Maro Publishing House

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MaroVerlag & Druck eK
legal form eK
founding 1969
Seat augsburg
management Benno Käsmayr (Managing Director)
Branch publishing company
Website www.maroverlag.de

The MaroVerlag is an independent German book publisher based in Augsburg .

history

The publishing house was founded in 1969 by Benno Käsmayr and Franz Bermeitinger. Käsmayr had previously worked in the Munich corn street press founded by Wolf Peter Schnetz in 1963 . First, the magazine UND - magazine for alleged literature and other forms of communication unusual in the industry appeared in a corresponding presentation , from spring 1970 the first book publications, e.g. Tiny Stricker , Trip Generation (1970), Hygin Elbling, two-stroke mixture (1970), Norbert Eichler, Comic Gedichte (1971) ), Peter Reuss, Paper Winner (1972), Jörg Fauser , Tophane (1972) and The Harry Gelb Story (1973), Manfred Ach, Moratorium (1973) or Klaus Groh etc (1972) and Manfred Chobot, Projects (1973).

The breakthrough came with the books by Charles Bukowski , who had difficulties finding a publisher in Germany in the early 1970s. In 1974 the first title was poems that someone wrote before jumping out of the window on the eighth floor . Bukowski congratulated the publisher on the 10th anniversary with a letter. In it he wrote:

Benno discovered me before the bigger publishers. But they took me away from him, because I love - like any other whore - money and success.

The success of the first and other Bukowski books, followed by other well-known and in Germany unpublished American authors such as Jack Micheline, Harold Norse , William S. Burroughs , Jack Kerouac , his daughter Jan Kerouac , John Fante , Ronald Koertge, Gerald Locklin, Al Masarik, Raymond Carver , Paul Bowles and Harry Mathews made it possible to turn the student part-time job into a profession.

Mulligan Stew was considered a particularly daring project : In 1997, Gilbert Sorrentino's novel was initially published as a subscription edition in 100 numbered and signed copies at a price of DM 360. These were sold within three weeks, which secured the financing of the project.

In addition to the American authors, including the unknown poets of the Terpentine on the Rocks (1978) and American Freeway (1982) anthologies, German authors such as Uli Becker , Christoph Derschau , Daniel Dubbe , Jörg Fauser , Bernd "HARLEM" also appear Fischle , Stefan Gerhard , Andreas Mand , Wolfgang Mückenheim , Susanne Neuffer , Günter Ohnemus and Michael Schulte .

The publisher also focuses on:

In 2002, Maro-Verlag received the Kurt Wolff Prize to promote a diverse publishing and literary scene and in 2017 the publisher was awarded the prize for a small Bavarian publisher . In the jury's statement: “MaroVerlag has been providing literary surprises for almost 50 years. As an innovative small publisher, he has done pioneering work and has remained true to his basic concern: the publication of high-quality fiction. ”In 2019 and 2020 he received the German Publishing Prize .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ But Benno had found me before the larger publishers and they had taken me away from him because, like any other whore, I was in love with success and money . Dated Aug. 3, 1979, 2 pages, printed in the MaroVerlag brochure spring program 1981/82, published in 1982
  2. ↑ Bayerischer Kleinverlagspreis 2017 to Maro Verlag , boersenblatt.net, September 29, 2017, accessed on September 29, 2017
  3. ^ Literature prizes of the Free State of Bavaria. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 3, 2017 ; accessed on August 9, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.km.bayern.de

Coordinates: 48 ° 23 '48.4 "  N , 10 ° 52' 41.6"  E