Provincial Publishing House

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The Provinz Verlag was founded in August 2000 as "Kleine Genossenschaft mbH" in Brixen and aims to publish products from literature, art and science that are worthy of funding. The organization of writing workshops, symposia and congresses is also one of the goals of the Provinz Verlag.

The Provinz Verlag is not a service publisher in the traditional sense and does not bring books onto the market "on commercial order". In order to achieve his goals, he works with public and private funding. The profits flow into new projects and the individual members of the publishing cooperative do not receive any profit distribution.

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The name Provinz Verlag was chosen deliberately: on the one hand to refer to the geographical peripheral location of South Tyrol as the southernmost area of ​​the German language and cultural area, on the other hand to open up opportunities for those working in culture "from the provinces". The term " province " refers not only to the geographical, but above all to creative products which, in terms of content and form, fall outside the norm in that they strive for new approaches to thinking and design.

This is also what the quote from the former Hungarian President Árpád Göncz at the Frankfurt Book Fair 1999 , who is also the godfather of the Provinz Verlag, said: "Good literature is always provincial" (see also the headline in the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung", October 14, 1999) , P. 1).

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