Otto Müller Verlag
| Otto Müller Verlag GmbH | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1937 |
| Seat | Salzburg , Austria |
| Website | www.omvs.at |
The Otto Müller Verlag is a publisher of literature and literary studies in Salzburg .
The publishing house was founded in Salzburg in 1937 by Otto Müller . "A publisher who was persecuted by the National Socialists, but who soon after the war were able to publish authors from the national camp again - a pronounced Catholic publishing house that published the first works of Thomas Bernhard - a publisher that also offered profound theological exegesis like some of the best-known bestsellers after 1945 - these are some of the many facets in which the history of Otto Müller Verlag presents itself. "
When Otto Müller was banned from practicing his profession in 1938 and was to be forced to sell his publishing house to a National Socialist functionary for a tenth of the value, the German publisher Lambert Schneider took over Otto Müller Verlag pro forma on the basis of its actual value.
Otto Müller shaped the publishing program around the focus on beautiful literature and the imparting of literary knowledge. Hildegard von Bingen , whose complete edition is published by Peter Riethe in Otto Müller Verlag, should be mentioned here as a representative of the theological field . Other well-known authors were Georg Trakl , Christine Lavant , Christine Busta , Thomas Bernhard (first publications), HC Artmann and Karl Heinrich Waggerl . In addition to classics, the publisher also continuously publishes literature by contemporary, mainly Austrian, authors. The publisher's most successful publication is Don Camillo and Peppone by Giovanni Guareschi , of which 1.3 million copies were sold in various editions from 1950 to 1967.
In 1956 Otto Müller died unexpectedly, the publishing house remained in family ownership. Today it is run by Arno Kleibel, a grandson of Otto Müller. Under his leadership u. a. the series " Edition Fotohof im Otto Müller Verlag", a platform for artistic photography, published by Kurt Kaindl . Other series in Otto Müller Verlag are the Yiddish Library (edited by Armin Eidherr ) and the studies on Georg Trakl . Since 1966 the literary magazine Literatur und Critique has been published by Otto Müller Verlag (since 1991 edited by Karl-Markus Gauß ).
literature
- Murray G. Hall : Austrian Publishing History 1918–1938 . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna / Cologne / Graz 1985, ISBN 3-205-07258-8 , ISBN 3-412-05585-9 . Section “Otto Müller Verlag” .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Hans Peter Fritz : Book City and Book Crisis - Publishing and Literature in Austria 1945-1955. Dissertation University of Vienna 1989, p. 336 PDF .