Publisher Donat & Temmen
The Donat & Temmen publishing house was a Bremen- based book publisher that existed from 1984 to 1987. The Donat Verlag and Edition Temmen emerged from the publishing house .
history
The Donat & Temmen publishing house was founded in the summer of 1984 by the historian and author Helmut Donat together with Horst Temmen , then a research assistant at the Research Center for Eastern Europe at the University of Bremen , and was based in Bremen. The focus of the publishing work was on German pacifism , contemporary history and the dissident scene and its development in Eastern Europe .
The "agile Bremer Mini Verlag" ( Der Spiegel ) published works or texts by the following authors, among others: Dietrich Beyrau , Detlef Brandes , György Dalos , Wolfgang Eichwede , Walter Fabian and Walter A. Kreye . In addition, the publisher gave new editions or reprints of works from the 18th and 19th centuries and from the early 20th century, such as by the authors Johannes Lepsius (1858-1926), Carl von Ossietzky (1889-1938), Hans Paasche (1881–1920), Johann Gottlieb Schummel (1748–1813) and Hans Wehberg (1885–1962).
The small publishing house achieved a nationwide success in 1987 with the volume We must not go back! , an annotated selection of the most important speeches by the Soviet head of state and party leader Mikhail Gorbachev from 1984–1987.
In 1987 Temmen left the university, the two publishing partners separated and dissolved their joint publishing house. Subsequently, Donat and Temmen founded Donat Verlag and Edition Temmen, respectively .