Liebeskind publishing house
The Liebeskind Verlag is an association founded in 2000 independent German publishing house . It sees itself as a purely literary publisher whose focus is on contemporary international literature and essay writing .
The publisher operates as the Liebeskind publishing house and has the legal form of a GmbH & Co. KG ; the publishing house is in Munich .
Emerging is the publisher-founded by Hans Liebeskind and Juergen Christian Kill and then in Munich Gärtnerplatzviertel based range bookstore Liebeskind . Today Kill is the sole owner of the publishing house and is responsible for the program.
The publisher's first five titles appeared in autumn 2001. Since then, eight to ten titles have been published a year, according to the publisher. Among the authors are new discoveries such as Cécile Wajsbrot or Yōko Ogawa , but also classics such as Marcel Proust, works by unjustly forgotten authors such as John Barth and Mordecai Richler, as well as scarcely published contemporary novels by authors such as Philip K. Dick , which rather by formative works in other genres such as science fiction became world famous.
In the spring of 2005, a fixed program place for literary crime novels was set up. The very first Liebeskind thriller - »1974« by the British author David Peace - was awarded the renowned German Crime Prize. In the years that followed, numerous Liebeskind titles made it onto the crime thriller best list, and in 2008 another Liebeskind author, James Sallis, won the German Crime Prize.
In 2008, the publisher Jürgen Christian Kill was awarded the Zillmer Prize for meritorious publishing. The jury highlighted the high literary quality of the Liebeskind program and praised the careful craftsmanship with which the books are designed.
In 2009 Liebeskind was one of the initiators of the Hotlist , the annual book prize awarded by independent publishers. In 2019 and 2020 he received the German Publishing Prize and in 2020 was awarded one of the three top prizes as an "outstanding publisher".
Individual evidence
- ↑ ÖBiB online - State Office for Public Libraries ( Memento from November 14, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Prizewinner 2020 , deutscher-verlagspreis.de, accessed on May 25, 2020.