Nagel & Kimche Publishing House
| Publishing house Nagel & Kimche AG
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1983 |
| Seat | Zurich , Switzerland |
| management | Oliver Kneidl (since January 2018) |
| Branch | Book publisher |
| Website | www.nagel-kimche.ch |
The Nagel & Kimche AG publishing house was founded in 1983 by Renate Nagel and Judith Kimche in Zurich. From 1999 he belonged to the publishing group Carl Hanser GmbH & Co. KG, since 2018 to MG Medien Verlags GmbH in Munich. The publisher is based in Zurich Hottingen . With around 18 new publications annually in the areas of literature and narrative non-fiction, Nagel & Kimche is one of the five largest literary publishers in the small publishing landscape of Switzerland and is one of the most respected literary addresses in the country.
history
When it was founded in 1983, the publishing program consisted in equal parts of contemporary Swiss fiction and international children's and youth literature. The first bestsellers appeared as early as 1985: Eveline Hasler's novel Ibicaba and Lukas Hartmann's novel From the Inside of the Medium . Christoph Geiser and Margrit Schriber were also among the first Swiss authors ; later, Jürg Acklin , Gabrielle Alioth , Hans Boesch and Kurt Marti were added.
In the spring of 1989 Uwe Timm landed the unbeaten sales hit in publishing history with the children's novel Rennschwein Rudi Rüssel . The novel became one of the greatest children's book successes of the 1990s , especially after it was adapted for the cinema by Peter Timm .
After the sale to Carl Hanser Verlag , Martin Dreyfus headed the publishing house for a short time in 1999; From 2000 to June 2018, Dirk Vaihinger , until then editor at Rowohlt Verlag , was the publisher.
A few years later, the children's book was gradually replaced by the non-fiction book - in addition to Swiss topics, above all cultural history, experience reports and essays - and the Swiss fiction program was supplemented by translations mainly from the Anglo-Saxon and Romance-speaking areas.
In 2008, the publishing house received the award from the Pro Helvetia cultural foundation as an outstanding Swiss literary publisher.
Publishing program
The core of the publishing program is contemporary Swiss literature. The in-house authors include Charles Lewinsky , Milena Moser , Eveline Hasler , Ulrich Knellwolf , Silvio Huonder , Margrit Schriber and Erwin Koch , Bruno Ziauddin and Alfred Bodenheimer ; Alice Schmid , Matthias Nawrat , Silvia Tschui , Andrei Mihailescu and Frédéric made their debuts Zwicker and Flurin Jecker , also German-speaking first works by authors from French-speaking Switzerland, such as Eugène or Roland Buti .
The series Collection Nail & Kimche that Peter von Matt out there, dedicated to the Swiss literature . The collection comprises a collection of important Swiss works that have not been accessible for a long time or have never been available in this form. These include works by Jeremias Gotthelf , Gottfried Keller , Blaise Cendrars , Otto F. Walter , Ferdinand Ramuz, Adelheid Duvanel and others. a. m.
In the field of international fiction, works by Yasmina Khadra , Enrique Vila-Matas , César Aira , Grégoire Bouillier, André Glucksmann , Frode Grytten , Giorgio Fontana , Eduardo Mendoza , Andrea Camilleri , Castle Freeman , Miika Nousiainen and many other authors have been published.
The monographs After the Crisis by Roger de Weck , The Mother of Success by Amy Chua or The Sound of a Snail While Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey, Molly Brodak's report, appeared as non-fiction books. When I was 13, my father robbed his first bank or the book report City of the Lost by Ben Rawlence , about Dadaab , the largest refugee camp in the world. These are supplemented with biographies, for example by Max Frisch , Jean Ziegler and Mani Matter , Iris and Peter von Roten , Katharina von Arx and Freddy Drilhon, with books on Swiss politics, for example by Micheline Calmy-Rey or Tim Guldimann , and with Swiss cultural history , Fairy tales and legends, cooking and kitchen stories, for example by Martin Dahinden .
In addition, the publisher has published irregular editions of works by important authors such as Kurt Marti , Walter Vogt , Kuno Raeber and Hermann Burger , as well as first or new translations of US classics such as William S. Burroughs , Jack Kerouac , John Dos Passos and Alfred Hayes .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nagel & Kimche - Publishers - Hanser Literaturverlage. (No longer available online.) In: www.hanser-literaturverlage.de. Archived from the original on August 23, 2016 ; accessed on August 23, 2016 . 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.
- ↑ Awards for two literary publishers - Pro Helvetia. Retrieved August 23, 2016 .
