L. B. Fischer Publishing Corporation
In 1941, the L. B. Fischer Publishing Corp. was established in New York by Gottfried Bermann Fischer and Fritz H. Landshoff. Landshoff was in charge of the distribution and finances, Bermann Fischer of the production. Most of the titles were printed in Sweden due to Bermann Fischer’s contacts. As they decided to publish English books only and most of the exile authors already had sold their English publishing rights to other publishing houses, they faced some problems.
Financial problems first occurred in 1944 but the business overcame them with help from the Bonnier brothers. When financial problems returned two years later, they sold the company to the American publishing house A.A. Wyn.
Overall they published 64 works of 141 authors from 21 countries.
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
- Palmier, Jean-Michel: Weimar in Exile: the antifascist emigration in Europe and America / Jean-Michel Palmier. – London [u.a.]: Verso, 2006
- Exilforschung: ein internationales Jahrbuch / hrsg. von Claus-Dieter Krohn, Erwin Rotermund, Lutz Winckler… - Muenchen: edition text + kritik, 2004. Bd. 22, Buecher, Verlage, Medien
- Hench, John B. (2010): Books As Weapons: Propaganda, Publishing, and the Battle for Global Markets in the Era of World War II http://books.google.de/books?id=zMXrcridqB8C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
- Prinke, Tobias (2004): Fritz H. Landshoff. Die Verlegerpersönlichkeit der deutschen Exil-Literatur http://buecher.hagalil.com/aufbau/landshoff.htm
