Piper Publishing House
| Piper Publishing House | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | May 19, 1904 |
| Seat | Munich, Germany |
| management | Felicitas von Lovenberg , Christian Schniedermann |
| Branch | publishing company |
| Website | www.piper.de |
The Piper Verlag is a 1904 founded book publisher for fiction and non-fiction with the head office in Munich . The publisher's authors include Hannah Arendt , Ingeborg Bachmann , Markus Heitz , Hape Kerkeling , Sándor Márai , Sten Nadolny , Charlotte Roche , Heinrich Steinfest , Paul Watzlawick and Alan Weisman . The publisher has been part of the Swedish Bonnier group since 1995 .
history
The publishing house from its foundation to 1932
Piper Verlag (Munich) was founded on May 19, 1904 by Reinhard Piper , then 24 years old . In the years up to the outbreak of World War II, his focus was on Germany's artistic avant-garde . He became known through the publication of the Almanac Der Blaue Reiter , edited by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc in May 1912. Christian Morgenstern also had many of his works published by Piper Verlag.
The publishing house during the time of National Socialism
In 1935 the Jewish partner Robert Freund had to leave the publishing house. He received a settlement that was achieved through the sale of the publisher's own building, and Piper Verlag moved to Georgenstrasse 4. The company is still based there in the villa built by August Thiersch .
Dealing with the Jewish translator Isak Grünberg is inglorious , whose Céline translation ( Journey to the End of the Night ) was immediately sold to a small publisher after the Nazis took power in 1933. It was not until the 1990s that the translator was named in the numerous new editions (the rights are now held by Rowohlt Verlag ).
During the Nazi era , the publishing house limited itself to neutral “entertainment literature” and less well-known - often foreign - authors, since many of the “in-house authors” were now branded as degenerate artists.
post war period
When Reinhard Piper died in 1953, he passed the publishing house on to his son Klaus . In the post-war years, Piper Verlag mainly published paperbacks and in 1960 founded the Deutsche Taschenbuch Verlag (dtv) with 10 other publishers . Piper stayed true to his claim to publish high quality literature. In addition to German-language authors (e.g. a volume of poetry by Ingeborg Bachmann ), there were also works by Italian authors in particular. The publisher steadily expanded its repertoire, including in the fields of natural sciences, contemporary history, theology and music. From 1986 the seven-volume Piper's Encyclopedia of Music Theater was published .
Hans Rößner turned out to be a problem : It was only after his death (1997) that it became public that this long-time editor and publishing director had worked as head of Section III C 3 (Folk Culture and Art) in the Reich Security Main Office. At Piper he supervised a. a. the emigrant Hannah Arendt . His career after 1945 resembles that of many academics from the generation of the unconditional ( Michael Wildt ), who formed networks of secrecy and social advancement. But Piper is Arendt's most important publisher.
Current publishing development
In 1995 Piper Verlag became the property of the Swedish Bonnier Group. From 1995 Viktor Niemann (* 1940) was managing director of the publishing house. He was named “Publisher of the Year 1998” by the magazine BuchMarkt . From 2003 to 2008 Wolfgang Ferchl (* 1955) was the publisher's managing director. From April 2009 to the end of January 2016, Marcel Hartges , previously Managing Director of DuMont Buchverlag , took over this position. His successor was Felicitas von Lovenberg with effect from March 15, 2016 . At the beginning of April 2016 it became known that the successful author Ferdinand von Schirach was leaving Piper Verlag due to Hartges' departure .
Then I'll be gone - Hape Kerkeling's report on his pilgrimage on the Way of St. James was published by Malik in 2006 and, with more than four million copies sold, is considered the most successful German-language non-fiction book in post-war history. After its publication, it was at the top of the German bestseller lists for months and, according to the publisher, sold around 3 million copies by the end of 2007 and was number 1 on the non-fiction bestseller list for 100 weeks.
At the Frankfurt Book Fair 2015, the publisher was awarded the Virus Thrower Prize .
