Birgit Schmitz

When traditional craftsmanship meets digital layout design and literature. @tocpublishing Exclusive Letterpress Editions Printed on an original Heidelberg Cylinder Press from 1954. Each book is a limited edition print run of 998 numbered copies printed in Berlin, and signed by the author. Publisher at TOC’s @schmitz_birgit Designers at TOC’s @espiekermann & @sudulkinys Printer @dielettertypen Find all THE OTHER COLLECTION titles available at @margaschoeller listed below: TOC 1 Deborah Levy: The Cost of Living TOC 2 Chimamanda N. Adichie: Half of a Yellow Sun TOC 3 John Banville: The Sea TOC 4 William Boyd: Any Human Heart TOC 5 Elizabeth Kolbert: The Sixth Extinction TOC 6 Claire Messud: The Woman Upstairs TOC 7 Richard Sennett: The Craftsman TOC 8 Jonathan Safran Foer: Everything is Illuminated TOC 9 Wolfram Eilenberger: Time of the Magicians TOC 10 George Saunders: Tenth of December Find out more about THE OTHER COLLECTION at @tocpublishing and find the books and catalogue in store at MARGA SCHOELLER BOOKS, Knesebeckstraße 27, Berlin-Charlottenburg! #theothercollection #letterpress #letterpressprinting #heidelbergerdruckmaschinen #heidelbergerprintingmachines #crafts #craftsmanship #contemporaryliterature #independentbookstore #berlinbookstore

• THE OTHER COLLECTION (TOC) Now exclusively at MARGA SCHOELLER BOOKS! @tocpublishing Exclusive Letterpress Editions Printed on an original Heidelberg Cylinder Press from 1954. Each book is a limited edition print run of 998 numbered copies printed in Berlin, and signed by the author. Publisher at TOC’s @schmitz_birgit Designers at TOC’s @espiekermann & @sudulkinys Printer @dielettertypen Find all THE OTHER COLLECTION titles available at @margaschoeller listed below: TOC 1 Deborah Levy: The Cost of Living TOC 2 Chimamanda N. Adichie: Half of a Yellow Sun TOC 3 John Banville: The Sea TOC 4 William Boyd: Any Human Heart TOC 5 Elizabeth Kolbert: The Sixth Extinction TOC 6 Claire Messud: The Woman Upstairs TOC 7 Richard Sennett: The Craftsman TOC 8 Jonathan Safran Foer: Everything is Illuminated TOC 9 Wolfram Eilenberger: Time of the Magicians TOC 10 George Saunders: Tenth of December Find out more about THE OTHER COLLECTION at @tocpublishing and find the books and catalogue in store at MARGA SCHOELLER BOOKS, Knesebeckstraße 27, Berlin-Charlottenburg! #theothercollection #letterpress #letterpressprinting #heidelbergerdruckmaschinen #heidelbergerprintingmachines #contemporaryliterature #independentbookstore #berlinbookstore

Morbach ist meine Heimat. Das ist, auch wenn ich jetzt schon über dreißig Jahre woanders leben, immer noch wahr. Wie das kommt und warum wir über Heimat reden müssen, darf ich am 9. März um 19.00 Uhr im @cafe_heimat_morbach mit der großartigen @danieladroescher und dem Bürgermeister @arianit.besiri besprechen. Das ist mir eine besondere Ehre. Der Abend ist Teil einer großen Veranstaltungsreihe des @penberlin . Freue mich sehr auf ein paar alte bekannte Gesichter. P.S. Mein Papa kommt auch. Ein Abend für die ganze Familie. 🤭 #morbach #heimat #penberlin #caféheimat #edgarreitz

