Stahlberg Verlag was founded in 1946 by the then 25-year-old Ingeborg Stahlberg in Karlsruhe. Until the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany at the end of 1949, the publishing house was an important forum for the post-war generation. With the Buchreihe Ruf der Jugend series, Stahlberg Verlag was directly involved in the founding of the Group 47.
In 1950 the publishing house changed its concept. Ernst Krawehl and Gerhard Heller joined the publishing house as equal partners, and this became a GmbH. There appeared now important writers of modernity, of Curzio Malaparte in 1950 the bestseller The skin, by Arno Schmidt 1956 The stone heart. Stahlberg became the publishing house of Arno Schmidt. His monumental work, Zettel's Traum, was also published in 1970 under the signet "Stahlberg". But also playful works such as Clochemerle by Gabriel Chevallier or the lyricism of Peter Paul Althaus belonged to the Stahlberg program. From the beginning, French literature, which was published in a specially founded publishing house, the Amadis publishing house, founded by Ingeborg Stahlberg
Until 1968 Stahlberg-Verlag, headed by Ingeborg Stahlberg, was independent, then taken over by Georg von Holtzbrinck publishing house in Stuttgart, initially co-publisher Goverts and Krüger, and later transferred to S. Fischer Verlag today important Stahlberg authors. Edit source text
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