Scoventa Publishing House

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Scoventa Verlagsgesellschaft mbH

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The Scoventa Verlag is a German non-fiction publishing , headquartered in Bad Vilbel in Frankfurt am Main .

Scoventa is an independent publisher that was founded in 2008 by political scientist Sonja Hintermeier. The publisher publishes non-fiction books on the subjects of society , medicine / health, technology and economic policy .

The name of the publisher is a suitcase word from the Italian verb scovare (to track down, to find) and the Latin adventare (to arrive).

Books and authors (selection)

The publisher's first book, which appeared in 2009, was the evolutionary psychological guide Wie du mir by Claudia Szczesny-Friedmann.

In 2013, Scoventa Verlag published The Little Book of Cancer by Wolf-Dietrich Beecken , a guide for cancer patients and their relatives. In 2013, Steven Johnson published the innovation guide Where good ideas come from . The non-fiction author had already landed a bestseller in the USA, and the title was voted "Book Of The Year" 2013 by the Economist .

In 2014 Scoventa published The Bridge Builder by Dunja Batarilo: It tells the story of development worker Ute Craemer, who has been working in the favela Monte Azul in Sao Paulo since the 1970s . The biographical narrative is supplemented in the book with everyday stories in reportage style and socio-political and historical background information.

In 2017 the first title of a series of books was published in collaboration with the Finnish Otava publishing house : Finland's Conductors by Vesa Sirén . The author received the Finlandia Non-Fiction Prize in 2010 for the Finnish original edition. The German edition was translated by Roman Schatz and the German composer Benjamin Schweitzer. Also in 2017 the second collaboration with Otava was published: Finland's Story , by Henrik Meinander. A popular science-style publication, the Finnish original was published in 2006.

In 2018, Scoventa Verlag published Das deutsche Finland 1918 by Marjaliisa and Seppo Hentilä, again in a translation by Benjamin Schweitzer. The Finnish original edition was voted “Historical Book of the Year” by the Historian Ystävien Liitto (Association of Friends of History) in 2016 and received the 2016 Book Prize from the Svinhufvud Memorial Foundation .

The translations by Finland's conductors and Finland's history were supported by the Aue Foundation. The occasion was the 100th anniversary of Finnish independence.

The secret diaries of Anna Haag appeared in spring 2019 . In it, the historian Edward Timms deals with the German writer, pacifist and politician Anna Haag and her diaries from the Third Reich. The book was translated by Michael Pfingstl.

Writing workshop

Since 2017 the publisher has been running regular writing workshops for young people at the Frankfurt International School (FIS ). Here, under the guidance of the author Katrin McClean, short stories are created which the publisher then publishes under the imprint Sco.Publishing . Scoventa Verlag supports the writing workshop Fantastische Teens in Hamburg.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Scoventa Verlag - narrative non-fiction books. In: www.boersenblatt.net. Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels, accessed on January 18, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Claudia Isabel Rittel: Woman of Books. In: www.fr.de. Frankfurter Rundschau, accessed on January 21, 2019 .
  3. ^ Scoventa: new publisher with ambitious non-fiction literature. In: www.buchmarkt.de. BuchMarkt Verlag K. Werner GmbH, January 4, 2010, accessed on January 21, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Joachim Müller-Jung: What to do when it hits you? In: faz.net. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH, accessed on January 22, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Where good ideas come from. In: buecher.de. buecher.de GmbH & Co. KG, accessed on January 22, 2019 .
  6. ^ The Economist - Books of the Year 2010. In: www.goodreads.com. Goodreads, Inc., accessed January 30, 2019 .
  7. ↑ The bridge builder. In: buecher.de. buecher.de GmbH & Co. KG, accessed on January 22, 2019 .
  8. ^ New publication in German in autumn: Finland's Conductors. In: www.dfg-ev.de. German-Finnish Society, accessed on January 22, 2019 .
  9. ↑ John Jansen: podium stars with whipped page. In: www.deutschlandfunk.de. German-Finnish Society, accessed on January 22, 2019 .
  10. ^ New publication in German in autumn: Finland's Conductors. In: www.dfg-ev.de. German-Finnish Society, accessed on January 22, 2019 .
  11. ^ Marit Kleinmanns: Review of: Meinander, Henrik: Finnlands Geschichte. Lines, structures, turning points. Bad Vilbel 2017. In: H-Soz-Kult. Clio-online - Historisches Fachinformationssystem eV, September 11, 2017, accessed on January 22, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Marjaliisa and Seppo Hentilä: The German Finland 1918. In: www.dfg-ev.de. German-Finnish Society, accessed on January 22, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Translations. In: www.benjamin-schweitzer.de. Benjamin Schweitzer, accessed January 22, 2019 .
  14. ↑ "The History of Finland. Lines, Structures, Turning Points ”by Henrik Meinander published in German in Berlin. In: www.aue-stiftung.org. Aue Foundation, May 4, 2017, accessed on January 22, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Anna Haag's secret diaries. In: www.scoventa.de. Scoventa Verlag, accessed on January 22, 2019 .
  16. ^ Another success for student writers. In: www.fis.edu. Frankfurt International School eV, accessed on January 22, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Partners & sponsors. In: fantastischeteens.de. pauw literature management, accessed on January 22, 2019 .