Here is to merrier times. Happy 2026 to everyone! 💙🩷🎊

Letterpress printed books in the 21st century While classic letterpress offers a pleasant analog reading experience, its limitations, including the high cost of traditional metal typesetting, have so far made it prohibitive for modern book production. By transferring the layouts onto polymer plates with our in-house lasersetter and improving print quality, step by step, on a Heidelberg Cylinder press by Daniel Klotz @dielettertypen , we combine the virtues of analog and digital processes. This results in the best of both worlds: refined digital typography and a smooth analog reading experience. #letterpress #booklovers #bibliophiles #bookarts #finepress #bookcraftsmanship #tactilebooks #readingasexperience #printedbooks #bookmateriality #slowprint #analogreading @peopleofprint 🎥 @aaronoah

Books worth giving — Christmas at TOC Our Christmas Special runs until December 24, with a 10% discount on all individual books and gift cards. You can also save 15% when you choose the complete Letterpress Collection of 10 books. As always, every order comes beautifully wrapped, presented in our signature black box, and shipped free of charge. #TheOtherCollection #TOCPublishing #Letterpress #LetterpressBooks #SignedEdition #LimitedEdition #FinePress #BookLovers #BookGifts #ChristmasSpecial #ChristmasSale #HolidayGifts #GiftIdeas #Bookstagram #Bibliophile #BookCollection #DesignBooks #TypographyLovers #ArtBooks #BookGiftCard #GiftCard #SupportIndiePublishers Photography: @normanposselt

Selected for our collection—because: "Tenth of December" by George Saunders is the first collection of short stories we’re adding to our library — and it already belongs to the contemporary literary canon. The sociologist Matthew Desmond once put it like this in the New York Times: "Nobody writes like George Saunders. He has cultivated a genuinely original voice, one that is hilarious and profound, tender and monstrous, otherworldly and deeply familiar, much like the American psyche itself. With each of these stories, you feel in the hands of a master – because you are." ✨ The Man Booker Prize ✨ Folio Prize Story Prize ✨ Pen/Malamud Award #GeorgeSaunders #TenthOfDecember #ShortStories #LiteraryMaster #ContemporaryLiterature #ModernLiteraryCanon #BookerPrizeWinner #FolioPrizeWinner #PENMalamudAward #CriticallyAcclaimed #MustReadBooks #Bookish #BookObsessed #ReadMoreBooks #ShelfPortraits #LibraryEdit #EditionCollectors Photography @normanposselt

George Saunders is the master of the modern short story. His stories have appeared regularly in The New Yorker since 1992. His short story collection "Tenth of December "was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the inaugural Folio Prize in 2013 (for the best work of fiction in English) as well as the Story Prize (for best short story collection). "Lincoln in the Bardo", which won the 2017 Man Booker Prize for best work of fiction in English, was also a finalist for the Golden Man Booker, in which one Booker winner was selected to represent each decade from the fifty years since the prize’s inception. In 2013, he was named one of the world’s 100 most influential people by Time magazine. #GeorgeSaunders #ModernShortStory #MasterStoryteller #TheNewYorker #TenthOfDecember #LincolnInTheBardo #ManBookerPrize #NationalBookAward #FolioPrize #StoryPrize #ContemporaryFiction #ModernLiterature #AmericanAuthor #LiteraryFiction #AwardWinningAuthor #InfluentialWriters #LimitedEdition #SignedEdition #Letterpress #CollectorBooks Photography @normanposselt

Susanna approached the jacket design first by exploring optical illusions, where things are not what they appear to be. With a sharp, deliberate eye, she selected patterns and color, evoking shifting perspectives: three-dimensional waves resting on a contrast of blue-green linen, complemented by pistachio colored endpapers. This book looks electric. It was Erik who first saw the chance to push design boundaries much like Saunders pushes narrative. Yet he quickly realised that Saunders’ boldness always serves the story and honors literary craft. He chose Filosofia, a typeface designed by Zuzana Licko, for the body text — based on Bodoni, classic, refined, and perfect. Erik also opened his "dirty fonts" folder. All chapter headings are set in wildly different, playful fonts, creating delightful contrasts that capture Saunders’ spirit. The book is printed in green ink with a green sewn binding. It might surprise you at first – but give the read a try. After a few pages, your brain will cleverly start to see the type as black. Set in Filosofia by Zuzana Licko and many other typefaces. #GeorgeSaunders #TenthOfDecember #Letterpress #SignedEdition #BookDesign #Filosofia #ZuzanaLicko #DirtyFonts #PrintDesign #FinePress #PrintedMatter #BookArt #CollectorsEdition #SpecialEditionBooks #BeautifulBooks #BookAesthetic #MaterialDesign #DesignInspiration #GraphicDesign #ContemporaryFiction #SewnBinding #printedingreen Photography @normanposselt

