About the Publisher

The traditional Langen Müller Verlag has always stood for diversity in fiction and non-fiction. Literary classics and bestselling authors such as Norman Mailer and Alexander Solzhenitsyn have found a home here, as have Ephraim Kishon, Herbert Rosendorfer, Stefanie Zweig and many others. Even Hermann Hesse once published a novel here. Meanwhile, Rafael Seligmann, Arno Surminski and Jutta Speidel continue the publishing house's fictional successes.

The focus of the non-fiction program is in the socio-political field. Numerous politicians and personalities such as Hermann Otto Solms, Josef Ackermann, and Birgit Breuel have recently published in the publishing group.

Langen Müller publishes authors with strong opinions who, in turn, make an important contribution to the formation of public opinion with their publications. A lively discourse thrives on the exchange of arguments and a journalistic diversity. Therefore, authors from Thilo Sarrazin to Heribert Prantl have found a publishing home here.

Langen Müller demonstrated this publishing self-conception more than 100 years ago with the political satire of the magazine "Simplicissimus." The magazine held up a mirror to those in power during the German Empire and fought against anti-democratic tendencies in the Weimar Republic, as well as the "sweet and paralyzing" poison of conformity. Freedom of expression, tolerance, and mutual respect are the indispensable foundations of publishing work without fear of contact. The publishing house rejects extremist and totalitarian theses without exception – then as now.