Secession publishing house for literature
The Secession publisher of literature is an independent Swiss publishing house based in Zurich and a branch in Berlin . It was founded in 2009 by Susanne Schenzle (formerly Ammann Verlag ) and Christian Ruzicska (formerly Tropen Verlag ). In March 2013, Schenzle left the publisher. She was replaced by co-partner and journalist Joachim von Zepelin (previously foreign policy correspondent for the Financial Times Deutschland ). In 2018, Ruzicska and von Zepelin founded the Secession Verlag Berlin, which was awarded the German Publishing Prize by the Federal Commissioner for Culture in 2019 and 2020 as one of 66 independent publishers.
program
The main focus of the publishing house is literature by international contemporary authors, supplemented by authors from bygone eras. The Secession Verlag primarily publishes prose texts , but with the chain poem ( Haiku ) Talking Water by Tanikawa Shuntarō and Jürg Halter , poetry was added to the publishing program for the first time in spring 2012.
So far, the publisher has published works by Endo Anaconda , Nathalie Azoulai , Juan Gómez Bárcena, Garrad Conley, Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam , Hélène Bessette , Giorgio Chiesura, Thomas Christen , Beqë Cufaj , Marie Darrieussecq , Esther Dischereit , Deborah Feldman , Jérôme Ferrari , Christoph Geiser , Lars Gustafsson , Jürg Halter, Aref Hamza , Katja Huber , Horst Hussel , Maren Kames , Vinzenz Kokot, Armin Kratzert , Yvonne Kuschel, Serge Joncourt, Vincenzo Latronico, Primo Levi , Ludwig Lewisohn , Catherine Millet , Marian Pankowski , Mathieu Riboulet, Zyta Rudzka, Alan Rusbridger Veronika Schenk, Sabine Scholl , Gèraldine Schwarz , Manal al-Sharif , Stanisław Strasburger , Magda Szabó , Tanikawa Shuntarō , Nils Trede, Christian Uetz , Steven Uhly , Peter Zimmermann and Ruth Zylbermann.
The publisher has had its greatest success with German-speaking authors so far with the title Glückskind by Steven Uhly. Its film adaptation in 2014 by Michael Verhoeven was broadcast in autumn 2014 as an SWR production on ARD (“Film-Wednesday”) and in Arte . In the People's Theater in Rostock had a theater machining premiere in November, 2014. Among the lyricists, Maren Kames was awarded the Düsseldorf Poetry Debut Prize 2017 and the Anna Seghers Prize 2017 for her first half-pigeon-half peacock . With her second volume Luna Luna , she was shortlisted for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in 2020 . The most successful title overall was the German translation of Deborah Feldman's autobiographical story Unorthodox , published in 2016 , which made it into the top 5 of the Spiegel bestseller list. In addition, the French Prix Goncourt laureate from 2012, Jérôme Ferrari, the former editor-in-chief of the British daily The Guardian and holder of the Right Livelihood Award (also known as the "alternative Nobel Prize"), Alan Rusbridger, and the successful Swedish author stand out among the non-German speaking authors Lars Gustafsson. In 2019, in cooperation with the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, the publisher published the version of her diary, which Anne Frank herself had revised for publication, as a fragment of a novel in letters under the title Liebe Kitty for the first time as a single volume, which made it 10th on the Spiegel bestseller list for fiction brought.
Together with the Fonte Foundation for the Promotion of Young Scientists, the publisher has been issuing the Femmes de Lettres series since 2019 , in which important but forgotten emancipatory texts by women, primarily from the 17th and 18th centuries, are published. The first volume was folly and love from 1555 by the French author Louise Labé in a translation by Monika Fahrenbach-Wachendorf.
In the summer of 2019, the first three of a 15-volume handy library of romanticism , edited by six German German scholars.
The Munich company Kochan & Partner was initially responsible for the design of the publisher and its books. Erik Spiekermann and Ferdinand Ulrich have been designing the publisher's books since 2015 .
Awards
- "Newcomer-Verlag des Jahres 2011" of the Swiss Booksellers and Publishers Association (SBVV)
- Tukan Prize 2011 for the novel Adams Fugue by Steven Uhly
- red dot design award 2012, Berliner Type in Gold 2012, innovation award of the German printing industry 2012 and literary award of the Canton of Bern 2013, for talking water by Jürg Halter and Tanikawa Shuntarō
- Prix Goncourt 2012, for Le sermon sur la chute de Rome by Jérôme Ferrari , in German at Secession: Sermon on the fall of Rome
- Good Design Award 2015 from the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design, for the design of the book of poems minimal by Tanikawa Shuntarō
- Düsseldorf Poetry Debut Prize 2017 for Maren Kames with half dove half peacock
- Anna Seghers Prize 2017 for Maren Kames with half dove half peacock
- Anton Wildgans Prize 2018 for Sabine Scholl
- European Book Prize 2018 for The Memoryless by Géraldine Schwarz
- Winfried Prize of the City of Fulda for Géraldine Schwarz 2019
- German Publishing Award 2019 for the Secession Verlag Berlin
- Swiss Literature Prize 2020 for Christoph Geiser with »Missed Places. Stories"
- German publishing award 2020 for the Secession Verlag Berlin
Web links
- Website of the Secession Verlag for literature
- Publisher portrait on the website of the weekly newspaper der Freitag
- Publishing portrait of Deutschlandfunk
Individual evidence
- ↑ Imprint | secession. Retrieved September 18, 2019 .
- ↑ Düsseldorfer PoesieDebütPreis 2017 / Maren Kames awarded for “half deaf half peacock”. Retrieved April 9, 2017 .
- ↑ European Book Prize 2018 / Géraldine Schwarz awarded for “The Memoryless”. Retrieved September 18, 2019 .
- ^ The winners - the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. Retrieved September 18, 2019 .