Bassermann Verlag – Wikipedia

Bassermann is a German book publisher based in Munich. It was founded in Mannheim in 1843 and has been part of the Random House publishing group since 1998 (now called Penguin Random House publishing group). The Bassermann Verlag today mainly appears. The most famous author of the publisher is Wilhelm Busch. ^[3]

Friedrich Daniel Bassermann (lithograph from 1842)

From 1833 to 1841 Friedrich Daniel Bassermann ran a drugstore in Mannheim. ^[4] He sold them to his brother and founded a bookstore with Karl Mathy in 1843. ^[5] The German newspaper, whose editor Georg Gottfried Gervinus was. ^[6] Bassermann also published novels and non -fiction books by authors such as Hoffmann von Fallersleben. ^[7] After Mathy left the publisher, he was called Bassermann’s publishing house from 1854. ^[8] A year later, Friedrich Daniel Bassermann committed suicide. ^[9] Ludwig Aster hired his widow as managing director and sold the publisher in 1865 to Aster and Otto Friedrich Bassermann. The seat then changed from Mannheim to Heidelberg. ^[ten] In 1867 Aster resigned from the company again, so it was now completely owned by Bassermann. ^[11]

Bassermann won Wilhelm Busch for his publisher, whom he still knew from his apprenticeship in Munich. ^[twelfth] From 1871/72 he published all his works in the Bassermann publishing house. ^{[13] [14]} The first two titles were, for example, “Die Fromme Helene” and “Pictures of Jobsiade”. ^[15] In 1878 Bassermann moved to Munich with his family and the company, ^[11] to facilitate cooperation with his most important author Busch. ^[16] The relationship between the author and publisher was not free of tensions: ^[17] Due to disputes about the fee, Busch even intervened in 1884. ^[18] In 1896 Wilhelm Busch finally sold all rights to his publications for the one -time payment of 50,000 guilders to Bassermann. ^[19] In 1903 Bassermann gave up the Bassermann publishing house for health reasons. ^[16]

After the Second World War, the Bassermann publishing house was revived by Ernst Battenberg. ^[16] He had previously founded the Battenberg Verlag named after him in Stuttgart and moved the seat to Munich in the early 1960s. ^[20] In 1973 he sold the company to Frank Sicker, the owner of the Falken Verlag from Niedernhausen. At this point, Bassermann achieved sales of 500,000 German marks annually. ^[21] After the takeover, Bassermann’s publishing house hired its business, the program was fully integrated into Falken Verlag. ^[16] It was only in 1988 that Bassermann came back onto the market as an imprint of Falken, ^[22] It was the first daughter of Falken. ^[23] The publisher mainly published advisors for modern antiquarian bookshop. ^[24]

In the 1990s, Falken Verlag with Bassermann was solidly established according to media reports. ^[25] Only after the takeover by the Random House publishing group in 1998 became known to economic difficulties, ^[26] Which is why they then initiated austerity measures and dismissed employees. ^[27] The publishers Falken and Bassermann continued to be based in Niedernhausen. At the end of 2001 the owners announced that the company should be sold to Gräfe and Unzer, ^[28] Because you could not achieve the ambitious goals in the market for advice literature. ^[29] Since this project also failed, the Falken Verlag was closed. The Bassermann Verlag moved with some employees from Niedernhausen to Munich to the headquarters of the Random House publishing group. ^[30] Bassermann is still an independent publisher of the company. ^{[thirty first]}

At the time of taking over Bassermann by the Random House publishing group, 1,500 book titles and videos were available, ^[32] On the topics of advice and knowledge, food and drink, sports and fitness, garden and nature, creativity and hobby, health, life aid and esotericism, humor, puzzles, calendars as well as culture, history and technology. In 2000, Bassermann founded the Label Fact to use Bertelsmann-Lexika. ^[33] In 2007, Bassermann started a cookbook series in cooperation with the magazine Essen & Drinking from Gruner + Jahr. ^[34] From 2011 to 2016, title on creativity, enjoyment and garden was published under the label Bassermann Inspiration. ^[35] A total of around 140 novigs appear annually at Bassermann. ^[36] The most famous authors of the publisher include Hademar Bankhofer, ^[37] Bob Ross, ^[38] Johann runs unde lea linster, ^{[39] [40]} In the area of ​​child employment Norbert Pautner and in the puzzle area Eberhard Krüger. To date, a Wilhelm-Busch album is always available in the Bassermann program.

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