Eulenspiegel publishing group
| Eulenspiegel publishing group | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1993 |
| Seat | Berlin |
| management | Matthias Oehme, Jacqueline Kühne |
| Branch | publishing company |
| Website | eulenspiegel-verlagsgruppe.de |
The Eulenspiegel publishing group , founded in 1993 by Matthias Oehme and Jacqueline Kühne , is a German publishing group based in Berlin . It unites book publishers from the segments of fiction , non-fiction , children's books and audio books . The publishing group is based in Markgrafenstrasse on Gendarmenmarkt and has 13 employees. On December 14, 2017, it was announced that the publishing group had filed for preliminary bankruptcy, which was ordered by the Berlin-Charlottenburg District Court on November 27, 2017.
In 2014 the publishing house “Das Neue Berlin” was insolvent.
Eulenspiegel Verlag
The Eulenspiegel-Verlag was founded in 1954 in the GDR and in 1993 it was handled by the Treuhandanstalt . After that, the publisher gave its name to the newly founded Eulenspiegel publishing group. In addition to humorous and satirical literature from home and abroad, novels can be found in the program.
Eulenspiegel children's book publisher
The Eulenspiegel children's book publisher was founded in 2010. Here, among other things, GDR children's books and classics of children's literature are being reissued in a new design.
The new Berlin
The publishing house Das Neue Berlin was founded in 1946 and was one of the largest and highest-circulation publishers in the GDR. Primarily paperbacks in the areas of crime and science fiction were published. One of the most successful crime thriller series in the GDR was the “Offenses, circumstantial evidence, investigations”, or THE series for short . The company was also wound up by the Treuhandanstalt after the fall of the Wall. In 1993 the publishing house was incorporated into the Eulenspiegel publishing group. Today biographies and political, historical and criminological non-fiction books form the focus of the program, supplemented by authentic crime stories. Berlin topics are also part of the program. A small fiction division publishes works by some authors closely related to the publishing house. The publisher has also been re-issuing the DIE series as an e-book series since 2015.
New life
The Neues Leben publishing house was one of the largest fiction publishers in the GDR. In 2004 he was accepted into the Eulenspiegel publishing group. One of the publisher's most important series was “ Excitingly told ”. Here appeared u. a. Classics of international adventure and youth literature. Today the publisher publishes non-fiction books and biographies from the fields of music, sport, film and theater. The topics of literature, narrated life and selected illustrated books are also part of the program.
The authors include Dieter Birr from the Puhdys , trainer and Stasi-IM Eduard Geyer and moderator Hellmuth Henneberg .
Aurora
Aurora Verlag für Kunst und Wissenschaft was founded in 2009 as an imprint of the Eulenspiegel publishing group. Its program is primarily devoted to maintaining and researching the work of Peter Hacks . The poet has left an extensive legacy, which the publisher has set itself to work through intensively and systematically.
Allpart
Allpart Verlag was launched in spring 2010. Until 2012 it offered a program of cultural-historical topics to cookbooks and an erotic series (Allpart Erotica).
Edition east
The Edition East was founded in 1991 and is one of the imprint since 2001 Eulenspiegel publishing group. Edition Ost mainly publishes literature on GDR topics. According to Udo Baron ( Lower Saxony Office for the Protection of the Constitution ), former functionaries of the GDR's power and rule apparatus publish their historical images here.
Spotless
The Spotless publishing house has belonged to the Eulenspiegel publishing group since 2008.
Military publisher
The military publishing house, founded in 1956, was a state publisher in the GDR. It was acquired in 2010 by the publishing house Das Neue Berlin and integrated into the Eulenspiegel publishing group. Until 2013 the publisher published works on German and international military affairs, on the history of the NVA and the Warsaw Pact including autobiographies of the military, on the discussion of current German and international military and security policy, and on regional military history.
Verlag am Park
Verlag am Park was founded in 1996 as the imprint of Edition Ost. Since 2002 it has belonged to the Eulenspiegel publishing group as an independent publisher and publishes biographical, fictional and political-historical texts.
Olympia Press
In 1968 Jörg Schröder , publisher of the März Verlag , created the German Olympia Press. He saw the publication of pornographic literature as an opportunity to finance the politically and literarily ambitious program of the März Verlag. First, German translations of the English Olympia Press program appeared, later the company also published its own. The publishing house was continued as an imprint from 2012 to 2015 within the Eulenspiegel publishing group. In addition to new editions of well-known titles, new original editions were also published here.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www1.wdr.de/kultur/kulturnachrichten/eulenspiegel-verlag-insolvent-100.html
- ↑ Berlin: Eulenspiegel Verlagsgruppe files for preliminary insolvency , buchmarkt.de, December 15, 2017, accessed on December 15, 2017
- ↑ "Not only the publishing house Das Neue Berlin is insolvent (as reported), but the entire group."
- ^ Udo Baron : The GDR in the mirror of German left-wing extremism Publication of the Lower Saxony constitution protection