Malik-Verlag (Ger: ''Der Malik-Verlag'') was a German publishing house founded by

Wieland Herzfelde Wieland Herzfelde ( Herzfeld; 11 April 1896 – 23 November 1988) was a German publisher and writer. He is particularly known for his links with German avant-garde art and Marxist thought, and was the brother of the photo montage artist John H ...

, his brother John Heartfield, and

George Grosz George Grosz (; ; born Georg Ehrenfried Groß; July 26, 1893 – July 6, 1959) was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Obj ...

, and existed from 1916 to 1947. It primiarly focused on political, anti-fascist, and

avant-garde In the arts and literature, the term ''avant-garde'' ( meaning or ) identifies an experimental genre or work of art, and the artist who created it, which usually is aesthetically innovative, whilst initially being ideologically unacceptable ...

art as well as

communist Communism () is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered on common ownership of the means of production, di ...

literature. Its name derives from the novel Der Malik by

Else Lasker-Schüler Else Lasker-Schüler (née Elisabeth Schüler) (; 11 February 1869 – 22 January 1945) was a German poet and playwright famous for her bohemian lifestyle in Berlin and her poetry. She was one of the few women affiliated with the Expressionist ...

. 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. In 1944, having successfully gained a visa to America in 1939, he, in conjunction with others like

Oskar Maria Graf Oskar Maria Graf (22 July 1894 – 28 June 1967) was a German-American writer who wrote several narratives about life in Bavaria, mostly autobiographical. In the beginning, Graf wrote under his real name Oskar Graf. After 1918, his works for ne ...

, launched 'Aurora Verlag' as the successor. The books published with Malik-Verlag were made popular due to their innovative dust jackets designed by

John Heartfield John Heartfield (born Helmut Herzfeld; 19 June 1891 – 26 April 1968) was a German visual artist who pioneered the use of art as a political weapon. Some of his most famous photomontages were anti-Nazi and anti-fascist statements. Heartfield a ...

who used the technique of

photomontage Photomontage is the process and the result of making a composite photograph by cutting, gluing, rearranging and overlapping two or more photographs into a new image. Sometimes the resulting composite image is photographed so that the final imag ...

and specially designed typefaces. The books and materials of Malik-Verlag were notoriously part of the 1930s

Nazi book burning The Nazi book burnings were a campaign conducted by the German Student Union (, ''DSt'') to ceremonially burn books in Nazi Germany and Austria in the 1930s. The books targeted for burning were those viewed as being subversive or as representin ...

campaigns.

Publications

Magazines

* ''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

* ''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)

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