teaterverlag elgg
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1900 |
| Seat | Belp , Switzerland |
| management | Johannes R. Millius ( Managing Director ) |
| Branch | publishing company |
| Website | www.theaterverlage.ch |
The teaterverlag elgg is a Swiss theater publisher based in Belp in the canton of Bern. The publisher publishes plays in dialect and standard language and is primarily known for publishing dialect plays for schools. The publishing house, founded in 1900, has been based in Belp in the canton of Bern since 1989 ; the name extension Elgg refers to the former headquarters of the publishing house in Elgg in the canton of Zurich .
history
The publishing house was founded in 1900 by Gottfried Feuz in Elgg and was initially called Declamationsverlag . Right from the start, the publishing focus was on the publication of plays ( declamation is an old word for reciting , especially of texts for actors). At that time, the publishing house also had a printing press , which was not atypical for smaller publishers. In 1925 Willy Büchi took over the publishing house, which from then on managed it until 1969. The company was renamed Volksverlag Elgg . In addition to the book printer, the company now also published a local newspaper , the Elgger Zeitung . The company went through troubled times between 1969 and 1978: there were several changes of ownership, and both the printing company and the Elgger Zeitung were separated from the publishing house and sold or made independent. The Elgger Zeitung later merged with the local newspaper Der Tösstaler .
A new era in the history of the publisher began in 1978 when the Bernische Gesellschaft für das Volkstheater (BGTV) bought the publisher. The BGTV, an umbrella organization of various Bernese theater associations, was looking for a publisher that would publish theater texts, especially those in dialect, for their associations. The BGTV was less concerned with the publication of commercial editions for a wide audience, but more with ensuring the availability of such texts for the theater associations. Max Begert and Rudolf Stalder took over the management of the publishing house. With this development, the publisher has found its strategy, which is essentially still valid today.
The reorientation of the publishing house in 1978 also included taking over the copyrights to theater texts from other Swiss publishers. Sometimes whole rows were taken over. In particular, teaterverlag elgg was able to take over the range of dialect theater texts from the following publishers: Verlag Sauerländer ( Aarau ), Fischer Verlag ( Münsingen-Bern ; not to be confused with several publishers of the same name in Germany ), A. Francke Verlag ( Bern ; this publishing house has its seat today in Tübingen ), Rex Verlag ( Lucerne ) and Verlag Ernst Kuhn ( Biel ).
With the takeover of the publishing house by BGTV, the publishing house in Elgg, Zurich became increasingly impractical, as both the new owner and the customer base were based in the canton of Bern. That is why the publishing house moved from Elgg to Belp in Bern in 1989. In 1997 the publishing house moved into today's business premises in the Belp train station building. In the same year the publishing house was converted into a GmbH ; since then it has been operating as teaterverlag elgg in belp gmbh .
Award
1998 was the teaterverlag elgg for its range elgger looking relish the cultural award of the Canton of Bern .
offer
The teaterverlag elgg has more than 2000 texts for amateur theater on offer. Since taking over the school theater series from Verlag Sauerländer, which is being continued under the title youth series , the theater publisher has also had more than 250 pieces for children's and youth theater. Overall, the teaterverlag elgg carries out around 6,000 theater pieces. In contrast to other publishers, teaterverlag elgg only produces books that are offered for sale in exceptional cases. Rather, the texts for the stage are usually sold to customers (often schools or theater associations) as typescripts . Selected items can also be ordered.