Wolff Publishing House

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The Wolff-Verlag (proper spelling without hyphens) is a German book publisher for literature , art and history , headquartered in Berlin and Breitungen in Thuringia .

Origin and organization

The publishing house was founded on August 28, 2008 in Schmalkalden in Thuringia by Robert Eberhardt . The publishing house has had its headquarters in Berlin at Kulmbacher Strasse 1 since 2011. From 2012 to 2015 the publishing house operated a project room at Unter den Linden 40 in Berlin.

An online second-hand bookshop with over 2500 titles is also connected to the “Wolff Verlag” .

program

The "Wolff Verlag" is an independent publisher with a focus on non-fiction, history and art. He is also interested in the rediscovery of forgotten personalities and the publication of authors and historical texts that are neglected today, for example the texts of August Lucius , Johann David Schöpf or German-language translations of Ezra Pound's works . In addition, the publisher publishes publications about and by historical as well as contemporary artists and scientists .

In 2011 the series “Atelier Visits” was launched, in which international artists are portrayed at their place of work. This series has so far published publications on Klaus Staeck , Pierre Huyghe , Kirsten Klöckner and Ulrich Moritz .

Examples of the publisher's authors are the Büchner Prize winner Heinz Piontek , the literary scholar Jean-Max Colard , the educational historian Alexander-Martin Sardina , the journalist Paul Badde , the art historians Gerd Blum , Wolfgang Kemp and Gerd-Helge Vogel , and the economist Erik von Grawert-May , the Russian politician Vitaly Borissowitsch Malkin and the writer and painter Anita Albus .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "What does Germany's youngest publisher want?" In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , June 8, 2012.