Kiepenheuer & Witsch

The Kiepenheuer & Malevich - founded in 1951 - is published a German book publisher, based in Cologne, the critical and popular non-fiction books as well as literary works of renowned as well as young writers. At present the works of over 400 authors to be laid. Since 1982, the publishing house has its own paperback series, the KiWi Paperbacks, and since 2000 as a regional Imprint » KiWi Cologne ," a company specializing in books from and about the Rhineland series. The biggest editorial business of publishing history is begun in 2002 text-critical and commented Cologne edition of the works of Heinrich Böll, the 27th and last volume was published in autumn 2010.

History

The Kiepenheuer & Malevich was founded in 1947 in Jena by Gustav Kiepenheuer and Joseph C. Petrovich. After the death of Kiepenheuer in 1949 completed the investor is a separation from the Weimar Gustav Kiepenheuer -Verlag. The shares of Jena foundation took over Malevich. After changing offices of the publisher acquired in 1953 in Cologne - Marienburg his own publishing house. In 1956 the annexation of a theatrical publishing house, which trades in Berlin under the name Gustav Kiepenheuer stage distribution.

Malevich first publishing achievement was the new edition of the works of Joseph Roth, begun in 1949 with his last novel, The Legend of the Holy Drinker, and ( tentatively ) finished 1956 with the edited by Hermann Kesten factory output. The novel Marion by Vicki Baum was published in 1951 as the first book in " Kiepenheuer & Petrovich ."

Anne Marie Selinko scored shortly thereafter with the novel Désirée the first commercial success and is next to Wolfgang Leonhard with their children The Revolution (1955 ) dismisses a classic from the early history of the publisher. Heinrich Böll was And never said a word 1953 Author of the publisher and in 1972 its first Nobel Prize winner, the other should still follow: Saul Bellow, Czeslaw Milosz, Patrick White, Gabriel García Márquez, Dario Fo and Gustave Le Clézio Jean -Marie.

In the sixties, the publisher gave an ambitious poetry program, the lecturer Dieter Weller Hoff - itself both scientific and literary works - proclaimed a new realism and with authors such as Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Nicolas Born and Günter Herburger recognition as a leading publisher of German contemporary literature. Now, the first non-fiction books were published, first in the series New Science Library, later reinforced by the studies library.

After the death of Joseph C. Petrovich in 1967, Reinhold Neven DuMont took over the publishing line. On April 19, 1969 Neven DuMont was the owner of the publishing house Kiepenheuer & Malevich, which retained the name and the program. Almost all the authors were able to be kept, and new authors were added in the course of the '68 movement, eg Wilhelm Reich, RD Laing and Charles Bukowski. For the new socially critical literature ( on topics such as anti-authoritarian education, living in communities, marginalized social groups), the series was founded pocket. With the first books by Günter Wallraff and several black books, and Boll's image - Bonn - Boenisch put the "small" publishing with the " Goliaths " of the West German establishment, such as the Springer Empire or the CSU under Franz Josef Strauss.

In the 80s, the cultural spirit of optimism was the one the paperback series KiWi launched (1982 ), on the other hand captured in West and East, not least with the new series of art today, which helped to spread the ideas of Joseph Beuys, Georg Baselitz and other artists.

In autumn 1989, the publishing house in the person of its publisher, Neven duMont, accusations of cowardice saw suspended because he refused for fear of attacks, Salman Rushdie's novel, to be published " The Satanic Verses", whose German rights he acquired in the summer of 1988 had.

After the turn of 1989 the publishing house focused on his house authors (next Böll, Roth, Weller Hoff and García Márquez about Peter Härtling, Uwe Timm, Nathalie Sarraute, Jean -Marie Gustave Le Clézio, Don DeLillo ) to maintain with new editions of her work, be to tighten profile through critical selection and yet " on the pulse " to stay: to hire good new authors in all areas.

The publisher brought out about 80 books a year and employed about 25 employees.

Since 2002 belongs Kiepenheuer & Petrovich about the Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH & Co. KG, Stuttgart, publishing group Georg von Holtzbrinck. Publisher is since 2000 Helge Malchow.

The archive of the publishing house was the municipal archive of Cologne passed; the collapse of the City Archives, 2009, the stocks were mostly lost or were severely damaged.

Program

The literary program of Kiepenheuer & Malevich was and is in addition to the above-mentioned by authors such as Don DeLillo, Erich Maria Remarque, Breyten Breytenbach, Jean Giono, Ignazio Silone, Jerome D. Salinger, John le Carré, Erik Fosnes Hansen, VS Naipaul, Gustave Le Clézio Jean -Marie, Uwe Timm and Katja Lange -Müller coined.

In recent years, more English-language authors such as John Banville, Julian Barnes, Michael Chabon, Bret Easton Ellis, Dave Eggers, Jonathan Safran Foer, Nick McDonell, Nick Hornby, David Foster Wallace or Irvine Welsh found in Cologne publishing as their home as their young German colleagues Maxim Biller, Michael Kumpfmüller, Sibylle Berg, Malin Schwerdtfeger, Feridun Zaimoglu, Benjamin Lebert, Benjamin of Stuckrad -Barre, Joachim Lottmann, Thomas Hettche, Catherine Hagena, Eva Manasseh, Christian Kracht and Kathrin Schmidt.

In nonfiction program to other renowned names such as Ralph Giordano, Joschka Fischer, Heiner Geissler, Carola Stern, Alice Schwarzer, Gerd Koenen, Kelek, Hans Weiss (giving his best-selling Bitter pills ), Helmut Schmidt, Christoph Schlingensief and Ranga Yogeshwar.

Also, audience favorites from the entertainment industry as Mario Adorf, Senta Berger, Alfred Biolek, Renan Demirkan, Dieter Hildebrandt, Heike Makatsch, Helge Schneider, Elke Heidenreich, Christine Westermann, Jörg Thadeusz, Harald Schmidt, Manuel Andrack and Michael Mittermeier Meier and the best-selling authors Frank Schätzing, Monika Peetz and Bastian Sick write for Kiepenheuer & Malevich.