Verlag Schnell and Steiner
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | November 24, 1933 |
| Seat | regensburg |
| management | Albrecht Weiland (Managing Director) |
| Number of employees | 20 (2011) |
| sales | approx. 3 million euros (2010) |
| Branch | Publishing house for art and cultural history |
| Website | www.schnell-und-steiner.de |
The publishing house Schnell & Steiner (only in the word mark (company logo) Schnell + Steiner used since the early 2000s ) based in Regensburg is a German publisher with an art and cultural history program from prehistory to the present.
history
The publishing house was founded on November 24, 1933 by the art historian Hugo Schnell (1904–1981) and the publishing merchant Johannes Steiner (1902–1995), who had lost their jobs as declared opponents of National Socialism. Both had previously been active as a journalist against the National Socialists, Johannes Steiner had worked as managing director for Fritz Gerlich and his weekly newspaper The Straight Way , which was banned in early 1933 .
On January 1, 1934, the publishing house in Munich started its work with the series of small guides (art guides), which presented important churches and valuable buildings in Germany, Austria, Italy and Switzerland. "The Wies, pilgrimage church of the Scourged Savior in Steingaden" appeared under No. 1, but lesser-known village churches soon followed.
With texts written by art historians and illustration material created by professional photographers, the small art guides documented a variety of art and cultural treasures that not only opened up the churches to those interested in art, but also made the local faithful understand the value and importance of their place of worship and thus their cohesion in the Strengthening the time of the National Socialist dictatorship .
Even before the state of Bavaria was founded, the publishing house was granted a publishing license by the American military government on February 15, 1946, and was thus able to continue its publishing work.
In 1975 the founding families sold their shares to the episcopal chair in Regensburg . In 1993 the company headquarters were relocated to Regensburg. After the retirement of managing director Elisabeth Zuber, Albrecht Weiland has been responsible for management and publishing since 1996. In 2005 the publishing house was privatized again and today it belongs to a family of shareholders. In 2007 the publishing house became the majority shareholder of the University Press in Regensburg. In 2010 the publisher founded Artguide GmbH together with Pausanio GmbH & Co. KG to develop software for smartphone applications.
Publications
The “Little Art Guides” developed into the publisher's trademark and with over 70 million copies of over 3,100 titles are the largest series of art guides of their kind in Europe. Since 2010, the art guides have also been offered as apps with e-books , audio guides , interactive floor plans, timetables and visitor information.
Schnell & Steiner publishes 30 different book series and around 80 to 100 new book publications and exhibition catalogs per year. The publishing house works with cooperation partners, which include the state palace administrations in Germany , museums, church and state institutions, foundations, university institutions and other associations.
The publisher also publishes the three specialist journals “das münster” - a journal for Christian art and art history, “Journal for Art History” - the international review magazine and “Blick in die Wissenschaft” - a research magazine from the University of Regensburg. The magazine “das münster” has been published since 1947 and is dedicated to contemporary art as well as art from bygone eras.
The publisher is one of the few publishers that has participated in the Frankfurt Book Fair from the start and without interruption .
Culture Prize "Art and Ethos"
Since 2009 the Schnell & Steiner publishing house has been awarding the Schnell & Steiner culture prize "Art and Ethos", endowed with 5000 euros. The award honors a project by an architect, artist or writer in which the connection between art and ethos is expressed programmatically. It can be a building, an exhibition project, an artistic work, an installation or a literary work. The artistic form is deliberately not fixed in order to give the artists a free hand to realize their work. The price is ideologically open and not regionally bound.
Award winners
- 2009: Michael Triegel , Francis Berrar
- 2010: Manuel Herz
- 2011: Christoph Brech
- 2012: Johannes Lotz
- 2013: Madeleine Dietz
- 2014: Jacques Gassmann
- 2015: Gregor Hildebrandt
- 2017: Thomas Hildenbrand, Jürgen Lenssen
- 2018: Nicole Ahland
literature
- Bettina Beringer: 50 years of Schnell & Steiner. A publishing documentation. Schnell & Steiner, Munich / Zurich 1983.
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75 years of Schnell & Steiner publishing house. Ceremony and impressions from the anniversary year . Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-7954-2472-5 .
- In it u. a .: Reinhard Wittmann : The straight way. Catholic publishers in the time of National Socialism . Pp. 28-40.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reinhard Wittmann: The straight way. Catholic publishers in the time of National Socialism . In: 75 years publishing house Schnell & Steiner. Ceremony and impressions from the anniversary year . Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-7954-2472-5 , pp. 28–40, here pp. 35–36.
- ^ Albrecht Weiland: Verlag Schnell and Steiner. Retrieved August 30, 2017 .
- ^ Universitätsverlag Regensburg. Retrieved August 30, 2017 .