Hollitzer is an

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publisher Publishing is the activity of making information, literature, music, software and other content available to the public for sale or for free. Traditionally, the term refers to the creation and distribution of printed works, such as books, newsp ...

, founded in 2010 and located in

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Programme

The main emphasis of Hollitzer lays on theatre,

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and

cultural history Cultural history combines the approaches of anthropology and history to examine popular cultural traditions and cultural interpretations of historical experience. It examines the records and narrative descriptions of past matter, encompassing the ...

. Starting with the edition of books for the partner institution Don Juan Archiv, the publishing house developed a concept mainly geared towards 17th and 18th century, also emphasizing on the rapports between the

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...

and the cultural history of

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. Hollitzer presented several scientific publications in close cooperation with renowned universities and other scientific institutions; its books are in German, partially also in English and Italian.

Literature

In 2015, Hollitzer started to publish

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. Its first publication in this field was dedicated to the

Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe, Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Bas ...

Sephardic Sephardic (or Sephardi) Jews (, ; lad, Djudíos Sefardíes), also ''Sepharadim'' , Modern Hebrew: ''Sfaradim'', Tiberian Hebrew, Tiberian: Səp̄āraddîm, also , ''Ye'hude Sepharad'', lit. "The Jews of Spain", es, Judíos sefardíes (or ), ...

novelist

Gordana Kuić Gordana Kuić ( sr-cyr, Гордана Куић, ; 29 August 1942 – January 2023) was a Serbian novelist. Biography Kuić was born on 29 August 1942.''Style''Miris kiše na Balkanu (11 May 2009) She was the winner of numerous literature award ...

and her '' Scent of Rain in the Balkans'', thitherto not published in German language. This book was followed by the bright drama ''Don Juan turns sixty'' by well-known Austrian littérateur Robert Schindel. Both titles were presented at the

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and with readings in Vienna. They both achieved broad acclaim from book trade and readership. Prequels of the new ''Literature Section'' at Hollitzer were a series on reprints of baroque drama literature by Philipp Hafner, Franz von Heufeld and Johann Joseph Felix von Kurz, as well as a new edition of the ''Letters of an Unknown'' by Alexander von Villers.

Scientific Publications

Hollitzer cultivates a continuous collaboration with the

Universität Mozarteum Salzburg Mozarteum University Salzburg (German: ''Universität Mozarteum Salzburg'') is one of three affiliated but separate (it is actually a state university) entities under the “Mozarteum” moniker in Salzburg municipality; the International Moz ...

. It publishes their annual ''Almanac'' as well as two series of scientific book publications; one of them is dedicated to the history of the university (with monographic works on former rectors of the institution), the other one dedicated to the ''History of Music in Salzburg''. Together with the Austrian Academy of Sciences Hollitzer presented a comprehensive volume on the role of music during the

revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire The Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire were a set of revolutions that took place in the Austrian Empire from March 1848 to November 1849. Much of the revolutionary activity had a nationalist character: the Empire, ruled from Vienna, incl ...

. Further cooperations include the Viennese

University of Music and Performing Arts The University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (german: link=no, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, abbreviated MDW) is an Austrian university located in Vienna, established in 1817. With a student body of over three thousa ...

(''Music and Remembrance'') and the

Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (german: Hochschule Luzern) (HSLU) is one of seven regional, public-funded universities of applied sciences founded in 1997 in its current form. The University was called University of Applied Scien ...

(on

Wolfgang Rihm Wolfgang Rihm (born 13 March 1952) is a German composer and academic teacher. He is musical director of the Institute of New Music and Media at the University of Music Karlsruhe and has been composer in residence at the Lucerne Festival and the Sa ...

). The close cooperation with the partner institution ''Don Juan Archiv Wien'' lead to four series — Bibliographica, Summa Summarum, Theatralia and Ottomania, the latter dedicated to the dialogue between the

and

in the field of

performing arts The performing arts are arts such as music, dance, and drama which are performed for an audience. They are different from the visual arts, which are the use of paint, canvas or various materials to create physical or static art objects. Perform ...

. Amongst the internationally renowned authors of Hollitzer are historians

Emil Brix Emil Brix (born 1956) is an Austrian diplomat and historian. Life and career Born 1956 in Vienna, he studied English and History at the University of Vienna. Starting in 1982, he worked for the Foreign Service of the Republic of Austria. From ...

and

İlber Ortaylı İlber Ortaylı (born 21 May 1947) is a Turkish historian and professor of history of Crimean Tatar origin at the MEF University, Galatasaray University in Istanbul and at Bilkent University in Ankara. In 2005, he was appointed as the director ...

, musicologists

Filiz Ali Filiz Ali (born 30 September 1937) is a Turkish pianist and musicologist. She studied piano at the State Conservatory of Music in Ankara. Graduating from Ferhunde Erkin's class in 1958, she received a Fulbright scholarship to study in the Unite ...

and

Mário Vieira de Carvalho Mário Vieira de Carvalho (Coimbra, 7 October 1943) is a Portuguese musicologist and author. His main research fields are sociology of music, philosophy and aesthetics of music, opera, contemporary music, music and literature, 18th-century studie ...

, conductor Josef Wallnig and composer

Gerhard Wimberger Gerhard Wimberger (30 August 1923 – 12 October 2016) was an Austrian composer and conductor. Career Wimberger studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. His teachers were Cesar Bresgen and Johann Nepomuk David for composition, and Clemens Kr ...

Periodicals

The publishing house is also presenting scientific periodicals and almanacs such as TheMA, short for ''Theatre, Music, Arts'', an ''Open Access Research Journal'' for scientific articles on music, theatre and the arts, as well as the ''Almanac of University Mozarteum'', edited by

Wolfgang Gratzer Wolfgang Gratzer (born 1965 in Bad Vöslau) is an Austrian musicologist Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Music ...

. Furthermore Hollitzer is responsible for the e-book version of ''Nestroyana'', dedicated to Austrians famous comedian

Johann Nestroy Johann Nepomuk Eduard Ambrosius Nestroy (; 7 December 1801 – 25 May 1862) was a singer, actor and playwright in the popular Austrian tradition of the Biedermeier period and its immediate aftermath. He participated in the 1848 revolutions an ...

, and since 2015 also for the well-known

Österreichische Musikzeitschrift The ''Österreichische Musikzeitschrift'' (ÖMZ, Austrian music magazine) was a monthly music magazine published in Vienna, Austria, by Verlag Musikzeit. It was established in 1945 by the Austrian cultural politician and music critic . It appear ...

(Austria's Music Journal).

Venues

The headquarter is situated in representative venues at the Trautsongasse in Vienna's eighth district, the

Josefstadt Josefstadt (; Central Bavarian: ''Josefstod'') is the eighth district of Vienna (german: 8. Bezirk, Josefstadt). It is near the center of Vienna and was established as a district in 1850, but borders changed later. Josefstadt is a heavily po ...

. The affiliate organizations Don Juan Archiv and ''Studium Faesolanum'' are located at the same address. The main conference room can be connected with two other rooms and is regularly used for readings, lectures and symposia of the three institutions. The venues are also made available for external organizations.

External links

Hollitzer
official website
Don Juan Archiv Wien
affiliate of the publishing house

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