Thienemann-Esslinger Verlag
| Thienemann-Esslinger Verlag GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1849 |
| Seat | Stuttgart |
| management | Bärbel Dorweiler (publisher) |
| Branch | publishing company |
| Website | thienemann-esslinger.de |
The Thienemann Esslinger publishing house is a German children's book publisher. He currently employs around 35 people in the parent company on Blumenstrasse in Stuttgart.
history
K. Thienemanns Verlag was founded on June 1, 1849 in Stuttgart by Karl Thienemann , who had previously worked for Jakob Ferdinand Schreiber in Esslingen for almost three years as an authorized signatory .
Since 1862 Julius Hoffmann sen. (1833-1904) the publishing house under the name K. Thienemanns Verlag (Jul. Hoffmann) . Julius Hoffmann Sr. was also authorized signatory and managing director of Carl Hoffmann's publishing house from 1873 . In 1885, the children's and youth publications division was sold to the brothers Franz and Anton Hoffmann and continued under the name of K. Thienemanns Verlag (Gebr. Hoffmann) . Julius Hoffmann Sr. acquired a second division for scientific and commercial publications in 1885 and continued it under his own name; from 1899 it was taken over by his son Julius Hoffmann junior.
In 1895 the children's and youth publications division was sold to the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt (now managed as the Deutsche Verlagsanstalt K. Thienemanns Verlag ).
When Otto Weitbrecht took over in 1916 through his daughter Lotte Weitbrecht and her brother Richard Weitbrecht and Richard's son Hansjörg Weitbrecht in the third generation, the Weitbrecht family managed the publishing house until 2001 . The last manager of this family, Hansjörg Weitbrecht, also founded Edition Weitbrecht as a subsidiary of the publishing house in 1981 , which mainly covered the area of fiction and non-fiction and was renamed Weitbrecht-Verlag a little later . In 1982 Edition Erdmann was taken over by Thienemann Verlag as an imprint with a focus on adventure and travel literature .
The renamed Thienemann Verlag GmbH has belonged to the Swedish publishing group Bonnier since 2001 , although Weitbrecht-Verlag was taken over as imprint Piper Fantasy by Piper-Verlag in Munich and Edition Erdmann later, in 2008, by Marixverlag Wiesbaden. In 2000, Gabriel Verlag was included in the publishing house as an imprint. In 2010 the imprint Planet Girl followed, which includes the girls' book series Freche Mädchen - naughty books . At the beginning of 2014, Thienemann and Esslinger merged and formed Thienemann-Esslinger Verlag GmbH.
In January 2013, the publisher became the subject of media reports because a planned new edition of Otfried Preußler's Die kleine Hexe is supposed to change individual words as a linguistic modernization. In particular, the decision to replace problematic terminology such as the discriminatory word negro sparked a nationwide debate.
At the beginning of 2014, the previous individual publishers Thienemann and Esslinger merged .
program
The Thienemann-Esslinger Verlag focuses on picture books and literature for children and young people . The available range includes around 1000 books. The publisher's authors include a. Otfried Preußler, Michael Ende , Max Kruse , James Krüss , Annet Rudolph , Nele Neuhaus , Bianka Minte-König and Hortense Ullrich.
The best-known titles include Michael Ende's works by Jim Knopf and Lukas der Lokomotivführer , Die Unendliche Geschichte , Momo and Otfried Preussler's Die kleine Hexe , Der kleine Wassermann , Das kleine Gespenst , Der Räuber Hotzenplotz , Krabat and the book series Freche Mädchen - naughty books .
In addition, the publisher tries to attract and promote new authors, illustrators and photographers. Among the new authors is Oliver Scherz with his books Ben and We're back afterwards, we have to go to Africa shortly or the photo artist Jan von Holleben , who u. a. the books actually all get that? and think ?! photographically staged.
Web links
- Publisher website
- Chronicle: The Thienemann publishing house in the 19th century
- The little raven sock
Individual evidence
- ↑ The "Negerlein" disappears Boersenblatt.net from January 7, 2013
- ^ Declaration by Thienemann Verlag on language adaptations for Preußler-Texten Boersenblatt.net of January 10, 2013
- ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: With a black face for the "negro"
- ↑ Stuttgarter-Zeitung.de: Esslinger Verlag merges with Thienemann, traditional company leaves the city. Accessed on June 4, 2014