SuKuLTuR
SuKuLTuR is a Berlin independent publisher . It was founded in 1995 by Marc Degens and Torsten Franz. In 2000, Frank Maleu completed the publisher collective that calls itself since "every 3" and the online feature satt.org and read booklet series " Beautiful Read " and "education and criticism" out there.
program
The publisher's program focus is on contemporary literature by mainly German-speaking authors, u. a. Timo Berger , Bdolf, Crauss , Dietmar Dath , Jan Drees , Herbert Laschet Toussaint , Ilse Kilic , Stan Lafleur , Nikola Richter , David Wagner . The publisher also publishes non-fiction books, CDs, videos and comics. The main pillar of the program is the series of reading books, Schönerlesen , the first edition of which was published in 1996 and followed by 150 volumes by May 2016. The booklets in DIN-A6 format usually have between 16 and 24 pages and are sold for two to four euros. So far, eleven volumes with political and aesthetic essays have been published in the same format in the “Enlightenment and Criticism” series. In the fall of 2010, the publisher published “Die Box” with the “Schönerlesen” books 1–100.
The publisher regularly organizes cultural events. In 2004, alle3 appeared for the first time in the Kaffee Burger in Berlin with their stage column “Die Enteisterungs-Show”, followed by appearances in Mainz and Munich. In 2005, the six-part series of readings “Beautiful Reading” took place in Berlin-Neukölln. In May 2005, SuKuLTuR-Verlag took part in the “Meeting of Young Independent Publishers” in Berlin and in 2005 and 2006 co-organized the Festival of Young Publishers “Book Fair A Gogo” at the Frankfurt Book Fair .
In August 2009 the publisher published the first and so far only novel: the book “Strobo”, the debut novel by Berlin blogger Airen , which was the focus of the plagiarism debate surrounding Helene Hegemann's debut novel “Axolotl Roadkill”.
Since November 2015 the monthly SuKuLTuR reading series “Automatendichtung” has been taking place in the Berlin ORi.
distribution
In addition to conventional sales in bookstores, the magazines have been sold in confectionery machines at S-Bahn stations in Berlin since December 2003 and at train stations in northern and western Germany (including Hamburg , Duisburg , Düsseldorf and Dortmund ) since spring 2004 . In this way, over 100,000 reading books had been sold in Berlin alone by autumn 2015. From 2014 to 2016, the makers of SuKuLTuR operated the e-book platform Minimore , on which they advertised and sold e-books from selected publishers.
Trivia
In 2007, the booklet series "Schönerlesen" was nominated for the "Vending Star", the innovation award of the Federal Association of the German Vending Machine Industry, in the category "Products for dispensing or preparation in machines".
Awards
- VOStomps award of the city of Mainz for a small publishing achievement (2011)
literature
- Jörn Dege: A date for Twix . In: Friday , November 18, 2010 (publisher portrait)
- Moritz Müller-Schwefe: Read what inspires us. In: Metamorphosen No. 31, New Series 1 (April 2013), pp. 16–19 (publisher's portrait)
- Michael Rutschky: Literature and Sociability. The enthusiasm show in the Berliner Kaffee Burger. Deutschlandfunk, Kultur heute, June 1, 2004 (to the enthusiasm show)
Individual evidence
- ↑ hotlistblog: “SuKuLTuR will be 100,000!” , The Hotlistblog, October 20, 2015
- ↑ See archived copy ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ alle3: "alle3 in Mainz" , satt.org, 2. – 10. June 2011
Web links
- Publisher's website
- Automatic seal - monthly SuKuLTuR reading series in the Berlin ORi