Rosenheim publishing house
| Rosenheim publishing house | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | 1911 |
| Seat | Rosenheim, Germany |
| management | Klaus G. Förg |
| Branch | publishing company |
| Website | www.rosenheimer.com |
The Rosenheimer Verlagshaus is a book publisher for fiction and non- fiction that was founded in 1911 and is based in Rosenheim .
history
In 1911, Oskar Meister founded the Meister Verlag in Werdau , Saxony , which initially mainly published folk novels. After the Second World War , Meister's son Herbert Meister fled to the West and founded the Meister Verlag in Rosenheim together with the graphic artist Alfred Förg in 1949. The local novels by the writer Hans Ernst were particularly well known . In 1968, the sole owner at the time, Alfred Förg, renamed the publishing house to Rosenheimer Verlagshaus . The program was expanded to include handicraft, mining and art books, Bavarica and art books on South German painting. In 1993, Förg's son Klaus G. Förg took over the management of the publishing house and began restructuring the company. Travel illustrated books were the main focus of the program, some of which were photographed by the publisher himself. Trips to Asia led to the expansion of the Rosenheim program. Since 2010, the publisher has also been selling non-books and handcrafted carvings from northern Thailand.
Publishing program
The publisher has extensive rights to contemporary historical novels from the Second World War . One of the main focuses is literature on war reports. Another focus is on publications about the fate of women and the like. a. with stories about farmers and midwives. The publishing program is divided into the categories Asia, Bavarica, Moving Fates, illustrated book, comic novel, gift book, health, handicraft book, homeland novel, hunting, calendar, cookbook, art, country women, mystical, rosenheimer crime, nature, regional, travel and leisure guide , Religion, Christmas, contemporary witnesses.
The publisher's authors include Klaus G. Förg , Nicola Förg , Wolfgang Krebs , Gabriele Weishäupl , Hans Ernst, Fritz Fenzl , Bernd Römmelt, Paul Schallweg and Roswitha Gruber.
literature
- (o. V.): Triple high for the home publisher. In: buchreport.express. 32nd volume, issue 40, 2001.
- Raimund Feichtner: In the beginning there was a suitcase full of books. In: Upper Bavarian Volksblatt. August 25, 1999, p. 10.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Books from the publishing house “Oskar Meister Verlag Werdau” - Buy used, antiquarian & new books. Retrieved October 19, 2019 .
- ↑ "We fight for every book". OVB online, October 19, 2011, accessed on October 19, 2019 .
- ↑ DIE ZEIT (archive): Rural microcosm . In: The time . August 16, 1991, ISSN 0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed October 19, 2019]).
- ^ DIE ZEIT (archive): Reading and traveling: Myths from the Alps . In: The time . March 15, 1991, ISSN 0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed October 19, 2019]).
- ^ DIE ZEIT (archive): Atmospheric pictures from the Chiemsee . In: The time . November 22, 1991, ISSN 0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed October 19, 2019]).