Malik-Verlag
Malik-Verlag (Ger: Der Malik-Verlag) was a German publishing house founded by Wieland Herzfelde, his brother John Heartfield, and George Grosz, and existed from 1916 to 1947. It primiarly focused on political, anti-fascist, and avant-garde art as well as communist literature.[1]
It's name derives from the novel Der Malik by Else Lasker-Schüler. In 1983, it was relaunched under the new name, Neuer Malik Verlag, by Thies Ziemke, however was sold to Piper Verlag in 1996 where it continued under the 'Malik Verlag' imprint.[2] In 1944, having successfully gained a visa to America in 1939, he, in conjunction with others like Oskar Maria Graf, launched 'Aurora Verlag' as the successor.[3]
The books published with Malik-Verlag were made popular due to their innovative dust jackets designed by John Heartfield who used the technique of photomontage and specially-designed typefaces.[4]
The books and materials of Malik-Verlag were notoriously part of the 1930s Nazi book burning campaigns.[5]
Publications
[edit]Magazines
[edit]- Neue Jugend (1916–1917)
- Everyone has their own football (1919)
- Die Pleite (1919–1920)
- Der Gegner (1919 to 1922)
- Neue deutsche Blätter (1933–1935)
Series
[edit]- Small revolutionary library (1920–1923)
- Red Novel Series (1921–1924)
- Collection of revolutionary stage works (1921–1923)
- Below and Above (1921–1923)
- The Fairy Tales of the Poor (1923–1924)
- Science and Society (1924)
- Malik Library (1924–1926)
Further reading
[edit]- Herzfelde, Wieland. 1965. Der Malik-Verlag 1916-1947. Ausstellungskatalog. Berlin: Verlag.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Photobibliothek.ch - John Heartfield: Malik-Verlag". photobibliothek.ch. Retrieved 2024-12-29.
- ^ "Malik". www.piper.de. Retrieved 2024-12-29.
- ^ "Malik Verlag". Leo Baeck Institute (in German). Retrieved 2024-12-29.
- ^ Zervigón, Andrés Mario (2012). John Heartfield and the Agitated Image. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-98177-2.
- ^ "MoMA | The Collection | Malik-Verlag, Berlin". MoMA.org. Retrieved 2024-12-29.
- ^ "„Der Malik-Verlag Ausstellung" – Bücher gebraucht, antiquarisch & neu kaufen". www.booklooker.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-12-29.