Francke bookstore publisher
| Francke-Buchhandlung GmbH publishing house | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1918 |
| Seat | Marburg |
| management | Klaus Meiß (managing director) |
| Number of employees | 8th |
| sales | 2.9 million euros (2017) |
| Branch | publishing company |
| Website | www.francke-buch.de |
The publishing house of the Francke-Buchhandlung is a publishing house of Christian literature named after August Hermann Francke , based in Marburg , whose origins go back to 1918.
history
The publishing house of the Francke bookstore was founded on July 1, 1918 as "Reichsverlag" at the suggestion of the deaconesses of the German Community Diakonieverband (DGD). In memory of the theologian Philipp Jacob Spener , the name was first changed to Spener-Verlag in 1936 and then to Francke-Buchhandlung in 1950.
In 2017 the Francke Buchhandlung publishing house and Kawohl Verlag each took over 50% of the literary branches of the Chrischona joint venture, including Brunnen Verlag (Gießen) , the ALPHA bookstore chain and the logistics company ChrisMedia.
The publishing program
The publishing program comprises (as of spring 2016) 645 available titles, 379 of which are bound and 48 paperbacks. These are different subject groups from novels to advisors. His German-speaking authors include Jörg Berger, Martin Grabe , Daisy Countess von Arnim , Melissa C. Feurer , Steffi Baltes and Lotte Bormuth . He is also the rights holder of the German translation of the world bestseller Five Languages of Love by the US relationship adviser Gary Chapman , which had a total circulation of 700,000 German copies. The best-known foreign-language authors include Lynn Austin, Tamera Alexander, Karen Witemeyer, Lisa Wingate, Karen Kingsbury and Irma Joubert.
Theological textbooks also have a long tradition in the publishing house. Current authors include NT Wright , Miroslav Volf , Johannes Reimer, and Tobias Faix . The offer is rounded off by a children's and youth program: picture books, puzzle books and handicraft books about the Bible, children's books for all ages, youth novels and devotional books.
Bookstores
The publishing house of the Francke bookstore operates eight bookstore branches in addition to the publishing house. The locations are Marburg, Frankenberg, Elbingerode, Velbert, Lemförde, Oberursel, Neustadt ad Weinstrasse and Gunzenhausen.
The publishing house and the bookstores belong to the German Community Diakonieverband .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Karsten Huhn: Books - The trend is towards pious praline , ideaSpektrum , Wetzlar October 11, 2017, pp. 24–27
- ↑ francke-buch.de · The company · Francke
- ↑ Books can change lives: Verlag der Francke-Buchhandlung celebrates its 100th anniversary , idea.de, article from June 11, 2018.
- ↑ Francke and Kawohl take over Brunnen, ALPHA and ChrisMedia
- ↑ Francke-Buchhandlung at buchhandel.de on March 2, 2016 [1]
- ↑ Media · German Community Diakonieverband e. V. (DGD) · Gratefully Serving God ( Memento of the original from November 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
