GBO Editor's Trip
Trip returns with positive reviews
From March 15th through the 21st, the German Book Office ran its yearly Editor’s Trip that has taken American publishers to Germany for the past ten years. For the first time, the theme of the trip was non-fiction along with the new translation funding program for the humanities and social sciences “Geisteswissenschaften International.” The trip was organized with cooperation from Anke Simon from Geisteswissenschaften International. This year’s participants were Emily-Jane Cohen from Stanford UP, Lara Heimert from Basic Books, Kathleen Keane from John Hopkins UP, Rob Sanders from Greystone, Philip Cercone from McGill-Queen and the journalist Ruediger Wischenbart. The group was lead by Riky Stock, the director of the GBO.
On the itinerary there were meetings with the Carl Hanser and C.H. Beck publishing houses in Munich, along with a visit to a book store. At a conference in the Amerikahaus they met with representatives from Random House, Libreka!, Barbara Budrich Publishing, Akademieverlag, VDG Publishing, and Geisteswissenschaften International.
The group then headed for Frankfurt where the Campus, S. Fischer, and Suhrkamp publishing houses were visited, along with the Institute for Social Research and the National Library. The trip closed out with a presentation from the publishers Klett-Cotta, V&R, Hamburger Edition, Boehlau, and Eichborn. Trends and publications in philosophy, recent history, environmental history, and political science were discussed with the scholars Dr. Wenren Konitzer, Dr. Cord Arendes and Dr. Martin Hartmann, and in the afternoon they discussed rights and licenses together.
The feedback from the participants was extremely positive. As the editor Lara Heimert said, “It was an absolutely fascinating trip!” It was a successful week where many ideas were born and exchanged. The North American editors understood the trip to be an ideal possibility to expand and deepen contacts, and explain their work to their German colleagues. It was a chance for everyone to mutually inspire each other.
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