Primus Verlag
The Primus Publishing (proper spelling: primus publisher) was on 1. July 1996 by the Scientific book company (WBG) as a shareholder in Darmstadt founded. With the establishment of the Primus publishing house, she pursued the goal of expanding and strengthening the distribution of her own book productions in the book trade. Wolfgang Hornstein has been responsible for the publishing house as managing director since it was founded.
Publishing history
In the beginning there was the business idea to sell publications of the WBG, which are not only of interest to a primarily university-based target group, but also to a broader public, through the book trade under the imprint "Primus". Primus Verlag should therefore act as a sales company and actively support the book trade. For the first programs of the Primus Verlag, those titles were selected from the overall program of the WBG that would meet with the corresponding response in the book trade and offer them good sales opportunities.
The publisher has also been active as a publisher since 1999: the range of titles on offer was expanded through its own program work. Today the program consists roughly equally of independently developed book projects and titles that are taken over by the WBG as book trade licenses.
In 2011 the reprint Verlag Leipzig was taken over as an imprint. Reprints of historical editions from the fields of bibliophile classics, old handicrafts, culture and history as well as nostalgic and useful books on tradition are published.
The publishing house sets programmatic priorities in the humanities area with books on historical, philosophical, theological and social topics, titles on art and architecture history are also represented. Since 2004 Primus has also published books from the natural sciences, mainly in the field of geosciences and astronomy.
Prizes and awards
Some titles from the publishing program have already won prizes and awards:
- Lauro Martines: The Conspiracy (historical book of the year 2005, category "overview" in the competition of the magazine Damals )
- Ute Schneider: Die Macht der Karten (historical book of the year 2005, category "entertainment" in the competition of the magazine Damals)
- Günter Kettermann: Atlas on the history of Islam (historical book of the year 2002, category "Islam" in the competition of the magazine Damals)
- The Shining Middle Ages (historical book of the year 2006, category "Aesthetics" in the competition of the magazine Damals)
- Eric Taladoire: The Maya (historical book of the year 2006, category "Aesthetics" in the competition of the magazine Damals).