Voland & Quist

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Voland & Quist

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founding 2004
Seat Berlin / Dresden / Leipzig
management Karina Fenner , Leif Greinus , Sebastian Wolter (publishers)
Branch Book publisher
Website www.voland-quist.de

Voland & Quist is a German independent publisher based in Berlin , Dresden and Leipzig .

history

Since 2004 the publishers Leif Greinus and Sebastian Wolter have been publishing so-called "live literature", books with CDs or DVDs included . The publisher is named after Voland, the devil from Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita , and Quinten Quist from Harry Mulisch's The Discovery of Heaven . Voland & Quist publishes young contemporary prose and poetry. The program areas are: fiction by young, German-speaking authors, stage reading literature , spoken word poetry and prose by young Eastern European authors in the Sonar series . Children's books have also been published since 2010.

Voland & Quist also publish the perpetual calendars Calendars of Failure by Nico Semsrott and The False Calendar by Marc-Uwe Kling , music CDs by Bachmann Prize winner Nora Gomringer , Anna Mateur and The Fuck Hornisschen Orchestra as well as the Alois Nebel - graphic novels by the Czech draftsman Jaromír Švejdík .

In 2014–2018 the publisher brought out the short story app A Story A Day .

In 2018 the Germanist Karina Fenner was accepted into the management, with her the publishing house has now founded a third location in Berlin-Schöneberg after Dresden and Leipzig .

In 2019 the publisher received the German Publishing Award .

Voland & Quist's publishing team: (from left) Sebastian Wolter, Karina Fenner, Leif Greinus

V&Q Books

In September 2019, the publisher announced the establishment of the imprint V&Q Books . From autumn 2020, books by German-speaking authors will be published on the English and Irish book markets in their first English translation. So far, titles by Lucy Fricke , Sandra Hoffmann , Francis Nenik , Isabel Bogdan , Marcel Beyer and Ivana Sajko are planned . Katy Derbyshire will take over the management of the imprint.

Edition Azure

Also in September 2019 it became public that the Dresden publisher edition AZUR will become part of Voland & Quist from January 2020. The previous publisher, Helge Pfannenschmidt, will continue to be responsible for the content of the edition AZUR program at Voland & Quist.

Wandering Whores Litigation

In spring 2014 Voland & Quist was sued by the Droemer Knaur publishing house . The occasion was the publication of the 2013 novel "The most beautiful hiking trails of the hiking whore" by Julius Fischer . The book makes a parody of the Wanderhure novel series by the author duo Iny Lorentz . Droemer Knaur invoked an infringement of title rights. In August 2014, however, the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court ruled in the second instance that the parody is protected by artistic freedom as an independent work of art . The publisher donated the proceeds from the crowdfunding campaign to cover litigation costs to the Kurt Tucholsky Museum of Literature .

Authors of the publisher (selection)

Voland & Quist Booking

In addition to classic publishing work, the publishing house takes on the booking of the following artists:

activities

The monthly literary salon of Voland & Quist took place from 2006 to 2017, the route of which last extended to the cities of Berlin, Chemnitz , Dresden, Leipzig, Potsdam and Jena .

Voland & Quist's publishing booth at the Leipzig Book Fair 2019

In 2007 Voland & Quist initiated the Festival Literatur Jetzt! Together with the writer Michael Bittner . , which has been organized by an independent association since 2019 and has established itself as the most important literature festival in Central Germany.

In 2009, the publisher was one of the initiators of the Hotlist , the annual book prize awarded by independent publishers.

Leif Greinus has been on the board of the Kurt Wolff Foundation since 2015 .

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jens Bisky: Saxon Urbanity . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 15, 2018
  2. ↑ Independent publishing house grows. Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 1, 2019, accessed on September 23, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Voland & Quist founded an English imprint and took over Edition Azur in 2020. Leipziger Internet Zeitung, September 1, 2019, accessed on September 23, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Court ruling on book title: "Wanderhure" is allowed to continue hiking. Spiegel Online, August 5, 2014, accessed June 18, 2019 .
  5. ↑ pro domo In: Annual Letter of the Kurt Tucholsky Literature Museum 2015
  6. ↑ The winners. Website of the German Publishing Award, accessed on September 25, 2019 .