Egmont Ehapa

The Egmont Ehapa GmbH in Berlin, founded in 1951 under the name Ehapa -Verlag is a German publishing house for comic books and children's magazines. He is a subsidiary of Scandinavian Egmont media group based in Copenhagen.

History

In 1878 Egmont Harald Petersen opened his own print shop in Copenhagen, which should form the basis for the publisher. The first major success was the family magazine Hjemmet 1904, which still exists today in Scandinavia. 1914, for the dedication of a large printing plant, the Gutenberghus, Egmont received the title of Royal Hofdruckerei.

1948 succeeded the publisher to secure the rights to the Disney comics for many European countries. 1951 was founded with Ehapa a German offshoot. The name Ehapa is derived from the initials of the founder Egmont Harald Petersen ( e Ha Pa). The publisher seat was for decades in Leinfelden, but was moved to Berlin in 2001. Managing Director from 1972 to 1988 was Adolf Kabatek which has emerged as a comic book writer. Under Kabatek and his successor Klaus M. Mrositzki (1989 to 2003) became Egmont Ehapa one of the great comic book publishers in Germany. Early Mrositzki recognized the potential of the Japanese manga. 1991 Reiner Feest Verlag was bought. Under this label, appeared in February 1994 with the first manga Appleseed of the publishing house. More Manga ensued, but the big breakthrough came in 1997 with Sailor Moon. Even Remus publishing house was taken over by Egmont.

Among the most famous comic book series from the house of Egmont Ehapa include Disney comics for the magazine Mickey Mouse (since 1951) and Disney's Funny Paperback (since 1967), Asterix (since 1968), and Lucky Luke (since 1977, previously in coral -Verlag).

While these series make up a large part of the external effect of a publisher, a majority of sales is generated in other fields: as the market leader in this segment moved Egmont Ehapa various children's and youth magazines, mostly under license. Among them, for example, magazines such as Winnie the Pooh, Disney Princess, Barbie, Monster High, Wendy, SpongeBob, Benjamin Blümchen, Galileo Awesome, Hello Kitty, Yps or girlfriends magazine.

Several times publications of the publishing house have been awarded the Max and Moritz Prize.

Egmont Group

Besides Egmont Ehapa in Germany the Egmont publishing companies belong to the Egmont Group. Both companies are under common management since November 2013, but remain separated. The center editions, temporarily publisher of the German edition of men's magazine FHM, were discontinued at the end of 2010.