Jochen Enterprises
Jochen Enterprises - Society for the Promotion of Intelligent Entertainment bR ( own spelling JOCHEN Enterprises ) was a German comic publisher that existed from October 1992 to 2000 and was based in Berlin. Before the actual founding of the publishing house by Dagie Brundert , Gabriele Kahnert, Torsten Alisch and Dirk Baranek, Jochen Enterprises was also a project for the production, showing and distribution of short films from the Berlin scene from 1990 onwards.
The name of the publisher is derived from Der Jochen, a magazine that has only appeared on (short film) film festivals since 1989, with the title alluding to Jochen Pollitt, the organizer of the Open Air Film Festival Weiterstadt .
Jochen Enterprises was the central publisher for German and foreign alternative comics in Germany. Many of the foreign comic authors and cartoonists whom Alisch and Baranek had become aware of through their work in the Berlin comic shop Grober Unfug were translated into German for the first time by Jochen Enterprises. The relocated ensemble included u. a. Chester Brown , © TOM , OL , Fil , Fickelscherer , Jim Woodring , Max Andersson , Hansi Kiefersauer , Katz and Goldt , LGX Lillian Mousli , ATAK , Anke Feuchtenberger , Peter Bagge , Rattelschneck , Klaus Cornfield , Reinhard Kleist and Andrew Vachss .
In 2000, Jochen Enterprises stopped the publishing business because the business was no longer profitable. Since then, the publishing offer has been partially taken over by the publishers Edition Moderne , Reprodukt and the Zwerchfell Verlag .
The entire publishing archive with author correspondence and the entire publishing program was initially in the possession of the City of Erlangen's Department of Culture . In April 2015 the archive was taken over by the Center BD de la Ville de Lausanne .
Web links
- JOCHEN enterprises - Germany's most unusual comic and film publisher ( Memento from February 4, 2003 in the Internet Archive ) in the Internet Archive
- Interview with Dirk Baranek, 2000 in the 2001 ICOM “Comic” yearbook
- Interview with Dirk Baranek on somasoma.de