Selected for our collection—because: Wolfram Eilenberger’s "Time of the Magicians" is a portrait of four remarkable philosophers: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Ernst Cassirer, Walter Benjamin and Martin Heidegger. Countless books by German authors could, of course, be considered for TOC – we chose this philosophical text. It centers on the emergence of modern thought and follows four men who offered distinct responses to the challenges of their era. Their life stories provide insight into the 1920s — an era that not only laid the foundations of our modern world but also bears some unsettling similarities to our present day. ✨ Bayerischer Buchpreis ✨ Prix du Meilleur Livre étranger #WolframEilenberger #AuthorSpotlight #Philosopher #Writer #AwardWinningAuthor #ContemporaryPhilosophy #ModernThinkers #signededition #letterpress #TimeOfTheMagicians #ZeitDerZauberer #TheVisionaries #FeuerDerFreiheit #PhilosophyTrilogy #LiteraryTrilogy #PhilosophicalJourney Photography @normanposselt

Wolfram Eilenberger is an award-winning writer and philosopher. In 2018, he published “Time of the Magicians” (Zeit der Zauberer) in Germany. The book instantly became a bestseller there, as well as in countries such as Italy, and Spain. It has been translated into thirty languages and won the prestigious Bayerischer Buchpreis, in 2019 and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in France. His book “The Visionaries” (Feuer der Freiheit) was published in 2023 and described the legendary lives of the four most influential female philosophers of the 20th century during World War II – Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, and Ayn Rand. 2024 he completes the trilogy with a book about Theodor Adorno, Michel Foucault, Paul Feyerabend, and Susan Sontag. #WolframEilenberger #AuthorSpotlight #Philosopher #Writer #AwardWinningAuthor #ContemporaryPhilosophy #ModernThinkers #signededition #letterpress #TimeOfTheMagicians #ZeitDerZauberer #TheVisionaries #FeuerDerFreiheit #PhilosophyTrilogy #LiteraryTrilogy #PhilosophicalJourney Photography @normanposselt

Shouldn’t a book about New Thinking be set in a new typeface? In 1927, Paul Renner released Futura, promoting it as "Die Schrift der neuen Zeit" — the type for a new age. For this project, we chose a contemporary reinterpretation: The Future by Kris Sowersby. Renner’s Futura was designed for letterpress and its delicate shapes have never been made to look good in water-based offset printing on modern smooth paper. To find the right balance, we tested six kinds of paper and five different black inks before settling on the final materials. We felt that the typeface’s precise, uncompromising forms called for greater contrast. We selected Metapaper Rough Air Warm White– slightly harder and whiter, giving the letters a sharper presence. Paul Renner’s elegant Futura Schmuckelemente was a natural choice for the book jacket pattern. In its arrangement here it evokes the rich, looped texture of bouclé. fabric. A zine-folded poster comes with the book, printed offset in yellow and black. Set in The Future & The Future Mono by Kris Sowersby. #TypographyLovers #TypeDesign #KrisSowersby #TheFutureTypeface #Futura #PaulRenner #Letterpress #PrintDesign #BookDesign #FinePress #OffsetPrinting #Metapaper #SignedEdition #SpecialEditionBooks #TimeOfTheMagicians #WolframEilenberger #PhilosophyBooks #BookCollectors #BeautifulBooks #PrintedMatter #GraphicDesign #DesignProcess #BookAesthetic #IGReads #zinefold Photography @normanposselt