Publisher EP Tal & Co

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The EP Tal & Co Verlag was a literary publisher in Austria during the First Republic .

The founder was Ernst Peter Rosenthal, born in Vienna on December 14, 1888, poet and son of a manufacturer of roller shutters. From 1909 he used the name Ernst Peter Tal with official approval. When he was still young, Tal went to the S. Fischer publishing house in Berlin. In mid-1913 he worked there as head of the "theater department" founded in 1903. After serving on the Galician front, Tal started his publishing house in early 1919. The first works appeared in April 1919, the very first Woodrow Wilson's peace plan by Heinrich Lammasch , followed by a work by Alfred Hermann Fried on the League of Nations . The Swiss writer and patron Carl Seelig acted as a silent partner from 1919 to 1923 . EP Tal was the sole owner and managing director of the publishing house until his death on November 30, 1936. Afterwards the publishing house was initially successfully continued by his wife Lucy (née Traub). After the “ Anschluss of Austria ” in March 1938, the publishing house was “ Aryanized ”. On June 10, 1939, the name "EP Tal Verlag" disappeared from the Vienna Commercial Register and was replaced by " Alfred Ibach Verlag".

The publisher was very productive, especially in its early stages. Between 1919 and 1938 a little more than 200 titles were released. Around a quarter of the titles appeared in the first three years, around half between 1919 and 1924. Between 1925 and 1928, however, there were only eight recorded new publications. In 1936 the successful series of red and blue books, detective novels, translated from American and English, began, including books by Dorothy Sayers , Erle Stanley Gardner , Rex Stout , John Dickson Carr and, above all, Agatha Christie . By May 1939 this series comprised 32 volumes.

The authors published by Tal included Somerset Maugham ( The Moon and Sixpence ), Ferenc Molnár with the youth novel The Boys from Paulstrasse and several works by Thornton Wilder , including The Bridge of San Luis Rey . In 1930, Tal published Lady Chatterley and Her Lover by D. H. Lawrence .

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