Publishing house Jugend & Volk
| Publishing house Jugend & Volk | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1921 |
| Seat | Vienna, Austria |
| management | Iris Blatterer |
| Branch | publishing company |
| Website | https://www.westermanngruppe.at/ |
The Verlag Jugend & Volk is an Austrian educational media publisher based in Vienna . It was founded in 1921 with the aim of supporting the school reforms due after the end of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy with modern textbooks . He was particularly successful with educational publications, textbooks for elementary and middle school and, until 1994, with books for children and young people . Today the publisher offers teaching media for all types of schools: For elementary and special schools, middle school, upper secondary school, polytechnic schools and vocational schools. In addition, there are materials for the school entry level and open forms of learning, pedagogical titles and materials for school books.
Founding of the publishing house in 1921
On March 15, 1919 Otto Glöckel became head of the Vienna Supreme Education Authority and began to work out new curricula with the establishment of a reform department . On October 19, 1919, the Vienna City Council decided to provide free teaching and learning materials for students in public compulsory schools in Vienna. A first free school book campaign was launched and made it necessary to found a new publishing house to cover the reform plans. On April 21, 1921, the Vienna City Council, together with the Gerlach und Wiedling publishing house, decided to found a new publishing house, Jugend & Volk . Walther Wiedling took over the management as partner and managing director.
The publishing program was entirely in the service of the great school reform between 1921 and 1934 and included the publication of textbooks, class reading material and teaching aids, educational works and books for children and young people. Innovative and successful works like the Primer Wiener Kinder first book by Johann Heeger and Alois Legrün, the language books How I tell and write correctly by Karl Linke , the arithmetic primer one, two, three, the arithmetic by Konrad Falk and the songbook Ringa - Ringa - Reia by Hans Enders, Gustav Moißl and Kurt Rotta published. Otto Glöckel published his reform paper The development of the Viennese school system since 1919 with Jugend & Volk . Other well-known school reformers also published for Jugend & Volk.
After 1945
The hardship of the Second World War (1939 to 1945) and the immediate post-war years forced the largest Austrian textbook publishers to cooperate in a working group that lasted until 2003. The publishing activities were coordinated and resulted in the publishing houses concentrating on individual areas and core competencies. The publishing house Jugend & Volk continued to implement reforms in its school books. In addition, he made a name for himself in the field of educational and methodological textbooks and published numerous books for young people and art volumes. The Viennensia -literature experienced a heyday. In 1954, under the direction of Josef Leiter, Jugend & Volk published a reading primer for the general special school with the title We read with for the first time .
In close cooperation with the Viennese school authorities, a new primer We can already read was developed in 1958 under the direction of Johann Heeger . Important methodologists in elementary education were involved.
On the occasion of its 50th anniversary in 1971, the publishing house entered into a cooperation with a group of left-wing and avant-garde authors who had organized themselves in the “Working Group of Austrian Literature Producers”. The resulting book series with fiction and theory appeared until 1975.
From 1992 onwards, the publishing house divided its program into children's and young people's books and school books. Under the direction of Heinz K. Hännl he focused more and more on textbooks in the following years. In 2002 the publishing house took over the program of the Bohmann Fachbuch-Verlag , which had published for vocational schools for more than 60 years. Many titles appeared in this area, especially for metal technology, electrical engineering , installation and building technology , woodworking professions, retail trade and for the polytechnic school .
After two moves - in 1994 to Universitätsstraße and 2008 to Diefenbachgasse - the Jugend & Volk publishing house is now located on Hainburger Straße and has been merged with E. Dorner since 2012 under the umbrella of westermann wien as part of the Braunschweig Westermann Group .