Mainz mini press fair

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The Mainz Minipressen-Messe (MMPM) is an international book fair for small publishers , hand press printers , book artists and authors . The fair takes place every two years in Mainz - every odd year . According to its own information, with 260 exhibitors (2019) and an average of 10,000 visitors, it is the largest European book fair for small publishers, artist books and self-publishers .

Mainz mini press fair
Branch book Fair
Place of issue Mainz
First exhibition 1970
Website www.minipresse.de
Last exhibition
date May 30, 2019 to
June 2, 2019
Next exhibition
date June 2, 2021 to
June 5, 2021

organization

The exhibition is usually organized by the city of Mainz from Corpus Christi until the following Sunday and organized by the Mainz mini press archive of the Gutenberg Museum . Their motto is: "A mass without censorship ...". The fair is regularly supported by the Rhineland-Palatinate Cultural Summer and the German Book Trade Association.

history

Following the example of the “Literary Whitsun Mass ” in Frankfurt in the 1960s, the small publisher Norbert Kubatzki from Mainz launched the mini press fair in 1970. 90 exhibitors showed their books, prints and magazines in Mainz Castle, around 9,000 visitors came. In 1979 and 1981 they were put into practice in tents on the Mainz market square. "In foro esse" was the motto: go public so that visitors to the market have the opportunity to get to know books and authors. In 1983 and 1985 it was held in the Elzer Hof in Mainz, from 1987 to 2011 inclusive in large tents on the banks of the Rhine in Mainz. She has been staying in the Rheingoldhalle since 2013 . The number of exhibiting publishers was around 100 from 1970 to 1985. In 1987 it increased to almost 300 exhibitors. Due to the opening of the border and the participation of international publishers, it increased to over 400. Since 2013 it has stabilized at 250 exhibitors, so that over the past 50 years over 5,000 bibliophile editions, small and alternative publishers have exhibited and presented their publications.

Special supporting events
  • 1970: Exhibition of newspapers produced by prison inmates
  • 1972: The Berlin hand press
  • 1974: Coll. Dittmar: book objects
  • 1976: City newspapers
  • 1979: The special book
  • 1981: organic market
  • 1983: "Nervöse Blätter" (productions of the alternative press)
  • 1985: Exhibition "Zero Hour" in the Gutenberg Museum (GM)
  • 1987: "In a word - aspects of visual poetry" in the GM
  • 1989: "Americans in Print" American press and book art at GM
  • 1991: Press prints of the GDR in the GM
  • 1993: Student press fair in the exhibition tent, encounters with foreign writers in the KUZ
  • 1995: 100 years of Stomps, 10th VauO Stomps Prize in the town hall
  • 1997: Jürgen Kipp: first virtual marketplace for books, prints and magazines from independent publishers at www.minipresse.de (in cooperation with the University of Kaiserslautern, chair Prof. Müller-Merbach)
  • 1999: One Country - Two Cultures? Literature in East and West. KUZ.
  • 2001: Poetry Slam. Special exhibition of games publishers.
  • 2003: Intercultural evening on the Rhine ship Gutenberg at the exhibition tent
  • 2005: Where the wild words are (Poetry Slam) at KUZ
  • 2007: Authors and publishing forum in the KUZ
  • 2009: GernGernerGernhardt in the GM, literary festival org. v. gONZo-Verlag, Miriam Spies
  • 2011: Love Bites - The Erotic Night, Konkursbuch-Verlag, Claudia Gehrke in the GM
  • 2013: Poetry Slam at KUZ
  • 2015: Awarding of the Victor Otto Stomps Prize and erotic replenishment: Love Bites 2 in the GM
  • 2017: Award of the Stomps Prize, Love Bites 3, Poetry Slam in the GM
  • 2019: Award of the Stomps Prize, "Courage instead of mass - alternative laying today", "Schiffchen sucht Type - the Jubiläums_Feier_Poetry_Slam"

Victor Otto Stomps Prize

As part of the MMPM, the city of Mainz has been awarding the Victor Otto Stomps Prize "for outstanding small-scale publishing services" since 1979 .

literature

  • Regina Goldschmitt: The history of the Mainz Minipressen-Messe (MMPM) from 1970 to 1993. Master's thesis at the Philosophical Faculty of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen. 1995.

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