Publishing house Thomas Reche
The Thomas Reche publishing house , based in Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate, is a German book publisher . He publishes bibliophile editions of books by international authors that are typographically designed and illustrated. As a rule, these are signed first editions in limited editions. Signed etchings, woodcuts or copperplate engravings are enclosed with the special editions.
Publishing program and authors
Since it was founded in 1988 by Thomas Reche, the Refugium book series, which was completed in 2008, has published a total of 50 editions with stories , essays and poems . Her authors include Hermann Lenz , Reiner Kunze , Ernst Jünger , Günter Kunert , Hubert Schirneck and Odile Caradec . They were accompanied, for example, by artists such as Alfred Hrdlicka or Jürgen Brodwolf with etchings , woodcuts , drawings and copperplate engravings .
The Edition Refugium series, started in 2004, is designed for a total of twenty publications by international authors. They mostly contain original texts with a German translation. The editions are thread-sewn or bound in linen. The series began with the story Protocol by the Hungarian Nobel Prize winner Imre Kertész . There followed poems and stories and the like. a. by Robert Creeley (offset lithographs by Jürgen Brodwolf ), Les Murray (drawings Johannes Beyerle), Robert Gray , John Ashbery (etchings Claudia Berg), Charles Simic (drawings Kurt Löb), Péter Nádas , Hans Dieter Schäfer (etchings Susanne Theumer ) and a Cycle of poems by the Nigerian Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka , accompanied by Thomas Rug with charcoal drawings.
In 2009 the story , based on Kafka , appeared Before the gate by the South African Nobel Prize winner JM Coetzee , as well as Today stays yesterday with notes by Günter Kunert . Most recently, an essay by Wole Soyinka on First Exile (offset lithographs by Jürgen Brodwolf ) was published. More recently, the publisher has also been working with photographers such as Barbara Klemm and Erich Lessing , who no longer illustrate the associated texts in the traditional sense, but rather form optical correlates. The typographical design of the series is in the hands of Mirko Albrecht.
In 2011, Thomas Reche initiated the Ligatures series , which combines texts by international authors with photographs and graphics in a larger linen format in such a way that new contexts emerge. The series began with a publication by Günter Kunert , in whose Berlin kaleidoscope childhood memories are accompanied by pictures by the magnum photographer Thomas Hoepker . This is followed by the title Fifteen Moods of Prison Letters by Václav Havel (pictures Erich Lessing , Magnum), autobiographical prose by John M. Coetzee and unpublished poems by Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka , which are illustrated by black and white photographs by Barbara Klemm and Robert Lebeck .
In addition, literary-graphic sheets and original graphics are published in the series of annual sheets and positions .
literature
- M. Eckhardt: literary and graphic treasures. The publishing house Thomas Reche. In: Marginalia. Journal for Book Art and Bibliophilia, Issue 2, Berlin 1999.
- R. Lieske: Books against the zeitgeist. Reference to the publisher Thomas Reche. In: Illustration 63. Zeitschrift für die Buchillustration, issue 3, Memmingen 2000.
- M. Hör .: Of webs of lines and shady, angular companions. Twenty years of book art at the Thomas Reche publishing house . In: Graphic Art. International magazine for book art and graphics, volume 2, Memmingen 2007.