Neofelis Publishing House
| Neofelis Publishing House | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 2011 |
| Seat |
Berlin , Germany
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| management | Matthias Naumann (Managing Director) |
| Number of employees | under 10 |
| Website | www.neofelis-verlag.de |
The Neofelis Publishing is a book publisher based in Berlin published scientific literature. Interdisciplinary cultural studies are of particular interest . The clouded leopard ( Neofelis nebulosa ) classified by WWF as endangered is the publisher's name.
history
Neofelis Verlag was founded in March 2011 by the theater scholar , author and translator Matthias Naumann and the cultural scientist Dr. Frank Schlöffel founded in Berlin. The first titles appeared in spring 2012.
program
The publishing program includes more than 30 titles from the humanities and social sciences every year. The thematic focuses include animal studies , cultural studies , Jewish studies , theater studies , film studies , literary studies , art studies , history and philosophy . Different text forms are placed side by side on an equal footing as a way of gaining knowledge about current social, political and cultural issues or historical contexts. The majority of the publications appear in German, but the publisher also publishes English-language titles. Translations from English, French, Finnish, Czech and Hebrew have also appeared.
Among other things, Neofelis Verlag publishes animal studies, the first specialist journal for human-animal studies in German-speaking countries. He also publishes the journal Yalta - Positions on the Jewish Present , edited by Micha Brumlik , Marina Chernivsky, Max Czollek , Hannah Peaceman, Anna Schapiro and Lea Wohl von Haselberg. Since 2014, the Relationen essay series has dealt with socio-political issues of the present. The magazine Expressionismus , which is dedicated to researching the art of the same name, has been published since 2015 , and from 2018 the series Drama Panorama , in which international theater texts are published in German translation.
In the theater sector, the publishing house became known as the editor of the book series accompanying the regular Mülheim Fatzertage of the Ruhr Ringlokschuppens as well as with a monograph on René Pollesch's theater . The focus of the Jewish Studies program area is the series Jewish Cultural History in Modernism edited by Joachim Schlör .
Until 2016 the publisher also published fiction, u. a. by Gerald Lind, Juhani Seppovaara, Sebastian Guhr, Ines Birkhan and Martin Jürgens.
Authors
The publishing house has more than 400 authors who publish scientific monographs as well as in anthologies and journals. Including u. a. the scientists Jan Assmann , Éric Baratay , Doerte Bischoff , Christina von Braun , Micha Brumlik , Hannelore Bublitz , Sonia Combe, Frank Engster, Eva Holling, Tal Ilan , Hans-Thies Lehmann , Andreas Lehnardt , Nic Leonhardt , Freddie Rokem , Gerald Siegmund , Ana Sobral , Jürgen Tautz , Giuseppe Veltri and Bernhard Waldenfels .
Web links
- Publishing website
- Discussion of "Animal Studies" in Jungle World , No. 17, April 26, 2012 ISSN 1613-0766 .
- Interview with the publisher and the magazine "Tierstudien"
Individual evidence
- ↑ Company profile on cyclex.de, accessed on June 17, 2014.