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WEIDLER Buchverlag Berlin

WEIDLER Buchverlag Berlin is a German academic publishing house, now part of the Frank & Timme publishing group, issuing scholarly titles in linguistics, history, and the humanities.

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Overview

WEIDLER Buchverlag Berlin is a German academic publishing house based in Berlin. It publishes scholarly books and edited volumes, with a catalogue concentrated in the humanities: linguistics and language studies, history and ancient studies, literary and cultural studies, and related fields. Its titles are typically authored or edited by academics and appear in German, with some English-language works as well. The publisher is today associated with the Berlin-based academic publisher Frank & Timme. On the Frank & Timme website, WEIDLER appears as a distinct programme area (Fachgebiet) with its own catalogue listings, including titles on German and comparative linguistics, the history of texts and genres, translation studies, and historical subjects. This indicates that WEIDLER operates as an imprint or programme line within the Frank & Timme publishing house rather than as a fully independent company. WEIDLER's list includes monographs, edited collections, and series. Representative titles visible in the Frank & Timme programme include works on Jacques Derrida, on the history of text types from the 8th to the 18th century, on Italian themes in modern Bulgarian literature, on the Corona media discourse, on corporate identity and corporate websites, on film music, and on editions and Indological studies. The breadth of subjects reflects a general humanities and social-science profile rather than a single narrow specialism. As a small academic publisher, WEIDLER serves scholars, libraries, and research institutions, primarily in the German-speaking market. Its books are distributed through the Frank & Timme publishing operation, which handles production, marketing, and sales, including e-books. The publisher's identity is closely tied to its Berlin location and to the German academic publishing tradition of specialised scholarly monographs and series.

History

WEIDLER Buchverlag Berlin is a Berlin-based academic publisher. Its name is associated with a scholarly book programme in the humanities, and it is now linked to the Berlin academic publisher Frank & Timme, where WEIDLER appears as a dedicated programme area (Fachgebiet) with its own catalogue. The available evidence does not record a founding date, founder, or a detailed corporate history for WEIDLER as an independent firm. What is documented is its present position: on the Frank & Timme website, WEIDLER titles are listed under a separate programme heading, alongside Frank & Timme's own subject areas such as history and ancient studies. This suggests that WEIDLER functions as an imprint or programme line within Frank & Timme rather than as a standalone publisher today. The WEIDLER catalogue, as reflected in the Frank & Timme programme pages, spans a broad humanities profile. It includes linguistics and language studies (for example, works on text types from the 8th to the 18th century, on tense and mood from a contrastive perspective, and on corporate identity and corporate websites), history and ancient studies (including titles on the history of the German national anthem, on Central Europe and the non-European world, and on editions), literary and cultural studies (such as a bibliography on Jacques Derrida and a study of Italy in modern Bulgarian literature), as well as media and film-music topics and Indological studies. Because WEIDLER is presented within the Frank & Timme programme, its production, distribution, and marketing are handled through that publishing operation. Frank & Timme describes itself as a publisher whose team manages editing, production, rights and licences, and sales of books and e-books. WEIDLER's books therefore reach readers, libraries, and institutions through the Frank & Timme distribution channels. In the absence of further documented corporate milestones, WEIDLER's history is best understood as that of a specialist academic imprint: building and maintaining a scholarly list in the humanities, with a Berlin identity and a German-language focus, and continuing under the umbrella of Frank & Timme.

Products and positioning

Specialised academic publisher in the humanities, operating as a programme area within the Frank & Timme publishing group.

  • Bibliographie zu Leben und Werk von Jacques Derrida

  • Zur Geschichte von Textsorten. Textmuster vom 8. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert

  • Italien in der neubulgarischen Literatur

  • Zum medialen Corona-Diskurs

  • Sprachliche Strategien zur Herstellung und Darstellung der Unternehmensidentität

  • Selbstvorstellungen auf deutschen und chinesischen Unternehmenswebsites

  • Filmmusik als Musik

  • Berliner Indologische Studien, Band 26

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