Pendragon Publishing House
| Pendragon Publishing House | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Publishing |
| founding | 1981 |
| Seat | Bielefeld , Germany |
| management | Günther Butkus |
| Branch | Book publisher |
| Website | www.pendragon.de |
The Pendragon Verlag is a Bielefeld publishing with an emphasis on crime fiction .
history
The publishing house was founded in 1981 by Günther Butkus. Since then, Pendragon Verlag has published more than 600 titles. The name "Pendragon" comes from an Arthurian legend. "Pen" for pen and "Dragon" for dragon seemed to the publisher to be suitable for his publishing project. In the early years, Pedragon Verlag mainly published prose and poetry . Works by Günter Wallraff , Jean Cocteau and Friedrich Christian Delius were part of the publishing program. From 2002, Günther Butkus shifted the focus of the publishing house to American and German-language crime literature .
Publishing program
American crime novels
Pendragon Verlag is the only publisher in the world that has published all seven parts of Ernest Tidyman's crime series Shaft in full in new translations. In addition, the Bielefelder Verlag publishes the crime novels by the US bestselling author Robert B. Parker . Since 2006, the first German edition of “Die blonde Witwe” appeared, Pendragon Verlag has regularly published additional volumes on the laconic Boston private investigator Spenser . The translations of the older Spenser thrillers have been revised and missing parts have been added. The Spenser series comprises a total of 39 volumes. Since 2013 Pendragon has been publishing another crime series by Robert B. Parker with Jesse Stone , which was successfully filmed with Tom Selleck in the lead role. Old master James Lee Burke experienced a comeback on the German book market with "Storm over New Orleans" after his detective Dave Robicheaux had been absent for many years . His wütendstes by his own admission book is located in the apocalyptic scenario that Hurricane Katrina in the southern states of the United States has done. One of the publisher's new discoveries is Wallace Stroby , who, with Crissa Stone, has created a dazzling new “bad girl” in crime literature.
German-language crime novels
In the field of German-language crime fiction, Pendragon Verlag covers the spectrum of the genre: Thriller , hardboiled , classic Whodunits or crime novels that focus on the recent German past. Under the label “Experience history with tension”, Christian v. Ditfurth ("Moscow game"), Jürgen Heimbach ("Under rubble", "Old enemies"), Rainer Gross ("Grafeneck", "Kettenacker") or Mechtild Borrmann ("Tomorrow is the day after yesterday", "Mitten in der Stadt ”,“ Who breaks the silence ”), Christoph Ernst (“ Dark Shadows ”) their crime novels.
Novels and poems
A 7-volume edition by the author and musician Hans Herbst has been published by Pendragon Verlag . Herbst writes short stories and reports and has published a novel. Pendragon Verlag also publishes the volumes of poetry by the Bielefeld writer Hellmuth Opitz . In 2009, Max von der Grün's work was published in 10 volumes.
Excellent authors
In 2008 Rainer Gross was honored with the Friedrich Glauser Prize for the best debut. Frank Göhre won the German Crime Prize 2011 with “The Chosen One”. In 1989 DB Blettenberg received the German Crime Prize for “Farang” and was able to repeat this success in 1995 with “Blauer Rum” and in 2004 with “Berlin Fijitown”. In 2012, Mechtild Borrmann convinced the jury and received the German Crime Prize for “Who breaks the silence”.
Web links
- Homepage of Pendragon Verlag
- Publisher portrait on literaturkritik.de
- Publisher portrait on hausblog-nottbeck.de