Edition Salzgeber
| Salzgeber & Co. Medien GmbH | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1985 |
| Seat | Berlin |
| management | Björn Koll (Managing Director) |
| Branch | Film rental |
| Website | www.salzgeber.de |
| As of December 5, 2019 | |
The Edition Salzgeber (officially Salzgeber & Co. Medien GmbH ) is an independent German film distributor based in Berlin. It was founded in 1985 by Manfred Salzgeber and is considered the traditional distributor of queer cinema . Edition Salzgeber has also been active in the publishing business since 2014 .
history
Manfred Salzgeber became aware of the film Buddies by Arthur Bressan, Jr. in 1984 , which was about AIDS , but which no German distributor or TV station dared to try. Thereupon he founded Edition Salzgeber himself , in which from then on films about AIDS and gay and lesbian topics outside the mainstream were included. In addition to the distribution, there has also been a video and DVD label of the same name since 1992, which also makes the films available for the home entertainment market.
After the founder's death in 1994, the company was continued under a slightly different name. Other significant events in 2004 were the participation in the CinemaNet Europe (European DocuZone) project , which pushed ahead with the introduction of digital cinema in Germany, and in 2006 the start of the Classica series in the cinema in cooperation with Classica and Deutsche Grammophon , with which opera and ballet - productions are brought to the cinema.
After Salzgeber was temporarily involved in the Querverlag from 2010 , the edition has also been running its own book program since 2014. A new edition of Tennessee Williams ' novel Moise and Die Welt der Vernunft and three illustrated books were published under their own direction, and from 2017 a cooperation with the Hamburg-based Männerschwarm Verlag was established . In 2017 Salzgeber took over the Bruno Gmünder Verlag and in September 2018 the Männerschwarm Verlag. Albino Verlag also belongs to the newly founded Salzgeber Buchverlage GmbH .
program
In the distribution of Edition Salzgeber are u. a. Films have been made by Derek Jarman ( Blue ), Daniel Schmid , Mike Leigh , Monika Treut , Paulus Manker , Helke Sander , Thomas Mitscherlich , Andres Veiel or Volker Koepp . Even documentaries are represented, for example, Paragraph 175 of Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman , Love Is the Devil by John Maybury or Lost Sons of Frederik of Krusenstjerna . But films without LGBT themes, such as the Israeli divorce drama Get - The Trial of Viviane Amsalem , are in the distribution program.
Recent films include Teenage Fear (2008), Ich, Tomek (2010), Silent Youth (2012), Keep the Lights On (2012), Noordzee, Texas (2012), Freier Fall (2013), I feel Disco (2013), Dual (2013), Girls and Horses (2014), Sturmland (2014), No turning back from now on (2015), Today I go home alone (2015) or Freistatt (2015).
Awards
The Salzgeber & Co. Medien GmbH was honored for her work with several awards:
- three times with the German rental award : 1994, 1999 ( BMI ) and 2003 ( BKM )
- at the Berlinale 2004 with a special teddy bear
Web links
- Official website
- Portrait of Salzgeber & Co. Medien GmbH , Ikonenmagazin.de
- Filmography , Filmportal.de
supporting documents
- ↑ a b Edition Salzgeber participates in Querverlag. In: boersenblatt.net. Börsenblatt , January 26, 2010, accessed on July 22, 2015 .
- ↑ Salzgeber cooperates with a swarm of men. In: Queer.de. December 21, 2016, accessed March 16, 2020 .
- ↑ Salzgeber takes over a swarm of men. In: Queer.de. September 18, 2018, accessed March 16, 2020 .
- ^ Salzgeber book publishers. Retrieved March 16, 2020 .