Torch library

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The torch library was a book series from the Fackelverlag from the 1950s. She wanted to make basic knowledge of a wide variety of general education topics available at low cost. According to the publisher's advertising, this should enable the reader to both "advance professionally" and "develop into self-confidence".

According to our own information, the series was based on "experiences of adult education centers and similar institutions of adult education". Among the authors are some well-known lecturers at the time, such as Heinz Rainer Reinhardt . Many of the books in the series with titles such as "I master language and style", "I measure surfaces, bodies and angles" or "I know more about literature" were reissued by up to half a dozen by the 1960s.

The success of the series was due to the fact that the 50 individual publications each on 160 pages prepared a specific topic of knowledge for people without any previous training, and the buyer at the time, at a price of 3 Mark 85, could get a specialist book that he could also use for a reasonable price came.

The publisher probably also meant a special purchase incentive in some forewords to the books, where you can find them. a. as a "reference work (...) for memory training ( quiz programs!)" to be able to give.