Prisma publishing house
The Prisma Verlag was a German book publisher and one of 32 publishers, the book town of Leipzig coined to 1989th Of the 78 so-called official GDR publishers, 32 were based in Leipzig. He was liquidated in 1992.
The small private publisher emerged from the Ernst Wunderlich publishing house in Leipzig, which was founded in 1876 and received license No. 154 from the Soviet Military Administration in Germany (SMAD) on February 8, 1947 . From October 1951 to June 1957 the publishing house operated as the youth book publisher Ernst Wunderlich (owners Klaus Zenner and Fritz Gürchott), from July 1, 1957, the Prisma-Verlag Zenner und Gürchott emerged. After initially mainly scientific and technical literature for young people, Prisma-Verlag published mainly books on archeology , art history and art until March 1989 .
The publishing program, aimed at a broad audience, included historical novels (such as Elisabeth Hering , Zu seine Füssen Cordoba 1973), non-fiction books (such as Hanns Bechstein, Reise in den Klassizismus 1975) and the cultural history series Die Schatzkammer, founded in 1959 which, in addition to consecutively numbered titles on special topics (such as The Güstrow Altarpiece in 1964 or Brick Gothic 1985), included special volumes with brief descriptions of the epochs (such as Art Nouveau 1972 or Rococo 1983), all of which had multiple editions.
After Zenner and Gürchott had sold the publisher and the property acquired in 1964 to the LDPD- owned book publisher Der Morgen , from April 1989 to April 1990 it was called Prisma-Verlag (operation of the VOB Upward), from May 1990 to June 1990 Prisma-Verlag ( as an independent company) and from July 1990 to April 1991 Prisma-Verlag Leipzig GmbH iA . From May 1991 to January 1992 it operated as Prisma-Verlag Leipzig GmbH i. L. After the "processing", the publishing archive with the entire inventory of specimen copies was handed over to the Berlin branch of the Federal Archives . In 2007, nothing was known of an indexing.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brief description of the development of the Leipzig publishers (PDF; 22 kB)
- ↑ Christoph Links: The fate of the GDR publishers: privatization and its consequences . Verlag Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-595-9 , p. 272.