Book series before 1945
What is not in the "Baedeker"
To the book series in detail:
As a humorous alternative to the very factual Baedeker content, which from the point of view of the publishing house Karl Baedeker was limited , the series Was not in the "Baedeker" , edited by the publisher's partner Robert Freund, appeared in 1927 with initial print runs of between 5,000 and 10,000 pieces. I.a. among Erika and Klaus Mann and Annemarie Schwarzenbach , Hans Reimann and Hermann von Wedderkop to the authors of the 17 volumes, except those of Thomas W. MacCallum transferred into English edition of Vienna ( s The Vienna, did not in the Baedeker ) roman were numbered. The graphic artist Walter Trier drew the colored illustrations on a yellow background for the book covers and the fragile dust jackets of 14 of these titles, which were published in different cover versions . The texts beginning with Eugen Szatmari's description of Berlin and a revised version of Wedderkop's bands for Rome in 1938 were provided with black and white illustrations by various artists, such as Pablo Picasso , Henri Matisse , Otto Pankok , Olaf Gulbransson or Ernst Aufseeser .
The Connewitzer Verlagbuchhandlung from Leipzig published photomechanical reprints of a total of five titles in 1995 and 1997. Rowohlt Verlag also presented reprints of the volume Riviera der Mann-Geschwister in 2001 and 2004, after the Berlin publisher Silver & Goldstein had launched an edition on the book market in 1989, supplemented with contemporary photographs and an afterword by Martin Ripkens .
What is not in the dictionary
Further information on the book series can be found in:
In 1931, following on from the motto of the alternative travel guide with Hans Reimanns Sächsisch , who thus reappeared as an author, the first volume in the seven-volume series “Was nicht ist imverzeichnis” (Was not in the dictionary), which deals with the German dialects and their associated homeland culture. Among the other authors were Hans Sassmann ( Viennese ), Hans Ostwald (Berlin) and Fritz Specht (Low German). A series title Kölsch by Kuhlemann , initially planned as Volume II , did not appear. The equipment (cover design, illustrations and bindings) was similar to the series What is not in Baedeker . So again Walter Trier provided the cover designs; however, there were no cardboard volumes as these had not proven to be robust enough in the travel guide series. After the Second World War, some volumes saw new editions, some with different designs and even with other publishers. A reprint edition of the Connewitz publishing house bookstore was only available in 1995 for the volume Sächsisch .
Piperbote
The Piperbote for art and literature was published quarterly from 1924 to 1936 . With these free of charge by subscription, in which u. a. In addition to the usual advertising brochures, Piper drew attention to the current publisher's production, as well as smaller stories by the in-house authors and reading samples from their larger works as well as author portraits.
Piper Almanac
Almanacs have been published several times in paperback for publishing anniversaries, which, starting in 1914, basically every ten years on the current status of the publishing work, etc. a. with reading samples, reported and also contained directories of the publishing house production of the past years. There were additional editions in 1929 after a quarter of a century, in 1939 after 35 years and in 1979 after the 75th anniversary. In contrast, the almanac due for 1944 was dropped due to the war. The youngest volume to date was published in 2004 for the centenary of the publishing house under the title “100 Years of Piper. The story of a publisher ”. It was published by Edda Ziegler . Illustrations were added to the almanacs since 1924. A named editor was first mentioned in the volume in 1954 with Klaus Piper. Previously, the publisher had only been responsible for editing in anonymised form.
Book series after the Second World War
Piper Library
In 1946, Beethoven's monument in the words of Richard Benz, the first volume of the numbered Piper library in paperback and paperback format, came onto the market. The series, which appeared in over 200 issues in portrait and landscape format by 1966, included literary texts by authors such as Fyodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski, Gustave Flaubert and Herman Melville. Later, on the other hand, many titles by and about artists as well as on art-historical topics were published, such as Matthias Grünewald's Isenheimer Altar (PB 2, 1947), Michelangelo's Last Judgment (PB 29, 1949) or, edited by Erhard Göpel , Max Beckmann The Draftsman (PB 74 , 1954). The name may have been inspired a little by the Insel-Bücherei , which has been very successfully published for over 30 years, but from 1948 onwards the series, which was mostly bound in cardboard tape, developed an independent profile with a strong emphasis in the artistic field.
Piper series
The Piper series is the publisher's current paperback series . It was founded in 1970 and expanded considerably in the 1980s , not only by using hardcover titles as inexpensive, paperback reprints, but also by publishing many first and original editions. In 1995 the Piper series was completely redesigned by trend researcher Peter Wippermann . Currently, up to 25 new titles are published each month, around 60 percent of which come from the publisher's hardcover program.
