Kösel publishing house

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Kösel publishing house
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founding   1593
Seat   Munich , Germany
management   Thomas Rathnow
(Management)
Sigrid Fortkord
(Publishing Director)
Publisher number   466
Publishing group   Random House
genus   Non-fiction book , guide
Website   www.randomhouse.de

The Kösel publishing house is a German publishing house with seat in Munich . Its history goes back to the 16th century, making it one of the oldest still active publishers in Germany. The name of the publishing house goes back to Joseph Kösel, who in 1805 acquired the court printing house of the prince monastery of Kempten . Owned by the Huber family since 1835 and later by the Wild family, Kösel-Verlag joined the Random House publishing group in 2005 .

The program ranges from religious works to psychological non-fiction books. The publisher publishes books on current life and social issues. This was successfully achieved, for example, with the “ Introduction to Christianity ” by Joseph Ratzinger, who later became Pope Benedict XVI. , or " ... to say yes to life anyway " by Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl . The work of the Christian philosopher Josef Pieper was also published by Kösel-Verlag. In the guide section, standard works appeared that are still available today, such as Hannah Lothrop's “Stillbuch”.

history

Prince Abbot Johann Erhard Blarer von Wartensee
Joseph Kösel with his wife and one of the children
Bill of Jos. Kösel'schen bookstore from 1904

In 1593 Johann Erhard Blarer von Wartensee founded a court book printing company in Kempten. At first she mainly produced commercial prints for her own needs. During the Thirty Years' War , the monastery of the prince monastery of Kempten, including the court book printer, was destroyed, but rebuilt in 1660 by Roman Giel von Gielsberg . Under his leadership, mainly theological and religious writings were published. This changed in 1794 when Joseph Kösel took office as managing director of the Hofbuchdruckerei: he expanded the program to include secular topics and published newspapers as well as books. Until secularization , the company was under spiritual guidance. In 1802 the "Hochfürstliche Hofbuchhandlung" became the property of the government of Kurbayern ; henceforth it was called "Churbayerische Buchhandlung Joseph Kösel". The namesake and managing director Joseph Kösel finally bought the company in 1805. In 1811 he relocated the Hofbuchdruckerei to premises outside the monastery, making it completely independent of the prince monastery.

After Joseph Kösel's death, his widow sold the business. The management was held by Johann Huber, who in turn became the owner himself in 1838. He continued to run the publishing house, printer and bookstore under the name "Kösel". His family held the majority of the business for several generations. In the decades that followed, Kösel-Verlag was repeatedly modernized technically, for example through the introduction of steam-powered high-speed presses. In 1893 the company had over 100 employees for the first time. Ludwig Huber's son Paul founded a branch in the Bavarian capital of Munich. In 1907 the Kösel publishing house was converted into a general partnership : Paul ran the publishing house and the bookstore, his brother Hermann the printing house. After Paul Huber's death, Hermann Huber was given sole management responsibility.

The economic crisis after the First World War prompted the company to merge with the publishers Lentner, Isaria and Pustet in 1920. As a result, new shareholders were added, which is why the Kösel Verlag was converted into a limited partnership . In 1927 he moved to Munich; in Kempten, where previously the publishing department or branch of the Josef Kösel & Friedrich Pustet K.-G. only the printing house remained. In the 1930s, the Kösel-Verlag was not spared from persecution by the National Socialists : by order of the Reich Chamber of Culture in 1939, confessional from neutral literature was separated. The non-religious part went to the school book publisher Michael Beckstein, which was spun off as an independent company. The Kösel-Verlag remained limited to religious and denominational titles, only the magazine " Hochland " was an exception. In 1944 the Kösel publishing house was finally closed.

