Egmont VGS

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Egmont VGS is a publishing brand of Egmont Verlagsgesellschaft mbH . The program includes guides, field reports and non-fiction books on topics by prominent authors. The Egmont VGS slogan is: We bring books to life!

history

The VGS Verlag was founded in 1970 as the "Verlagsgesellschaft Schulfernsehen" with the purpose of publishing accompanying materials for school television. As a result, VGS became well known through the Hobbythek range . The publisher Heinz Gollhardt was involved in developing the topics for the Hobbythek programs. and developed into a provider of accompanying television books. In 1998 the novel “I was a paparazzo” by Christoph Seitz was published by vgs Verlag.

Beverly Hills, 90210, and X-Files novels were among the greatest hits in publishing history in the 1990s.

In 2001 VGS was integrated into the Danish Egmont Group.

For the film D-Day - Decision in Normandy , produced in 2004 by the BBC and ProSieben , a “poor companion book” was brought onto the market, which Die Welt described as “failed”. Scripts for television films from the Lilly Schönauer series ( Lilly Schönauer - Detour into Happiness ) and the telenovela Butterflies in the Belly were brought to market in the style of “ dime novels ”.

program

In the first place in the guidebook segment are the cookbooks by prominent top chefs ( Horst Lichter , Die Kochprofis , Frank Rosin ) and collaborations with well-known TV brands ( The Perfect Dinner ). Further thematic focuses are “Family, Upbringing and Partnership” (Parents' Guide from Sabine Bohlmann : “A spoonful of sugar”) and “Health and well-being” (top title by Detlef D! Soost : Tanz dich fit!).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website Egmont VGS
  2. ↑ Press release BuchMarkt: Egmont Group: German book publishers now under one corporate shell.
  3. ↑ Ullrich Schauen: Television: The hobbyists who sell well. In: zeit.de. December 1, 1989, accessed November 29, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Thomas Tuma: Approved for launch . In: Der Spiegel . No. 10 , 1998 ( online - Mar. 2, 1998 ).
  5. ↑ Sven Felix Kellerhoff : Who has the real "Beast of Omaha Beach"? In: welt.de. June 5, 2004, accessed November 29, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Hold on, turn the page! In: Spiegel Online. May 8, 2008, accessed November 29, 2014 .

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