Blumenbar
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Blumenbar Verlag GmbH&Co KG is a small avantgarde publishing house in Germany. "Blumenbar" is German for "bar of flowers", alluding its beginnings in the Blumenstraße close to the Viktualienmarkt
Viktualienmarkt
The Viktualienmarkt is a daily food market and a square in the center of Munich, Germany.The Viktualienmarkt developed from an original farmers' market to a popular market for gourmets...

 in Munich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

 in 2002. The two founders, Lars Birken-Bertsch and Wolfgang Farkas, publish non-mainstream authors like Matias Faldbakken
Matias Faldbakken
Matias Faldbakken is a Norwegian artist and writer. Faldbakken studied at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Bergen and the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. He is the son of the author Knut Faldbakken....

 or Tracey Emin
Tracey Emin
Tracey Karima Emin RA is a British artist of English and Turkish Cypriot origin. She is part of the group known as Britartists or YBAs ....

. The graphic design of the books (by Chrish Klose) is especially noted. In 2009, Blumenbar moved to Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

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