Publishing house Ralf Liebe

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Publishing house Ralf Liebe
legal form one-man business
founding 1992
Seat Weilerswist , Germany
management Ralf love
Branch Book publisher
Website Publishing house Ralf Liebe

The publisher Ralf Liebe (until 2006 Verlag Landpresse ) is a German independent publisher based in Weilerswist .

history

The publishing house Ralf Liebe , which was called Verlag Landpresse until 2006 , was founded in 1992 by Ralf and Sabine Liebe in Weilerswist with the publication of a children's book. The publisher publishes volumes of poetry, novels, non-fiction books, comics and art books. The Landpresse printing company has been affiliated with the publishing house since 1992 and the Museum of Printing History since 2001 .

program

Poetry

Since 1993, volumes of poetry by authors such as Elisabeth Alexander , Achim Amme , Jochen Arlt , Michael Basse , Rolly Brings , Matthias Buth , Karl Otto Conrady , Renan Demirkan, Volker Demuth , Jürgen Dziuk (posthumously), Federico García Lorca , Pierre Garnier , Hans- Jürgen Heise , Franz Hodjak , Anton G. Leitner , Angelika Mechtel , Jürgen Nendza , Markus Peters , Lutz Rathenow , Àxel Sanjosé , Amir Shaheen , Stevan Tontić , Andrascz Weigoni , Michael Wildenhain , Annemarie Zornack u. a.

The anthologies of poetry edited by Axel Kutsch , which have been given the permanent title Versnetze since 2008 , have been published once a year by Ralf Liebe since 1994. They want to convey a far-reaching picture of the multifaceted current German-language poetry across the regions and generations.

prose

The publication of novels and non-fiction books is the second focus of the publishing program. The complete works of Heinz Küppers have been published by Ralf Liebe since the mid-1990s . From the Edition Die Tausend series , the novels by Roland E. Koch, I thought of the many murders (2009) and Ernst David Kaiser's Die Geschichte einer Mordes , which was number 1 on the SWR best list in June 2010, attracted particular attention. The non-fiction books End of a Rescue Trip - The Refugee Drama of Cap Anamur by Elias Bierdel (2006) and You Enter Germany also met with a broad response . Hürtgenwald - the long war on the Siegfried Line (2007).

Art comic

Reinhard Kleist's art comics Coney Island Angel , The Adventures of a Switchman (based on HC Artmann ), The Horror in Red Hook (based on HP Lovecraft ) and The Feast (based on Axel Kutsch) are lavishly designed bibliophile brochures with thread stitching and partly in multi-colored screen printing.

The fastest book in the world

For World Book Day , the publisher launched on 23. April 2003 in cooperation with the Reading Foundation and the Cologne Literature House the action pace - the fastest book in the world . A 96-page anthology was written, edited, set, corrected, printed, bound and delivered within twelve hours. The authors who supported this creative adventure include FW Bernstein , Ulrike Draesner , John von Düffel , Gisbert Haefs , Günter Kunert and Burkhard Spinnen .

Individual evidence

  1. Dieter Wellershoff's volume of poems Zwischenreich started the series of individual titles .
  2. Review of Basses poetry book skype connected on the website of Berliner Literaturkritik. [1]
  3. ^ Foreword to Axel Kutsch (ed.), Versnetze_drei, Verlag Ralf Liebe, Weilerswist 2010.
  4. Wilfried F. Schoeller on Simplicius 45 [2]
  5. SWR best list June 2010 1st place: "The story of a murder"
  6. The website for the book: [3]
  7. There were detailed reports on radio, television (e.g. CNN , Tagesschau ) and newspapers ( Die Welt , Die Zeit , FAZ , NZZ ).

literature

  • Theo Breuer : The handwriting of the country press. In: Erik Martin (ed.): Shell heap . Annual journal for literature & graphics, 38th edition, Viersen 1999, pp. 170–177.

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