Aurora Verlag

In 1944, Wieland Herzfelde, who had already arrived in the USA in 1939, founded the Aurora Verlag, the virtual successor of the Malik-Verlag, as a cooperative publishing house, along with Ernst Bloch, Bertolt Brecht, Ferdinand Bruckner, Alfred Döblin, Lion Feuchtwanger, Oskar Maria Graf, Heinrich Mann, Berthold Viertel, Ernst Waldinger and F.C. Weiskopf. Herzfelde was the director of the company, which got financial support from Paul Mueller, a Vienna-based bookseller. Aurora Verlag’s goals were to maintain and publish exile literature, and to translate English books to German.. They published 12 books between 1944 and 1947.

In spring 1949, Herzfelde went back to Germany and gave up the Aurora Verlag. The Eastern German Aufbau Verlag took over the production in a new series.

See also: Malik Verlag

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
  • Leo Baeck Institute Exhibition – Publishing in Exile: German-Language Literature in the U.S. in the 1940s Aurora/Malik Verlag, Wieland Herzfelde
  • Cazden, Robert E.: German Exile Literature in America 1933-1950: a history of the free German Press and book trade / Robert E. Cazden. - Chicago: American Library Assaciation, 1970
  • Exilforschung: ein internationales Jahrbuch / hrsg. von Claus-Dieter Krohn, Erwin Rotermund, Lutz Winckler… - Muenchen: edition text + kritik, 2004. Bd. 22, Buecher, Verlage, Medien
  • Wikipedia (2012): Aurora-Verlag http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora-Verlag
  • Who’s who (2012): Wieland Herzfelde http://www.whoswho.de/templ/te_bio.php?PID=1168&RID=1
  • Washton Long, Rose-Carol; Baigell, Matthew; Heyd, Milly (2010): Jewish Dimensions in Modern Visual Culture. Antisemitism, Assimilation, Affirmation http://books.google.de/books?id=4OIqCtHgOxIC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
Location: New York
Period: 1944 -1948
Publisher(s): Wieland Herzfelde -- April 11, 1896 Weggis/CH - November 23, 1988 Berlin
Main Focus: antifascist literature
Author(s): Ernst Bloch, Bertolt Brecht, Ferdinand Bruckner, Alfred Döblin, Anna Seghers, Lion Feuchtwanger, Oskar Maria Graf, Heinrich Mann, Berthold Viertel, Ernst Waldinger und Franz Carl Weiskopf
Number of Titles Published: 12