Rowohlt Verlag
German publishing house
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Rowohlt Verlag is a German publishing house based in Hamburg, with offices in Reinbek and Berlin. It has been part of the Georg von Holtzbrinck Group since 1982.[1] The company has been dissolved and restarted twice since its creation in 1908.
 Company logo | |
| Parent company | Georg von Holtzbrinck Group |
|---|---|
| Status | Active |
| Founded | 1908 |
| Founder | Ernst Rowohlt |
| Country of origin | Germany |
| Headquarters location | Hamburg |
| Official website | rowohlt |
History
Rowohlt Verlag was founded in 1908 in Leipzig by Ernst Rowohlt and was renamed to Kurt Wolff Verlag in February 1913.[2] After Rowohlt was banned from the German Publishers Association in October 1938[3] for "camouflaging Jewish authors",[4] Rowohlt Verlag became a subsidiary of Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, which was closed on 1 November 1943.[3] On 9 November 1945, Rowohlt's oldest son, Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt, relaunched Rowohlt Verlag in Stuttgart.[5][3]
Notable authors
- 50 Cent
- Paul Auster
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Wolfgang Borchert
- Albert Camus
- C. W. Ceram
- Michael Chabon
- A. J. Cronin
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt
- Buddy Elias
- Jeffrey Eugenides
- Hans Fallada
- William Faulkner
- Jon Fosse
- Jonathan Franzen
- Max Goldt
- Ernest Hemingway
- Felicitas Hoppe
- Siri Hustvedt
- Heinrich Eduard Jacob
- Elfriede Jelinek
- Daniel Kehlmann
- Imre Kertész
- Georg Klein
- Henry Miller
- Toni Morrison
- Robert Musil
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Péter Nádas
- John Dos Passos
- Harold Pinter
- Oleg Postnov
- James Purdy
- Thomas Pynchon
- Uwe Reimer
- Philip Roth
- Peter Rühmkorf
- José Saramago
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Sylke Tempel
- Kurt Tucholsky
- John Updike
- Ernst von Salomon