Paranus publishing house
The Paranus Verlag is a German book publisher with focus sozialpsychiatrischem assortment , based in Neumünster .
Paranus Verlag is part of a socio-psychiatric employment project of the "Brücke Neumünster gGmbH", which also includes an offset printer and a typesetting office ( prepress ). As in the other project areas, some of the employees of the publishing house are people with mental health problems. This is unique, at least for a publisher in Germany. The name Paranus refers to the “tough nut” that life with mental illness can represent.
The publishing house was originally founded in the 1980s to publish the magazine "Brückenschlag" , which has been published annually since 1984 . Quickly, however, fiction and non-fiction titles were added that dealt with social-psychiatric, psychiatric history, social and health-political topics. The "Brückenschlag" sees itself as a "magazine for social psychiatry, literature and art ", which primarily offers mentally ill artists space to present their work, as well as other people who are somehow involved with psychiatry. In 2000 Paranus Verlag took over the range of the Jakob van Hoddis publishing house from Gütersloh and publishes it as a separate, meanwhile expanded edition .
The publishing house is headed by Fritz Bremer.
The publisher's authors include: Klaus Dörner , Dorothea Buck , Wolfgang Sieg , Sibylle Prins , Leo Navratil , Renate Schernus, Andreas Gehrke, Horst Illiger, Fredi Saal, Detlef Petry and others. v. a.