Kindermann Verlag

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Kindermann Verlag
KindermannLogoBlau 230px
founding   1994
Seat   Berlin, Germany
publisher   Barbara Kindermann †
Publisher number   978-3-934029
genus   Children's and young people's literature
Website   kindermannverlag.de

The Kindermann Verlag is an independent children - and youth book publishing house based in Berlin .

Publishing history

Barbara Kindermann (1955–2020) founded the publishing house in 1994. Before that, she worked as an editor for a publishing house in Göttingen. Her then six-year-old daughter Anna inspired her to write a series of books while reading, which gives children access to the canon of world literature and is unique to this day the German book market is. Without undermining the complexity and quality of the originals, Kindermann recounts the classics of world literature based on the Anglo-Saxon model in easily understandable prose for children and makes use of the déjà vu experience. Committed to the desire to arouse the desire for the original in children in the long term without wanting to replace it, around 20 titles in the "World Literature for Children" series were created by 2020 in collaboration with well-known illustrators such as Klaus Ensikat or Sabine Wilharm .

In order to make the website more professional, the series “World Literature for Children” was relaunched in 2002 , the books of which have been elegantly furnished and bound in half-linen ever since . In addition to the license trade for foreign-language books , the readings held by Barbara Kindermann at children's facilities, elementary schools and libraries throughout Germany have been part of the long-term success of Kindermann Verlag for many years . Contrary to the usual restriction to the pure presentation of a book, Kindermann also explains to their young listeners the process of making their books. Kindermann Verlag also sells many titles off the beaten track in appropriate museums and tourist facilities, such as in the Goethe and Schiller cities of Weimar .

In September 2015 Anna Kindermann joined the business of Kindermann Verlag and is responsible for marketing and international law. In May 2017 the publishing house moved from Berlin-Westend to Kreuzberg .

program

Since its inception, the focus of the Kindermann Verlag publishing program, which comprises around 50 titles, has been on classic literature translated into picture books. The books of the world literature series, condensed on 28 pages, authentically convey the character of the classics through numerous original quotations highlighted in italics. At the same time, the added image level helps the young recipients understand the course of action.

Encouraged by the success of the “World Literature for Children” series, the range of Kindermann Verlag has been expanded to include the second classic series “Poetry for Children”. Here, too, the poems and ballads by Schiller , Fontane , Droste-Hülshoff or Rilke, for example , develop a special effect through the illustrations by excellent artists. For example, Sabine Wilharm , one of the most successful German children's book illustrators, has been won over to design the Goethe Balladen Erlkönig and Der Zauberlehrling . She became famous for the book cover design of the German Harry Potter editions, and she also produces caricatures for the magazines Spiegel and Stern .

In addition to the completed series “Children discover art”, in which the art teacher Britta Benke explains the life and work of Kandinsky , Matisse , Picasso and Miró to children using vivid examples, special titles such as the illustrated book Meike Roth-Becks about life by Klaus Ensikat are expanded Luther and his theses or Joachim Rönneper's art history explaining and drawn by Norman Junge rabbit painter Moll the program of Kindermann Verlag.

Authors and illustrators of the publishing house (selection)

Selection of the most important awards

Book Art Foundation : "The Most Beautiful German Books"

  • 2002: Barbara Kindermann and Klaus Ensikat for Faust
  • 2006: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Sabine Wilharm for The Sorcerer's Apprentice

German Academy for Children and Youth Literature : "Children's Book of the Month"

  • 2005: Barbara Kindermann and Sybille Hein for clothes make people
  • 2006: Britta Denke for Who is this Miró?
  • 2008: Rainer Maria Rilke and Isabel Pin for Das Karussell
  • 2009: Friedrich Schiller and Willi Glasauer for Der Taucher
  • 2013: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Sabine Wilharm for Der Erlkönig
  • 2015: Otto Ernst and Tobias Krejtschi for Nis Randers

White Ravens of the International Youth Library : Recommended List

  • 2010: Friedrich Schiller and Jenny Brosinski for the guarantee

Leipzig reading compass

  • 2014: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Sabine Wilharm for Der Erlkönig

Franco-German Youth Literature Prize : Short List

  • 2016: Meike Roth-Beck and Klaus Ensikat for Von Martin Luther's Wittenberg Theses

Illustration prize for books for children and young people : list of recommendations

  • 2016: Meike Roth-Beck and Klaus Ensikat for Von Martin Luther's Wittenberg Theses

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barbara Kindermann has died , boersenblatt.net, published and accessed on June 22, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b c Vera Lejsek: Glasperlenspiel13. Retrieved November 10, 2016 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Tobias Kurwinkel: Kindermann Verlag. www.kinderundjugendmedien.de, accessed on November 10, 2016 .
  4. ↑ a b Luca Spinelli: Kindermann Verlag. Tagesspiegel, June 20, 2013, accessed November 8, 2016 .
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h Eva Phase: Classical music for children. Freiepresse.de, October 14, 2015, accessed on November 8, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Cf. Kindermann Verlag: About us - world literature for children . In: Kindermann Verlag . ( kindermannverlag.de [accessed on November 10, 2016]). About us - World literature for children ( Memento from June 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ a b Julim Journal: Great works for little people - the Kindermann-Verlag. Retrieved November 11, 2016 .