Neuer Verlag
Max Tau founded the Neuer Verlag in Stockholm in 1944. It happened to be a German publishing house, organizationally a subdivision of the Ljus-Verlag, but Tau was able to decide what he wanted to publish. Tau said the following about the program: “Er [d.h. der Verlag] kennt keinen Unterschied zwischen Ost und West. Er will ein Sammelpunkt fuer neue Kultur sein und wird versuchen, den jungen und unbekannten Dichtern zum Echo zu verhelfen”. But he could not keep the promise about unknown authors and published mostly well-known ones.
Tau managed the Neuer Verlag, which was the only new German publishing house in Europe during the second World War aside from Heinemann & Zsolnay in London, until 1946, when he left because of personal differences.
He gained his first experience in the publishing business during his academic studies. Between 1928 and 1936 he was editor-in-chief of the Bruno Cassirer Verlag. He immigrated to Norway on December 22, 1938 and was able to flee to Sweden at the end of 1942. In the beginning of 1943 he started work as an editor at the Ljus-Verlag.
Overall the Neuer Verlag published 27 titles.
Resources
- 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): Max Tau http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Tau
- Friedenspreis des deutschen Buchhandels Max Tau http://www.friedenspreis-des-deutschen-buchhandels.de/445722/?aid=537670
- 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
