Kiepenheuer & Witsch

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Kiepenheuer & Witsch
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Founded1951
FounderJoseph C. Witsch
Country of originGermany
Headquarters location Cologne
Official website Official website (in German)

Kiepenheuer & Witsch is a German publishing house, established in 1948 by Joseph C. Witsch and Gustav Kiepenheuer. The partners initially held 30% and 40% of the company's share capital respectively. The publisher is based in Cologne, Germany [1] and has been part of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group since 2002. [2]

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The publishing house has its own paperback series, Kiwi Paperback, established in 1982 and has owned the Galiani Berlin imprint since 2009. [2]

History

Following the end of World War II, Kiepenheuer & Witsch was one of few publishing houses who received permission to start printing books again. [3]

Kiepenheuer died in 1949, after which Witsch took over control and broke the original link with the existing Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag (publishing house) in Weimar (which had ended up in the Soviet occupation zone). For the Kiepenheuer & Witsch publishing business several years of major organisational restructuring followed. The first books to be published under the Kiepenheuer & Witsch imprint was the novel Marion by Vicki Baum, which appeared in 1951. In 1953 the firm acquired a new head office incorporating, for the first time, its own onsite publishing facilities, at Cologne-Marienburg. [4]

Authors

Kiepenheuer & Witsch fiction authors include:

Nonfiction authors include:

References

  1. ↑ "Publishers - Litrix.de". www.litrix.de. Retrieved 2025-03-27.
  2. 1 2 "The Frankfurt Magazine" (PDF). The Frankfurt Magazine. 2018 – via buchmesse.de.
  3. ↑ "Tour a German publisher: Kiepenheuer and Witsch in Cologne - Laurel Decher". laureldecher.com. 2018-07-11. Retrieved 2025-04-03.
  4. ↑ Frank Möller (2009). "Joseph Caspar Witsch – Als Bibliothekar und Verleger zwischen Jena und Köln". Die große Stad (Das kulturhistorische Archiv von Weimar–Jena). Verlag VOPELIUS Jena. pp. 117–142. Retrieved 9 November 2021.


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