Publishing house Berlin
The publishing house Berlin (until summer 2015 publishing house J. Frank ) is a German independent publishing house for poetry , illustration and essay based in Berlin. It is run by the editor and translator Jo Frank , the typographer Andrea Schmidt and the designer Dominik Ziller and is one of the German-language publishers for contemporary poetry and illustration.
history
The publishing house was founded in winter 2005 initially as a pure magazine publisher for the literary magazine Belletristik , but has been publishing mainly volumes of poetry and essay, e-books and selected graphic novels in its program series Edition Belletristik, Edition Polyphon, Edition Poeticon, Edition ReVers and Edition since 2006 Binary. In the years 2006 and 2007, the English-language literary magazine Bordercrossing Berlin was published in the meantime .
The publishing house is a member of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels and received the first Berlin Publishing Prize in 2018. In 2019 he received the German Publishing Prize .
Publishing program
The publisher has set itself the goal of “taking the avant-garde beyond its aesthetic function” and relocating authors “whose writing expresses a clear position.” Depending on the publisher's background, text, illustration and typography are treated as equal forms of expression so that special attention is paid to the high-quality design of the books.
Edition of fiction
Contemporary German-language poetry appears in the Belletristik edition. In 2012 it forms the center of the publisher's book publications with authors such as Max Czollek , Alexander Graeff , Anna Hetzer, Jan Kuhlbrodt , Swantje Lichtenstein and Lea Schneider.
Edition Polyphon
The Edition Polyphon publishes translations of contemporary poetry, primarily from languages to which little attention is otherwise paid in the German literary world, e.g. B. the band " Hochzeit der Messer" by the Indonesian poet Rosa Dorothea Herliany (translation: Ulrike Draesner and Brigitte Oleschinsky ), body. A manual by the Brazilian poet Ricardo Domeneck (translation: Odile Kennel ) or the anthology CHINABOX. New poetry from the People's Republic (published by Lea Schneider, translation by Lea Schneider, Peiyao Chang, Daniel Bayerstorfer and others).
Edition ReVers
Texts by international poets from the past appear in the bilingual edition ReVers. The books are designed in two colors in black and gold and produced with open thread stitching. So far published u. a. Poems by Wladimir Majakowski , Konstantínos Kaváfis , Wilfred Owen , Wassily Kandinsky and Giovanni Giovano Pontano in the first German translation.
In 2015 the series was awarded the Prize of the Book Art Foundation as one of the most beautiful German books .
Edition Poeticon
Edition Poeticon is the poetological essay series by Verlagshaus Berlin. It is published by Asmus Trautsch and collects u. a. Essays on the topics of money ( Katharina Schultens ), beauty ( Crauss ), history ( Jan Kuhlbrodt ) or we ( Monika Rinck ).
Edition Binaer
Edition Binaer is an e-book series for poetry and its context. Poems appear here that are supplemented by accompanying essays, images, links, previous versions or that go beyond the format of the A4 page. To display line breaks and other lyric-specific formatting in digital space, the publishing house has developed its own process, the LyrikCode.
In 2016, the Berlin publishing house was nominated for the German E-Book Award for this development.
Edition Panopticon
The Edition Panopticon publishes graphic novels, illustrated stories and commented illustrations.
Fiction - magazine for literature and illustration
The literary magazine Belletristik appeared quarterly and dealt mainly with young, as yet unknown authors. The magazine was particularly dedicated to the interplay between illustration and literature. With issue 13, the magazine was discontinued in September 2014.
particularities
Verlagshaus Berlin regularly organizes unusual literary formats such as lyric wrestling or the long lyric night .
The publisher's profits are accumulated at the end of each year according to a solidarity model and distributed equally to all authors.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Verlagshaus Berlin: Verlagshaus J. Frank gives itself a new name at the age of ten and goes on tour. Book Market, April 28, 2015, accessed on September 17, 2015 .
- ↑ https://berlinerverlagspreis.de : Berliner Verlagspreis . In: Berlin Publishing Prize . ( berlinerverlagspreis.de [accessed on October 2, 2018]).
- ↑ a b Verlagshaus Berlin - Organizer - Literaturport.de. Accessed October 2, 2018 (German).
- ↑ publisher | Verlagshaus Berlin - Independent publishing house for poetry and illustration. Accessed October 2, 2018 (German).
- ↑ Edition of Fiction | Verlagshaus Berlin - Independent publishing house for poetry and illustration. Accessed October 2, 2018 (German).
- ^ Edition Polyphon | Verlagshaus Berlin - Independent publishing house for poetry and illustration. Accessed October 2, 2018 (German).
- ↑ 40. New series Edition ReVers. Poetry Newspaper, September 11, 2014, accessed September 12, 2014 .
- ↑ Edition lapel | Verlagshaus Berlin - Independent publishing house for poetry and illustration. Accessed October 2, 2018 (German).
- ↑ Book Art Foundation. Retrieved June 12, 2017 .
- ^ Edition Poeticon | Verlagshaus Berlin - Independent publishing house for poetry and illustration. Accessed October 2, 2018 (German).
- ↑ Dr. Ansgar Warner: e-book-news.de »Give Pösie a Chance: Lyrik-Code should bring poems correctly onto the display. Accessed October 2, 2018 (German).
- ↑ E-Book Festival 2016 / Give the e-book wings. Retrieved October 2, 2018 .
- ↑ Vedat Demirdoeven: Nominations 2016. Accessed on October 2, 2018 (German).
- ↑ Edition Panopticon | Verlagshaus Berlin - Independent publishing house for poetry and illustration. Accessed October 2, 2018 (German).
- ↑ Overview: Journal of Fiction | Verlagshaus Berlin - Independent publishing house for poetry and illustration. Accessed October 2, 2018 (German).
- ↑ Events | Verlagshaus Berlin - Independent publishing house for poetry and illustration. Accessed October 2, 2018 (German).
- ^ About the publishing house in Berlin . In: Issuu . ( issuu.com [accessed October 2, 2018]).