Engeler publishing house

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The Engeler publisher is a literary publishing house based in the Swiss Schupfart , Kanton Aargau . Earlier publishing houses were Holderbank SO and Solothurn . From 1997 to 2009 the predecessor publisher Urs Engeler Editor existed with offices in Basel (Switzerland) and Weil am Rhein (Germany). The publisher Urs Engeler also runs the two labels roughbooks and Das Versteck at Engeler Verlag .

History and conception

The focus of the publishing program is on lyric and poetics as well as on literary theoretical and philosophical treatises. The founder Urs Engeler (* 1962) studied comparative literature with Hans-Jost Frey at the University of Zurich.

From 1992 to 2011 Urs Engeler published the “Zeitschrift für Poesie und seine Poetik” between the lines . This formed the basis for the foundation of the Urs Engeler Editor publishing house . From 1995 to 2009 Urs Engeler Editor published more than 60 authors from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, the USA and Italy. [1]

As a result of the subprime crisis, the Swiss publisher Urs Engeler discontinued his poetry edition “Urs Engeler Editor” in 2009. A year later he presented "roughbooks", a format that was new at the time and has become common today, which worked beyond the book trade and sponsorship: poetry with small editions in digital printing and direct sales via the website. The strictly serial books appear "like unshaven guests at a glamorous cocktail party, rebellious, fearless and therefore extremely interesting" (Der Freitag). Commercially more successful prose titles will continue to be offered to the book trade through the newly founded Engeler Verlag . The successor to the magazine Between Lines is the magazine Mütze.

Authors

Kurt Aebli , Urs Allemann , Arno Camenisch , Michael Donhauser , Elke Erb , Brigitta Falkner , Jayne-Ann Igel , Birgit Kempker , Robert Kelly, Jürg Laederach , Bert Papenfuß , Oskar Pastior , Wolfgang Schlenker , Michael Stauffer , Ulf Stolterfoht and Peter Waterhouse .

Authors of the label roughbooks are z. B. Konstantin Ames , Stephan Broser, Elke Erb , Christian Filips , Mara Genschel , Werner Hamacher , Dagmara Kraus , Rainer René Mueller, Bertram Reinecke , Michael Stauffer , Hans Thill , Bruno Steiger and Ulf Stolterfoht as well as in translations Attila József , Paul Bogaert, Jean Daive, HD ., Halldór Laxness Halldórsson, Svein Jarvoll, Robert Kelly, Nicolas Pesquès, Christian Prigent , Jerome Rothenberg , Tim Turnbull and Rosmarie Waldrop .

Translations

In addition to the original German-language editions, Urs Engeler Editor has published translations with texts by Walter Abish , Anna Achmatowa , Donald Barthelme , James M. Barrie , Maurice Blanchot , E. E. Cummings , Emily Dickinson , Hilda Doolittle , Jorie Graham , Wladimir Majakowski , Harry Mathews , Marianne Moore , Gellu Naum , Arthur Rimbaud , Ahmad Schamlu , Gertrude Stein , James Thomson , Rosmarie Waltrop and Andrea Zanzotto .

Rows

  • Urs Engeler Collection Editor
  • Compact books (books with CDs)
  • Theory: e.g. B. Felix Christens Another Language , a work on Friedrich Hölderlin's great Pindar translation
  • Work editions: z. B. Michael Donhauser
  • Magazines: Between the Lines (1992–2011), Mütze (since 2011)
  • Editions: roughbooks, Das Versteck

Others

In 2009, the publisher was one of the initiators of the Hotlist , the annual book prize awarded by independent publishers.

Awards

literature

  • Theo Breuer : Urs Engeler Editor. In: Ders .: From the hinterland. Poetry after 2000. Edition YE, 2005, pp. 150–151.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nils Kahlefendt: The conventional ways no longer work . In: Börsenblatt des Deutschen Buchhandels , June 17, 2010, accessed on July 5, 2010
  2. ↑ Direct Selling - Beyond the ISBN Numbers. Retrieved April 21, 2019 .
  3. ↑ cap. Retrieved April 21, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Awarding of the award to Engeler-Verlag on February 5, 2008. City of Karlsruhe; Retrieved July 5, 2010