Publishing house Römerweg
| Publishing house Römerweg | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 2014 |
| Seat |
Wiesbaden , Germany
|
| management | Lothar Wekel (managing director) |
| Number of employees | 15th |
| sales | approx. 4 million euros |
| Branch | Book publisher |
| Website | www.verlagshaus-roemerweg.de |
The Römerweg publishing house is a publishing group that has existed since 2014 and is based in Wiesbaden . The publishing house includes the publishers Corso, Edition Erdmann , marixverlag , Waldemar Kramer , Weimarer Verlagsgesellschaft and the Berlin University Press . Around 60 titles are published annually.
history
The Römerweg publishing house was founded as the umbrella for Marixverlag, founded by Lothar Wekel in 2003, and five other publishers.
program
The main focus of the Marixverlag is on non-fiction on topics such as philosophy, religion, history.
From spring 2020 contemporary authors such as Amy Hempel and Elke Heidenreich will appear in the “Marix Literatur” series .
The popular science book series “marixwissen”, launched in cooperation with the daily newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau , was particularly popular.
Corso Verlag specializes in the Premio Nazionale-awarded Pier Paolo Pasolini edition and texts by the Italian writer Edmondo De Amicis - a publishing program that made Elke Heidenreich's Rhine trip a bestseller, as well as the first transmissions by important women writers such as Mary Shelley and Margaret Fuller. Filmmaker and former photographer Georg Stefan Troller's dream of Paris appeared, as did Marko Martin's view of Tel Aviv .
Edition Erdmann publishes discovery literature and travelogues.
The program of the traditional publisher Waldemar Kramer, which was affiliated in 2014, includes topics from the city of Frankfurt am Main and its surroundings and has been further developed throughout Hesse. The major project is the history of the Evangelical Church in Frankfurt by Jürgen Telschow , which was published in three volumes in 2018/19 .
The Weimar biographies and the Weimar texts form two important pillars within the Weimar publishing company, the program ranges from the German Classical period through the Bauhaus era to the present day. It also publishes opulent illustrated books, monographs and non-fiction books, encyclopedias and exhibition catalogs, most recently anchovy salad very good for the Goethe and Schiller archive.
The Berlin University Press was founded by Gottfried Honnefelder . The program includes authors such as José Casanova, Udo Di Fabio, Wolfgang Frühwald, Dieter Grimm, Ludger Honnefelder, Norbert Lammert, Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, Wolf Lepenies , Christoph Markschies, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Simon Conway Morris , Paul Nolte, Marcia Pally, Andrei Pleșu, Michael Sandel, Boualem Sansal, Wolfgang Schäuble , Werner Spies and Martin Walser .