S. Fischer Verlag

The S. Fischer Verlag was founded in 1886 by Samuel Fischer in Berlin. His son-in-law Gottfried Bermann Fischer gradually took over the reins towards the end of the 1920s and went on to guide the company through the period of war and exile, and ultimately transfer it to Frankfurt. The company’s more recent history then evolved under the aegis of Monika Schoeller, who ran it from 1974 until her death in 2019. In a continuation of the company’s history and traditions, its current assortment embraces literature and contemporary non-fiction books, but many big names of the Modern Classical era remain prominent figures in its list, including Thomas Mann, Heinrich Mann, Franz Kafka, Arthur Schnitzler, Franz Werfel, Stefan Zweig, Sigmund Freud, Virginia Woolf, Carl Zuckmayer, Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Alfred Kerr. In 1904 Samuel Fischer extended the company’s range by starting to acquire the rights to plays, and the S. Fischer Verlag continues to host and promote stage, screen and radio plays. In addition to ‘S. Fischer’, the S. Fischer group also owns the imprints ‘FISCHER KJB’, ‘FISCHER Sauerländer’, ‘FISCHER Duden’, ‘FISCHER Kinder- und Jugendtaschenbuch’ and ‘FISCHER New Media’. Since 2009 the S. Fischer group has also published e-books – indeed almost the entire assortment of the group is now available as e-books in a variety of different formats.