mairisch publishing house

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mairisch Verlag is a German publisher based in Hamburg .

history

The mairisch publishing in which books, radio plays appear and music, was founded in 1999 by Peter Reichenbach, Blanka pride and Daniel Beskos. The name mairisch goes back to the Hessian expression for 'weeds'. The publisher belongs to the group of independent publishers and appears together with other of these publishers (e.g. Kookbooks , Verbrecher Verlag , Salis and Luftschacht ) at the book fairs in Frankfurt and Leipzig, among others. a. as the organizer of the annual young publishers party .

One focus is on contemporary prose (novels, but above all also volumes of short stories) by young German authors, including many debuts. The author Finn-Ole Heinrich achieved his first major national success in 2007 with his novel Robber Hands . This led to the fact that the book was the subject of high school diplomas in Hamburg schools in 2013 and 2014 and is performed by various theaters.

The radio play anthologies pressplay , in which productions from the independent radio play scene were published in a bundle for the first time in Germany, also attracted a lot of attention .

Since 2012 the publisher has also published graphic novels, including a. the winners of the annual AFKAT Graphic Novel Award.

Since 2013, another focus of the publisher has been on non-fiction books.

In addition to the publisher's productions, there are around 200 literary events per year, such as the reading series TRANSIT (2003–2008) and PILOTEN (2013–2014) and the LESECLUBFESTIVAL (since 2019) in Hamburg, but also reading / concert tours by im Publishing house authors and musicians.

In 2009, mairisch Verlag was one of the initiators of the Hotlist , the annual book prize awarded by independent publishers. In 2013 mairisch Verlag initiated the Indiebookday , an annual day of action for books from independent publishers.

Since 2016, the publisher has been moving its headquarters to changing cities abroad for a short period of time, often to the host country of the respective Frankfurt Book Fair. In 2016 the team spent a month in Amsterdam and in 2017 two weeks in Paris.

Authors of the publishing house

The publisher's authors include: a. Stefan Beuse , Marc Degens , Finn-Ole Heinrich , Malte Härtig , Andrea Hejlskov , Dagrun Hintze , Jean Jullien , Hannes Köhler , Lisa Kreißler , Carolin Löbbert , Benjamin Maack , Kolja Mensing , Stevan Paul , Sebastian Raedler , Donata Rigg , Nadine Robert , Lee Rourke , Spaceman Spiff , Dorian Steinhoff , Andreas Stichmann , Florian Thalhofer , Florian Wacker , Michael Weins and Dita Zipfel .

Awards

  • 2006 publishing bonus from the Hamburg cultural authority for particularly committed publishing programs
  • 2014 award from the Kurt Wolff Foundation
  • 2014 Book Market Award in the "Event" category for the Indiebookday
  • 2014 Sales Award of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels in the category "Innovation Award" for the Indiebookday
  • 2015 KH Zillmer publishing award
  • 2016: Börsenblatt Young Excellence Award
  • 2018: "Most Beautiful German Books" by the Book Art Foundation, "Children's Book" category for "Trecker comes with" by Finn-Ole Heinrich , Halina Kirschner and Dita Zipfel
  • 2019: "Most Beautiful German Books" by the Book Art Foundation, "Children's Book" category for "The Journey to the Center of the Forest" by Finn-Ole Heinrich and Ran Flygenring
  • 2019: German Publishing Prize

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Compare the evidence in the catalog of the German National Library
  2. ↑ http://www.zeit.de/2008/52/D-Aufmacher presentation "pressplay", ZEIT, December 26, 2008
  3. ↑ http://www.tagesspiegel.de/zeitung/wundertuete-fuer-die-ohren/1363612.html Presentation "pressplay", Tagesspiegel, November 6, 2008
  4. ↑ http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendung/hoerspielkalender/809602/ Presentation "pressplay", Deutschlandradio, July 12, 2008
  5. ↑ http://afkat-foerderpreis.de/die-gewinner.html Website of the AFKAT-Graphic-Novel-Förderpreis
  6. ↑ Indiebookday: Complete Success Report on Indiebookday, Buchmarkt.de, March 24, 2013
  7. ↑ https://www.mairisch.de/blog/amsterdam-2016/ Verlagblog from Amsterdam
  8. ↑ https://www.mairisch.de/blog/paris-2017/ publishing blog from Paris
  9. ↑ 15th BuchMarkt AWARD for marketing communication in Leipzig presented by Buchmarkt.de, March 14, 2014
  10. ^ Sales Award to John Dieckmann Buchmarkt.de, March 14, 2014
  11. ↑ K.-H. Zillmer Publishers Prize to Daniel Beskos and Peter Reichenbach Announcement on the KH Zillmer Verlag Prize, Buchmarkt.de, June 19, 2015
  12. ↑ https://www.boersenblatt.net/artikel-daniel_beskos_gewinnt_boersenblatt_young_excellence_award_2016_.1244141.html Report on the Young Excellence Award, Boersenblatt.net, October 19, 2016
  13. ↑ Prizewinner 2018 Book Art Foundation
  14. ↑ Prize winner 2019 Book Art Foundation
  15. ↑ Prize winners 2019 Börsenblatt.net, September 17, 2019