Paul Zsolnay Verlag is an

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Overview

The company was created in 1923 by Paul Zsolnay.Hall, Murray G.: “Publishers and Institutions in Austria, 1918–45”, pp. 79–80. ''A History of Austrian Literature 1918–2000'' (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture). Katrin Kohl (ed.), Ritchie Robertson (ed.), Camden House Inc., 2006
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, and Frank Thiess.

Nazi era

After Austria's

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with

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in 1938, the publishing house's owner, Paul Zsolnay, was subject to Nazi anti-Jewish restrictions. After initial attempts to "trick" the Nazis by utilizing an “Aryan” titular head to his firm, he fled to London. The

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closed the publishing house in April 1939, until the non-Jewish bookseller Karl H. Bischoff took over. In London, Zsolnay worked for the British publisher Heinemann, helping to set up the imprint Heinemann & Zsolnay. Paul Zsolnay lived in

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from 1938 to 1946.

Postwar

When Zsolnay returned to Vienna in 1946, he recovered the business and renamed it the Heinemann & Zsolnay Verlag,

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