Picus publishing house

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The Picus Verlag is an Austrian book publisher based in Vienna .

history

The publishing house was founded in 1984 by Dorothea Löcker (the daughter of the writer Reinhard Federmann ) and Alexander Potyka . The name and the symbol of the publisher refer to the Roman deity Picus or to the bird genus Picus , which belongs to the group of woodpeckers . The first publications were an architecture volume and four children's books.

In January 2001 Picus Verlag was awarded the Bruno Kreisky Prize for special publishing achievements. In 2003, Alexander Potyka received the Marietta and Friedrich Torberg Medal from the Jewish Community in Vienna . Dorothea Löcker was honored with the Golden Medal of Merit of the State of Vienna in February 2005 .

Publishing program

The publisher's program is distributed throughout the German-speaking area, around 70 percent of the books are sold in Germany, around 28 percent in Austria and two percent in Switzerland. Around 40 titles from the fields of children's books , fiction , travel articles and reports, contemporary history, memoirs and essays are published every year .

The most important series of the publishing house are the Picus reading trips , Picus reportages and the Viennese lectures . The roughly 900 books published to date have received around 70 awards and state prizes. Around 100 books, including numerous children's books, were licensed to foreign language publishers.

The authors of Picus Verlag include Theodora Bauer , Zdenka Becker , Chiara Carrer , Georg Elterlein , Marlene Faro , Reinhard Federmann , Franzobel , René Freund , Lorenz Gallmetzer , Sabine M. Gruber , Egyd Gstättner , Ivan Ivanji , Elisabeth Jupiter , Rudolf Habringer , Andrea Karimé , Germán Kratochwil , Erik Lorenz , Daniela Meisel , Schulamit Meixner , Michael Roher , Thomas Sautner , Sylvie Schenk , Stephan Schulmeister , Bernhard Seiter , Cordula Simon , Stefan Slupetzky , Ceija Stojka and Judith W. Taschler .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Picus Verlag - Press kit 25 years of Picus Verlag ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 9.8 MB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.picus.at
  2. ^ Vienna City Hall correspondence of February 23, 2005 - Honors for Claudia Haas, Dorothea Löcker

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