Suhrkamp Verlag is a German publishing house, established in 1950 and generally acknowledged as one of the leading European publisher of fine literature.
The firm was established by Peter Suhrkamp, who had led the equally renowned S. Fischer Verlag since 1936. Suhrkamp was arrested by the Gestapo in 1944, but survived concentration camp imprisonment. Following a suggestion by Hermann Hesse, he left the Fischer publishing house, establishing his own in 1950. A majority of the writers associated with Fischer followed him. Among the first authors he published, were Hesse, Rudolf Alexander Schröder, Hermann Kasack, T. S. Eliot, George Bernard Shaw and Bertolt Brecht.
Siegfried Unseld joined the firm in 1952, became part owner in 1957, and publisher on Suhrkamp's death in 1959. He led Suhrkamp Verlag until his own death in 2002.
Under Unseld's leadership, the publisher established itself within three major fields: 20th century German literature, foreign language literature and...
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