Wallstein Publishing House
The Wallenstein Verlag is since 1986 existing book publisher based in Goettingen .
history
Wallstein Verlag was founded in 1986 by Thedel von Wallmoden and the brothers Dirk and Frank Steinhoff in Göttingen. Two years later the first book program started with the correspondence between Gottfried August Bürger and his publisher Johann Christian Dieterich . In 1992 the Steinhoff brothers left the GmbH, whereupon Markus Ciupke joined the publishing company as a new partner. In 2004 Thorsten Ahrend, formerly editor at Suhrkamp Verlag , also took over shares in the business. Nikola Medenwald has been a member of the management team since 2013.
In addition to the three shareholders, Wallstein Verlag currently has 22 permanent employees (six of them part-time). The program publishes around 130 books annually with an approximate annual turnover of 2 million euros. The development of the publishing house can be traced back to the surprise success of Ruth Klüger's autobiography Continue To Live - A Youth From 1992. The book was positively highlighted by Marcel Reich-Ranicki in the “Literary Quartet” . In the meantime, weiter leben is one of the most widely read texts in the Holocaust literature in German. Other successes included Gottfried Benn's letters to Ursula Ziebarth ( Hernach ), Carl Zuckmayer's secret report and his report on Germany , Michael Hagner's Geniale Gehirne and Maja Haderlap's Angel of Forgetting , which received the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2011 .
The program
The focus of the academic book program is on books from the fields of literary studies, philosophy and history. The thematic focus, which in the early years mainly focused on the literary and intellectual history of the 18th century ( Enlightenment and Goethe time ), has meanwhile expanded to include publications from a broad scientific spectrum: Today, particular attention is paid to contemporary history , the research of the National Socialism , the genocide of the European Jews and the early Federal Republic. In recent years, the history of science has also been added with very successful publications (e.g. by Michael Hagner and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger ). In addition, since its foundation, the publisher has published a large number of annotated editions of older texts in German literature, including editions of works by Barthold Heinrich Brockes , Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim , Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty , Johann Heinrich Voss and Friedrich Rückert . In addition, there are editions with texts from the 20th century, such as an edition of Thea Sternheim's diaries , editions of works by Hugo Ball , Nicolas Born , Albert Ehrenstein , Siegfried Jacobsohn , Gertrud Kolmar and Jakob van Hoddis , literary publications by Carl Zuckmayer such as the secret report or editions of letters from Rainer Maria Rilke , Gottfried Benn , Arthur Schnitzler and Karl Kraus . An edition of Stefan Andres' works has been published by Wallstein since 2007 . The literary magazine die horen is also published by the publisher .
Since the success of Ruth Klüger's autobiography, books by contemporary authors have increasingly appeared. With the arrival of Thorsten Ahrend as a lecturer and partner, Wallstein's literary program has been expanded since 2005. In addition to reprinting authors such as Fred Wander , Adolf Endler and Hermann Peter Piwitt , the publishing house is also emphasizing the trends with Dea Loher , Angelika Overath , Lukas Bärfuss , Safiye Can , Gregor Sander , Jörg Albrecht , Maja Haderlap , Anna Baar and Ulf Erdmann Ziegler Contemporary literature.
The set operation
On behalf of other publishers Wallenstein accepts sentence , design and editorial work and offers a master creation or total production of.
Prices
- In 1996 Wallstein Verlag was awarded the Lower Saxony Publishing Prize, which was awarded for the first time.
- In 2002 it received an award as the most family-friendly company in the region.
- In 2013 he received the Kurt Wolff Prize from the Kurt Wolff Foundation .
The publisher is donating the Wallstein Prize of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences, endowed with 2,000 euros , which is awarded to younger humanities scholars without a teaching degree. Every year Wallstein uses his profits to support social measures at home and abroad such as the Göttinger Tafel or street children projects in Latin America . The publishing house is also a sponsor of the Kurt Wolff Foundation , which has been committed to promoting a diverse publishing and literary scene since it was founded in 2000.
Cooperation partners and institutions
Many of Wallstein Verlag's scientific publications are created in collaboration with institutions or are commissioned by them. These partners include:
- the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen
- the Holocaust Literature Unit , Giessen
- the Academy of Sciences and Literature , Mainz
- the Bonstettiana archive
- the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt
- the German Society for the Exploration of the Eighteenth Century
- the German Literature Archive , Marbach
- the Research Institute for Philosophy Hanover
- the research center for contemporary history in Hamburg
- the Gleimhaus Halberstadt
- the Institute for the History of German Jews , Hamburg
- the cultural studies institute in Essen
- the Lessing Academy in Wolfenbüttel
- the Lessing Society in Cincinnati, Ohio
- the Max Planck Institute for Research on Multi-Religious and Multi-Ethnic Societies in Göttingen
- the Minerva Institute for German History in Tel Aviv
- the Rückert Society e. V.
- the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation
- the Genshagen Foundation
- and the Yad Vashem Memorial