Aurora Publishing House
The Aurora publishing house was registered by Wieland Herzfelde on April 3, 1944 in New York and was active until 1947. The name was chosen as an allusion to a hoped-for (political) dawn . Together with the authors Ernst Bloch , Bertolt Brecht , Ferdinand Bruckner , Alfred Döblin , Lion Feuchtwanger , Oskar Maria Graf , Heinrich Mann , Berthold Viertel , Ernst Waldinger and Franz Carl Weiskopf , Herzfelde realized the plan he had cherished since 1942 by founding a successor publishing house for the Malik-Verlag to create a new journalistic home for German authors living in exile in the USA .
In the years up to 1947 12 works are published. The only publication by a “non-founding member” was Anna Seghers ' volume of short stories “Der Ausflug der toten Mädchen” (The Excursion of the Dead Girls) in 1946 with a print run of 4,000 copies. The final point of the edition is the reader “Morgenröte” published by Heinrich Mann. Some planned publications appear in 1949 and 1950 in the Aurora library of the Aufbau-Verlag in Berlin / GDR , Herzfelde had sold the rights to the Aufbau-Verlag in 1948. The story of the small publisher ends with Herzfeld's return to East Berlin .
Publications
- Bertolt Brecht , Fear and Misery of the III. Reiches, 1945, edition 3,000
- Ferdinand Bruckner , Simon Bolivar, 1945, edition 1,600
- Oskar Maria Graf , Der Quasterl, 1945, edition 3,000
- Franz Carl Weiskopf , The Invincible, 1945, edition of 3,000
- Ernst Bloch , Freedom and Order, 1946, edition 3,000
- Alfred Döblin , Winner and Vanquished, 1946, edition of 4,000
- Lion Feuchtwanger , Venice (Texas), 1946, edition of 4,000
- Anna Seghers , The Excursion of the Dead Girls, 1946, edition of 4,000
- Berthold Viertel , Der Lebenslauf, 1946, edition 1,500
- Ernst Waldinger , Die kühlen Bauernstuben, 1946, edition 1,500
- Oskar Maria Graf , Unrest about a peacemaker, 1947, edition?
- Heinrich Mann (Ed.), Morgenröte, a reading book, 1947, edition?
literature
- Ulrich Faure : Herzfelde, In the hub of world traffic - Heartfield, Grosz and the Malik publishing house 1916–1947, Berlin / Weimar, construction publishing house, 1992, ISBN 3-351-02400-2
- George Wyland-Herzfelde: lucky - memories, Munich, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-423-24329-5
- Goethe House New York: Malik Verlag - Berlin, Prague, New York (exhibition catalog), New York, 1984
- German Academy of Arts in Berlin: The Malik-Verlag - Exhibition, Berlin, 1967
- Frank Hermann: Malik - On the history of a publishing house 1916–1947, Düsseldorf, Droste Verlag, 1989, ISBN 3-7700-0785-9