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S. Fischer

S. Fischer

S. Publishing House was founded. Fischer in Berlin in 1886 by Samuel Fischer. His son-in-law, Gottfried Bermann Fischer, gradually took over its management in the late 1920s, leading it through a period of exile and war, then moving it to Frankfurt. As for the company's recent history, it was influenced by Monica Schul…

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S. Fischer

S. Fischer

S. Publishing House was founded. Fischer in Berlin in 1886 by Samuel Fischer. His son-in-law, Gottfried Bermann Fischer, gradually took over its management in the late 1920s, leading it through a period of exile and war, then moving it to Frankfurt. As for the company's recent history, it was influenced by Monica Schuler, who served as publisher from 1974 until her death in 2019.Continuing the history and tradition of the publishing house, today the Fischer program includes contemporary literature and non-fiction books – however, many of the big names of classical modernism are still prominently represented in the programme, for example Thomas Mann, Heinrich Mann, Franz Kafka, Arthur Schnitzler, Franz Werfel, Stefan Zweig, Sigmund Freud, Virginia Woolf, Karl Zukmeyer, Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Alfred Kier.In 1904, Samuel Fisher expanded his publishing house to include a theater rights department – ​​and to this day, S. Fischer Verlag manages and distributes dramas, scripts and radio plays.The S group includes Fisher Publishing, along with S. Fisher Publishing and its publishing houses Kroger & Shears, specializes in entertainment books; TOR, which specializes in science fiction and fantasy; And Fischer Taschenbuch, with its broad program that includes various literary genres. Since 2009, S. Fisher also publishes e-books; In addition to specific electronic publications, the S Books program is available. Fisher is available almost entirely as an e-book in various formats.The management of the publishing house S. Fisher by Christina Dohmann (Chairman), Nicole Geissmann, and Oliver Vogel. The publishing house S. Fisher in Frankfurt, part of the Holzbrink Group.