Matthes & Seitz Berlin

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The Matthes & Seitz Berlin publishing house has been a German publisher since 2004 .

history

The publishing house in Berlin

Founded in 2004 in Berlin by Andreas Rötzer, the publishing house continues the tradition that began in 1977 with the founding of Matthes & Seitz in Munich by Axel Matthes and Claus Seitz . The program from the “no man's land between science and art” (the subtitle of the legendary yearbook “Der Pfahl”) was determined by works by mainly French authors that are still available today. In addition to Antonin Artaud , Georges Bataille , Jean Baudrillard , Jean Giono, there are also Botho Strauss , Oswald Wiener and Jürgen von der Wense .

The publishing house is on the ground floor at Göhrener Strasse 7 in Berlin, Prenzlauer Berg .

The publisher's logo since 1977: Petroglyph from Gran Canaria

program

Since it was founded in Berlin, the publishing house has received several awards and has expanded its program to currently around 100 new publications a year. Important series of the current program are: Natural Studies, Happy Science, Batteries , French Library , punctum and the newly established Asian library.

Classics in new translations ( Honoré de Balzac , Benjamin Constant , Michael Leiris and others) determine the literary program, as do contemporary authors from Germany that have received many awards, such as Frank Witzel , who wrote in 2015 for his novel » The Invention of the Red Army Fraction by a manic-depressive teenager in the summer of 1969 «received the German Book Prize , Joshua Groß , Esther Kinsky , Philipp Schönthaler , Stefan Schütz , Matthias Senkel , Anna Weidenholzer and Levin Westermann . Contemporary French authors such as Emmanuel Carrère , Céline Minard , Éric Vuillard ( Prix ​​Goncourt 2017), Mathieu Riboulet form another focus of the publisher's literary program alongside Russian literature (including Alexander Ilitschewski , Alexander Goldstein , Olga Slawnikowa ). There are also multi-volume editions of works by authors such as Gerhard Rühm , Warlam Schalamow , Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly , Jean-Henri Fabre and Henry David Thoreau .

Jürgen Goldstein , who won the Leipzig Book Prize in 2016 with his book about Georg Forster , Rebecca Solnit , Heike Behrend , Patrick Eiden-Offe , Fethi Benslama , Timothy Morton appear in the extensive humanities non-fiction program with a focus on philosophy, political theory, art and cultural studies , Andreas Malm, Yuk Hui and Franco ›Bifo‹ Berardi.

The essay series Happy Science has been published since 2007 and now has more than 150 volumes with texts by Byung-Chul Han , Peter Trawny , Marcus Steinweg , Hannah Arendt , Albrecht Koschorke , Roberto Simanowski , Judith Shklar , Alexander Pschera , Jean-Francois Billeter , Luise, among others Meier and Sophie Wahnich . The essays are historical and contemporary contributions to current political, philosophical and social debates.

In 2013, the first volumes of the series Naturkunde edited by Judith Schalansky appeared : elaborately designed books that undertake a passionate exploration of nature and thus prominently highlight the main focus of the program on nature, movement in space and ecology. In addition to the animal portraits ( crows , donkeys, wolves , pigs , deer , rhinos, etc.) that have been translated into many languages, the series of classics of nature writing mainly from the English-speaking world (JA Baker, Robert Macfarlane , Nan Shepherd, Aldo Leopold and many others) and non-fiction books as well as illustrated books ( Korbinian Aigner , Jean-Henri Fabre )

The most important books in the program have been published in inexpensive paperback editions since 2019. The paperback series aims to make meaningful and relevant texts accessible to a large audience.

Awards

  • 2008 Kurt Wolff Prize from the Leipzig Foundation of the same name for the variety of classic and modern titles.
  • 2010 Prix ​​de l'Académie de Berlin (together with the Paris publisher L'Arche Éditeur). The award went to the publisher's commitment to French literature.
  • 2012 Karl-Heinz Zillmer-Verlegerpreis for Andreas Rötzer.
  • 2017 “Publisher of the Year” from the trade journal Buchmarkt for Andreas Rötzer.
  • 2019 German Publishing Award
  • 2020 German publishing award as "outstanding publisher"

German Prize for Nature Writing

Since 2017, the publisher, together with the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation , the Federal Environment Agency and the Nantesbuch Foundation, has awarded the German Prize for Nature Writing to stimulate a new German-language literary-essayistic writing about nature.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ webdecker- www.webdecker.de: Antonin Artaud. Retrieved July 28, 2020 .
  2. ↑ webdecker- www.webdecker.de: Georges Bataille. Retrieved July 28, 2020 .
  3. ↑ webdecker- www.webdecker.de: Jean Baudrillard. Retrieved July 28, 2020 .
  4. ↑ webdecker- www.webdecker.de: Jean Giono. Retrieved July 28, 2020 .
  5. ↑ webdecker- www.webdecker.de: Botho Strauss. Retrieved July 28, 2020 .
  6. ↑ webdecker- www.webdecker.de: Oswald Wiener. Retrieved July 28, 2020 .
  7. ↑ webdecker- www.webdecker.de: Jürgen von der Wense. Retrieved July 28, 2020 .
  8. ↑ webdecker- www.webdecker.de: Matthes & Seitz Berlin. Retrieved July 28, 2020 .
  9. ↑ webdecker- www.webdecker.de: Matthes & Seitz Berlin. Retrieved July 28, 2020 .
  10. ↑ webdecker- www.webdecker.de: Matthes & Seitz Berlin. Retrieved July 28, 2020 .
  11. ↑ webdecker- www.webdecker.de: Matthes & Seitz Berlin. Retrieved July 28, 2020 .
  12. ↑ webdecker- www.webdecker.de: Jean-Henri Fabre. Retrieved July 28, 2020 .
  13. ^ Prix ​​de l'Académie de Berlin . ; accessed on July 15, 2018
  14. ↑ Awards / Andreas Rötzer receives K.-H. Zillmer-Verlegerpreis / boersenblatt.net. In: www.boersenblatt.net. Retrieved December 7, 2016 .
  15. ↑ Andreas Rötzer is Publisher of the Year 2017 , buchmarkt.de, November 28, 2017, accessed on November 29, 2017
  16. ↑ Prizewinner 2020 , deutscher-verlagspreis.de, accessed on May 25, 2020.
  17. ↑ Applications are still possible until May 31. Retrieved July 28, 2020 .
  18. ↑ German Prize for Nature Writing - Prizes & Grants. Retrieved July 28, 2020 .