Ulrike Helmer Verlag
The Ulrike Helmer Verlag is an independent German book publisher based in Roßdorf near Darmstadt. It was founded in 1987 in Frankfurt am Main by the social scientist Ulrike Helmer, who is still in charge today. Since 1995 the publishing house has been Königstein im Taunus , since 2008 Sulzbach am Taunus . In 2018 the company moved to Roßdorf .
In 2009, the publisher was honored with the award of Book Woman of the Year from the industry network BücherFrauen eV, and in 2004 she received the Dr. Gabriele Strecker Prize.
The publisher is a member of the Friends of the Kurt Wolf Foundation to promote a diverse publishing and literary scene.
In 2015 the publisher presented itself for the 25th time at the Frankfurt Book Fair .
program
In addition to scientific specialist literature, the publisher publishes novels and thrillers as well as non-fiction books and biographies . The focus of the program is a critical look at gender relations. Around 500 titles have appeared so far.
His interdisciplinary publications from women's and gender studies , gender and queer studies focus on the areas of social and political sciences, history, pedagogy, literary and cultural studies. In the "edition Klassikerinnen" important historical works, for example by Fanny Lewald , were made accessible again. The non-fiction books take up social, political or (social) psychological questions. Biographies tell of women who do not necessarily have to be prominent or completely exemplary in order to stimulate thought, such as Victoria Woodhull , America's first presidential candidate ( Antje Schrupp , »Vote for Victoria!«).
In fiction , social issues such as migration or disability are also woven in, which ensure thematic diversity and open up perspectives. Thus, novels that z. B. revolve around love stories between women, neither on the subject of lesbian life nor on lesbian readers. Fiction authors of the publisher are u. a. Carolin Schairer , Daniela Schenk , Veneda Mühlenbrink and Mirjam Müntefering .
Crime novels appear under the imprint CRiMiNA, which are less about intoxication than about psychological abysses and complex living conditions. »Mutterwut« by Marianne Bunes , for example, tells of paternalism as psychological violence that a mother perpetrates on her adult daughter.
Many of the books also appear as e-books .
swell
- Successful with a new feminism. Ulrike Helmer Verlag has defied male dominance for 20 years . In: Booksellers today 10, 2007, ISSN 0007-2796 , p. 64.
- Jutta Perino: A publisher by profession . In: Frankfurter Neue Presse ZDB -ID 126029-7 , from July 16, 2007.
- Clothes for the brain - 20 years of Ulrike Helmer Verlag . In: Virginia March 2008, No. 43, ISSN 1610-5192 , p. 4.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.ulrike-helmer-verlag.de/verlag/. Accessed July 1, 2020 (German).
- ↑ https://www.buecherfrauen.de/ BücherFrauen eV