''Verlag Die Schmiede'' was an

avant-garde The avant-garde (; In 'advance guard' or ' vanguard', literally 'fore-guard') is a person or work that is experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art, culture, or society.John Picchione, The New Avant-garde in Italy: Theoretical ...

literature publishing house in the 1920s in Berlin. It published works by

Franz Kafka Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic. It ...

, Alfred Döblin,

Joseph Roth Moses Joseph Roth (2 September 1894 – 27 May 1939) was an Austrian journalist and novelist, best known for his family saga '' Radetzky March'' (1932), about the decline and fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, his novel of Jewish life '' Job'' ...

Rudolf Leonhard Rudolf Leonhard (27 October 1889, in Lissa, German Empire (today Leszno, Poland) – 19 December 1953, in East Berlin) was a German author and communist activist. Life Leonhard came from a family of lawyers and studied law and Philology in Berli ...

, and many more. Most of its dust jackets were designed by

George Salter George Salter (5 October 1897 – 31 October 1967), born Georg Salter, was an originally German, and from 1940 onwards an American book cover designer. He revolutionized cover design for books. He claimed worldwide fame for his design for Alfred D ...

, later a US citizen. Leonhard was employed as a reader and editor from 1919. The publisher was the first to publish Kafka's story collection '' Ein Hungerkünstler'' in 1924 and his novel '' Der Process'' in 1925, after the author's death. Kafka had prepared the collection for print, his friend

Max Brod Max Brod ( he, מקס ברוד; 27 May 1884 – 20 December 1968) was a German-speaking Bohemian, later Israeli, author, composer, and journalist. Although he was a prolific writer in his own right, he is best remembered as the friend and biog ...

the novel. Roth's novels '' Hotel Savoy'' and '' Rebellion'' were first published in 1924. Rudolf Schottlaender's first translation of the first part of '' À la recherche du temps perdu'' was published under the title of ''Der Weg zu Swann'' (The way to Swann).

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