Piper Verlag

The Piper Verlag can look back on a lively history going back more than 100 years. When the company was founded by 25-year-old Reinhard Piper in Munich in 1904, it concentrated not only on literature but also on the non-fiction areas of art and philosophy, both of which still figure large in Piper’s extensive assortment. The range of Piper’s books is very diverse, whether it be hardback books, paperbacks or e-books, and the same applies to its spectrum of literary genres. In the course of the company's history readers have been offered an ever-growing choice of books, on the principle that they should be offered the best possible entertainment. The range of genres includes belles-lettres, thrillers and detective novels, travel stories, non-fiction, fantasy and literature. Among the writers published by Piper are the likes of Hape Kerkeling and Cecilia Ahern, alongside major personalities such as Hannah Arendt and Reinhold Messner.