Propylaea Publishing House

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The Propylaea Publishing is an imprint of Ullstein publishing house based in Berlin . Non-fiction books, biographies and classic editions are published under this name.

history

The imprint was established in 1919 after Ullstein by Georg Müller Verlag , which began there Propylaea edition of the works of Goethe had taken over. At the beginning, Emil Herz was in charge of management . In the 1920s, Propylaen published works on history and art history in particular, from 1923, for example, the Propylaen art history in 24 volumes, and from 1929 to 1933 a world history in ten volumes, edited by Walter Goetz . Classics such as Schiller and Montaigne were also published . Fiction program 1929, the novel was published nothing new in the west of Erich Maria Remarque , which was rejected as an indictment against the war in conservative circles.

The Ullstein Verlag was expropriated in 1934 during the Nazi era . In contrast to Ullstein himself, Propylaen Verlag was continued under the same name. From 1935 to 1937 Willy Andreas and Wilhelm von Scholz published a five-volume biographical work on The Great Germans , and in 1940 Willy Andreas began to rework the Propylaea world history, which corresponded to the National Socialist view of history.

After the publishing group was returned to the Ullstein family in 1952, Albrecht Knaus took over the management of Propylaen Verlag. Under his management, the publishing house acquired all rights to Gerhart Hauptmann's entire works in 1959 . With the help of Golo Mann , work began on a new edition of the Propylaea World History, which was supposed to express a pluralistic worldview. In the same year Propylaea moved its headquarters with the entire Ullstein Group to Darmstadt .

In 1960, Axel Springer Verlag and the Ullstein Group also acquired Propylänen Verlag. From 1962 to 1979 Wolf Jobst Siedler took over the management of the publishing house, under his direction multi-volume works on the history of literature and the history of Germany and Europe were started. In 1967 the headquarters of the Ullstein Group were moved back to Berlin. The publishing house had great success in 1969 with the controversial memories of the Nazi functionary Albert Speer and in 1973 with the Hitler biography of Joachim Fest .

After the merger of Ullstein Verlag with Langen Müller Verlag in 1985, Herbert Fleissner took over management. In the period that followed, the Propylaen Verlag took part in the historians' dispute on the evaluation of National Socialism with prominent publications , for example by publishing Ernst Nolte's work The European Civil War 1917–1945 . The ninth volume of the Propylaea History of Germany, published in 1995, The Path into the Abyss by Karlheinz Weißmann , a spokesman for the New Right , was withdrawn from the publisher after the editorial board had distanced itself.

In view of the public scandal, Axel Springer Verlag took over the Ullstein Group again in early 1996 and separated from Herbert Fleissner. In the period that followed, the Propylaen Verlag program was increasingly geared towards popular titles with authors such as Helmut Kohl and Peter Scholl-Latour .

In 2003, Axel Springer Verlag sold its book publishers to Bonnier Media Deutschland Holding of the Swedish Bonnier Group.

program

One focus of the current program is politics and contemporary history; the authors include Hubertus Knabe , Niall Ferguson and Peter Struck , for example . Another focus is biographies, a classic here is the Hitler biography by Joachim Fest . Gerhart Hauptmann's works and diaries are published in the fiction area .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Catalog of the Berlin State Library , accessed on August 17, 2011.
  2. ↑ a b c Brief history of a large publishing house , own presentation of the publishing house, accessed on August 12, 2011.
  3. ↑ Erich Maria Remarque: Nothing new in the west . In: Kindlers New Literature Lexicon, Kindler Verlag, Munich. Retrieved May 7, 2017.
  4. ↑ Who is a great German? In: Die Zeit 16/1956, accessed on August 17, 2011.
  5. ↑ a b time of all times . In: Der Spiegel 28/1963, accessed on August 17, 2011.
  6. ↑ Olaf Simons: Ullstein, Deutscher Verlag, Berlin In: Polunbi database writing and image 1900-1960, accessed on August 29, 2011.
  7. ↑ Historians distance themselves from rights . In: Der Spiegel 48/1995, accessed on August 12, 2011.
  8. ↑ Trompeter der Patrioten In: Der Spiegel 47/1995, accessed on August 15, 2011.