Berenberg Verlag

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One reason why one mutates from the lecturer to the publisher is the fact that one would like to impress the books, which one has discovered, one’s own stamp. One of the most successful books of the newly founded publisher, “Friend and Enemy” by John Maynard Keynes, was in this regard the “Ur-Buch”. At the end of the nineties Heinrich von Berenberg discovered the French edition at the Paris Salon du livre. With this title, for the first time, the desire to develop its own non-belletristic publishing program was combined. The first four books appeared in the autumn of 2004, and since then between three and five more have been added per semester. Roter Faden: autobiographical and biographical literature, essay literature, memoir literature – emphasis on »literature«!

True to the motto of the American historian Robert Darnton: “In every thick book is a thin, shouting: I will go out!” The volume of our books rarely exceeds the 200 pages. In this format first-class literature appears. In vain will one look for fat-bodied biographies. On the other hand, one finds rhetorical sparkling and decided subjectively held biographical and autobiographical literature and essays, books on contemporary history, since 2010 here and there also excellent fiction, two years later appeared the first volumes of a small lyric series.

A survival strategy of a small publishing house such as the Berenberg Verlag consists in the valuable presentation of its valuable contents: All our books are thread-bound and bound in semi-conductors with beautiful front pages. Paper and typography are of selected quality. Antje Haack and Beate Mössner, whose design and production are in the hands of the company, are responsible for this.

Tatjana Kirchner, who has been responsible for the press contacts of Europa-Verlag and zullampen Verlag for a long time, is working on the press and is running his own PR agency in Berlin.

Since 2009, Beatrice Faßbender has ensured that this publishing house will not be a flying intellectual undercrest, but will remain firmly linked to the literature business through readings and events of all kinds. In addition, she performs editorial tasks.

In 2010, Heinrich von Berenberg was awarded the Karl-Heinz Zillmer Prize of the Hamburgische Kulturstiftung for meritorious publishing activity. Here you will find the nice laudation by Jürgen Christian Kill (Liebeskind Verlag).

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