Martin Werhand Verlag

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.

Foundation

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 led across the city of Bonn and the city of Cologne, the largest city of the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia with two leading universities, 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Junge Lyrik,^[7] Junge Lyrik II and Junge Lyrik III, in each of which 750 poems were included from 50 young, previously unpublished authors.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 April 23 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]

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.

Authors

Among the published authors are the Bulgarian-born author Angela Litschev (Förderpreis für Literatur der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf) 2005,^[11][12] the poet Patric Hemgesberg, the Austrian-born theatre director and playwright Georgia Doll,^[13] the poet Meinolf Finke,^[14] the Spanish-born actor Mario Ramos who won the Hersfeld-Preis in 2005, The Haiku-writer Daniel Dölschner, poet and translator Ann Catrin Apstein-Müller,^[15] Daniela Frickel of the University of Cologne, the Slam Poetry artist Florian Cieslik,^[16] the poet Andrea Heuser (Wolfgang-Weyrauch-Förderpreis) 2007,^[17] the playwright Peter Wayand, Werner Moskopp of the University of Koblenz and Landau,^[18] the poet Thorsten Libotte,^[19] the writer Thomas Wensing and the journalist Simone Roßkamp who won the Axel-Springer-Preis in 2005.^[20]

Publications

• 1999: Junge Lyrik, ISBN 3-9806390-1-0
• 2000: Junge Lyrik II, ISBN 3-9806390-0-2
• 2002: Junge Lyrik III, ISBN 3-9806390-3-7
• 2006: Die Jahreszeiten der Liebe, ISBN 3-9806390-4-5
• 2014: Zauberwelten: 100 Gedichte, Meinolf Finke, ISBN 978-3-943910-03-2
• 2014: Quintessenz: 100 Gedichte, Thorsten Libotte, ISBN 978-3-943910-00-1
• 2014: Mitbürger: 100 Gedichte, Thorsten Libotte, ISBN 978-3-943910-01-8
• 2014: Mitschrift: 100 Gedichte, Thomas Wensing, ISBN 978-3-943910-06-3
• 2014: Anthrophobia: 100 Gedichte, Werner Moskopp, ISBN 978-3-943910-09-4
• 2014: Gesterntränen: 100 Gedichte, Tobias Seitz, ISBN 978-3-943910-12-4
• 2015: Krsna-Bewusstsein: Aphorismen, Werner Moskopp, ISBN 978-3-943910-10-0
• 2015: Sozialisolation: 100 Gedichte, Frank Findeiß, ISBN 978-3-943910-16-2
• 2015: Zwischenspiel: Kurzgeschichten, Thomas Wensing, ISBN 978-3-943910-07-0
• 2015: Nebeltag: 100 Gedichte, Uwe Martens, ISBN 978-3-943910-14-8
• 2015: Zapping: 250 Gedichte, Thorsten Libotte, ISBN 978-3-943910-02-5
• 2015: Sonnenhonig: 100 Gedichte, Ann Catrin Apstein-Müller, ISBN 978-3-943910-20-9
• 2015: Lichtgestöber: 100 Sonette, Meinolf Finke, ISBN 978-3-943910-04-9
• 2015: Venusverse: 50 Gedichte, Christiane Weiner, ISBN 978-3-943910-18-6
• 2015: Sternenstaub: 50 Gedichte, Thomas Bruns, ISBN 978-3-943910-21-6

External links

• Official website (German)

References

1. ↑ Martin Werhand Verlag. In: Kürschners Deutscher Literatur-Kalender 2014/2015: Band I: A-O. Band II: P-Z., Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, 2014, P. 1334 ISBN 978-3-11-033720-4
2. ↑ Martin Werhand Verlag. In: Patricia M. Mazón, Reinhild Steingröver: Not So Plain as Black and White: Afro-German Culture and History, 1890-2000., Boydell & Brewer, 2005, P. 231
3. ↑ Martin Werhand In: Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank.
4. ↑ Klaus Rudolf Werhand In: Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank.
5. ↑ Kurzporträt: Ulrike Walden: Er schult sich an Schiller und Rilke – Student unterstützt junge Poeten. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. Nr. 86, Mittwoch, 14. April 1999.
6. ↑ Kurzporträt: Kirsten von Hagen: Junge Dichter zeichnen Herzen in die Wolken. In: buchreport-magazin. Düsseldorf, 32.2001, P. 85-86, ISSN 0176-8220
7. ↑ Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, 23. Juli 2004.
8. ↑ Susanne Schanz: Junge Lyrik in der Uni. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, 18. Juli 2000.
9. ↑ Junge Lyrik reading at Poertgen Herder (Thalia bookstore) in Münster on World Book Day on April 23, 2003. In: Martin Werhand Website.
10. ↑ Thorsten Libotte. In: Poesie bewegt.
11. ↑ Förderpreisträgerin für Literatur der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf, 2005
12. ↑ Biography Litschev, NRW Literatur im Netz
13. ↑ French Portrait of Georgia Doll
14. ↑ Biography Finke in: NRW Literatur im Netz
15. ↑ Ann Catrin Apstein-Müller in Dichtungsring 36, P. 126
16. ↑ Poetry Slam Meisterschaften 2011: Florian Cieslik
17. ↑ Andrea Heuser in: Perlentaucher
18. ↑ Werner Moskopp in: University of Koblenz and Landau
19. ↑ Biography Libotte, NRW Literatur im Netz
20. ↑ Axel-Springer-Preis: Simone Roßkamp in Hamburger Abendblatt