Stroemfeld Publishing House
| Stroemfeld | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1970 |
| Seat | Frankfurt am Main |
| management | Karl Dietrich Wolff |
| Branch | publishing company |
| Website | Stroemfeld Publishing House |
Stroemfeld is a small German publisher based in Frankfurt am Main and Basel .
history
The publishing house was founded in 1970 in Frankfurt am Main by Karl Dietrich Wolff, initially under the name of Roter Stern . In the early years, the workforce also included some members of the left-wing radical scene in Frankfurt who became internationally known as terrorists of the revolutionary cells in the mid-1970s , including Wilfried Böse , Johannes Weinrich , Magdalena Kopp and Brigitte Kuhlmann . The publisher was considered by investigators of the security authorities as a “crystallization point and new generation of terrorism”.
The company founded as Verlag Roter Stern KD Wolff KG changed its name and corporate form several times. Since Stroemfeld Verlag AG was founded in Basel in 1979, the program has been published under the name Stroemfeld / Roter Stern . In 1991 the Frankfurt-based Nexus-Verlag was taken over and continued as Stroemfeld / Nexus . In 1993 the Verlag Roter Stern GmbH filed for bankruptcy , and the program could be continued by founding the Stroemfeld Fördergesellschaft in Basel. The publisher's name goes back to the first lines of a text by Friedrich Hölderlin , "Tende Strömfeld Simonetta".
In October 2008 the publisher announced that the termination of a credit line from Frankfurter Sparkasse (with reference to Basel II ) would jeopardize the continuation of current editions.
On the occasion of its 40th anniversary, an exhibition about the publisher was presented from August 13 to September 4, 2010 in the German National Library in Frankfurt am Main.
In September 2018, the Frankfurt part of the Stroemfeld publishing company filed for bankruptcy , the Swiss part is not affected. The publisher suffered from a dwindling number of buyers, among other things, it was affected by the significantly decreasing orders from German university libraries .
program
Initially, primarily political writings from the radical left-wing environment of the student movement were published , including On the Socialization of Proletarian Children by RAF terrorist Jan-Carl Raspe (1972) and texts by Kim Il-sung . Since the mid-1970s, the publishing house began to publish extensive historical-critical editions by German-language writers, such as the Frankfurt Hölderlin edition , which began in 1975 and was completed in 2008 . There followed issues u. a. by Heinrich von Kleist , Gottfried Keller , Georg Trakl , Franz Kafka and Casimir Ulrich Boehlendorff , mostly with printed facsimiles of the original manuscripts. The publisher also became known for the publication of male fantasies , a study by Klaus Theweleit on free corps literature and the body of the soldier . Since the 1980s, a media-theoretical program has also been part of the publisher's profile, such as the magazine Frauen und Film .
Fonts etc. are also being published. a. by Jessica Benjamin , Harold Bloom , Marguerite Duras , Kurt Eissler , Georg K. Glaser , Georg Groddeck , Klaus Heinrich , Pierre Imhasly and Peter Kurzck .
Awards
- 2001: Binding Culture Prize
- 2007: Kurt Wolff Prize for the text-critical editions
- 2011: Melusine Huss Prize for Peter Kurzck's novel Vorabend
Web links
- Official website
- Publishing portrait of Martin Zähringer in the series Independent Publishers in Germany of the Goethe Institute
- “Hölderlin vom Roten Stern” ( Memento from December 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Netzeitung , December 16, 2004
- Laudation for Stroemfeld-Verlag on the occasion of the award of the Kurt Wolff Prize 2007 (PDF; 40 kB) given by Klaus Theweleit
- “33 exciting years” , Deutschlandradio , September 9, 2008
- “Stroemfeld Verlag is turning forty. Red Star over Frankfurt ” , FAZ , August 13, 2010
Individual evidence
- ↑ Terrorists: Contact with cadres . In: Der Spiegel . No. 1 , 1976, p. 28-31 ( Online - Jan. 5, 1976 ).
- ^ History ( Memento from September 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) , self-presentation on the publisher's website .
- ↑ DE Sattler : Personal report VII , 1979, at the Hölderlin office in Bremen .
- ↑ Circular 2008 (PDF; 75 kB)
- ↑ Arno Widmann : “40 years Stroemfeld-Verlag. An institution's march through time ” , Frankfurter Rundschau , August 12, 2010
- ↑ Marcus Hladek: Hölderlin's red lucky star. First revolutionary brochures, then classics: The Stroemfeld publishing house in Frankfurt is 40 years old ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Frankfurter Neue Presse , August 13, 2010
- ^ Katrin Hillgruber: Publishers. Canon and cannons. Der Tagesspiegel , August 15, 2010
- ↑ Jürgen Kaube: Stroemfeld-Verlag insolvent: Once when we read. In: www.faz.net. September 7, 2018, accessed September 8, 2018 .
- ↑ Jochen Hieber: Karl Dietrich Wolff, called KD - More than a publisher, in: FAZ.net of February 27, 2013, accessed on August 11, 2014
- ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung from August 15, 2010, page R3
- ↑ KD Wolff: Acceptance speech for the Kurt Wolff Prize ( memento of October 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), March 23, 2007, PDF file, 2 pp.