Instructions for use
Paul Watzlawick's instructions for use for America were written as early as 1978 , the pilot volume for the successful series of instructions for use . Since then, new titles have appeared annually in which well-known authors such as B. Kai Strittmatter, Antje Rávic, Birgit Vanderbeke or Bruno Jonas publish their impressions and local stories. In an unusual and literary way, the authors enable a personal view and an authentic approach to countries, regions, cities and, more recently, sport and sporting phenomena.
Food for thought
The reader from philosophy, culture and science appears once a year and provides orientation in the world of knowledge. The total circulation is over 2 million books sold.
Imprints, subsidiary publishers
The acquisition of the new Malik-Verlag (1996) and the cable Publishing (1997) was the program be extended, as in 2004, when Heyne - Fantasy was acquired series from Piper Verlag. In June 2008 Piper bought Pendo Verlag , and finally Westend Verlag in Frankfurt am Main was also taken over as an imprint of the Piper Group.
The Malik paperback series has also been part of National Geographic since 2008. It is created in cooperation with National Geographic Germany and includes travel stories and adventure reports.
In February 2012, Berlin Verlag / Bloomsbury Berlin was sold to the Swedish Bonnier Group and cooperates with Piper Verlag within Bonnier Media Germany.
Malik
Triggered by the captivating travelogue In icy heights by Jon Krakauer at Malik, who headed the bestseller lists for over a year, Malik Verlag established itself as a brand for this genre and has since offered a special program mix of adventure, travel experience and literature.
Authors
Alessandro Baricco , Wolf-Ulrich Cropp , Arne Dahl , Jennifer Donnelly , Anne Holt , François Lelord , Sten Nadolny , Anita Shreve , Maarten 't Hart , Sándor Márai , Judith Lennox , Volker Klüpfel and Michael Kobr , Charlotte Roche , Heinrich Steinfest , Alissa Walser , Hannah Arendt , Richard P. Feynman , Hans Küng , Hape Kerkeling , Remo H. Largo , Michael Moore , Gabor Steingart , Paul Watzlawick , Brigitte Hamann , Sybil Countess Schönfeldt , Andreas Kieling , Rüdiger Nehberg , Reinhold Messner , Stephan Orth , Ilja Trojanow , Jon Krakauer , Steve House , Carmen Rohrbach , Dieter Kreutzkamp , Markus Heitz , Ralf Isau , Michael Peinkofer , Stephenie Meyer , Wolfgang Hohlbein , Robert Jordan , Paul Finch , Robert Corvus and many more
literature
- Piper: Almanac for the 70th year. Ed. Klaus Piper, Munich 1974 ISBN 3-492-02057-7 (cross-section of the published works, several registers, also a list of all published books in the 1st edition).
- 75 years: R. Ripper, Uwe Steffen: 75 years Piper. Bibliography and publishing history 1904–1979 . Ed .: Klaus Piper. Piper, Munich / Zurich 1979, ISBN 3-492-02445-9 .
- (85 years old :) Uwe Steffen (Ed.): Piper Bibliography 1979–1989 . Piper, Munich / Zurich 1990, ISBN 3-492-03088-2 .
- 90 years: Ernst Piper, Bettina Raab: 90 years Piper . the history of the publishing house from its foundation until today. Series Piper 1990, Munich / Zurich 1994, ISBN 3-492-11990-5 .
- 100 years: Edda Ziegler: 100 years of Piper . The story of a publisher. Piper, Munich / Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-492-04478-6 .
Web links
References and comments
- ↑ Marcel Hartges leaves Piper: “Different views” , buchreport.de, January 22, 2016, accessed on April 2, 2016
- ^ New Piper publisher: Hartges goes, Lovenberg takes over , FAZ, January 26, 2016, accessed on April 2, 2016
- ^ Ludwig Hirschfeld: The book of Vienna . 1927, 11. – 20., P. 1
- ↑ Compare the catalog entries at the German National Library
- ↑ Imprints of the Piper Group
- ^ Malik National Geographic
- ↑ Bloomsbury withdraws to English-speaking countries: Bonnier Group takes over Berlin Verlag - if the cartel office agrees . BuchMarkt February 29, 2012.
- ↑ 20 years of Malik