www.carlsen.de

Carlsen, founded in 1953, specializes in children’s books and also picture books. It’s biggest seller at the moment is the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling, but there are also many German writers at Carlsen, like Barbara Jung and Klaus Huebner, whose “Anders ist auch schoen” won the award for the most beautiful German book in 2004. It also publishes Andreas Steinhoefel and Jutta Bauer, both nominees for the youth literature award 2002.

www.hanser.de

C. Hanser is a publishing house catering to the needs of professionals in business and industry and also a publishing house for high quality literature. C. Hanser publishes the books of the German writers like Aspekte-award winning Herta Mueller, the columnist and influential critic Elke Heidenreich and the Syrian immigrant Rafik Schami, who won the 2004 award for best illustrations for children’s books.

www.thienemann.de

K.Thienemann Verlag was founded in 1849 and has since then been one the major German publishing houses specializing in literature for children and teenagers. Among its authors are famous German writers such as Michael Ende (“Die unendliche Geschichte”/”The Neverending Story”) and Otfried Preussler (“Die kleine Hexe”/”The Little Witch”), both winners of several awards all over the world and many more talented young writers.

www.ravensburger.de

Ravensburger, founded in late 19th century, focuses on children and teens. Its books are written, according to the founding-father’s policy, to educate and entertain young readers at the same time. In its program there are many lexica and non-fiction books for children on all topics, ranging from animals, history and politics to sex education and religious subjects.

www.rowohlt.de

Rowohlt Verlag publishes “well readable literature on a high level”. It represent, among others the historian Joachim Fest, well known for his Hitler-Biography (“Hitler”), drama-writer Rolf Hochhuth (“Der Stellvertreter”/”The Deputy”) and winner of the Geor-Buechner-Award 1998 Elfriede Jelinek. Rowohlt Taschenbuch (Rowohlt paperback). It is now also the publisher of Angela Sommer-Bodenburg, the author of “Der kleine Vampir” (“The Little Vampire”).

www.ueberreuter.at

Ueberreuter/Betz is an Austrian publishing house, which concentrates on the Austrian market whose back list includes mainly books about Austrian society and culture. However, it is also focused children’s and teenager books, which are written mainly by German-speaking authors. Famous figures among their authors are Gerhard Haderer, the satirist, who did not even stop from ridiculing Jesus Christ, Silke Leffler, who won Austrian book-prize for children’s and youths’ books 2004 and Wolfgang and Heike Hohlbein, one of Germany’s most prominent fantasy writers.

www.nagel-kimche.ch

Verlag Nagel & Kimche, publishes books of Swiss national authors and completes its backlist with German and other international authors. Its program is divided in a belletristic branch and a children’s book branch, both of which have excellent writers, like Gudrun Pausewang, who won the 1984 Gustav-Heinemann-Peace-Award and the 1988 German youth literature award and Werner Schmidli, winner of the Swiss Prize of the Schiller Foundation.