thkampen" A little more digging confirmed that Panther Books mutated into #SevenSeasBooks, which was run by #Heym ’s American #wife, Gertrude #Gelbin, and continued to #publish English-language #books, mostly #novels "
"In his article Mark #Twain – The Licensed Jester (Tribune, 26 November 1943), George #Orwell
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Mark Twain’s pamphlet was not reissued until 1961 when Seven Seas Books, an East #German #publisher, reprinted it with an introduction by Stefan Heym. Stefan #Heym later became a dissident but remained a socialist until his death in 2001 aged eighty eight. #SevenSeasBooks was of course owned by the #EastGerman government and published radical English language #books. "
https://orwellsociety.com/down-the-memory-hole/
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Mark Twain’s pamphlet was not reissued until 1961 when Seven Seas Books, an East #German #publisher, reprinted it with an introduction by Stefan Heym. Stefan #Heym later became a dissident but remained a socialist until his death in 2001 aged eighty eight. #SevenSeasBooks was of course owned by the #EastGerman government and published radical English language #books. "
https://orwellsociety.com/down-the-memory-hole/
" #Heym was to live there permanently. Gertrude, who was to be a #Publisher and #Editor of left-wing #Literature in English via #SevenSeasBooks, died in 1969. Heym’s next #novel, Goldsborough , and was published there in 1954. "
https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/stefan-heym-a-central-witness-to-both-fascism-and-socialism-in-germany/
#Book #Books #Publishing
https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/stefan-heym-a-central-witness-to-both-fascism-and-socialism-in-germany/
#Book #Books #Publishing
Stefan Heym: A central witness to both fascism and socialism in Germany
Stefan Heym—journalist, novelist, essayist—and a lifelong socialist, died 20 years ago, aged 88, on Dec. 16, 2001. His unfading commitment to humanity through his writing and actions must be remembered and celebrated.
"That's down to a fascinating #publisher called #SevenSeasBooks, that was based in #Glinkastrasse , #Berlin. Seven Seas had been founded in 1958 by the #American Gertrude #Gelbin, the wife of the #German #author Stefan #Heym ."
https://colinville.blogspot.com/2013/12/seven-seas-books-berlin.html
