Atrium Verlag
In 1935, Kurt Leo Maschler founded the Atrium Verlag, using the publishing rights from Williams Verlag. He stayed in Germany and managed the publishing house from afar. The primary goal of the publishing house was to preserve the rights to publish the forbidden books of Erich Kaestner.
The publishing house Williams & Co. was founded in 1924, with a focus on children’s books and juvenile literature. On the night of the Reichstagsbrand (February 27/28, 1933) Edith Jacobsohn, who was the owner of the publishing house, immigrated to Vienna. After a few months she left Austria and went to Switzerland, where she decided to sell the Williams Verlag to Kurt Leo Maschler (August 1933).
Maschler had immigrated to London before the Second World War and had continued his publishing activities.
Resources
- Fischer, Ernst: Verleger, Buchhaendler und Antiquare aus Deutschland und Oesterreich in der Emigration nach 1933: ein biographisches Handbuch / von Ernst Fischer. - Stuttgart : Verband Deutscher Antiquare, 2011
- Wikipedia (2012): Atrium Verlag http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrium_Verlag
- Buchmarkt. 75 Jahre "Erich Kästner Verlag" Atrium (2010) http://www.buchmarkt.de/content/43948-.htm
- Börsenblatt. Neustart bei Atrium (2006) http://www.buchjournal.de/118899/
- Spoerri, Bettina (2007): Tradition verpflichtet. In: Jüdische Allgemeine http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=7&ved=0CEcQFjAG&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.juedische-allgemeine.de%2Farticle%2Fpdf%2Fid%2F3687&ei=BzWAUIKLOMP30gHHuoCwDw&usg=AFQjCNHWZgwySPmQCH54r--Cz971n4KvYg&cad=rja
