Wurdack publishing house

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Wurdack publishing house

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Website www.wurdackverlag.de

Wurdack-Verlag is a small publishing house founded in 2004 with headquarters in Nittendorf near Regensburg . The owner is Ernst Wurdack. The focus is on German-language fantasy . The publisher was best known for its anthologies for the Story Olympiad competition and for its republication of the Mark Brandis series Weltraumpartisanen by Nikolai von Michalewsky .

history

The publishing house emerged from the Story Olympiad . Ernst Wurdack co-founded the competition in 1999 and from 2000 appeared as the editor and financier of anthologies with the best contributions. From 2002 onwards, the annual anthologies were expanded to include further anthologies on topics such as fairy tales , horror and science fiction , which were published as a Story Olympiad Special . The publishing house was founded in 2004. The first book in the same year was Stories from Movenna by Petra Hartmann . This was followed by novels on the world of the role-playing game Demonwright . According to statistics published by the Story Olympiad authors in 2010, a total of 951 stories, novels, short stories and comics by 423 authors were published by Wurdackverlag and its predecessor projects in the period from 2000 to 2009. 64 books were published, including 33 anthologies, 24 novels, five volumes of stories, one volume of short stories and one comic.

program

The science fiction section, which includes a series of anthologies (edited by Armin Rößler , Heidrun Jänchen and Dieter Schmitt ) and numerous novels, developed as the most important pillar of the publishing house . The space partisans by Nikolai von Michalewsky have been published by the publishing house since 2008, and in 2010 the Doctor Nikola series by Guy Boothby started , adding new ones to the classic adventures of Doctor Nikolas. Further categories are fantasy, fairy tales, vampire novels, thrillers and fantasy, as well as, more recently, crime novels, the shared universe novel series The Ninth Expansion (from 2013) and its offshoots The Logan War (from 2018).

Awards

Since the start of the publishing program, works have been on the nomination lists for the well-known genre prizes.

  • In 2008, two of the publisher's publications were awarded the German Fantastic Prize: as the best anthology Drachenstarker Feenzauber (edited by Petra Hartmann ) and as the best short story Herz aus Stein by Jörg Olbrich . In 2010 the award for the best short story went to Karina Cajo for The Sound of Silence .
  • The publisher's publications won the Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for the first time in 2009: The one for the best story ( Heidrun Jänchen : A business like any other ) and the one for the best cover picture (Carsten Dörr's cover of Prosthetic Gods by Frank Hebben ). In 2010 Ernst-Eberhard Manski received the award for the best short story ( The Weserwinzer class reunion ). In 2012 Alexander Preuss was awarded the prize for the cover picture of Emotio .
  • The first novel from Wurdack-Verlag to receive the German Science Fiction Prize was Vilm in 2010 . The rain planet / Vilm. The natives by Karsten Kruschel .
  • In 2012, the German Science Fiction Prize in both categories (story and novel) went to publications from Wurdack-Verlag ( In the free trade zone of Heidrun Jänchen and Galdäa. The unbeaten war by Karsten Kruschel ).
  • In 2013 Ernst Wurdack was awarded the Kurd-Laßwitz Prize "for long-term support of German-language science fiction through his publishing activities and the support of new talent through anthologies and edited volumes" . In the same year the story won To celebrate my death of Michael K. Iwoleit the German Science Fiction Price , published in the Wurdack publication The last days of eternity .

Authors

literature

  • Petra Hartmann: Between thunderstorm and poet's laurel. Ten years of story Olympics. In: fantastic! No. 35, July 2009. pp. 24f.
  • Martin Witzgall (Ed.): We are serious! Munich: WortKuss Verlag, 2010. (Foreword contains extensive statistical material on the Story Olympiad books and other publications by Wurdack Verlag up to 2009)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Witzgall, Martin (ed.): Preface to This is serious! , WortKuss Verlag, Munich, 2010
  2. ↑ Karsten Kruschel : Dirk van den Boom and Niklas Peinecke begin " The Ninth Expansion " . In: Quarber Mercury . Franz Rottensteiner's literary magazine for science fiction and fantasy , vol. 115, pp. 272–277, 2014. ISBN 978-3-934273-94-8
  3. ↑ Wurdack Verlag - The Loganische War In: wurdackverlag.de , accessed on 21 August 2018th