Publishing house of the authors
The publishing house of the authors in the legal form of a GmbH & Co. KG is a publishing house for theater plays in German-speaking countries and an agency for film, television and radio play authors . The registered office is in Frankfurt am Main .
history
The publisher of the authors was established in 1969 by some authors and former Suhrkamp - lecturers for a model of co-determination established. Since then he has represented around 300 theater, radio play, film and television authors and translators. Since 1980 the publisher has also had a small book program, which consists mainly of theoretical writings on theater and film as well as the editions of the “Theater Library”, the “Film Library” and the annual anthology of children's and youth theater pieces “Playground”.
One focus of the publishing house is the discovery and promotion of new authors. The authors themselves are the shareholders of the GmbH and determine the economic and programmatic development of the publisher in the shareholders' meeting . Not least thanks to the commitment of well-known authors, the publishing house has been able to maintain its independence from large media groups to this day.
A history of the publishing house from the point of view of the former Suhrkamp employees appeared in 2011 as a chronicle of the editors , in which they describe their path from the "revolt of the editors" to their own publishing house.
Following the example of the Verlag der Automobiles, some author-filmmakers founded the Filmverlag der Automobiles in Munich in 1971 .
Important playwrights of the publishing house (selection)
- Ad de Bont
- Hans Magnus Enzensberger
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Dario Fo
- Wilhelm Genazino
- Jean Genet
- Rudolf Herfurtner
- Ulrich Hub
- Gert Jonke
- Bernard-Marie Koltès
- Tom Lanoye
- Dea Loher
- Kristof Magnusson
- Luk Perceval
- Peter Perceval
- Susan Sunday
- Vladimir Sorokin
- Kerstin Specht
- Martin Sperr
- FK guard
- Theresia Walser
- Urs Widmer
- Gisela from Wysocki
- Ingeborg von Zadow
Screenwriters and filmmakers (selection)
- Arend Agthe
- Emily Atef
- Khyana el Bitar
- Ben Brownish
- Jan Cronauer
- Stefan Dähnert
- Dörte Franke
- Benjamin Hessler
- Felix Huby
- Thomas Kirchner
- Wolfgang Kirchner
- Gernot Krää
- Alexandra Maxeiner
- Edgar Reitz
- Richard Reitinger
- Titus Selge
- Susanne Schneider
- Hartmut Schoen
- Rolf silver
- Wolfgang Stauch
- Peter Steinbach
- Ulli Stephan
- Ruth Toma
- David Ungureit
- Wim Wenders
Radio play authors (selection)
- Walter Adler
- Alfred Behrens
- Hermann Bohlen
- Ludwig Fels
- Richard Hey
- Whitefish grain
- Ursula Krechel
- Gert Loschütz
- Bernd Schroeder
- Hubert Wiedfeld
- Wolf Wondratschek
Prizes and awards
literature
- Martin Lüdke (Ed.): After the protest. Literature in transition. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 978-3-518-10964-9 .
- Urs Widmer : The dream of working without domination. 1968 - from Suhrkamp publishing house to publishing house of the authors. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , 11./12. June 2011, No. 135, International Edition, pp. 21-22.
- Martin Schopf / Marion Victor (eds.): Fundus. The book from the publishing house of the authors 1969–2019 . Publishing house of the authors, Frankfurt am Main 2019, ISBN 978-3-88661-400-4 .
Web links
- Official website
- Publisher of the authors on theaterforschung.de
- Lecture with original sound and text by the co-founder of the publishing house Karlheinz Braun: “The expulsion of the author from the theater” on o-ton.radio-luma.net
Individual evidence
- ^ Walter Boehlich , Karlheinz Braun , Klaus Reichert, Peter Urban , Urs Widmer: Chronicle of the lecturers. From Suhrkamp to the publishing house of the authors. Publishing house of the authors, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-88661-345-8 .
- ↑ Press release Culture Prize 2014