Publishing house Karl Alber

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Publishing house Karl Alber
legal form in the publishing house Herder GmbH
founding 1910
Seat Freiburg in Breisgau
management Lukas Trabert
Branch Book publisher
Website www.herder.de/unternehmen/verlage/verlag-alber/

The Karl Alber publishing house in the Herder building

The Karl Alber publishing house, with its headquarters in Freiburg im Breisgau and a branch in Munich, is a science publisher for philosophy within the Herder publishing group . The publishing program also includes historical , legal and social science publications.

1910 to 1950

Karl Alber (1873–1934) - at that time owner of the Dorn'schen Buchhandlung in Ravensburg - founded the Bodenseeverlag Karl Alber in 1910 . Art prints, etchings, travel books and postcards were published. After Alber's death, the Herder publishing house in Freiburg im Breisgau established a new company as Karl Alber Verlag in the legal form of a GmbH in 1939. Under this name, the Herder Verlag began to publish profane literature, which the denominational publishing house was denied by National Socialist legislation . In 1939 the publishing house Karl Alber founded a branch in Munich and began there with the publication of fictional literature under the direction of Johannes Harling. In 1944 the publishing house was shut down by the Nazi authorities .

In 1946 Alber resumed his work under Johannes Harling and specialized in aesthetic and scientific literature . One of the first books to appear in the same year was Der SS-Staat by Eugen Kogon . Works by Alois Dempf , Wilhelm Hausenstein , Reinhold Schneider and Mahatma Gandhi have also been published. Works by Werner Bergengruen , Alfred Döblin , Peter Dörfler , Johannes Kirschweng , Nikolaj Leskow , Alessandro Manzoni and Leo Weismantel were published under the heading “Novels and Stories” .

1950 to 1969

ORBIS ACADEMICUS
SYMPOSION

In 1950, Richard Brodführer began specializing in the humanities publishing house with the Orbis academicus series edited by Fritz Wagner and himself , a problem-history encyclopedia of the sciences in documents and representations, which ended in 1987 after 49 works in 59 volumes had appeared.

From a yearbook for Philosophy Symposion published between 1949 and 1954, the series of philosophical publications Symposion emerged in 1958 , founded and edited by Max Müller , Bernhard Welte and Erik Wolf until 1975 , then edited by Klaus Hemmerle , Alexander Hollerbach and Robert Spaemann until 1994 and since then with a total of 132 volumes under the editorship of Maximilian Forschner and Ludger Honnefelder . The first four volumes were by Michael Theunissen , Ernst Tugendhat , Karlfried Gründer and Odo Marquard .

Georg Stadtmüller founded the yearbook for universal history Saeculum published by well-known historians at Alber in 1949, which was published by Alber up to his 53rd year in 2002 and has since been published by Böhlau Verlag , Cologne.

In 1951, Alber took over the historical yearbook in its 70th year, which Johannes Spörl published on behalf of the Görres Society from 1937 until his death in 1977 . In 2010 it will be published in the 130th year, edited on behalf of the Görres Society by Thomas Brechenmacher , Wilhelm Damberg , Franz J. Felten, Hans Günter Hockerts , Hans-Michael Körner and Anton Schindling .

In 1953, Alber took over the Philosophical Yearbook in its 62nd year, which Max Müller had published on behalf of the Görres Society. In 2010 it will be published in the 117th year and is published by Thomas Buchheim , Volker Gerhardt , Matthias Lutz-Bachmann , Henning Ottmann , Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer and Wilhelm Vossenkuhl on behalf of the Görres Society.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the philosopher and theologian Robert Scherer introduced the thinking of Maurice Blondel and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin into the German philosophical-theological discourse with translations from French and relevant secondary studies. Thinking and Action by Blondel, early writings by Teilhard de Chardin , his letters from Egypt and two other volumes of letters. A fourth volume brought the correspondence between Blondel and Teilhard de Chardin. Books such as Arthur Allen Cohen's The Natural and Supernatural Jew , Heinrich Dumoulin's Eastern Meditation and Christian Mysticism, and Raimon Panikkar's cult mystery in Hinduism and Christianity represent the breadth of the religious studies program.

