Publishing house regional culture

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The publishing regional culture (proper spelling: publishing regional culture ) is a German publishing company with a focus on history and culture of South West Germany and Alsace and German-speaking Switzerland .

history

Regionalkultur Verlag was founded in 1989 by Reiner Schmidt, Andrea Sitzler and Bernhard Stier. The first book to be published was Weiterstadt 1933-1945. National Socialist everyday life in a South Hessian community by Walter Hochreiter and Edgar Illert. In 2000 the Brigitte Guderjahn publishing house (Heidelberg) was taken over. In 2002 the takeover of the regional division of Badenia Verlag followed . The publishing house currently has 10 employees. The publishing house is located in Ubstadt-Weiher in Baden-Württemberg .

Publishing program

Regionalkultur Verlag currently publishes around 60 to 70 titles a year. The majority of these relate to non-fiction and specialist books on historical, cultural or ecological topics in southwest Germany (Baden-Württemberg, Palatinate, southern Hesse) as well as Alsace and northern Switzerland. The focus is on dealing with the Nazi era, regional church history and Jewish history as well as company history and homeland books. In addition, there are many local chronicles, local family books and other genealogical publications as well as city, hiking and nature guides and numerous illustrated books.

The fiction division consists primarily of historical novels, crime fiction and dialect books with a regional reference. There are also autobiographies and memoirs. Some of these books are also available as e-books.

In addition, several art volumes and exhibition catalogs have been published, especially by Uscha-Rudek Werlé.

Rows

Several academic series are published regularly by Regionalkultur Verlag. These include:

  • Contributions to the history of the district of Karlsruhe
  • Contributions to the history of the Neckar-Odenwald district
  • Fragmenta Melanchthoniana (with the Melanchthonhaus Bretten )
  • Rastatt Heimatbuch (with the Rastatt district archive)
  • Mannheimer Geschichtsblätter (with the Mannheimer Altertumsverein , rem , Mannheim City Archives )
  • Nature conservation spectrum (with the State Agency for the Environment Baden-Württemberg)
  • New contributions to the history of Pforzheim, materials on the history of Pforzheim, Pforzheim city tours (with the Pforzheim City Archives )
  • Pforzheim city tours (with the Pforzheim Cultural Office )
  • Series of publications by the Heidelberg City Archives
  • Publications of the archive of the city of Stuttgart
  • Publications of the historical commission of the city of Bruchsal
  • Waldensian Studies (with the German Waldensian Association)

Authors and editors

In the field of history, Thomas Adam, Jürgen Alberti, Hans-Peter Becht, Peter Blum, Alexander Boguslawski, Bernd Breitkopf, Konrad Dussel , Frank Engehausen, Christian Führer, Karl-Heinz Glaser, Heiko Haumann , Walter Hochreiter, Martin Krauss, Jörg have Kreutz, Wilhelm Kreutz, Thomas Moos, Ulrich Nieß , Armin Schlechter , Hans Jörg Staehle, Bernhard Stier, Christoph Timm, Heiko Wacker, Martin Walter, Johannes Werner, Alfried Wieczorek and Hermann Wiegand have published books. There are also numerous institutions such as the House of History Baden-Württemberg , the Bruchsal City Archives, Heidelberg, Mannheim , Karlsruhe , Pforzheim , Stuttgart , the Karlsruhe District Archives, Rastatt, Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis, Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis, the Historical Museum the Palatinate Speyer , the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museums Mannheim , the Kurpfälzisches Museum Heidelberg and the Palatinate Society for the Promotion of Science, the Mannheimer Altertumsverein , Heimatverein Kraichgau and the Femmes PAMINA Frauen eV

In the field of church history, Günter Frank, Jürgen Krüger , Albert de Lange and Gerhard Schwinge , among others, have published. There are also institutions such as the Melanchthon House in Bretten , the Baden Association for Church History and numerous individual parishes.

Gabriele Albertini, Alexander Bertsch , Dorothea Conrad, Herbert Hartkopf, Thomas Liebscher, Sabine Maucher, Martin Schemm and Hans-Peter Schwöbel have published in the field of fiction .

Awards

  • 2015: 1st Prize State Prize for Local Research for the Nazi Past in the Wiesloch Sanatorium by Frank Janzowski.
  • 2016: 1st prize for regional research into Jewish life in Meckesheim until 1940 by Edith Wolber.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Hochreiter, Edgar Illert: Weiterstadt 1933-1945: National Socialist everyday life in a community in southern Hesse . Verlag Regionalkultur, Heidelberg 1989, ISBN 3-9802218-0-6 ( worldcat.org [accessed on February 2, 2018]).
  2. ^ Publishing house regional culture . Retrieved February 2, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Books. Retrieved February 2, 2018 .
  4. ^ District Office Karlsruhe: District Office Karlsruhe - District Karlsruhe - District Administration - Office for Schools and Local Public Transport. Retrieved February 2, 2018 .
  5. ^ Portal Archives in Baden-Württemberg - District Archives Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis. Retrieved February 2, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Heimatbuch. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 2, 2018 ; accessed on February 2, 2018 .
  7. ↑ www.mg2consulting.de: Mannheimer Altertumsverein »» Mannheimer Geschichtsblätter. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 31, 2017 ; accessed on February 2, 2018 (German).
  8. ^ Ministry of the Environment Baden-Württemberg; State Institute for the Environment Baden-Württemberg: Environmental information from Baden-Württemberg. Retrieved February 2, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Our publications . In: City of Pforzheim . October 11, 2017 ( pforzheim.de [accessed February 2, 2018]).
  10. ^ City of Heidelberg: heidelberg.de - Publications City Archives. Retrieved February 2, 2018 .
  11. ^ City of Bruchsal: City of Bruchsal - Publications on city history. Retrieved February 2, 2018 .
  12. ^ Authors / editors. Retrieved February 2, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Awarding of the 34th State Prize for Local Research . ( baden-wuerttemberg.de [accessed on February 2, 2018]).
  14. ↑ Awarding of the 35th State Prize for Local Research . ( baden-wuerttemberg.de [accessed on February 2, 2018]).