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The Rascher Verlag was a Swiss book publisher based in Zurich .
Foundation and development
The Rascher Verlag (Verlag Rascher & Co., later Verlag Rascher & Co. AG) was founded in 1908 by Max Rascher in Zurich. Like Rascher's bookstore, the place of business was on Limmatquai 50. Emil Schibli did his apprenticeship as a bookseller with Rascher .
The Rascher Verlag specialized in pacifist literature, art and psychology: the authors included Carl Gustav Jung , Carl Spitteler , Alja Rachmanowa , Konrad Falke , William Somerset Maugham , André Maurois , Marcel Proust , Ernst Wiechert , Charlot Strasser , Yvan Goll , Andreas Latzko and Henri Barbusse .
In 1917 and 1918, Rascher Verlag published three classics of international pacifism: People in War by Andreas Latzko, Requiem for the Fallen of Europe by Iwan Goll and the German-language first edition of Henri Barbusses Das Feuer in the pacifist series European Library .
From 1917 to 1960, the Rascher Verlag published the book series Swiss Library of German- Swiss Literature, edited by Eduard Korrodi .
The Kunstverlag published reproductions by Ferdinand Hodler , Augusto Giacometti , Paul Cézanne and Oskar Kokoschka .
After Max Rascher's death in 1962, his son Albert took over the business; he died in 1969. In the absence of a successor, the Rascher Verlag was dissolved in the same year and in 1973 went into liquidation.
literature
- Friedrich Witz: The Rascher Verlag Zurich - A review. Zurich 1973.
- Robert Leucht: bridge builder. In: Schweizer Buchjahr, 19, 23 October 2017 ( online )
- Max Rascher: Twenty-five years of publishing activities at Rascher & Cie AG: 1908–1933; A catalog with a brief history of the publisher. Rascher, Zurich 1933.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rascher in: Former and well-known bookshops and second-hand bookshops. On transition dur Alt Züri , accessed on 18 August 2020th