The new Berlin
Das Neue Berlin is a German publisher . In the GDR he published fiction literature. It was re-established in 1993 and belongs to the Eulenspiegel publishing group .
history
The publishing house was founded in 1946 in Berlin W 8 and was located at Friedrichstrasse 81/82 (1969: 108 Berlin, Kronenstrasse 73-74). The publishing house began with Berlin literature and editions of works by Theodor Fontane and Georg Hermann , and later also brought out crime literature , adventure literature and science fiction (initially referred to as utopian literature in the GDR ). The publishing house was one of the largest and highest circulation publishers in the GDR. His best-known series included the crime novel series Blaulicht , the paperback series SF Utopia and the most successful crime series in the GDR called DIE - Criminal Evidence Investigations . The book series Berlinische Miniatures was also published by the publisher for a few years from 1948.
After a management buy-out initiated with the help of PDS , the publishing house went bankrupt and was re-established in 1993 under the old name. He belongs to the Eulenspiegel publishing group . The publisher's main focus is on political and criminal history non-fiction, biographies and fiction .
On August 1, 2014, insolvency proceedings were opened against Neue Berlin Verlagsgesellschaft mbH at the Charlottenburg District Court .
At the beginning of October 2014, the managing director Matthias Oehme announced that the creditors' meeting had approved the purchase offer of an unnamed new company and that the publishing house would be continued.
Authors
GDR time
The GDR science fiction authors published in this era include Eberhardt del'Antonio , Hans Bach , Klaus Beuchler , Gerhard Branstner , (who also worked as editor-in-chief at the publishing house in the 1960s), Johanna and Günter Braun , Wolf D Brennecke , Hubert Horstmann , HL Fahlberg , Rainer Fuhrmann , Richard Funk , Wolfgang Kellner , Wolfram Kober , Rolf Krohn , Karsten Kruschel , Günther Krupkat , Gottfried Meinhold , Andreas Melzer , Klaus Möckel , Gert Prokop , Heiner Rank , Carlos Rasch , Erik Simon , Werner Steinberg , Angela and Karlheinz Steinmüller , Frank Töppe , Bernd Ulbrich , Herbert Ziergiebel .
In addition, the house has published international science fiction authors such as Genrich Altow , Isaac Asimov , Ray Bradbury , Kirill Bulytschow , Konrad Fiałkowski , Aldous Huxley , Wolfgang Jeschke , Kurd Laßwitz , Oswald Levett , Ursula K. Le Guin , HP Lovecraft , Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth , Robert Sheckley , Wadim Schefner , Arkadi and Boris Strugazki , Alexej Tolstoi , HG Wells , Stanley G. Weinbaum , Janusz A. Zajdel , Jerzy Żuławski , numerous anthologies and volumes of short stories that made examples of international SF available to GDR readers , and the light year almanacs, in which, in addition to national and international stories, many theoretical works on SF appeared. The DDR-SF-Lexikon edited by Erik Simon and Olaf R. Spittel was also published here.
Federal Republic of Germany
The authors include Gisela Steineckert , Frank Schöbel , Lotte Ulbricht , Egon Krenz , Torsten Lemmer , Markus Wolf , Gaby Seyfert , Harry Thürk , Heinz Florian Oertel , Kristin Otto , Gert Prokop , Bernhard Fisch , Lothar Herzog , Siegfried Wenzel and Hans Girod . In addition, Hubertus Knabe points out that the publisher u. a. publishes relevant literature by former SED functionaries and Stasi officers.
Legal conflicts
Due to a complaint from the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) for breach of secrecy, the public prosecutor took action against the publisher in autumn 1998: They arranged for the memoirs of Hansjoachim Tiedge to be confiscated . The former defense chief of the BfV, who currently lives in Moscow and who converted to the GDR in 1985, had published his memoirs The Defector - a life confession in the publishing house Das Neue Berlin. The police not only blocked further deliveries by a Bielefeld company, but also visited around 700 bookstores nationwide that already had Tiedge's book on sale and confiscated the books there, and in some places they asked for customer addresses to be handed over. The Mitteldeutsche Zeitung reported on October 9, 1998 that two days earlier two police officers had also appeared at the publisher's stand at the Frankfurt Book Fair and confiscated the inspection copies. In March 1999, the Berlin public prosecutor brought charges. The trial before the Berlin regional court, which was scheduled for three days, ended ahead of time. On January 21, 2000, the Berliner Tagesspiegel reported : “In the end, even the public prosecutor's office demanded an acquittal.” And the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung wrote on the same day: The three high-ranking officials of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, who were considered by the 37th Large Criminal Court in Moabit Witnesses had appeared, with their "general statements, did not provide anything worthy of evidence of an accomplished betrayal of secrets or aiding and abetting".
At the beginning of 2011, the former Stasi prisoner and employee of the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial, Mario Röllig, won a lawsuit against the publisher for false allegations of fact and for the unauthorized use of a photo of him in a book by former Stasi employees Herbert Kierstein and Gotthold Schramm . During the negotiation, the publisher issued declarations of cease and desist regarding the false quotations and the unauthorized publication of photos. He undertook to delete the disputed passages under threat of a fine and not to distribute the photo any more.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christoph Links: What was left of the reading country GDR?
- ↑ About us - Eulenspiegel Verlag
- ↑ vs. "Eulenspiegel Publishing Group", cf. Birgit Walter: A question of character . Berlin newspaper. August 6, 2014. Retrieved April 2, 2016.
- ↑ dpa report, e.g. B. Verlag Das Neue Berlin will be continued - new company
- ↑ a b Press release of the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial of February 11, 2011 ( Memento of October 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated August 12, 2016 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.
