Publishing house for Berlin-Brandenburg

Publishing house for Berlin-Brandenburg
legal form	one-man business
founding	1993
Seat	Berlin-Pankow , Germany
management	André Forster
Branch	Book publisher
Website	www.verlagberlinbrandenburg.de

The publishing house for Berlin-Brandenburg , based in Berlin-Pankow, is a book publisher with a focus on topics of cultural (especially literary) and contemporary history.

history

Founded in 1993 as a GmbH with headquarters in Potsdam , the publishing house for Berlin-Brandenburg was initially a specialist publisher with a focus on regional history , contemporary history , German-Jewish history , archival studies and media studies . After several changes of ownership, the former program manager of the publishing house, André Förster , took over the publishing business in 2010 and expanded the publishing house into a general-interest publisher with a regional focus.

The publisher is a member of the German Book Trade Association . In 2019 he received the German Publishing Prize .

Publishing program

The publisher's program mainly contains travel literature with reference to Berlin and Brandenburg as well as cultural and contemporary titles; Recently, the history of literature (also supraregional) has been given particular weight in the program.

Successful titles in the book trade and literary criticism are u. a. Döblins Berlin , Kästners Berlin and ETA Hoffmanns Berlin by Michael Bienert, Fontanes Berlin by Bernd Seiler, the new edition of Franz Hessel's walks in Berlin and Dichterland Brandenburg by Werner Liersch.

The publisher has dealt with titles and a. on Christa and Gerhard Wolf, Stefan Heym, Anna Seghers, Elisabeth Langgässer, Werner Bergengruen, Kurt Tucholsky, Joachim Ringelnatz, Gerhart Hauptmann, Max Liebermann and Elizabeth Shaw positioned as a forum for sophisticated non-fiction topics. In addition, periodicals of literary societies ( Argonaut ship. Yearbook of the Anna Seghers Society Berlin and Mainz eV; Bergengrueniana. Periodical of the Werner Bergengruen Society and writings of the Rudolf Borchardt Society) are published.

There has been a sales cooperation with the Kleist Museum Frankfurt (Oder) since 2012 through its bibliophile series Frankfurter Buntbücher . Once and Now - the successful series of the Märkische Oderzeitung - has been continued by Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg since 2016 .

Imprint Quintus

The publisher's books have been published under the Imprint Quintus-Verlag since 2016 . Quintus, founded on May 23, 2016, is named after Jean Paul's idyll Leben des Quintus Fixlein , whose main character, Quintus Fixlein, is also a writer. The program is primarily determined by topics from literary and cultural history.

The authors and editors of Quintus Verlag include Jörg Aufenanger , Friedrich Dieckmann, Jaroslav Durych , Birgit Krehl, Elke and Lothar Lang , Klaus Walter , Joochen Laabs , Wilhelm von Sternburg , Dieter Weidenbach and Walter Kaufmann .

Authors

Authors include:

Irène Alenfeld Friedrich Beck Klaus Bellin Roland Berbig Michael Bienert Jost-Arend Bösenberg Gideon Botsch Rainer fried fish Günter de Bruyn Wolfgang de Bruyn Tobias Büloff Laurenz Demps Irene A. Diekmann Hannes Dombrowski Klaus Faber Tilman Fichter Christophe Fricker Hajo Funke Claudia from Gélieu Salomea Genin Martin Gilbert Klaus Rainer Goll Bettina Gotze Helga Grebing Gisela Griepentrog

Edda Gutsche Harriet Hauptmann Ludger Heid Adolf Heilborn Wolfgang Hempel Georg Hermann Franz Hessel Sonja Hilzinger Claudia Höfling Maria Höhn Dieter Hoffmann Herbert Hoffmann-Loss Frank Hörnigk Therese Hörnigk Sibylle Huebner-Funk Martin Jankowski Birgit Jochens Gustav Just Rainer Karlsch Mario Keßler Andreas Kilb Christoph Kopke Klaus Koerner Elke-Vera Kotowski Anita Kühnel

Roland lamp Eckhard Lange Susanne Laser Holger Lehmann Antje Leschonski Werner Liersch Siegward Lönnendonker Monika Melchert Frank Möbus Volker Petzold Bruno Pieger Michael Philipp Dagmar Reese Moritz Reininghaus Lars Rensmann Stefan Rohlfs Till Sailer Regina Scheer Bertram Schefold Heike Schneider Rudolf Schottlaender Bernd W. Seiler Irene Selle Uli Schöler Julius H. Schoeps Rosemarie Schuder

Chana Schütz Erhard Schütz Detlef Graf von Schwerin Kerrin Countess of Schwerin Bernd W. Seiler Elizabeth Shaw Daniel B. Silver Hermann Simon Hermann Sinsheimer Rüdiger Steinmetz Hans Joachim Teichler Gerhard Thiele Henry F. Urban Wolfgang Utzt Reinhold Viehoff Deborah Vietor-English Klaus Völker Paul Werner Wagner Klaus Wettig Heino Wiese Gerhard Wolf (writer) Dorothea Zöbl

Publications by societies and institutions

• Anna Seghers Society
• Gerhart Hauptmann Museum
• Martin Buber Society
• Rudolf Borchardt Society
• Werner Bergengruen Society

literature

• Heidi Jäger: The publishing house for Berlin-Brandenburg is going into the green / first collaboration with the HBPG. In: Potsdam's latest news . dated July 15, 2010.
• vbb delivers "Frankfurter Buntbücher". In: boersenblatt.net of July 4, 2012

Web links

• Publishing house for Berlin-Brandenburg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ vbb delivers "Frankfurter Buntbücher". In: boersenblatt.net of July 4, 2012