In 1964, the Johannes Harling era ended for reasons of age. Walter Kumpmann took over the management of the publishing house, who held it until the beginning of 1969.

1969 to 1994

Meinolf Wewel 1993

In 1969 Meinolf Wewel took over the management of the publishing house as managing director, continued the previous series and magazines and developed Alber into a scientific publisher specializing in contemporary philosophy, without neglecting the history of philosophy. In 1972 he founded the Alber philosophy series (up to volume 100 Alber brochure philosophy) - a forum for contemporary thinking that is open to all trends and questions across national borders. The college philosophy study books have also been published since 1972 . Since 1974 the publishing house Alber has presented studies and drafts as “ fermentation substances” in the series Fermenta philosophica . In 1975 the series Practical Philosophy , which has since grown to 83 volumes, was added, edited by Günther Bien , Karl-Heinz Nusser and (from 1990) Annemarie Pieper until 2008, edited by Christoph Horn, Axel Hutter and Karl-Heinz Nusser since 2008. There you can find scientific discussions of moral and ethical questions of individual and public and social life. Discussions include the justification of norms and moral institutions, the relationship between statements of being and ought to be, questions of the theory of action and planning and the anthropological requirements of morality and ethics. Also increased in 1975 by Ernst Wolfgang Orth on behalf of the German Society for Phenomenological Research published phenomenological research began. Alber had published 30 volumes by 1996; since 2001 they have been continued by Felix Meiner Verlag . From manual philosophy that Wewel co-founded, in 1981 to 1996 under the editorship of Elisabeth Ströker and Wolfgang Wieland ten volumes were published. In 1993, Wewel started the international Orbis Phaenomenologicus series published by Kah Kyung Cho (Buffalo), Yoshihiro Nitta (Tokyo) and Hans Rainer Sepp (Prague). By 2001, Alber had published eight volumes. It is now being continued by the Königshausen & Neumann publishing house .

Wewel saw Alber as an author publisher, not a program publisher. There were, among others, the following philosophers who were associated with Alber in those years and are still not uncommon today: Karl Acham , Hans Michael Baumgartner , Walter Biemel , Otto Friedrich Bollnow , Hans Ebeling , Wilhelm K. Essler, Ferdinand Fellmann , Eugen Fink , Ute Guzzoni , Michel Henry , Norbert Hoerster , Wolfram Hogrebe , Harald Holz , Klaus Jacobi , Josef König , Emmanuel Levinas , Rudolf Lüthe , Georg Misch , Max Müller , Severin Müller, Javier Muguerza , Ryōsuke Ōhashi , MAC Otto , Otto Pöggeler , Paul Ricœur , Frithjof Rodi , Kurt Röttgers , Heinrich Rombach , Richard Schaeffler , Claus-Artur Scheier , Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik , Hans Rainer Sepp , Ludwig Siep , Josef Simon , Jean-Claude Wolf and Günter Wohlfart.

In 1978, Alber started the historical anthropology series in the field of history . Seven volumes had appeared by 1995. From volume 8 the series will be continued by Böhlau Verlag in Vienna. From the Freiburg bookstore Albert, Alber took over the research on Upper Rhine regional history published in conjunction with the Alemannic Institute in 1970 and the Freiburg contributions to the history of science and university published on behalf of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, and continued both series.

In the field of law and social science , the Alber brochure legal and social science began in 1970 , which, after 28 volumes, was continued from 1988 to 1995 as the Alber series law and social science under the editorship of Ernesto Garzón Valdés , Hartmut Kliemt , Lothar Kuhlen and Ruth Zimmerling has been. Jan M. Broekman published ten volumes from 1977 to 1983 in his Kolleg Rechtstheorie series . In the Alber series Communication , edited by Hans Mathias Kepplinger , Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, initially with Winfried Schulz , later with Bernd Brosius, thirty volumes appeared between 1975 and 2004.

