Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt

Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt (FVA) is a German literary publisher. According to its own account, the FVA has existed three times: first in Berlin in the early 1920s, a publishing house that had to be liquidated in 1938 under the Nuremberg decrees; then re-founded in Frankfurt in 1951 by publicist Eugen Kogon and writer Alfred Andersch, where Ingeborg Bachmann's first poetry collection Gestundete Zeit appeared. The third Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt was entered in the commercial register by Klaus and Ida Schöffling in 1987. In 1994 Joachim Unseld took over the dormant FVA; previously a publisher at Suhrkamp Verlag, he had made authors such as Isabel Allende and Bodo Kirchhoff known. Strengthened by a publishing temperament, the house returned at the 1995 book fair with a new literary program. Since then the FVA has published demanding and widely noted literature by important German and international voices, with the goal of discovering and supporting new authors and securing their success from the first book onward.

According to the publisher's own account, the Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt (FVA) has existed three times. The first was in Berlin in the early 1920s, a publishing house that had to be liquidated in 1938 under the Nuremberg decrees. It was re-founded in Frankfurt in 1951 by publicist Eugen Kogon and writer Alfred Andersch; there Ingeborg Bachmann's first poetry collection Gestundete Zeit appeared. The third Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt was entered in the commercial register by Klaus and Ida Schöffling in 1987. A remarkable literary program emerged in a short time, but after only five years, under financial pressure from a silent partner, both publishers and the authors left the house. In 1994 Joachim Unseld took over the dormant FVA. Unseld had previously been a publisher at Suhrkamp Verlag, where he had made authors such as Isabel Allende and Bodo Kirchhoff known. Strengthened by a publishing temperament, the house returned at the 1995 book fair with a new literary program. Since then the FVA has published demanding and widely noted literature by important German and international voices. The goal of the publishing work is to discover and support new authors and to secure their success in the long term from the first book onward, beginning with the publisher's personal review and selection of manuscripts and then careful work with the author on the text. Successes followed: for example, five times a young author discovered by the FVA won the ZDF aspekte Literature Prize for a literary debut, and several times also the Jürgen Ponto Prize, each for the best German-language debut of the year. On the occasion of the 2016 Frankfurt Book Fair, Bodo Kirchhoff was honored for Widerfahrnis.

Publishes demanding and widely noted literature by important German and international voices; aims to discover and support new authors and secure their success from the first book onward.

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