Claassen publishing house
The Claassen-Verlag is a German book publisher based in Berlin. He belongs to the Ullstein publishing group .
The publishing house was founded in 1934 by Eugen Claassen and Henry Goverts in Hamburg under the name "H. Goverts Verlag". The publication of Margaret Mitchell's bestseller Gone With the Wind in 1937 was a great success.
The publisher later published Elias Canetti , Erich Fried , Elisabeth Langgässer and Heinrich Mann, among others . After the Second World War , the publishing house operated as Claassen & Goverts . In 1946 the novel Moby Dick by Herman Melville was published .
After Eugen Claassen died in 1955, his widow Hilde Claassen continued to run the publishing house, who finally sold it to Econ Verlag in 1967 . During this time Arnulf Conradi was the head of the publishing house. In 2004 the publishing house moved to Berlin under the umbrella of the Ullstein book publishers.
literature
- Anne-Margret Wallrath-Janssen: The publishing house H. Goverts in the Third Reich. (= Archive for the history of books , studies, volume 5). Dissertation University of Göttingen 1999. Saur, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-24904-4 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Anne-Margret Wallrath-Janssen: The publishing house H. Goverts in the Third Reich. (= Archive for the history of books , studies, volume 5). Dissertation University of Göttingen 1999. Saur, Munich 2007, p. 457