Rowohlt Verlag

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Rowohlt Verlag
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Parent company Georg von Holtzbrinck Group
StatusActive
Founded1908;117 years ago (1908)
Founder Ernst Rowohlt
Country of originGermany
Headquarters location Hamburg
Official website rowohlt.de

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.

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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]

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References

  1. ↑ "Chronicle 1970–1995". Rowohlt.de. Retrieved 2 November 2025.
  2. ↑ Gray, Richard T.; Gross, Ruth V.; Goebel, Rolf J.; Koelb, Clayton (30 August 2005). A Franz Kafka Encyclopedia. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 240. ISBN   978-0-313-06142-4.
  3. 1 2 3 "Chronicle 1931–1949". Rowohlt.de. Retrieved 2 November 2025.
  4. ↑ "Ernst Rowohlt, book publisher; Originator of Paper-Backs in West Germany Dies — Aided Kafka's Career". New York Times: 23. 3 December 1960. Retrieved 2 November 2025.
  5. ↑ "Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Biography". ChateaudeLavigny.ch. Retrieved 2 November 2025.
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