After the end of the Second World War, Heinrich Wild was hired as the publishing director. He systematically expanded the program, became a partner and worked for the company until 1975. After his death, Christoph Wild moved to the head of the Kösel publishing house. He continued the course of his father and made the offer more audience-oriented. In 1982 the "Graphische Werkstätten" separated from the Kösel publishing house, so that the publishing house and the printer were legally and economically independent. In 2001 Christoph Wild finally sold the Kösel-Verlag to the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt and withdrew from the publishing house. In 2005, Kösel-Verlag came under the umbrella of the Random House publishing group , and in 2014 Kösel moved into the central building of the publishing group in Berg am Laim in the east of Munich.

program

Joseph Kösel initiated the modernization of the denominational book trade. A good third of the program, however, still consisted of liturgical works in Latin. It was Johann Huber who set the course for the modern age, including the complete edition of the Enlightener Lorenz von Westenrieder . The Kösel-Verlag had great success at the end of the 19th century with the books by Sebastian Kneipp . At the beginning of the 20th century, a series of economically successful Catholic fiction literature began under the direction of Paul Huber. The Kösel-Verlag newspapers, including the “Allgäuer Zeitung”, were discontinued or sold during the Second World War. Some magazines, including “Hochland” and “Children's Home”, were continued after the war. In 1960 the company took part in the founding of the Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag .

Every year Kösel-Verlag publishes around 70 novelties in the field of non-fiction, advice and gift books, as hardcover or paperback, sometimes also on CD . Almost all titles are also available in digitized form, as e-books or downloads . The current program includes around a thousand titles in the fields of psychology and modern life , living with children, and religion and society . Well-known authors of recent times are for example Jesper Juul, Sabine Asgodom, Jack Kornfield, Peter Levine, Herbert Renz-Polster, Clemens Kuby, Pope Franziskus, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, Joseph Ratzinger, Rainer Maria Schießler, Joachim Gauck or Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger.

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Individual evidence

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  11. ↑ Ursula Pia Jauch: Virtues, essentials . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . May 29, 2004, p. 46 .
  12. ↑ Still reading . In: The daily newspaper . August 30, 2003, p. 22 .
  13. ↑ Reinventing the book as a cultural asset . In: German printer . September 24, 2015, p. 31 .
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  15. ^ News from the Kösel publishing house . The print shop of the Hochstift Kempten. Kösel-Verlag, Kempten, Munich 1968, p. 6-8 .
  16. ^ News from the Kösel publishing house . Structure and working method of the print shop. Kösel-Verlag, Kempten, Munich 1968, p. 8-10 .
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  18. ^ News from the Kösel publishing house . Kösel-Verlag, Kempten, Munich 1968, p. 6 .
  19. ↑ a b 400 years of Kösel-Verlag (1593–1993) . Past and present. Kösel-Verlag, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-466-10050-X , p. 19 .
  20. ^ News from the Kösel publishing house . Kösel-Verlag, Munich 1968, p. 29 .
  21. ↑ 400 years of Kösel-Verlag (1593–1993) . Past and present. Kösel-Verlag, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-466-10050-X , p. 20 .
  22. ↑ a b c History of the Kösel publishing house. Random House Publishing Group, accessed January 1, 2017 .
  23. ↑ a b c d news from the Kösel publishing house . Timetable. Kösel-Verlag, Kempten, Munich 1968, p. 48-48 .
  24. ↑ A long tradition with ups and downs. In: Kreisbote. August 5, 2015, accessed December 15, 2016 .
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  26. ↑ 400 years of Kösel-Verlag (1593–1993) . Past and present. Kösel-Verlag, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-466-10050-X , p. 22 .
  27. ↑ 400 years of Kösel . Past and present. Kösel-Verlag, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-466-10050-X , p. 25 .
  28. ↑ 400 years of Kösel-Verlag (1593–1993) . Timeline. Kösel-Verlag, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-466-10050-X , p. 220 .
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  37. ↑ DVA buys Kösel-Verlag . In: German printer . July 5, 2001, p. 2 .
  38. ↑ Kösel-Verlag with new management . In: The Standard . December 24, 2003, p. 25 .
  39. ^ FAZ publishing group: Random House buys DVA, Kösel and Manesse . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . September 14, 2005, p. 12 .
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