Heinemann & Zsolnay

Paul Zsolnay worked for Heinemann before partnering with him and founding the publishing house Heinemann & Zsolnay in London in 1940. They acquired the French translation rights for works of Somerset Maugham and Ernest Hemingway. Furthermore, they published speeches of Winston Churchill. Overall it was a successful business.

Zsolnay was the owner of the Paul Zsolnay Verlag in Vienna, which he founded in 1923. After the Anschlusshe aryanized his business in pretense and came to England in November 1938. At first he tried to stay in contact with his publishing house in Vienna but the Gestapo discovered the false aryanization and closed the company in March 1939.

Resources

• Exilforschung: ein internationales Jahrbuch / hrsg. von Claus-Dieter Krohn, Erwin Rotermund, Lutz Winckler… - Muenchen: edition text + kritik, 2004. Bd. 22, Buecher, Verlage, Medien
• Paul Zsolnay (2010) http://www.austria-lexikon.at/af/AEIOU/Zsolnay,_Paul
• Verlagsportrait Paul Zsolnay http://www.hanser-literaturverlage.de/verlage/zsolnay-und-deuticke.html
• Wikipedia (2012): Paul Zsolnay http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Zsolnay
• Österreichische Nationalbibliothek: Paul Zsolnay Verlag http://www.onb.ac.at/sammlungen/litarchiv/bestaende_det.php?id=zsolnay