Gangaroo

The Gangan Verlag is an Austrian literature publishing house, which had from 1989 to 2013 based in Australia.

Places of publication

Graz

The publishing house was needed to obtain the business license as a project gangan ( gangan [ Old High German ]: move, develop, change ) in 1984 in Graz as an author publisher for emerging experimental young poets of the eighties by Horst Gerald Ganglbauer founded, a then 25 - year-old student at the Karl- Franzens- University.

1984 was THE YEAR BOOK, a periodical for Styrian culture done (later gangan book ) as the first product of the new project gangan from the born in the summer of 1983 during a working stay in Finland idea, first of all to create an inventory of the local cultural scene. The project gangan has this publication in the years 1984-1986 in Graz by numerous events such as author readings, panel discussions, " grazer street literature days ", as well as actions such as the " book memorial ", a larger than life wooden book with changing poem displays, supplemented in the city center.

Until 1986 Ganglbauer operated the small publishing house together with his then wife, the author Petra Ganglbauer in Graz.

Vienna

1986 after the divorce, the publisher was moved to Vienna, the center of the Austrian literary scene, where rapidly intensive cooperation with IG authors authors developed by the Congress of the books. Until 1994, the publisher now established Viennese authors such as Marc Adrian, Reinhold Aumaier, Magdalena Sadlon, and Grazer authors such as Peter Köck, Mike Markart and Peter Pessl gave a diving board.

The publisher was a member of the consortium and private publishers put out both at the Frankfurt Book Fair as well as on the alternative Mainz Minipressen Fair. The premature legacy of the publisher is now archived in the literature Graz.

Gerald Gangl Bauer Motto: The major publishing houses produce machine rolls, small publishers, we make the pastry.

Sydney

1989 emigrated to the 30 -year-old publisher to Australia and took the publisher quasi in your backpack to take him another five years at great expense from Sydney and Vienna from austr under the name gangan books ( al ) ia on. In the first decade emerged as 24 books of contemporary Austrian authors, but also the Australian series ganGAROO and some bibliophile special limited edition prints.

However, the exploding communications, printing and distribution costs with a music distribution center in Berlin, Vienna and Munich forced Gerald Ganglbauer ultimately to switch one of the pioneers of the then just growing World Wide Web.

Perth

2010 moved the due prematurely by his illness retired publisher temporarily to Western Australia, returned in 2013 finally returned to Austria and took over the publishing activity in Graz again: Redesigned E -Books by Adrian Keefe (Australia) and Rupert Weinzierl ( Austria ), and the new releases Best of Fairy Tales by Heimo Wacha ( Austria ) and the debut of Heide E. Zott (Canada) with two books.

Publishing program

In the program, extensive works such as Marc Adrian's " desire pump ", anthologies such as Josef Haslinger " ROTWEISSBUCH " and the series were poems, which was 1988/89 gangan supplemented by the quarterly magazine for magazine, quarterly.

The Australian series was ganGAROO edited by Rudi Krausmann and Michael Wilding 1991 to 1994 and has 20 short stories first published in German translation as well as 80 Australian poet with parallel texts in the German language area.

Since 1996, all new releases will be published online. In 1996, the Literary Magazine gangway to which has since published more than 400 international authors in over 40 online editions and specializes in the expatriate and exile writers and authors segment.