Hollitzer (publisher)

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Hollitzer

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legal form Department of the Hollitzer Group
founding 2010
Seat Vienna
management Michael Hüttler , Publishing Director
H. E. Weidinger , CEO
Branch Book publisher
Website www.hollitzer.at

Hollitzer is an Austrian science and fiction publishing company based in Vienna , part of the Hollitzer group (founded in 1849). It developed from the Tagbau editorial team on the one hand, and the Don Juan Archive on the other, and was formally established in 2010. The publisher publishes in German, English and Italian.

Michael Hüttler is the publishing director .

program

The focus of the publishing program is on theater , music and cultural history . Starting with the writings of the partner institution Don Juan Archive Vienna - on the subject of European music history, cultural transfer between the Ottoman Empire and European music and theater as well as the history of Don Juan material up to Lorenzo Da Pontes and Wolfgang A. Mozart's Don Giovanni and the reception of this opera - since 2010 numerous music and theater studies have been published. Over the years the publisher has published scientific series, monographs, yearbooks, almanacs, sheet music editions and critical editions in close cooperation with a number of international universities and research institutions as well as with the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences .

Fiction

Publishing premises

In 2015, the publisher started its fiction department with the German-language first edition of the novel The Scent of Rain in the Balkans by the Serbian-Sephardic writer Gordana Kuić and the first edition of Don Juan turns sixty , a cheerful drama by the Austrian writer Robert Schindel . Both titles were presented at the Leipzig Book Fair and at events in Vienna and quickly gained approval from the book trade and readership. Furthermore, in the same year published two new editions of novels of the writer Ilir Ferra : from minus and from the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize winning smoke shadow .

The predecessor of the fiction department was the series of texts and studies on Austrian literary and theater history , which included new editions of theatrical texts from the 18th century, but also the new edition of the letters of a stranger by Alexander von Villers . The Baroque authors who were reissued by the publisher are Philipp Hafner , Franz von Heufeld and Johann Joseph Felix von Kurz .

The focus of the publisher is on music and theater in both fiction and science. The authors therefore include well-known dramaturges, screenwriters, directors and composers such as Hilde Berger , Richard Bletschacher , Alexej Parin, Irene Suchy and Otto M. Zykan .

Since 2017 the publisher has been publishing the books of the Austrian literary group Textmotor with the authors Doris Fleischmann, Luis Stabauer, Georg Rejam, Sascha Wittmann and others. a.

Internationally known authors who were published by the publishing house in a first German translation are Dino Bauk (Slovenia), Maxim Ossipow (Russia) - with the volume of short stories After Eternity 2018 on the shortlist of the International Literature Prize - House of World Cultures - and the Italian Nobel Prize winner for literature, Dario Fo , whose last, posthumously published, novel Christina von Schweden. A trouser role for Queen Hollitzer released in 2017.

science

We have been working closely with the Mozarteum University in Salzburg for several years . In addition to the annual almanac, the publisher also publishes the series of publications on the history of the Mozarteum University and publications by the Salzburg Music History research platform ; including two monographs on former rectors of the university: Eberhard Preußner and Günther Bauer .

In 2015, Mille Tre Verlag was taken over and the existing focus on music was greatly expanded: since then, the musicological series Musikkontext , Income from Teaching and Announcements (the Vienna Yearbook for Musicology of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna ) have been published.

From 2015 the Austrian Music Magazine (ÖMZ) was also produced. Since 1946, it has offered a unique platform for musicological discourse and critical support for musical life. The ÖMZ was and is the representative publication organ for "classical" and "new" music, music and music theater life in Austria and in the central Danube region.

Another expansion took place in 2016 with the takeover of ten series of the German Schneider Verlag, Tutzing. The academic series of Eisenstädter Haydn reports , Mozart studies , Richard Strauss yearbook , Strauss elementary directory , Strauss alliance directory , series of publications on the music of the Vienna Library , publications of the Institute for Austrian Music Documentation , studies on musicology - supplements of the monuments of music in Austria , as well as the Vienna Forum for Early Music History and Viennese publications on musicology (of the Institute for Musicology at the University of Vienna ) have since been published by Hollitzer.

A comprehensive volume on the role of music in the revolution of 1848/1849 in the Austrian Empire has been published with the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the series Johann Joseph Fux - Werke has been developed since 2017 , a historical-critical edition in which the extensive, The largely unpublished oeuvre of the most important Austrian baroque composer Johann Joseph Fux (1660–1741) is edited for science and practice. The Fux edition, founded in 2015, is currently one of the world's largest edition companies in the field of baroque music.

A work on Wolfgang Rihm was published with the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences .

The series Bibliographica, Summa Summarum, Theatralia and Ottomania , dedicated to the dialogue between the Ottoman Empire and Europe in the field of the performing arts , are published together with the Don Juan Archive Vienna .

Magazines

The publisher publishes a number of academic journals and yearbooks, including TheMA, short for Theater, Music, Arts , an open access research journal for music, theater and art, and the Almanac of the Mozarteum University , published 2010-2014 by Wolfgang Gratzer , 2015 by Siegfried Mauser and since 2016 by Susanne Prucher . 2012–2014 the e-book edition of the magazine Nestroyana , dedicated to the Austrian comedy poet Johann Nestroy , was published and from 2015 to 2018 the traditional Austrian music magazine .

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