Fraus Publishing

Fraus Publishing was founded in 1991 by Mr. Jiří Fraus. Today, the company employs over a hundred full-time employees and hires several hundreds externs. The company headquarters are located in Pilsen but our product range is available also at our Information Centres with showrooms in Prague and Brno.

Our publishing house launches over a hundred new releases annually which puts us at the 1st place among all the educational publishers in Czechia.

Of the Czech publishing houses specializing in educational books, Fraus Publishing make use of the richest experience in publishing modern foreign languages textbooks; our market share amounts at 50 per cent in textbooks of German, French, Spanish, and Russian languages. Our publishing house was the first to release language textbooks based upon and processed according to the principles of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEF).

Since 2003, we have broadened our offer with the textbooks for other school subjects, covering thus the whole range of the Czech schooling system from primary to upper secondary schools with systemized series of textbooks, supplementary materials and professional after-sale service for schools.

Furthermore, Fraus Publishing ranks among leading dictionary publishers in the Czech Republic. We have developed a genuine system of school and study dictionaries and specialized dictionaries for professionals in many fields.

In 2007, we have pioneered the way for an entirely new phenomenon in the Czech schooling system, the interactive textbooks (i-textbooks). We have established a unique system of printed textbooks interlinked with their electronic multimedia versions. This project is unrivalled so far not only in the Czech Republic, but also in Europe.

Modern textbooks facilitate quality education from primary schools on!
Application of recent trends in education at primary and secondary schools marks the transition towards the economy of knowledge!

Our textbooks and dictionaries rank among the top products of their kind both in the Czech Republic and Europe - witness the number of nominations and awards such as the European Educational Publishers Group's Best Schoolbook Awards, 1st Rank Medal of Ministry of Education of the CR, and the Crystal Disk Award won at the INVEX/DIGITEX Software Trade Fair, to name but a few.

Apart from schoolbooks and dictionaries, Fraus Publishing involves itself in publishing non-fiction books on the nature, science, and society. The encyclopedic series CO-JAK-PROČ (What-How-Why) is the most comprehensive serial project of non-fiction books for schoolchildren on the Czech book market.

The Historic Sights edition is a part of the Unique Serial Encyclopedia aiming at introducing most of the major places of historical and tourist interest in our country.

Our textbooks and dictionaries rank among the best in Europe!

Representatives of the publishing houses awarded (left to right): Jiří Fraus and Vít Pátek from Fraus Publishing, Götz Schwarzrock from the largest German educational publishing house Cornelsen, and Manfred Meraner from Veritas, Austria (Frankfurt Book Fair, October 2005)