Metroverlag
| Metroverlag | |
|---|---|
| legal form | |
| founding | 2005 |
| Seat | Vienna |
| management | Kurt Hamtil |
| Branch | publishing company |
| Website | www.metroverlag.at |
The Metro Publishing is an Austrian book publisher based in the high-rise Herrengasse in the first Viennese district of Inner City .
history
The publishing house was founded in 2005 by Kurt and Sibylle Hamtil. Starting from a in New York discovered city guide for New York published the first books of the programmatic series 2006 Vienna facets . Since then, Metroverlag has been publishing books that convey Austrian - and especially Viennese - cultural history. One of the first books outside the Wienfacetten series was Why a man should be well dressed. Revealing about apparently veiling , a collection of texts by Adolf Loos , and the follow-up volume How to furnish an apartment: Stylish about seemingly immovable . With the title Veal Schnitzel Casa Mahler - a Viennese cookbook from the recipe collection of famous personalities by Ludwig Karpath - the publisher turned to the history of Viennese enjoyment for the first time.
In autumn 2009 Metroverlag launched the new series of Viennese treasures . Rediscovered and sometimes completely unknown texts by well-known Viennese authors such as Peter Altenberg and Ludwig Hevesi are published .
Books
Books on Viennese art and cultural history are published by Metroverlag. The fictional titles also have Vienna as a connecting element - either as a place of action or as the center of life for the authors.
The personal interest of the two publishers in Jewish history and, above all, in the current situation of Jews living in Vienna and in contemporary Jewish traces in art, culture and culinary art was decisive for the fact that Jewish topics have become a focus of the program. In cooperation with the Jewish Museum Vienna , the publisher has published catalogs for exhibitions.