Goldmann (publisher)
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| Parent company | Random House |
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| Founded | 21 June 1922 |
| Founder | Wilhelm Goldmann |
| Country of origin | Germany |
| Headquarters location | Munich |
| Key people | Georg Reuchlein |
| Official website | www |
Goldmann (formerly Wilhelm Goldmann Publishing) is a publishing house in Munich and part of the Bertelsmann group belonging to the Random House Publishing Group. They are the best-selling commercial publishers in Germany, especially in paperbacks.
Today the publishing house is an imprint of Random House, a subsidiary of Bertelsmann.
The publishing house was founded in 1922 in Leipzig by Wilhelm Goldmann, who had previously worked as a traveling agent for other publishers. The new publishing house first published art books and adventure novels and celebrated its first success with the detective novels of Edgar Wallace in the mid-1920s. To which the expressive modern design of the book covers by Heinrich Hussmann, and the fact that Goldmann published an inexpensive "brochure edition" in addition to the traditional clothbound books, which became an early form of the subsequent pocket books that were later developed for the train station bookstores.
In the era of National Socialism, Goldmann also published increasingly popular science books on environmental and economic issues; to the high-circulation authors of that period included for example, Anton Zischka, Walter Pahl, Paul August Schmitz and Ferdinand Fried. During World War II, Goldmann produced special editions for the support of troops and benefited from preferred paper allocations. Although the publishing house at the Leipzig Rossmarkt was completely destroyed in an air raid in December 1943, the production could be maintained until the war ended.
After the war, Wilhelm Goldmann was arrested in February 1946 by the Soviet secret police on charges of "fascist book", and detained for four years without a trial in the special camps Mühlberg and Buchenwald. Meanwhile, the publishing house continued production to the end of 1949.
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