Criminal Publishing House

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Criminal Publishing House

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legal form Publishing
founding 1995
Seat Mehringhof , Berlin , Germany
management Jörg Sundermeier and Kristine Listau
Branch Book publisher
Website www.verbrecherverlag.de

The publishing firm is a 1995 by Jörg Sundermeier founded and Werner Labisch Berliner Verlag . Kristine Listau , who is married to Jörg Sundermeier, has been a co-partner since June 1, 2016 .

history

According to its own statements, the name of the publisher goes back to a "student joke that became serious". In January 2011 Werner Labisch retired from the management of the publishing house. In 2013, around 25,000 books from the publisher were destroyed in a fire. On June 1, 2014, Kristine Listau joined the management and sales management.

Publishing program

The publisher's program focus is on fiction , non-fiction as well as art and comics . He also publishes city and district anthologies in the “City Books” series . Already published are: the Kreuzbergbuch , the Mittebuch , Neuköllnbuch , the Capital Book , the Münchenbuch , the Leipzigbuch , the Frankfurtmainbuch , the Hamburgbuch , the Kölnbuch , the Bielefeldbuch and the Marburganderlahnbuch .

Stand of Verbrecher Verlag at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2018

Verbrecher Verlag is on friendly terms with the newspapers taz and Jungle World . Together with these newspapers as well as with the daily Die Welt and Edition Nautilus , Verbrecher Verlag organized a large reading festival in 2017 for Deniz Yücel, who was imprisoned in Turkey . The same group also organized solidarity readings for Yücel at the Leipzig Book Fair 2017.

Authors (selection)

The publisher's authors are:

Erich Mühsam's diaries also appear in the publishing house .

Awards

Others

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

In September 2016, Sundermeier was awarded the KH Zillmer Publishing Prize.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New corporate structure at Verbrecher Verlag / Kristine Listau becomes a partner. Retrieved March 28, 2017 .
  2. ↑ From stolen manuscript to publisher - der Verbrecher Verlag , Goethe-Institut Online, viewed on January 17, 2011.
  3. ↑ Interview with the criminal publishers about Werner Labisch's departure , Buchmarkt online from November 24, 2010.
  4. ↑ Jörg Sundermeier (Verbrecher Verlag) on ​​the consequences of the LKG brand "At least 25,000 of our books have been destroyed" Börsenblatt April 17, 2013
  5. ↑ Independent publishing house reorganizes management Kristine Listau goes under the Verbrecher Börsenblatt June 4, 2014
  6. ↑ Annual balance sheet 6: Jörg Sundermeier, Verbrecher Verlag "Since my wife has been on the management board, planning has been more precise" Börsenblatt December 5, 2016
  7. ↑ Klara Niederbacher: Festsaal Kreuzberg: Jan Böhmermann and Sven Regener read for Deniz Yücel . In: Berliner Zeitung . ( berliner-zeitung.de [accessed on March 28, 2017]).
  8. ↑ Berlin media makers show solidarity with Deniz Yücel . ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed on March 28, 2017]).
  9. ↑ Leipzig: Solos for Deniz Yücel at the Leipzig Book Fair . In: FOCUS Online (Ed.): FOCUS Online . ( focus.de [accessed on March 28, 2017]).
  10. ↑ Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (Ed.): Book Fair: Solidarity with Turkish authors and Deniz Yücel . ( online [accessed March 28, 2017]). online ( Memento of the original from March 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mdr.de
  11. ↑ Verbrecher-Verlag receives the Kurt Wolff Prize. In: berliner-zeitung.de of December 3, 2013. Retrieved on December 3, 2013.
  12. ↑ bvpadmin: Berliner Verlag price. In: Berlin Publishing Prize. Retrieved November 18, 2019 (German).
  13. ↑ buchmarkt.de, accessed on September 9, 2016

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