzig.

history

Edition Hentrich was founded in 1982 by the publisher Gerhard Hentrich (1924–2009), whose mother was " half-Jewish " in National Socialist parlance . Edition Hentrich was sold by Gerhard Hentrich in 1998. In autumn 1998 a new publishing house was founded by Harald and Gerhard Hentrich in Teetz , the Hentrich & Hentrich publishing house. Political scientist Nora Pester (* 1977) has been the owner and publisher since 2010 ; she re-founded the publishing house in the center of Berlin. The company's seat from 2010 to 2018 was the old book trade on Wilhelmstrasse in Berlin-Mitte . The publishing house has had its headquarters in the Haus des Buches (Leipzig) since September 1, 2018 .

program

The Hentrich & Hentrich Verlag is the only book publisher in the German-speaking area that specializes exclusively in publications on Jewish culture and contemporary history with a volume of over 50 new publications per year. a. in cooperation with institutions such as Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies , Centrum Judaicum , Topography of Terror Foundation , Federal and State Centers for Political Education, Bet Debora eV , Jewish Museum Munich , Jewish Culture Museum Augsburg-Swabia , Selma Stern Center for Jewish Studies Berlin -Brandenburg , Academy of the Arts , Central Council of Jews in Germany or the Memorial House of the Wannsee Conference . Almost 250 biographical volumes have now been published in the “Jewish Miniatures” series (as of 2019).

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Hermann Simon: Obituary: Gerhard Hentrich was a restless person. In: Der Tagesspiegel . September 21, 2009.
  2. Nora Pester continues Hentrich & Hentrich Verlag. In: Börsenblatt . January 25, 2010.
  3. ^ Thomas Mayer: Verlag Hentrich & Hentrich moves from Berlin to Leipzig. In: LVZ.de (Leipziger Volkszeitung). November 6, 2018, accessed March 19, 2019 .
  4. ^ Janina Fleischer: Verlag Hentrich & Hentrich celebrates arrival in Leipzig. In: LVZ.de (Leipziger Volkszeitung). November 29, 2018. Retrieved March 19, 2019 .
  5. Thomas Bille: Interview with the publisher's owner: “In Leipzig, doors have opened for us”. In: MDR.de. Retrieved March 19, 2019 .
  6. ^ Frauke Siebels: Publisher portrait: Welcome to Leipzig, Hentrich & Hentrich. In: mephisto976.de. December 20, 2018, accessed March 19, 2019 .
  7. ^ Zarah Sorger: Hentrich & Hentrich: About Leipzig as a book city with a heart, coincidences in life and the absurdity of the system. In: Leipziglauscht.de. March 11, 2019, accessed March 19, 2019 .
  8. Michael Kunze: Everything that is Jewish. In: FreiePresse.de. January 22, 2019, accessed March 19, 2019 .