An apparatus for handling piece goods being moved one after another in at least one row, the apparatus comprising - at least one manipulator for piece goods, - at least one transport device via which immediately consecutive piece goods of the row are transportable without spaces as closed formation into a seizing range of the at least one manipulator, - wherein the at least one manipulator is designed to seize one piece good or a group comprising at least two piece goods in a clamping and/or force-locking and/or form-locking manner, as well as to separate the one piece good or the group comprising at least two piece goods from the closed formation having been transported into the manipulator seizing range by the at least one transport device, and to transfer the one piece good or the group into a target position and/or target alignment, - wherein the at least one manipulator comprises a gripper head mounted on a swivel joint and is designed to rotate at least one seized piece good or to rotate a group, wherein at least two mutually oppositely arranged clamping jaws, in particular pairwise mutually oppositely arranged clamping jaws, are assigned to the at least one manipulator, which clamping jaws interact, in particular interact in each instance pairwise together, to clampingly and/or forcelockingly and/or form-lockingly seize, as well as to separate, and transfer the particular one piece good or the group into the target position and/or target alignment, - wherein at least one of two mutually oppositely arranged clamping jaws of the at least one manipulator at least in some sections or in some areas corresponds with an outer contour, at least at a contact surface and/or at the contact areas of the at least one piece good to be seized in a force-locking and/or form-locking manner, characterised in that: - a first vertical symmetry plane (S2*) defined by the seized piece good or the seized group is spaced apart from and aligned approximately parallel to a second vertical symmetry plane defined by the clamping jaws of the manipulator. - at least one manipulator for piece goods, - at least one transport device via which immediately consecutive piece goods of the row are transportable without spaces as closed formation into a seizing range of the at least one manipulator, - wherein the at least one manipulator is designed to seize one piece good or a group comprising at least two piece goods in a clamping and/or force-locking and/or form-locking manner, as well as to separate the one piece good or the group comprising at least two piece goods from the closed formation having been transported into the manipulator seizing range by the at least one transport device, and to transfer the one piece good or the group into a target position and/or target alignment, - wherein the at least one manipulator comprises a gripper head mounted on a swivel joint and is designed to rotate at least one seized piece good or to rotate a group, wherein at least two mutually oppositely arranged clamping jaws, in particular pairwise mutually oppositely arranged clamping jaws, are assigned to the at least one manipulator, which clamping jaws interact, in particular interact in each instance pairwise together, to clampingly and/or forcelockingly and/or form-lockingly seize, as well as to separate, and transfer the particular one piece good or the group into the target position and/or target alignment, - wherein at least one of two mutually oppositely arranged clamping jaws of the at least one manipulator at least in some sections or in some areas corresponds with an outer contour, at least at a contact surface and/or at the contact areas of the at least one piece good to be seized in a force-locking and/or form-locking manner, - a first vertical symmetry plane (S2*) defined by the seized piece good or the seized group is spaced apart from and aligned approximately parallel to a second vertical symmetry plane defined by the clamping jaws of the manipulator.