Stellwerck

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Stellwerck
legal form GbR
founding October 2008
Seat Wurzburg
management Christine Ott, Michael Pfeuffer
Branch Publishing and cultural management
Website http://stellwerck.de/

Michael Pfeuffer and Christine Ott

Stellwerck is a German independent publisher and agency for literature mediation based in Würzburg . Stellwerck publishes young, often unknown authors, supports lay writers in their professionalization and arranges performance opportunities.

Pauline Füg (2012)

Story and idea

Christine Ott and Michael Pfeuffer founded the Stellwerck publishing house while they were still studying in 2008. The motivation was to create a platform for early publications for young authors. The motto was initially literature by students for students and was unique in the literary landscape at the time.

Unlike the majority of publishers, Stellwerck creates its publishing program exclusively on the basis of the manuscripts that are sent to the publisher. Stellwerck books are intended to directly depict the thematic, formal and linguistic diversity of young literature. According to the publisher, the selection criterion is solely the text quality and the literary innovation and originality of a text. Whether the author has good contacts in the literature business, has a relevant list of publications or an exciting biography does not play a role in the selection.

Since 2012, activities in the field of literature mediation have been added under the name Stellwerck Agency .

With the founding of a fiction publishing house while still studying, Stellwerck is in a line of tradition u. a. with the small publishing house Studio Neue Literatur by Gudrun Ensslin and Bernward Vesper .

Axel Roitzsch (2014)

activities

With the first book in 2009, Stellwerck also brought the stellwerck literaturbühne into being (at the time in Standard , Würzburg), where young authors can try out themselves in front of an audience. Stellwerck has intensified this commitment. Today Stellwerck develops, mediates and implements a wide variety of young formats for communicating literature and culture. These include poetry slam workshops where Stellwerck authors are taught in schools. One example is the poetry slam workshop Changing Perspectives , in which the literary didactic approach of poetry slam and intercultural learning are brought together. Since November 2014 Stellwerck has been artistic director of the Villa Jungnikl , Würzburg's house for literature and young art, together with the association KöR - Art in Public Space . The villa is a performance, exhibition and workshop school.

Events:

  • Reading stages, reading parties, cross-over formats with electronic music, reading blinds
  • Writing workshops and poetry slam workshops
  • Teacher training in the field of literature communication

The spatial focus is on Bavaria and Würzburg .

Well-known authors of the publisher

  • Florian L. Arnold: Laureate of the Bavarian Literature Foundation (2012)
  • Oliver Berger
  • Annika Blanke
  • Pauline Füg : Prize of the Bremen Netzresidenz and sponsorship prize of the Bavarian Literature Foundation (2010), Bavarian Culture Prize (2011)
  • Nathalie Keigel
  • Axel Roitzsch: Laureate of the Bavarian Literature Foundation (2010)
  • Stefan Schwinghammer
Oliver Berger and Stefan Schwinghammer, Reading Tour Homecoming (2013)

Known contributors

Products

Published in the Stellwerck Reading Books series:

  • Stellwerck Verlag (Hrsg.): Signal strength: excellent. Stellwerck reading book 1 . 150 pages with 10 drawings, French paperback. Würzburg: Stellwerck Verlag 2009 ( ISBN 978-3-941949-00-3 ).
  • Pauline Füg u. a .: The abolition of the pony. Stellwerck reading book 2 . 150 pages, French paperback. Würzburg: Stellwerck Verlag 2011 ( ISBN 978-3-941949-01-0 ).

Published in the series Literatur Update :

  • Literaturstiftung Bayern (publisher): heute.gestern.morgen. Stories about everyday city life . 120 pages, French paperback. Würzburg: Stellwerck Verlag 2012 ( ISBN 978-3-941949-02-7 ).

Publications by individual authors:

  • Pauline Füg: The abolition of the pony in the double publication Pauline Füg u. a .: The abolition of the pony. Stellwerck reading book 2 . 150 pages, French paperback. Würzburg: Stellwerck Verlag 2011 ( ISBN 978-3-941949-01-0 ).
  • Axel Roitzsch: The speaker . Novella. 96 pages, French paperback. Würzburg: Stellwerck Verlag 2014 ( ISBN 978-3-941949-03-4 ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Ulrike Burgwinkel from Deutschlandfunk in an interview with Christine Ott, http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/literatur-entestand-wo-sie-will.680.de.html?dram:article_id=37361
  2. ↑ See the publisher's profile at http://www.stellwerck.de/
  3. ↑ See http://www.stadtkultur-bayern.de/index.php/projekte-kultur-und-schule/literatur/95-perspektivenwechsel-ein-interkultureller-poetry-slam-workshop
  4. ^ "Stellwerck sets the course" by Karl-Georg Rötter, http://www.mainpost.de/regional/wuerzburg/Stellwerck-Verlag-stell-die-Weichen;art735,8357125
  5. ↑ See http://villajungnikl.de/about/