orange-press

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orange-press

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founding 2001
Seat Berlin , Germany
Branch Book publisher
Website www.orange-press.com

Originally the publishing house was based in Freiburg

orange-press is an independent non-fiction book publisher founded in Freiburg im Breisgau and based in Berlin .

history

In 2001 the freelance translator and editor Martin Baltes founded the independent publishing house and is its managing director to this day. With We Feed The World , orange-press achieved its first bestseller in 2006. In 2007 the graphic designer Undine Löhfelm took over the management of the publishing house. A year later, the book Let's make Money for the documentary of the same name by Erwin Wagenhofer was followed by the second above-average sales success.

program

The publishing program consists of non-fiction books, mainly on music, pop culture and media theory. Since the success of We Feed The World , books about documentaries have also been part of the profile, as well as social and ecological focuses. The flagship, however, is the absolute non-fiction book series published by Klaus Theweleit , which, according to the publisher, is devoted to the key discourses of the 20th and 21st centuries and their thinkers.

The titles in the series approach their respective themes in a multitextual way. In this way, the reader should come into direct contact with the respective subject early on. The volumes are opened with an interview or an exchange of letters, followed by excerpts from the most important works. The primary texts are intertwined with biographical information, images and large quotation pages. Initially, the 224-page volumes were bound as Swiss paperback , later using conventional thread stitching .

Authors

The publisher's authors include Edward Bernays , WEB Du Bois , Caspar Dohmen , Nelson George , Michael Glawogger , Wam Kat , Kalle Lasn , Andri Snær Magnason , Árpád Pusztai , Richard Reynolds and Erwin Wagenhofer .

Others

In 2009, the publisher was one of the initiators of the Hotlist , the annual book prize awarded by independent publishers.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Thiel: The smart side of the theory. "absolute": A book series by Klaus Theweleit. (PDF; 2.6 MB) In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 14, 2004.
  2. ↑ Evelyn Finger: Non-fiction book. In: Die Zeit, August 26, 2004.
  3. ↑ Cornelia Niedermeier: Following the violet thread. (PDF; 123 kB) In: Der Standard, February 26, 2004.

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