Publishers
Originally founded in Berlin-Dahlem in 1962 as "Berlin Verlag Arno Spitz", Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag has always been closely associated with the city of Berlin. After returning there when the Berlin Wall was built in 1961, Arno Spitz set himself the goal of founding a publishing house that would contribute to overcoming the social and political confrontation between East and West. In the years that followed, the publishing house specialized in the fields of international law and political science, with a particular focus on Eastern Europe and topics related to Berlin.
Today, Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag’s publishing is focused on the social sciences and humanities. As a specialist scholarly publisher with a 60-year history, the company runs an interdisciplinary program in the fields of law, politics and economics, history and public administration.
The Deutscher Apotheker Verlag is Germany’s largest pharmaceutical publisher. Based in Stuttgart, the family-run publishing house has for decades offered a wide range of specialist media to pharmacists, pharmaceutical technical assistants and pharmaceutical commercial staff. The extensive portfolio ranges from well-known journals, such as “PTA heute” and “Deutsche Apotheker Zeitung”, through specialist literature and textbooks, to pharmaceutical databases and software solutions for everyday pharmaceutical practice. In addition to its product range, the Deutscher Apotheker Verlag stages numerous educational events as well as providing webinars and training opportunities for further professional development.
Franz Steiner Verlag publishes well established book series and journals, some of which were founded as far back as the 19th century, as well as publications focusing on new areas of research in the humanities. The publishing programme covers almost every field of the humanities, with historical research from antiquity to contemporary times a particular focus. Equally firmly anchored in the programme are journals and book series on linguistics and Romance studies, as well as musicology and art history. In addition to general philosophy, legal and social philosophy has developed into an important specialism, while in the geosciences Franz Steiner publishes mainly human geography titles. In addition, vocational education has become established as an area in its own right.
Founded in 1853, S. Hirzel Verlag has, since the very beginning, been closely associated with the publication of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s German dictionary. At the end of the 1960s, the publishing house was acquired by the Mediengruppe Deutscher Apotheker Verlag. The collaboration with the Grimm brothers continues to shape the publisher’s German studies range, which focuses on medieval studies and includes the Middle High German dictionary, the “Lexer”, and “Minnesangs Frühling”, as well as the publisher’s only journal, the “Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum und Literatur”, the oldest journal for Altgermanistik still in existence.
Over time, the range of specialist books has expanded to include the natural sciences, in particular the fields of chemistry, physics and environmental science.
S. Hirzel is also synonymous with challenging, high-quality books in the fields of social debate, philosophy, the natural sciences, ecology, nutrition and health. New publications focus on topics that are becoming increasingly important and attracting much interest. In addition to continuing the tradition of publishing scientific and philosophical books, S. Hirzel seeks to promote serious and incisive discourse on contentious issues and is in the very best sense a pioneering publisher.
Verlag Österreich is a modern, multimedia publishing house providing first-class legal content and expertise tailored to the requirements of students, academics and legal professionals - primarily in the areas of public, corporate, civil and criminal law. The history of the publishing house goes back to the founding of the Austrian State Printing Office in 1804 and has been characterized by the publication of numerous standard legal works. The company has operated under the name Verlag Österreich since 1993 and was privatized in 2000. Since 2008 it has been part of the Stuttgart-based DAV Media Group.
Verlag Österreich has almost 2,500 titles in print as well as more than 20 specialist journals; the company publishes around 150 new titles each year. Verlag Österreich also has a well-established online publishing programme and its high-quality, specialist content is available on BiblioScout, the eLibrary of the DAV Media Group, as well as through other digital channels.
The Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft Stuttgart (WVG) is a specialist publisher devoted to medicine and the natural sciences. The publishing programme encompasses the fields of medicine, pharmaceutics, chemistry, physics, nursing and nutrition, as well as health law and health management. In addition to specialist scientific books, course literature, loose-leaf works, e-books and databases, WVG publishes a range of specialist journals. Publishing classics include the pharmacological textbook and reference works Mutschler: Arzneimittelwirkungen, the comprehensive pharmacopoeia commentary with scientific explanatory notes on European and German pharmacopoeia (loose-leaf and digital) and Vaupel/Schaible/Mutschler: Anatomie, Physiologie, Pathophysiologie des Menschen.