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Loewe Verlag GmbH
legal form GmbH
founding 1863
Seat Bindlach , Germany
management Christoph Gondrom
Number of employees 51-200 (2019)
sales € 16.7 million (2017)
Branch Book publisher
Website www.loewe-verlag.de
As of July 9, 2020

The Loewe Verlag is a German children's books publisher based in Bindlach . The publishing house is one of the leading children's and youth book publishers in German-speaking countries and is best known for the Leselöwen brand . With the credo of publishing books that "children and young people want to read", series such as Beast Quest , Das magische Baumhaus and Tafiti or Thriller by Ursula Poznanski have been published.

history

Loewe Verlag was founded on June 8, 1863 by bookseller Friedrich Loewe in Leipzig . Initially, the publisher offered a wide range of publications, which over time was refined to include youth publications, fairy tales, classics and picture books.

After Loewe's death in 1876, the bookseller Adolf Refelshöfer became managing director. He steadily expanded the children's and youth book segment and in 1879 sold the company to the bookseller Wilhelm Effenberger.

Under the direction of Effenberger, the publishing house was relocated from Leipzig to Stuttgart and the program increased to over 400 titles. The majority of the publications continued to be children's and young people's books, and teaching aids were also added.

In 1901 Effenberger sold the publishing house to Ferdinand Carl, his long-time employee. This increased the number of publications to 20–30 novelties per year. Carl also divided the range into inexpensive popular editions and elaborate, but also more expensive, magnificent volumes. For a large number of the illustrations, a collaboration with the lithographic company A. Gatternicht had been set up. During the time under Ferdinand Carl, for example, works by Elsa Beskow , Heinrich Hoffmann , August Kopisch and Wilhelm Busch's picture book Max and Moritz were published .

On January 1, 1920, Fritz Carl, Ferdinand Carl's son, joined the management team and became managing director. During the First World War , production had to be completely stopped due to material and personnel shortages. After the war ended, production was resumed. Both the publishing house and the publisher's archive were bombed during the Second World War . As a result of this and also due to the currency reform , the publishing house was rebuilt from scratch in 1948. The company relied on elaborately designed classic editions and was able to achieve great success in 1959 with Alfred Weidenmann's book for young people, luggage receipt 666 .

In 1965 Fritz Carl, who had no heirs, sold the company to Adolf Gondrom. He relocated the publishing house to Bayreuth and also integrated his son Volker Gondrom directly into the company management. A short time later, Volker Gondrom took on the role of managing director and in 1985 relocated the headquarters of the publishing house a third time, to Bindlach, a few kilometers from Bayreuth . Construction of a dispatch center began there and was completed in 1987.

In 2012, Christoph Gondrom, the 3rd generation of the Gondrom family, joined the management team. He has headed Loewe Verlag since 2016.

Imprints

In 2009 the publisher founded script5, an imprint that focuses on “young fiction ”. Under script5 titles appeared for a target group between 16 and 30 years. No new titles are currently published under the imprint.

Well-known publications

Web links

Individual evidence

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  3. ^ AVJ: Loewe Verlag> Children's and Young People's Book Publishers AZ. Retrieved July 9, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h Publishing history - Loewe Verlag
  5. ↑ About us - script5.de