Holzhof publishing house

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The Holzhof Verlag Dresden is a German comic book publisher from Dresden .

history

The Holzhof Verlag was founded in 2005 by Guido Weißhahn in Dresden. Weißhahn has been running the website www.ddr-comics.de since 2000 , which deals with the history and processing of comics and picture stories in the GDR , the Soviet occupation zone and the new federal states . Many of these comics and picture stories were previously reprinted in well-known, regularly appearing children's and youth magazines such as Atze , Frösi , Drum , ABC-Zeitung , as well as in magazines such as NBI , Für Dich , Freie Welt (magazine) . With the new publications at Holzhof Verlag, many of the older comic strips were reworked and supplemented with previously unpublished material. The publishing house published now on the range of eastern Comics addition, works by other authors , cartoonists and artists . In 2011, the publisher took part in the free comic day for the first time with Holzhof Comix 1 - The Cunning Rocket and his Holzhofsoldaten .

Publishing program

The focus of the publishing program is the series Classics of GDR Picture History , in which works by well-known GDR artists such as B. Jürgen Günther with Flitzi, Mischa and Kalle, Jürgen Kieser with Fix and Fax , Hansgeorg Stengel and Karl Schrader with Max and Maxim , Heinz Jankofsky's comic about Nimmerklug im Knirpsenland , Horst Alisch with Ali and Archibald and with Käpt'n Lütt , Richard Hambach with Mäxchen Pfiffig and many more were published. The Holzhof Verlag continued to publish his comics with Edition Jürgen Günther, such as Otto and Alwin and Kasimir and Josefine from the Sächsische Zeitung . Its program comprises works by Erich Schmitt and Thomas Schmitt all Schweinevogel comics from 1987 to 2007 in TOTAL-O-RAMA of Erl , picture stories of Willy Moese and The Virtonauten of Remory of Hagen Flemming .

On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Olsenbande , Holzhof published a comic by Otto Frello based on the fourth film in this series, Die Olsenbande und their big coup (Danish original title Olsen-bandens store kup ) with extensive additional and background material for the first time in German.

Beatcomix

Holzhof Verlag cooperates with the publishing house Beatcomix from Dresden, which was founded in April 2008 and which includes the cartoonists Mamei (Marian Meinhardt-Schönfeld) , Andreas Wehrheim , Ivo Kircheis and other artists, with the comics : Dave Grigger, Paralleluniversum, Der Schatz von Wörgl , Rocket Blues, Der Comic-Killer etc. Various comic albums by Beatcomix were awarded the ICOM Independent Comic Prize in 2009, 2010 and 2011.

Selected publications

  • Otto Frello, Guido Herda and others: The Olsen Gang and their big coup , Dresden 2008, ISBN 978-3-939509-95-0
  • Classics of GDR visual history. Volume 1: Flitzi ., Dresden 2005. ISBN 3-00-017510-5 (26 episodes from the NBI , 1978/79)
  • Classics of GDR visual history. Volume 19: Grandpa and the Bathtub , Dresden 2010. ISBN 978-3-939509-19-6 (24 selected comics from the NEWS magazine, 1971–81, first publication in German)
  • Otto and Alwin - Complete Edition . Edition Günther, Dresden 2008. ISBN 978-3-939509-99-8 (all episodes from FRÖSI, 1974–1981)
  • Andreas Wehrheim, Mamei, Peter Zimmermann: "The treasure of Wörgl", Michael Unterguggenberger and the free experiment , comic, 2009, ISBN 978-3-939509-94-3
  • Black: Schweinvogel Total-O-Rama , 616 pages, comics from the first 20 years of Schweinvogel, Dresden 2010, ISBN 978-3-939509-86-8
  • Ivo Kircheis: Parallel Universum 2 , Dresden 2008, ISBN 978-3-939509-98-1
  • Ivo Kircheis, Mamei, Andreas Wehrheim, Stephan Probst, David von Bassewitz, Gregor Körting, Regina Vetter, Lutz Anke (comic brigade): I never drew that like that, 2008, ISBN 978-3-939509-97-4

literature

  • Stefan Pannor : The colorful world of newspaper and magazine comics in the GDR . In: Comixene # 98, Berlin 2007, pp. 32–35.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Comics in the GDR. In: ddr-comics.de. July 15, 2011, accessed July 15, 2011 .
  2. ↑ The Olsen Gang as a comic. (No longer available online.) In: holzhof-verlag.de. November 2, 2008, archived from the original on December 7, 2008 ; Retrieved November 2, 2008 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.holzhof-verlag.de
  3. ↑ Comic: The Olsen Gang and their big coup appeared. In: olsenbandenfanclub.de. November 2, 2009, accessed November 2, 2009 .
  4. ↑ BEATCOMIX, an author publisher founded in April 2008. In: beatcomix.de. July 15, 2011, accessed July 15, 2011 .
  5. ↑ Comic Brigade. In: comicbrigade.de. July 15, 2011, accessed July 15, 2011 .
  6. ↑ ICOM Independent Comic Prize 2011 for “Rocket Blues”. In: paralleluniversum.net. July 15, 2011, accessed July 15, 2011 .
  7. ↑ ICOM Independent Comic Prize 2011: Outstanding scenario for “Rocket Blues” by Mamei and Ivo Kircheis (Beatcomix). In: comic-i.com. July 15, 2011, accessed July 15, 2011 .