October Publishing House
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| founding | 2001 |
| Seat | Munster , Germany |
| management | Roland Tauber and Michael Billmann |
| Branch | Book publisher |
| Website | www.oktoberverlag.de |
The October Verlag is a German book publisher based in Münster .
history
It was founded in 2001 by Roland Tauber, Michael Billmann and Rainer Kühn. In 2004 the publisher had to file for bankruptcy and was taken over by the Monsenstein and Vannerdat publishing houses . After the publishing house went bankrupt in 2016, Roland Tauber took over Oktober Verlag again, it is one of the independent publishers . The authors include Michael Rudolf , Jürgen Roth , Michael Molsner , Kay Sokolowsky , FW Bernstein , Chlodwig Poth , Günter Ohnemus , Marcus Hammerschmitt , Michael Ringel , Hermann Kinder , Axel Klingenberg , Norbert Klugmann , Peter Korneffel and Irene Wondratsch .
program
Programmatically, Oktober Verlag has always been a publisher for literature and criticism. He publishes essays with works by Stephan Reinhardt , Rudolf Walther , Christof Wackernagel , Frank Schäfer , Matthias Altenburg , Christian Kortmann and Martin Jürgens , while the newer program also includes fiction titles such as detective novels by Dieter Jandt , Franziska Steinhauer , Jost Baum , and Ulrich Land , Ben Faridi or Erik Eriksson . In addition, the Oktober Verlag operates the Gutzkow Edition project to publish the complete works of Karl Gutzkow . Books about beer and football also play a role in the publishing program.
Surname
The name "Oktober Verlag" is based on the one hand on the month in which it was founded, on the other hand it is a homage to the March publishing house by Jörg Schröder and Barbara Kalender .