Open House publishing house
| Open House publishing house | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GbR |
| founding | 2011 |
| Seat | Leipzig , Germany |
| management | Christiane Lang, Rainer Höltschl |
| Branch | Book publisher |
| Website | https://www.openhouse-verlag.de |
The Open House Publishing is a 2011 founded by Christiane Lang and Rainer Höltschl publisher of fiction and nonfiction based in Leipzig .
history
The publishing house was founded in Leipzig because of its proximity to institutions of literary life ( DLL , HTWK , HGB ). The name of the publisher stands for different worldviews, different, contradicting approaches to thinking and living, “for cultural and political diversity. Open to new, unusual spellings ”. "Open House" is a reference to the song of the same name by Lou Reed and John Cale about Andy Warhol's Factory. The first titles appeared in 2012.
Publishing program
The aim of the publishing house is to reconnect the content and design work as closely as possible with the program design and to thematically link contemporary fiction and non-fiction.
The program focuses on contemporary German and international literature ( series 1 ), non-fiction books on current topics from politics, society and culture in the Seismograph series and a series of classics with new and rediscovered ( Backup series ).
Authors (selection)
The authors of the publishing house include the US-American author Paula Bomer with stories ( Baby , 2014, and Madeleine , 2017) and the novel Nine Months (2015), the Norwegian Ingvild H. Rishøi with her multi-award-winning winter novels , and the Norwegian Pedro Carmona -Alvarez (Norwegian Novel Prize for Later, in the Future That Will Coming ), in the classic series Robert Musil with the prose collection Stories That Are Not ( 2019), Christoph Jehlicka with the novel Das Lied vom Ende (2018) , Babet Mader with dialogues (2015) and the novels hungrig (2012) and Väter (2013), Nicola Nürnberger with the novels Westschrippe and Berlin will mainland , Poljak Wlassowetz and Caroline Günther with their debut novels Mirovia and EinSatz as well as the non-fiction authors Sven Hannes ( Die Bombe , 2017), James A. Grymes ( Die Geigen des Amnon Weinstein , 2017), Daniel Fetzner and Martin Dornberg .
Others
The Open House Verlag is a supporter of the Kurt Wolff Foundation .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Janina Fleischer: The new Leipzig Open House Verlag takes off , Leipziger Volkszeitung online from February 23, 2013.
- ↑ MDR publisher's portrait: Open House - "Unusual, diverse, moving" ( Memento from September 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), MDR online from March 30, 2015.
- ^ Peter Henning : Doomsday. A new exciting author: The young Hamburg writer Christoph Jehlicka has made a strong debut with his novel "Das Lied vom Ende". In: Spiegel Online , March 15, 2018, accessed on January 20, 2020.
- ↑ Book lover: The Open House Verlag in Leipzig opens its doors online from February 20, 2015
- ^ Supporters of the Kurt Wolff Foundation