Orlanda Publishing House

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Orlanda Frauenverlag GmbH

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legal form Company with limited liability
founding 1974
Seat Berlin-Kreuzberg , Germany
management Anna Mandalka
Branch Book publisher
Website www.orlanda-buchverlag.de
As of June 2018

The Orlanda Verlag is a Berlin book publisher founded in 1974 specializing in political literature and women's health. The company name is derived from the novel " Orlando " by Virginia Woolf . In the past, the name of the publisher, which has operated as a GmbH since 1982 and has been registered in the commercial register as Orlanda Frauenverlag since 1986 , was initially Frauenselbstverlag and from 1980 to 1986 it was sub rosa womenverlag .

The publisher became known when he published numerous women's topics, which were provocative at the time, in the 1970s. The focus of the publications, from cookbooks to biographical novels, was primarily emancipatory thoughts. Among other things, he published one of the first books on trafficking in women , prostitution and pornography .

In the meantime, the publisher has also turned to other socially critical issues such as racial discrimination or ecological problems. For a number of years there has been a special focus on Turkish literature or on literature by people who can look back on a migration experience in Germany, either personally or as a family.

It was founded in 1974 by Dagmar Schultz together with a few fellow campaigners, as committed women did not see any chance of publication of feminist topics with established publishers. The first publication was the pirated print of the book “Frauenstaat und Männerstaat” by Mathilde Vaerting, which was produced according to self-portrayal in the shared flat . Experiences with emerging women’s projects such as those of the Feminist Women’s Health Center (FFGZ) founded in 1974 and the first Berlin women's shelter founded in 1976 determined the following publications such as B. The 1976 book "Hexengeflüster", of which in 1987 the tenth edition appeared. Breakthroughs were made with German translations of sexual violence against children that had not been discussed in the media, such as B. 1982 the book "The Best Kept: Child Sexual Abuse" by Florence Rush , which appeared in 1989 in the fifth edition, and in 1990 "Despite everything" by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis, of which the fifteenth edition was printed in 2009, achieved. Publications by Audre Lorde followed in 1983, and another three years later the book “ Bekennennen ” by May Ayim . For his 15th birthday, the publisher published a book by Gertrud Pfister about female pilots such as B. Beryl Markham . Since these first publishing successes made the market niche of feminist specialist literature interesting for established publishers, Orlanda Verlag expanded its program to include fiction . The first successes were the publication of the women's crime novel “Katzensprung” by Canadian Shirley Shia, which sold 30,000 times, and the novel “I heard the bird call” by Sally Morgan . In this way, non-fiction books published with a print run of 3,000 to 6,000 copies could be financed, such as B. Books by Christina Thürmer-Rohr on the question of female complicity in patriarchy . The publisher has also seen that its motto of only publishing books “by women for women” provokes some men. He sometimes receives manuscripts from men who sue the publisher if they get them back, or men besieged his exhibition stands and insulted the employees.

Dagmar Schultz ran the publishing house until 2001 and then passed the management of the publishing house on to Anna Mandalka and Ekpenyong Ani, since 2007 Anna Mandalka has been the sole managing director.

At the end of the 1990s, the publishing house had already published over 200 books by German and international authors since it was founded.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Sabine am Orde: One has to fight for existence again and again . In: taz . July 7, 1994.
  2. ↑ a b c Katja Leyrer : And yet she moves! In: Jungle World . March 5, 1998.
  3. ^ Christiane Ewert: Hexengeflüster: Women reach for self-help . Orlanda Verlag 10th edition 1987, ISBN 978-3-922166-03-0
  4. ↑ Florence Rush: The Best Kept Secret: Child Sexual Abuse . Orlanda Verlag 5th edition 1989, ISBN 978-3-922166-11-5
  5. ↑ Ellen Bass, Laura Davis: Despite Everything: Paths to Self-Healing for Women Who Have Experienced Sexual Violence . 15th edition, Orlanda Verlag 2009, ISBN 978-3-936937-70-1
  6. ↑ May Opitz , Katharina Oguntoye, Dagmar Schultz : color confess . Afro-German women on the trail of their history. 4th edition. Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-944666-20-4 .
  7. ↑ Jasmin Kalarickal: " Stepped out of invisibility" . In: taz . May 3, 2017
  8. ↑ Gertrud Pfister : The airplane is my planet . In: taz . September 15, 1989.
  9. ↑ Gertrud Pfister : Flying - her life: the first female pilots . Orlanda Verlag 1989, ISBN 978-3-922166-49-8
  10. ↑ Shirley Shea: A stone's throw away: a detective novel . Orlanda Verlag 2nd edition 2002, ISBN 978-3-929823-96-7
  11. ↑ Sally Morgan : I heard the bird call . Orlanda Verlag 1991, ISBN 978-3-922166-77-1
  12. ↑ Ulrike Winkelmann: Standardization pressure . In: taz . November 29, 1999.
  13. ↑ Women's choice . In: Der Tagesspiegel . March 8, 2006.