Matthes & Seitz Verlag

Established in 2004, the Verlag Matthes & Seitz Berlin continues the tradition of the Munich publishing house Matthes & Seitz founded by Axel Matthes and Claus Seitz in 1977. In its Munich days Matthes & Seitz focused on the ‘Niemandsland zwischen Wissenschaft und Kunst’ (the ‘no man’s land between scholarship and art’), as the subtitle of its legendary annual publication Der Pfahl termed it, whereas Matthes & Seitz Berlin has opened itself up to some of the most important writers of today from Germany, France, Russia, China and other countries. Matthes & Seitz Berlin is notable for its new translations of classic works and for its wide-ranging non-fiction list in the humanities with a special focus on philosophy, ecology, political theory, anthropology and cultural studies.