The series Grenzfragen has been published by the Institute of the Görres Society for Interdisciplinary Research (Natural Science - Philosophy - Theology) since 1972 at Alber; Volumes 1 to 14 by Norbert A. Luyten, volumes 15 to 18 by Leo Scheffczyk and since volume 16 by Ludger Honnefelder . Volume 34 was published in 2009.

Like his predecessors, Wewel was anxious to supplement and correct the thinking limited by the German language by thinking in other languages. Publications from the Hispanic and Japanese cultural areas, but also those from Russia, Italy, France and Romania ( Dacoromania Yearbook: Yearbook for Eastern Latinity 1973 to 1991) speak for it. Such efforts have also borne fruit in the opposite direction: 20 Alber books translated into Spanish and 30 into Japanese are evidence of this.

1995 to 2000

Previous series and magazines will be continued. The Alber-Verlag program is expanded under the management of Frank Redecker, including the following series: the Phenomenology series initially published by Karl-Heinz Lembeck , Ernst Wolfgang Orth and Hans Rainer Sepp, and from 2006 by Jean-Luc Marion and Walter Schweidler - Texts (up to 2008: 7 volumes) and contexts (up to 2010: 21 volumes); the series Alber-Texte Philosophy edited by Karl-Heinz Lembeck (1999 to 2003: 18 volumes). Starting in 1999, a new series of Alber Theses picks up on current trends in international discourse and puts them up for discussion. (Volumes 39 to 41 will appear in 2010.) As in previous decades, many young Alber authors are appointed to professorships. The publisher also receives its new logo, the Alber-A.

2002 until today

Lukas Trabert 2015

After a year-long vacancy in the publishing house management, the publishing house will be continued with a new team headed by Lukas Trabert. The previous program will be expanded with new authors, new series and new magazines. New authors include Karl Albert , Jan P. Beckmann, Margot Fleischer, Karen Gloy , Michael Großheim , Petra Kolmer, Matthias Lutz-Bachmann , Jean-Luc Marion and Hermann Schmitz .

Since 2004, the Heidegger Yearbook has made a pioneering contribution to the examination of Heidegger's thinking, opening up new sources and critically accompanying current research. It is edited by Alfred Denker and Holger Zaborowski , supported by an international advisory board. Alfred Denker is also the editor of the Martin Heidegger letter edition , which is estimated at around 35 volumes. Approx. 20 volumes contain the scientific correspondence with scholars from all areas, approx. 10 volumes the private correspondence and approx. 5 volumes the correspondence with universities, publishing houses, academies and archives. The first volumes to appear in 2010 were the correspondence with the art historian Kurt Bauch and in 2011 the correspondence with Heidegger's parents and his sister.

Together with the editors of the Philosophical Yearbook, the publisher has been awarding the Karl Alber Prize annually since 2004 for an outstanding and previously unpublished dissertation or habilitation thesis in the field of philosophy.

Since 2006 appears Rosenzweig -Jahrbuch / Rosenzweig Yearbook which, starting from the work of the German-Jewish philosopher Franz Rosenzweig provides a forum for today's Jewish thought, Jewish religious philosophy and Judeo Christian-Islamic dialogue. It is published on behalf of the International Rosenzweig Society by Martin Brasser (Lucerne) in collaboration with Myriam Bienenstock (Paris), Bob Gibbs (Toronto), Gesine Palmer (Berlin), Jules Simon (El Paso / Texas) and others. Yossi Turner (Jerusalem). Also on behalf of the International Rosenzweig Society, Martin Brasser, Norbert Samuelson and Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik have been publishing the Rosenzweigiana since 2006 , a series of publications to promote the scientific discussion of the life, work and impact of Franz Rosenzweig. Monographs, anthologies and sources appear in it.

The Eugen Fink Complete Edition has been published since 2006, and consists of 25 volumes. It is text-critical and includes all works published by Fink himself as well as the mostly unpublished writings from his extensive estate. With the assistance of Annette Hilt and Franz-Anton Schwarz, it is edited by Stephan Grätzel, Cathrin Nielsen and Hans Rainer Sepp.

