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AVM Edition

AVM Edition is the academic book imprint of the Akademische Verlagsgemeinschaft München, a German-language humanities publisher based in Munich.

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Overview

AVM Edition is the publishing imprint of the Akademische Verlagsgemeinschaft München (AVM), a German academic publisher specialising in the humanities and social sciences. Based in Munich, the house describes itself as a 'geisteswissenschaftlicher Fachverlag aus dem Herzen von München' — a humanities specialist publisher from the heart of Munich — and positions its list around an 'anspruchsvolles Programmumfeld' (demanding programme environment) and high-quality production values. The AVM Edition brand is the label under which its scholarly monographs, edited volumes, series and journals appear. The programme is organised into broad Fachbereiche (subject areas): literature and linguistics (including Romance studies, translation studies, linguistics, literary studies and Slavic studies); art, culture and media (architecture and landscape architecture, art history, cultural studies, media studies); history and politics; theology and philosophy; social sciences and education; medicine and nursing science (including medical history and nursing science); and economics. Within these areas AVM Edition publishes both individual titles and named series such as Afrika-Studien, Afrikanische Literaturen, BULGARICA, CGL-Studies, Forum Junge Romanistik, Herrenhäuser Schriften, Jenaer Beiträge zur Romanistik, Romain Rolland Studien, Romanistische Dossiers and Schriftenreihe Theologisches Seminar Adelshofen, as well as journals including Romanische Studien. AVM Edition serves the German-language academic market, with a strong emphasis on dissertations, habilitation theses and conference proceedings. Its catalogue is distributed through its own online shop and through the German book trade. The publisher also operates an open-access programme, offers digital previews (digitale Vorschauen), supports self-archiving (Selbstarchivierung) for authors, attends conferences and trade fairs (Tagungen und Messen), and provides review copies (Rezensionsexemplare) to journals and reviewers. A notable open-access title is the journal Romanische Studien. As a brand, AVM Edition is best understood as a scholarly imprint rather than a consumer brand: its identity rests on subject specialisation, series branding and production quality. The publisher is privately held and does not trade on a stock exchange. Its output is aimed at researchers, university libraries and students in the German-speaking world and beyond.

History

The Akademische Verlagsgemeinschaft München (AVM) is a German academic publisher based in Munich. Its AVM Edition imprint publishes scholarly work in the humanities and social sciences, with a catalogue organised by subject area and by named series. The publisher presents itself as a 'geisteswissenschaftlicher Fachverlag aus dem Herzen von München' — a humanities specialist publisher from the heart of Munich — and emphasises an 'anspruchsvolles Programmumfeld' and 'qualitativ hochwertige Ausstattung' (high-quality production). AVM Edition's list spans literature and linguistics (Romanistik, Translationswissenschaft, Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft, Slawistik), art, culture and media (Architektur und Landschaftsarchitektur, Kunstgeschichte, Kulturwissenschaft, Medienwissenschaft), history and politics, theology and philosophy, social sciences and education, medicine and nursing science (Medizingeschichte, Pflegewissenschaft), and economics. Within these fields it maintains a number of series, including Afrika-Studien, Afrikanische Literaturen, Transmedial/Transregional/Transkulturell, Alttestamentliche Predigttexte philologisch erschlossen, Ästhetik(en) der Roma, Beiträge zur Rotkreuzgeschichte, Berichte der Reinhold-Tüxen-Gesellschaft, BULGARICA, Bulgarische Bibliothek, CGL-Studies, Forum Junge Romanistik, Herrenhäuser Schriften, Innovation von Sprache und Translation, Jenaer Beiträge zur Romanistik, Romain Rolland Studien, Romanische Studien — Beihefte, Romanistische Dossiers and Schriftenreihe Theologisches Seminar Adelshofen. It also publishes journals, among them Romanische Studien, which is available open access. The publisher operates an online shop and provides services for authors and the academic community: digital previews, open access, self-archiving, conference and trade-fair attendance, and review-copy requests. Its catalogue includes titles such as Katharina Huys's 'Landschaftsmalerei an der Münchner Akademie' in art history, Hubertus Fischer's 'Aufs Land! oder Rheinische Hachschara' in history, and Volkmar Schön's 'Eine Idee zeigt Wirkung' in medical history. AVM Edition is privately held and does not appear on a stock exchange. No founding year, founder or ownership structure beyond the Akademische Verlagsgemeinschaft München is documented in the available evidence.

Products and positioning

Academic publisher specialising in the humanities and social sciences, with an emphasis on Romance studies, history, art history and theology; positioned around a demanding programme environment and high-quality production.

  • Romanische Studien (journal, open access)

  • BULGARICA series

  • Forum Junge Romanistik series

  • Jenaer Beiträge zur Romanistik series

  • Romain Rolland Studien series

  • Romanistische Dossiers series

  • Schriftenreihe Theologisches Seminar Adelshofen series

  • Landschaftsmalerei an der Münchner Akademie by Katharina Huys (art history)

  • Aufs Land! oder Rheinische Hachschara by Hubertus Fischer (history)

  • Eine Idee zeigt Wirkung edited by Volkmar Schön (medical history)

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