Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt

The Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt (FVA) has had altogether three previous embodiments. Firstly in the early 1920s in Berlin as a company that was compulsorily liquidated in 1938 because of the Nuremberg Race Laws; then in 1951 it was reconstituted by the publicist Eugen Kogan and the writer Alfred Andersch; Ingeborg Bachmann’s first volume of poetry Gestundete Zeit (‘Deferred time’) was one of the books it published. The third embodiment of the FVA was officially registered by Klaus and Ida Schöffling in 1987. Within a very short period of time it brought out a remarkable sequence of literary titles, but because of financial difficulties faced by a sleeping partner the publishers and their authors left the company only five years later. In 1994 Joachim Unseld, who had previously been a publisher at Suhrkamp Verlag, took over the dormant FVA, and in 1995 the FVA came out with a new and decidedly literary list. From then on the FVA has continued publishing high-quality, well-regarded books by major German and international authors. The new FVA has been dedicated from the outset to finding and promoting new writers and ensuring its own continued success.