Tessloff Publishing House
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| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | 1956 |
| Seat | Nuremberg , Germany |
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| Branch | publishing company |
| Website | www.tessloff.com/verlag.html |
The Tessloff Verlag , based in Nuremberg, is best known for the children's non-fiction series Was ist was . He belongs to the media company Müller Medien .
history
On September 14, 1956, Ragnar Tessloff , a Hamburg publisher's son, founded the publishing house, initially under the name "Neuer Tessloff Verlag". From 1967 onwards it was published under the name Tessloff Verlag , with publications taking place under the old name ( Neuer Tessloff Verlag ) in parallel until 1971 .
First he published American comics such as Tom and Jerry or Lassie in German. During a trip through the USA he discovered the children's non-fiction book series How and Why and in 1959 concluded the first license agreements. From 1961 the series Was ist Was was offered on the German market - initially as a monthly magazine, then from 1963 as hardcover editions in bookshops. In the 1970s Tessloff published the phono fairy tale book series Das Sprechende Buch . At the end of the 1980s, the company was taken over by the Franconian Müller Medien Group, which was mainly active in the telephone directory business, and in 1989 relocated its headquarters from Hamburg to Nuremberg.
The publisher is a member of the German Book Trade Association .
Publishing program
The publisher's best-known brand is Was ist Was . Since the beginning of the new millennium, the publisher has been developing the brand further with a multimedia television series, DVDs, radio plays, apps and e-books. The book series itself also takes account of the changed viewing and reading habits of children. Since October 2013, the volumes of the non-fiction series for children from 8 years of age have been redesigned in terms of content and design.
The publisher gradually expanded the age group of the traditional brand to include the series Was ist was Junior for 4- to 7-year-olds (since 2007) and Was ist was mini (2010-2016) and the successor Was ist was Kindergarten (since 2016) for Children from 3 years. The company has been offering activity books for kindergarten and primary school children since the 1980s. This includes coloring books and sticker books. The publisher's series of learning aids for preschool and elementary schools are called Fit for School and Lernstern . Cloth, picture and cardboard books can be found in the miniwelt series (until 2016) and the label Pappebuch (since autumn 2016), which are aimed at babies and toddlers and are based on the individual stages of development. The Was ist Was First Reading series caters to the needs of novice readers with a large primer and a clear layout and has been supplementing the publishing program since June 2018.
In addition, the mosaic collections of the well-known GDR picture stories with the Digedags are published by Tessloff.
From 2013 to 2017 the publishing house published books with TING technology, in particular numerous Was-ist-was-junior volumes. When you tap the TING hearing pen, you can hear atmospheric noises, among other things. Rhymes, interactive games and a reading function give the books the character of a radio play.
In January 2018, Tessloff Verlag also published children's narrative books for the first time . The Little Major Tom series is all about the experiences of little Major Tom, his girlfriend, the young astronaut Stella and the robot cat Plutinchen. The idea is provided by the singer and author Peter Schilling with his world success Major Tom (completely detached) .
The digital audio pen BOOKii, developed by Tessloff, has been available since July 2018, which supplements the publisher's products with digital content. These include, for example, funny dialogues, atmospheric noises, interactive games and a reading function. The recording function and separate stickers should give the children a lot of freedom for their own creativity. BOOKii is an open system, which means that other publishers now also offer BOOKii products.
Awards
- 2019: Comenius-EduMedia-Award for the BOOKii starter set "Hearing and marveling domestic birds"
- 2020: German Publishing Prize (undoped seal of approval)
Movies
- The Tessloff publishing house from Nuremberg. Video report, 4:23 min., Frankenschau ( BR ), on January 14, 2018 ( online ; alternatively: video on YouTube )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Imprint of Tessloff Verlag. In: Tessloff.com. Retrieved January 23, 2018 .
- ↑ Imprint of Was ist Was - Robots and Electronic Brains from 1968.
- ↑ 50 years of Tessloff Verlag 50 years of answers. In: wasistwas.de. September 14, 2006, accessed January 23, 2018 .
- ↑ WAS IST WAS book series. In: Shop.Tessloff.com. Retrieved July 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Grow up with WAS IST WAS. In: Shop.Tessloff.com. Retrieved July 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Tessloff becomes a full provider - little Major Tom is coming. In: Boersenblatt.net. October 12, 2017, accessed February 6, 2019 .
- ↑ Tessloff brings the Bookii digital audio pen onto the market. In: Buchreport.de. January 31, 2018, accessed February 6, 2019 .
- ↑ Site of the digital Hörstifts BOOKii
- ↑ Large variety of products and an open system. In: BOOKii. Retrieved July 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Comenius EduMedia Award 2019 for BOOKii. Tessloff, June 28, 2019, accessed May 20, 2020 .
- ↑ These publishers receive the German Publishing Prize. In: Buchreport.de. May 18, 2020, accessed May 20, 2020 .
- ^ German publishing price for the Tessloff publishing house. In: lifePR.de. May 19, 2020, accessed May 20, 2020 .