Genre | Publishing house |
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Founded | 1997 |
Founder | Martin Werhand |
Headquarters | Melsbach, Rhineland-Palatinate (1997–present) , Germany |
Products | books |
Website | martinwerhandverlag.de (in German) |
The Martin Werhand Verlag is a German publishing house with a focus on contemporary literature and poetry. [1] More than 25% of the 150 published authors have an immigrant background with parents who were born outside of Germany and have their roots in countries like the Netherlands, Greece, Spain, Croatia, Austria, Italy, Poland, Hungary, Latvia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Sri Lanka, South Korea, Russia or Uganda. [2] Thus is also a mirror image of the German Society. The Martin Werhand publishing house stands for tolerance, integration and openness. It is located in Rhineland-Palatinate.
The Martin Werhand publishing house was founded in April 1997 by the German philologist, author and editor Martin Werhand. [3] Martin is the son of Klaus Rudolf Werhand, a Neuwied-born blacksmith and art metal sculptor. [4]
The beginning history of the publishing house started with the University of Bonn and University of Cologne, from where the first anthology of poetry Junge Lyrik took its beginning in 1999. [5] [6] From 1999 to 2002 the Martin Werhand publishing house has published three successful poetry volumes named Junge Lyrik, [7] Junge Lyrik II and Junge Lyrik III, in each of which 750 poems were included from 50 young, previously unpublished authors. This was associated with a reading series where the authors recited their works in different towns in Germany like Essen, Bonn or Cologne. [8] In 2003, the Thalia bookstore organized via its parent company Poertgen Herder in Münster on World Book Day on 23 April a reading with the anthology series Junge Lyrik. [9] In 2006 the Bremer Straßenbahn AG under the direction of Dr. Joachim Tuz started a visual lyrical project called Poetry in Motion (Poesie bewegt) with many of the Martin Werhand publishing house authors with their contemporary poems. [10]
In 2014, the Martin Werhand Verlag started a poetry series called 100 Gedichte. [11] In 2016, the publishing house presented some new book series at Frankfurt Book Fair. [12] like 50 zeitlose Gedichte [13] or 50 Gedichte. [14]
Renowned literary publishing houses such as Reclam Verlag or Thienemann Verlag engage in choosing their anthologies back on the authorship of the Martin Werhand publishing house in the recent past.
Among the published authors are the Bulgarian-born author Angela Litschev (Förderpreis für Literatur der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf) 2005, [15] [16] the poet Patric Hemgesberg, musician and writer Christian Jahl, the Austrian-born theatre director and playwright Georgia Doll, [17] the poet Meinolf Finke, [18] the writer Renate Freund, [19] the Spanish-born actor Mario Ramos who won the Hersfeld-Preis in 2005, the poet Vera Ludwig, [20] the poet Thomas Bruns, [21] the Haiku-writer Daniel Dölschner, poet and translator Ann Catrin Apstein-Müller, [22] Daniela Frickel of the University of Cologne, the Slam Poetry artist Florian Cieslik, [23] the writer Andrea Heuser (Wolfgang-Weyrauch-Förderpreis) 2007, [24] the playwright Peter Wayand, Werner Moskopp of the University of Koblenz and Landau, [25] the poet Thorsten Libotte, [26] the writer Thomas Wensing, [27] the poet Frank Findeiß [28] and the journalist Simone Roßkamp who won the Axel-Springer-Preis in 2005. [29]
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Marcel Beyer is a German writer.
Paul Boldt was one of the poets of German Expressionism.
Anton G. Leitner is a German writer and publisher.
Mario Ramos is a Spanish actor, musician and poet.
Angela Litschev is a Bulgarian-born German writer and poet.
Simone Augustin also Simone Roßkamp is a German journalist and author.
Thorsten Libotte is a German writer and poet.
Georgia Doll is an Austrian-born German theatre director, playwright and poet.
Patric Hemgesberg is a German poet.
Hans Werner Kettenbach was a German journalist and writer.
Meinolf Finke is a German writer and poet.
Martin Werhand is a German publisher, editor and writer. 1997 he founded the publishing house Martin Werhand Verlag in Melsbach with focus on Fiction.
Thomas Wensing is a German author of poetry and short stories.
Frank Findeiß is a German poet.
Ann Catrin Apstein-Müller was born on 13 April 1973 in Gräfelfing, near Munich, Bavaria, and is a German poet and translator. She lives and works in Augsburg.
Thomas Bruns is a German writer and poet.
Vera Ludwig is a German poet.
Renate Freund is a German author of short stories and poetry.
Christian Jahl is a German musician, writer, and songwriter.
Uwe Martens is a German writer and poet.