arsEdition is a German

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, founded in 1896 by Austrian Josef Müller. Since 2000 it is part of the

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History

The company was founded in 1896 in

Munich Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria, Germany. As of 30 November 2024, its population was 1,604,384, making it the third-largest city in Germany after Berlin and Hamburg. Munich is the largest city in Germany that is no ...

by the Austrian Josef Müller, as ''ars sacra Josef Müller Kunstanstalten''. It began by publishing religious prints and prayer books, as well as devotional articles such as

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s, which it printed as ''Ars Sacra Verlag''. After 1912, the company also published books on

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. At the end of the 1920s, helped by the publisher's connections to notable and promising authors such as Ida Bohatta und Maria Innocentia Hummel, the company expanded into children's books as well. When Marcel Nauer took over management in 1979, a radical reorganization followed, and the company was divided into three core activities: children's books, gift books, and non-book articles. In 2004, ''Expedition in die geheime Welt der Drachen'' was the first title of the new series "Geheime Welten," or "secret worlds," a series of children's books featuring dragons, magic, pirates, and such themes done in pop-up books.

Notable authors and illustrators

Isabel Abedi Isabel Nasrin Abedi (born March 3, 1967) is a German-Iranian writer of children's and young adult books, copywriter, and translator, best known for her German Youth Book Prize-winning novel ''Whisper,'' and her Lola series. Personal life Abedi ...

* Marliese Arold * Ida Bohatta *

Erhard Dietl Erhard is a male German given name and surname, and may refer to: People *Erhard of Regensburg, bishop of Regensburg in the 7th century *Erhard Altdorfer (c. 1480–1561), German Early Renaissance printmaker, painter and architect *Erhard Arnold Ju ...

Franziska Gehm Franziska may refer to: People * Franziska (given name) * Patrick Franziska (born 1992), German table tennis player Characters * Franziska von Karma, character in the ''Ace Attorney'' series Other uses * ''Franziska'' (play), a 1912 play ...

* Maria Innocentia Hummel *

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Andreas Untersberger Andreas Untersberger (1874–1944) was an Austrian painter who worked under the pseudonym A. Juenger. He created hundreds of illustrations for Catholic children's books and holy cards. Family tree Andreas Untersberger was the eighth son of a wood ...

Klaus-Peter Wolf Klaus-Peter is a German masculine given name. Notable people with the name include: * Klaus-Peter Ebeling (born 1944), East German sprint canoeist * Klaus Peter Foppke, German rower * Klaus-Peter Göpfert (born 1948), German former wrestler * Klaus ...

References

External links

Company website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Arsedition Book publishing companies of Germany Publishing companies established in 1896 Mass media in Munich 1896 establishments in Germany