Hollitzer

Hollitzer was founded in Vienna in 2010 as a publishing house with a strong focus on theatre, music, and cultural history. Its early development was closely linked to the Don Juan Archiv Wien, a partner institution whose work addresses theatre history and the cultural encounters between the Ottoman Empire and Europe. Publishing for and alongside this institution gave Hollitzer an identifiable specialist profile, particularly in research concerning the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The relationship with the Don Juan Archiv led to four principal series: Bibliographica, Summa Summarum, Theatralia, and Ottomania. The latter focuses on connections between the Ottoman Empire and Europe in the field of performing arts. Through these series, Hollitzer established a catalogue combining source-oriented scholarship, theatre studies, historical research, and interdisciplinary cultural analysis. The publisher subsequently developed a broad academic network. Its collaboration with Universität Mozarteum Salzburg includes publication of the university’s annual almanac and two scholarly series, one devoted to the institution’s history and another to the history of music in Salzburg. Works in the institutional-history series include monographic studies of former rectors. Hollitzer also worked with the Austrian Academy of Sciences on a volume examining music during the revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire. Additional partnerships involved the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, including the publication Music and Remembrance, and the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, including work concerning Wolfgang Rihm. Hollitzer’s academic output extends across books, serial publications, and digital formats. TheMA, short for Theatre, Music, Arts, is an open-access research journal for articles on theatre, music, and the arts. The company also publishes the Almanac of Universität Mozarteum, produces an e-book version of Nestroyana, and has been responsible for Österreichische Musikzeitschrift since 2015. Its catalogue is multilingual in scope: German is the principal language, while selected publications also appear in English and Italian. A significant programme change took place in 2015, when Hollitzer entered belles-lettres. The first publications in this area included a German translation of Serbian-Sephardic novelist Gordana Kuić’s Scent of Rain in the Balkans and Robert Schindel’s Don Juan Turns Sixty. Both were presented at the Leipzig Book Fair and through readings in Vienna, receiving broad positive attention according to the available reference account. Literary publishing was foreshadowed by editions and reprints of baroque drama, including works by Philipp Hafner, Franz von Heufeld, and Johann Joseph Felix von Kurz, as well as a new edition of Alexander von Villers’s Letters of an Unknown. The company is headquartered on Trautsongasse in Vienna’s Josefstadt district. The premises are also associated with the Don Juan Archiv and Studium Faesolanum. Hollitzer uses its conference rooms for readings, lectures, and symposia, while making the facilities available to external organizations. By combining a specialist scholarly list with cultural periodicals, institutional publishing, digital editions, and a smaller literary programme, Hollitzer occupies a distinctive position in Austrian publishing.

• 2015

  Launch of the belles-lettres section

  [1]Hollitzeren.wikipedia.org

  Hollitzer expands into literary publishing with works by Gordana Kuić and Robert Schindel, presented at the Leipzig Book Fair and at Vienna readings.

• 2015

  Österreichische Musikzeitschrift joins the programme

  [1]Hollitzeren.wikipedia.org

  Hollitzer becomes responsible for the publication of the Austrian music journal Österreichische Musikzeitschrift.

• 2010

  Hollitzer is founded in Vienna

  [1]Hollitzeren.wikipedia.org

  The Austrian publishing house begins operations with a programme focused on theatre, music, and cultural history.

A specialist Austrian publisher connecting humanities scholarship, theatre and music history, cultural relations between the Ottoman Empire and Europe, institutional publishing, and selected literary works.

• Open-access academic journal

  TheMA

  TheMA, whose name refers to Theatre, Music, Arts, is an open-access research journal publishing scholarly work in theatre, music, and related arts disciplines. It reflects Hollitzer’s interdisciplinary orientation and its effort to make specialist humanities research available in a more accessible digital format.

• Music periodical · 2015

  Österreichische Musikzeitschrift

  Österreichische Musikzeitschrift is an established Austrian music journal for which Hollitzer has been responsible since 2015. Its inclusion extends the publisher’s activities beyond books into recurring music criticism, scholarship, and cultural reporting.

• Institutional almanac

  Almanac of Universität Mozarteum

  Hollitzer publishes the annual almanac of Universität Mozarteum Salzburg as part of its continuing collaboration with the university. The almanac forms one element of a wider publishing relationship that also includes series on the institution’s history and the history of music in Salzburg.

• Academic book series

  Don Juan Archiv publication series

  The Don Juan Archiv-related programme comprises Bibliographica, Summa Summarum, Theatralia, and Ottomania. Together, the series address theatre history, performing arts, bibliography, and the cultural dialogue between the Ottoman Empire and Europe, with particular attention to early-modern historical contexts.

• Literature and drama · 2015

  Belles-lettres programme

  Introduced in 2015, the belles-lettres programme broadened Hollitzer’s catalogue from specialist scholarship into fiction and drama. Early titles included Gordana Kuić’s Scent of Rain in the Balkans in German translation and Robert Schindel’s Don Juan Turns Sixty. The programme was complemented by reprints and new editions of baroque drama.

• 2015

  Expansion into literary publishingStrategy

  Background

  Hollitzer had established itself primarily through academic, theatre, music, and cultural-history publishing.

  Action taken

  The company created a belles-lettres section and released early literary titles by Gordana Kuić and Robert Schindel, alongside earlier baroque-drama reprints and editions.

  Aftermath

  The titles were presented at the Leipzig Book Fair and at readings in Vienna and were described as receiving broad acclaim from the book trade and readership.

  Source

• 2015

  Addition of Österreichische MusikzeitschriftOther

  Background

  Hollitzer’s programme already included scholarly books and periodicals in music and cultural history.

  Action taken

  The publisher assumed responsibility for Österreichische Musikzeitschrift.

  Aftermath

  The journal became part of Hollitzer’s continuing periodical and music-publishing activities.

  Source

1. 1Hollitzeren.wikipedia.org