The volumes of the series Applied Ethics , edited by Nikolaus Knoepffler , Peter Kunzmann, Reinhard Merkel , Ingo Pies and Anne Siegetsleitner, deal with questions such as applied ethics, medical ethics, bio and environmental ethics, technical and scientific ethics as well as business ethics . (from 2006; published 12 volumes up to 2010) The status reports of the German Reference Center for Ethics in the Biosciences (DRZE) appear in the series Ethics in the Biosciences . (from 2002; 10 volumes published until 2010)

In the new series, regarding the philosophical consideration of topics of human life and experience (from 2008; until 2010 published 7 volumes). Alfred Denker and Holger Zaborowski have published the Interpretation und Quellen series since 2008 . Here important texts of the occidental intellectual history are published together with six to eight interpretive essays.

The series Life Sciences in Dialogue published by Kristian Köchy and Stefan Majetschak has been a forum for interdisciplinary dialogue on the life sciences and their developments and findings since 2006 - 9 volumes published by 2010. The New Phenomenology , founded by Hermann Schmitz , is based on involuntary life experience, on what every human being feels pre-theoretically in his own body . In the series New Phenomenology , which has been published by the Society for New Phenomenology at Alber since 2005 , monographs and text collections are published (up to 2014: 21 volumes).

The life - phenomenologically oriented series Soul, Existence and Life , published by Günter Funke and Rolf Kühn since 2005, aims to analyze all modes of appearance as they result from the basic affective and cultural constitution of humans (up to 2010: 15 volumes). The new yearbook for psychotherapy, philosophy and culture psycho-logik , published by Rolf Kühn, Jann E. Schlimme and Karl Heinz Witte since 2006 , is an open discussion forum for the connections between psychotherapy , psychology and philosophy with their cultural context .

Since 2008, the volumes of the Pedagogy and Philosophy series , which are accompanied by a scientific advisory board, to which Ekkehard Martens , Käte Meyer-Drawe , Matthias Rath and Franz Josef Wetz belong , have dealt with topics from pedagogy and educational sciences . The scientific exploration philosophy of religion designs and religious manifestations it is the series Scientia & Religio that Markus Enders and since 2004 Bernhard Uhde is issued.

In a number of worlds of philosophy , translations, monographs and anthologies on comparative philosophy and non-European philosophies as well as studies in which the prerequisites for intercultural and transcultural philosophizing are worked out have been published since 2009 . The scientific advisory board includes Claudia Bickmann, Rolf Elberfeld , Geert Hendrich, Heinz Kimmerle , Kai Kresse, Adhar Ram Mall, Ryōsuke Ōhashi , Heiner Roetz, Ulrich Rudolph, Hans Rainer Sepp, Georg Stenger, Franz Martin Wimmer and Ichiro Yamaguchi .

To mark the 550th anniversary of the University of Freiburg , Alber published the Festschrift in 2007 with over 2,300 pages in 5 volumes.

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Karl Alber publishing house, Lukas Trabert published a » Philosophical Guide « in which 101 authors comment on questions about the current and future significance of philosophy and their self-image as philosophers. They also provide information about what they consider particularly worth reading and which theses they would like to discuss.

See also

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Curt Vinz, Günter Olzog (ed.): Documentation of German-language publishers. 8th edition. Günter Olzog Verlag, Munich / Vienna 1983, Lemma Verlag Karl Alber.
  2. Robert Scherer (1904–1997) was chief editor at Alber and Herder. He belonged to the Freiburg circle around Reinhold Schneider and Karl Färber .
  3. See the previous period.
  4. ZDB -ID 124563-6
  5. The time period in which they came to Alber provides information about the continuation of the previous series and magazines as well as about authors who previously published at Alber.
  6. ^ Karl Alber Prize. Accessed December 16, 2019 (German).
  7. ^ Verlag Karl Alber, Freiburg / Munich 2010. ISBN 978-3-495-48500-2 .

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