Art publisher Peda
The art publisher Peda is a book publisher based in Patriching near Passau , which mainly publishes church and art guides and books on art and architectural photography. It was founded in the early 1980s by the Upper Silesian- born photographer Gregor Peda (* 1948).
40 to 50 new titles appear every year, with a "backlist" of around 700 titles. The series of Peda art guides has been published since 1988 with over 770 volumes to date. The circulation of the volumes is between 3,000 and 50,000 pieces. The original German text is translated into up to seven languages.
Gregor Peda was trained as a photographer at the Photo and Film Academy in Warsaw; he came to Passau with a grant from the Otto Benecke Foundation , which financed language courses for German.
The publishing house has four representative offices, including in Brixen , Vienna and Ravensburg .
Web links
- Homepage of the art publisher Peda
- Page about the art publisher Peda im Regiowiki Niederbayern / Altötting
- Edith Rabenstein: Focus on natural wonders: Passauer Peda-Verlag, known throughout Germany for church and monument guides, is now going underground - Gregor Peda is out and about in caves , in: Passauer Neue Presse , March 10, 2010. ( online ).
- Books by Gregor Peda in the German National Library
- Holdings of the series “Peda Art Guide” in the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Edith Rabenstein: Natural wonders in focus: Passauer Peda-Verlag, known throughout Germany for church and monument guides, is now going underground - Gregor Peda is out and about in caves , in: Passauer Neue Presse, March 10, 2010.
- ↑ see holdings of the series in the German National Library at http://d-nb.info/97702296X