Ritter Verlag

The Ritter Verlag (also: Ritterverlag ) is an art and culture publisher and is based at Hagenstrasse 3 in Klagenfurt . Be laid contemporary literature of German-speaking authors as well as printing works of contemporary art.

Ritter Verlag

history

1945–1947: "Kärntner Illustrierte"

The publishing house goes back to Roman Ritter, who in 1945 founded the "Kärntner Illustrierte" (KI) as publisher and owner . At that time, Ritter gained prominent people such as Lorenz Mack , Oskar Moser , Fritz Sitte and the 1978 in Cordoba with “Tooor, Tooor, ...! I was' foolish! ” Edi Finger became famous .

Among the literary authors are u. a. Josef Robert Harrer , Josef Friedrich Perkonig , Maria Steurer , and Ingeborg Bachmann , who published her first text in 1946 in the KI (I.36) with Die Fähre . Hans Bachmann, Herbert Böckl , Arnold Clementschitsch , Gerda Ferrari , Käthe Morocutti and Karl Truppe published themselves in the KI as visual artists .

The newspaper appeared biweekly from December 1, 1945 to August 1947 (according to ONB) or until February 1948 (according to Rumpler / Burz, p. 320).

1947–1980: Ritter printing works

After the newspaper was closed, Roman Ritter turned his company into a printing company . His son Helmut Ritter, born in the last years of the Second World War , trained as a typesetter and printer in the family business .

In the 1960s, Helmut Ritter began to print catalogs for Carinthian artists. Over the years, it became too little for him to remain a service provider; his interests shifted to the design sector through the printing of books and art catalogs. This interest was strengthened, as he explained in an interview with Bettina Führer, by the Bachmann Prize , which was launched in 1979 (meaning: 1977) with Gert Jonke as the first prize winner at the time. Furthermore, Ritter had had a connection to art for a long time through the Carinthian Art Association .

This gave rise to the idea of ​​founding the publishing house at the end of the 1970s, which also offered him tax advantages over the printing company.

From 1980: Ritter Verlag

In 1980 Helmut Ritter converted the printing company into a publishing house. Be laid contemporary literature and art books. The spectrum ranges from experimental literature to art catalogs and art theory to architecture publications.

In October 1996 the publishing house was re-established as a commercial enterprise by Karin Ritter, and on December 9th the sole proprietorship was converted into Ritter Verlag KG . Karin Ritter is the owner of the publishing house and Helmut Ritter is the publishing director.

Printing is no longer in-house, but outsourcing book design to Helmut Ritter is out of the question. Around 450 publications had been published by Ritterverlag by March 2010. Many of the published art books have become sought-after collector's items.

Authors

The authors include well-known writers and artists as well as young literary talents.

literature Klaus Amann Reinhold Aumaier Friedrich W. Block Jan Christ Crauss Ulrike Draesner Günter Eichberger Sylvia Egger Gunter Falk Brigitta Falkner Gundi Feyrer Franzobel Eberhard Häfner Friedrich Hahn Max Höfler Detlef Holland-Moritz tongue tongue Hong Kong Urs Jaeggi Johannes Jansen Use Kilic

Ralf B. Korte Margret Kreidl Florian Neuner Andreas Okopenko Paul Pechmann Peter Pessl Sophie Reyer Gerhard Rühm Ulrich Schlotmann Siegfried J. Schmidt Götz Schrage Helmut Schranz Franz Schuh Lisa gap Dieter Sperl Enno Stahl Gertrude Stein Liesl Ujvary Fritz Widhalm Hansjörg Zauner

art Marc Adrian Siegfried Anzinger Irmgard Bohunovsky-Bärnthaler Günter Brus Lore Heuermann Cornelius Kolig Kunsthalle Vienna Maria Lassnig Josef Linschinger Florentina Pakosta Johann Julian Taupe Franz Erhard Walther architecture Georg Driendl Günther Domenig Hans Hollein Archigram Wolf D. Prix

Kunsthalle Ritter

The Kunsthalle Ritter in Hermann-Gmeiner-Straße was built in 1992 based on a design by Franz Erhard Walter . It should have been a museum of the 21st century in Klagenfurt. The Kunsthalle Ritter was opened on September 11, 1992 with the exhibition Shapes and Positions , curated by Veit Loers. In the aftermath of the Wehrmacht exhibition in the Kunsthalle in autumn 1996, the publishing house got into financial difficulties which forced it to go bankrupt, which led to the re-establishment of the company (see above).

Knight Gallery

As a follow-up project to the Kunsthalle Ritter , Martina Mosebach-Ritter and Helmut Ritter founded Galerie Ritter ( rittergallery ) in 2001 .

Artists with exhibitions

Presented with exhibitions until May 2010:

Marc Adrian Ute Aschbacher Thomas Baumann Thom Barth Hans Bischoffshausen Uwe Bressnik Günter Brus Franzobel Georg Herold

Lore Heuermann Urs Jaeggi Othmar Jaindl Richard Klammer Cornelius Kolig Eric Kressnig Robber grief Josef Linschinger François Morellet

Martin Noël Ferdinand Penker Meina Schellander Peter Sengl Fritz Steinkellner Johann Julian Taupe Inge Vavra Franz Erhard Walther Egon usurer

Web links

• Publisher website Ritter Verlag
• Website of the rittergallery

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} History of the Austrian federal states since 1945. Volume 6/2. Helmut Rumpler (ed.), Ulfried Burz: Carinthia: From the German border mark to the Austrian federal state. Böhlau, Wien 1998, ISBN 978-3-205-98792-5 , p. 320 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Kärntner Illustrierte / Kärntner Illustrierte Zeitung, 1945–1947 / 1947 in the literature archive of the Austrian National Library
3. ↑ Gertrud Piesch-Köchl: Little stories about the little house. Klagenfurt, Hagenstrasse 4. Vienna 1993, p. 16.
4. ↑ firmenabc.at: Ritter Verlag KG. Retrieved June 3, 2010.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Bettina Führer: 30 Years of Ritter Verlag. ( Memento of the original from April 5, 2012 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. A conversation with publisher Helmut Ritter and editor Paul Pechmann. In: Central Association of the Austrian Book Trade , March 11, 2010. Accessed June 3, 2010. 
6. ↑ 30 years of Ritter-Verlag , kaernten.orf.at, March 29, 2010. Retrieved on June 3, 2010.
7. ^ Joint founding of Galerie Ritter by Martina Mosebach-Ritter and Helmut Ritter according to the Ritter archive.
8. ↑ rittergallery: overview of the artists. Current and past exhibitions in detail. Retrieved June 3, 2010.