Life At Bonnier - Carlsen Verlag

Pixi Hits the 200 Mark in Germany

By Bert Menninga on 2011-10-10
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Popular children's book series Pixi celebrates the 200th series with celebrity authors.

The popular children's Pixi book imprint, featuring small, very distinctive square books, reached a milestone earlier this year in Germany: the 200th series was published, with some 1,700 books published since the first came out in 1954.

To celebrate the series, publisher Carlsen Verlag did something special: Each of the books in the series was written by a famous German, from writers to chefs to TV personalities.

Meet Steffen Meier

By Bert Menninga on 2011-09-28
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GROW participant takes a chance to think differently.

Reflecting on life, making new goals, getting to know another way of living.

Meet Kerstin Schöfisch

By Tora Bonnier on 2011-07-26
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Licorice, a chance meeting and new ways of working are three things GROW participant Kerstin Schöfisch will remember when she finishes a three-month stint in Helsinki.

What do flags and licorice have in common? They are both prominent in Helsinki, Finland, says GROW participant Kerstin Schöfisch.  "It looks like the Finns hang out their national flags in the streets every second day and I was always wondering what they were celebrating," she says. "Even my colleagues could not tell me. And the Finns seem to be crazy about licorice, as there is licorice ice cream, yoghurt, donuts, coffee, etc.

Spring Reading from Bonnier Media Deutschland

By Bert Menninga on 2011-05-06
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Looking for something to read this spring? Bonnier Media Deutschland has something for you.

Along with the flowers, sun and warmer weather of spring, Bonnier Media Deutschland has plenty of spring titles for Germans ready to make the most of the season.

From arsEdition, the gift book Ich hab dir ein Geschenk gepflanzt (I've planted you a gift), is the perfect present for that special someone who you want to show you care for them - complete with seed packets to plant your own flowers. By Monica Schöffman.  

Helping Out Where Help is Needed

By Bert Menninga on 2010-12-14
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Check out how Bonnier companies are helping others during the holidays and year round.

Photo by Flickr user Josep Ma. Rosell, CC licensed

For many people, the holidays are a time for thinking about others. Check out just a few of the aid projects and initiatives that Bonnier companies are undertaking - and not just during Christmas:

Meet Gunta Lauck

By Bert Menninga on 2010-05-28
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Moving from Hamburg to Stockholm, GROW participant Gunta Lauck designs books for Bonnier Fakta for four months.

The difference lies in the logo on the cover. At her home company Carlsen Verlag, says GROW participant Gunta Lauck, the logo is prominently placed in nearly always the same position. But at Bonnier Fakta, where she is on a four-month exchange, the logo on the cover of the books is integrated into the design. "It is subordinate to the illustration and typography," she says. "And I admire this very much."
 

Meet Christiane Bartelsen

By Bert Menninga on 2010-05-20
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Selling foreign book rights is a bit the same, a bit different at Carlsen Verlag and Bonnier Group Agency for GROW participant Christiane Bartelsen.

For GROW participant Christiane Bartelsen, the warm welcome she received from her new colleagues has helped her feel at home in a new country and a new company. Bartelsen, 42, recently made the switch from Carlsen Verlag in Hamburg where she's worked for ten years, to Bonnier Group Agency in Stockholm. At both companies, she works selling foreign rights. "At Carlsen, I am also responsible for the acquisition of industrial clients for whom we produce special editions with logo imprints, for example, Mercedes Benz and Vattenfall," she says.

Carlsen Teams with Unicef

By Bert Menninga on 2010-05-12
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Popular children's character Pixi helps promote Unicef for children's book publisher Carlsen in Germany.

Photo courtesy Unicef

In conjunction with the Soccer World Cup in South Africa, children's book publisher Carlsen in Germany has started a special project: Almost half a million picture books were delivered to German, Swiss and Austrian bookshops featuring the character Pixi winning the World Cup - and building a school in Africa.

Vampires on the Loose

By Bert Menninga on 2010-02-25
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The current book craze for the undead shows no sign of dying.

Consumers are sucking it up in record numbers. Vampire romance that is, a global phenomenon that doesn't look to be slowing down anytime soon. From Stephenie Meyer's global hit series Twilight - both in its book and movie incarnations - to TV series such as First Blood, a love for all things vampire has been a big hit for publishers and producers.