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| Company type | Division |
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| Industry | Publishing |
| Founded | 1881; 144 years ago (1881) inBerlin |
| Founder | Samuel von Fischer  |
| Headquarters | , Germany |
| Parent | Holtzbrinck Publishing Group (since 1962) |
| Website | fischerverlage |
S. Fischer Verlag is a major German publishing house, which has operated as a division ofHoltzbrinck Publishing Group since 1962. The publishing house was founded in 1881 bySamuel Fischer inBerlin, but is currently based inFrankfurt am Main, and is traditionally counted among the most prestigious publishing houses in the German-speaking world.
Originally, it was renowned fornaturalistic literature. Famous authors includeGerhart Hauptmann andThomas Mann, both awarded theNobel Prize in Literature.
After theNazis came to power in Germany, the Jewish family of ownerGottfried Bermann-Fischer fled and founded a branch of their publishing house inVienna. Those who remained in Berlin kept the official name "S. Fischer Verlag" and were led byPeter Suhrkamp.
Afterthe Second World War, disputes over the future of the publishing house arose between Suhrkamp and Fischer.[1] This led to an out-of-court agreement, resulting in a sort of bisection of the S. Fischer Verlag: Bermann-Fischer regained control from Peter Suhrkamp, but Suhrkamp founded his ownSuhrkamp publishing house in 1950, and authors could choose which publishing house they wanted to be published by in future. Ultimately, 33 of the 48 authors, among themBertolt Brecht,Hermann Hesse,T. S. Eliot andGeorge Bernard Shaw, decided to change toSuhrkamp.
Among the imprints of Fischer are Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Argon Verlag and Scherz Verlag. Today the S. Fischer Verlag, as well as other publishers, such as Kindler,Rowohlt, andKiepenheuer & Witsch and Metzler, are part ofHoltzbrinck, a publishing group. Holtzbrinck bought S. Fischer in 1963.
In 2010, O. W. Barth Verlag, which had been part of Scherz Verlag, was acquired by Droemer Knaur, which is also part of the Holtzbrinck Group.[2]
Edition Peters — a prominent publisher for worldwide music — was located next door to them, but in 2014 moved toLeipzig.[3]
In 2015, S. Fischer Verlag sued US-basedProject Gutenberg in German court for copyright infringement of 18 works byHeinrich Mann,Thomas Mann andAlfred Döblin, works in the public domain in the US, but still copyrighted under German law. In February 2018 Project Gutenberg responded to the German court's judgement by blocking all access to Project Gutenberg from IP addresses in Germany,[4][5][6] making the full content of Project Gutenberg inaccessible for German residents.
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