Verlag am Galgenberg
The Verlag am Galgenberg , also known as Galgenberg for short , was a German book publisher from 1985 to 1993 with its registered office at 29 Lange Reihe in Hamburg 's St. Georg district . The black signet consisted of a vulture sitting on an isosceles triangle and looking to the right .
history
The publishing house, which Peter Lohmann co-founded in 1985, took the name from the historical gallows that had stood in St. Georg since 1554. Lohmann managed the publishing house until it went bankrupt in 1993. Galgenberg published important first publications that were then taken over by larger publishers. The Verlag am Galgenberg was best known for its fiction titles:
For example, from 1988 to 1991 the publisher published the first six Bella Block novels by Doris Gercke . Translations of important foreign literature also appeared here for the first time, around 1987 Honigberg by Latife Tekin , before major publishers later brought them out again. The publisher also published works by the following authors: Ales Adamowitsch , Maria Bachmann , Annette Berr , Douglas Coupland , Norberto Fuentes , Almudena Grandes , Ernst Kahl , Jörg Schröder , Gerd Spiekermann , Kurt Tucholsky , Najem Wali , Tom Wittgen , Gabriele Wolff .
Galgenberg published as a renowned Hamburg publisher ( Hamburger Abendblatt ) on regional topics, women and men and sexuality. Turkish authors were also an early focus: before Latife Tekin, works by Nazlı Eray , Yusuf Atılgans and Aysel Özakıns appeared in the publishing program .
The publishing house had seven permanent employees in 1992, brought out a six-month range of around ten titles and had annual sales of 2 million DM . Due to the fierce competition in the book market of the small publisher in late 1992 fell into an existential crisis: He suffered sales decline, lack of capital and remissions . A planned office and sales community with the Hamburg publishing house Rasch und Röhring , which was best known for its non-fiction book program, no longer came about. The publisher Peter Lohmann had to file for bankruptcy of his publishing house on Galgenberg at the beginning of 1993.
The publishing program was continued from 1994 to 1996 at the Hamburg publishing house Rasch und Röhring as Edition Galgenberg . The Galgenberg edition includes works by the following authors: Ingvar Ambjørnsen , Anke Gebert , Anne Holt , José Ángel Mañas , Peter Schmidt .
Publishing program (selection)
Verlag am Galgenberg
- Almudena Grandes : Lulú. A woman's story. 1990, ISBN 3-925387-73-0
- Doris Gercke : Kinderkorn. 1991, ISBN 3-44272703-0 .
- Doris Gercke: Post-season. 1991, ISBN 3-442-72635-2 .
- Gabriele Wolff : Heaven and Earth. 1991, ISBN 3-596-11394-6 .
- Tom Wittgen : Pilot game. 1992, ISBN 3-87058-126-3 .
- Tom Wittgen: State hunt. 1992, ISBN 3-87058117-4 .
- Doris Gercke: The war, the death, the plague. 1994, ISBN 3-92538769-2 .
Edition Galgenberg
- Ingvar Ambjørnsen , view of paradise. 1995, ISBN 3-89136535-7 .
- Peter Schmidt : Trojan horses. 1996, ISBN 3-89136595-0 .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Advertising postcard from Almudena Grandes' book Lulú.
- ↑ a b c Galgenberg is at the end ( Memento from July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), article in the Hamburger Abendblatt from February 4, 1993, p. 8
- ↑ Sandra Uschtrin: Handbook for Authors , 1985, p. 26
- ↑ a b "Existential Crisis in the German Publishing Industry" ( Memento from July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), article in the Hamburger Abendblatt from November 14, 1992, p. 6
- ^ Neue Edition Galgenberg ( Memento of July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), article in the Hamburger Abendblatt of February 26, 1994, p. 6