Silberburg publishing house

Silberburg-Verlag GmbH
legal form	GmbH
founding	1985
Seat	Tubingen , Germany
management	Clemens Schüssler, Roland Grimmelsmann, Henry Allgaier
Number of employees	7th
Branch	media
Website	www.silberburg.de
	As of December 31, 2018

The Silberburg-Verlag is a German publishing company based in Tübingen. He has been part of the GeraNova Bruckmann publishing house since 2017 . The managing directors are Clemens Schüssler, Henry Allgaier and Claus W. Küster.

history

Silberburg-Verlag GmbH was founded in 1985 by Titus Häussermann in Stuttgart. From 1992 to 2017 the Silberburg publishing house was based in the old forester's house in Tübingen - Bebenhausen . There is a branch in Karlsruhe . Books, sound carriers, DVDs, calendars and the monthly magazine Schöne Schwaben are published . Every year, about 70 new books and numerous new editions appear in the Silberburg publishing house. He is a member of Regionalbuch AG as well as IG Regionalia of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels , whose deputy spokesman is Michael Kohler from Silberburg-Verlag.

On June 1, 2009, Silberburg took over the Fleischhauer & Spohn publishing house, which specializes in family excursion guides, from the Bietigheim intermediate bookseller Umbreit , and on October 1, 2009, the regional program of the Ernst Kaufmann publishing house from Lahr was transferred to Silberburg-Verlag.

The GeraNova Bruckmann Verlag GmbH in Munich took over on July 14, 2017 with retroactive effect from 1 January 2017 Silberburg-Verlag GmbH, Tuebingen and Karlsruhe. The content profile and the headquarters of the Silberburg publishing house were retained; the previous publishers Titus Häussermann and Christel Werner left the operative business at the end of 2017, but continue to advise and support the publisher they founded. The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price.

Publishing program

The publishing house employs 16 people and sees itself as the market leader in the field of Baden-Württemberg topics. The first six books appeared in 1986.

The publishing program is consistently geared towards Baden-Württemberg topics. These include novels and stories that are based in Baden-Württemberg, historical novels and regional crime novels , illustrated books about cities and landscapes in Baden-Württemberg, hiking, cycling, excursion and leisure guides, regional cookbooks , biographies and autobiographies , TV accompanying books on regional topics, books on regional studies and regional history as well as works in Swabian , Franconian and Alemannic dialects. A small theater publisher is affiliated with it and offers plays in dialect or with a regional reference for performance.

Elisabeth Kabatek's Laugenweckle zum Frühstück ( Laugenweckle for Breakfast) was a great commercial success, and 100,000 copies and a film option were sold within two years; the work also appeared as a serial in the Südwest Presse and the Eßlinger Zeitung .

Periodicals

The monthly magazine "Schöne Schwaben", which finished its 30th year in May 2016, is published by Silberburg-Verlag. It presents areas, districts, rivers and cities from Baden-Württemberg and Bavarian Swabia , portrays well-known Swabians , describes museums in the state, describes traditional customs, gives hiking tips, amuses with a Swabian column and brings reports from the field of natural and regional topics. A current part refers to regional features such as dialect events and exhibitions. - With the 2018 vintage, the area of the magazine was extended to Baden-Württemberg, since then it has been called "Schöner Südwesten".

The Silberburg-Verlag also publishes calendars: These include the Lahrer Hinkende Bote , which has been published uninterruptedly since 1800, and the wall calendar Schönbuch-Impressionen .