S. Fischer Verlag

Originally, it was renowned for naturalistic literature. Famous authors include Gerhart Hauptmann and Thomas Mann, both awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

After the Nazis came to power in Germany, the Jewish family of owner Gottfried Bermann-Fischer fled and founded a branch of their publishing house in Vienna. Those who remained in Berlin kept the official name "S. Fischer Verlag" and were led by Peter Suhrkamp.

After the Second World War, disputes over the future of the publishing house arose between Suhrkamp and Fischer.{{Cite book |last=James |first=Harold |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47712303 |title=Die Deutsche Bank und die "Arisierung" |date=2001 |publisher=C.H. Beck |others=Avraham Barkai, Karl Heinz Siber |isbn=3-406-47192-7 |location=München |oclc=47712303}} This led to an out-of-court agreement, resulting in a sort of bisection of the S. Fischer Verlag: Bermann-Fischer regained control from Peter Suhrkamp, but Suhrkamp founded his own Suhrkamp publishing house in 1950, and authors could choose which publishing house they wanted to be published by in future. Ultimately, 33 of the 48 authors, among them Bertolt Brecht, Hermann Hesse, T. S. Eliot and George Bernard Shaw, decided to change to Suhrkamp.

Among the imprints of Fischer are Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Argon Verlag and Scherz Verlag. Today the S. Fischer Verlag, as well as other publishers, such as Kindler, Rowohlt, and Kiepenheuer & Witsch and Metzler, are part of Holtzbrinck, a publishing group. Holtzbrinck bought S. Fischer in 1963.

In 2010, O. W. Barth Verlag, which had been part of Scherz Verlag, was acquired by Droemer Knaur, which is also part of the Holtzbrinck Group.{{Cite web |title=Droemer Knaur übernimmt O.W. Barth Verlag |url=https://www.boersenblatt.net/archiv/354102.html |access-date=2023-03-31 |website=www.boersenblatt.net |language=de}}

Edition Peters — a prominent publisher for worldwide music — was located next door to them, but in 2014 moved to Leipzig.{{cite news | url=http://www.focus.de/regional/leipzig/musik-musikverlag-edition-peters-hat-stammsitz-wieder-in-leipzig_id_3959758.html | title=Musik: Musikverlag Edition Peters hat Stammsitz wieder in Leipzig | date=1 July 2014 | newspaper=Focus | language=de | access-date=1 January 2015}} (headline: "Music Publisher Edition Peters has its headquarters in Leipzig again")

In 2015, S. Fischer Verlag sued US-based Project Gutenberg in German court for copyright infringement of 18 works by Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann and Alfred Döblin, works in the public domain in the US, but still copyrighted under German law. In February 2018 Project Gutenberg responded to the German court's judgement by blocking all access to Project Gutenberg from IP addresses in Germany,Der Standard, 19. March 2018, [https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000076409688/project-gutenberg-freie-online-bibliothek-blockiert-deutsche-nutzer Project Gutenberg: Freie Online-Bibliothek blockiert deutsche Nutzer]{{cite web|title=Court Order to Block Access from Germany|url=https://cand.pglaf.org/germany/|website=Project Gutenberg|access-date=9 March 2018}}{{cite web | publisher=Börsenblatt | date=3 May 2019 | url=https://www.boersenblatt.net/archiv/1650035.html | title=gutenberg.org haftet für Urheberrechtsverletzungen in Deutschland | accessdate=30 November 2021 }} making the full content of Project Gutenberg inaccessible for German residents.

• Martin Mauthner: German Writers in French Exile, 1933–1940, Vallentine Mitchell, London 2007, {{ISBN|978-0-85303-540-4}}

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