Gottfried Bermann, later Gottfried Bermann Fischer (July 31, 1897, Gleiwitz, Silesia

Silesia

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 - September 17, 1995, Camaiore

Camaiore

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) was a German

Germany

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 publisher. He owned the S. Fischer Verlag

S. Fischer Verlag

The German publishing house S. Fischer Verlag was founded in 1886 by Samuel Fischer in Berlin and is a leading German address for literary publications and fiction.Originally, it was renowned for naturalism literature...

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After serving as an officer in World War I

World War I

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, Bermann Fischer studied medicine at the Universities of Breslau, Freiburg and Munich. In 1924 he met the daughter of the publisher Samuel Fischer, Brigitte, and married her in February of 1926.

Literary works

• Wanderer durch ein Jahrhundert. Fischer (Tb.), Frankfurt 1994, ISBN 3-596-12176-0
• Bedroht, bewahrt. Fischer (S.), Frankfurt 1981, ISBN 3-10-021601-6
• Briefwechsel mit Autoren. Fischer (S.), Frankfurt 2001, ISBN 3-10-021602-4
• Lebendige Gegenwart. ²1987, ISBN 3-7172-0348-7
• Briefwechsel. [with Carl Zuckmayer
  Carl Zuckmayer
  Carl Zuckmayer was a German writer and playwright.-Biography:Born in Nackenheim in Rheinhessen, he was four years old when his family moved to Mainz. With the outbreak of World War I, he finished school with a facilitated "emergency"-Abitur and volunteered for military service...
  
  ], Wallstein 2004, ISBN 3-89244-627-X
• Briefwechsel 1932 - 1955. [with Thomas Mann
  Thomas Mann
  Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual...
  
  ], Fischer (Tb.), Frankfurt 1975, ISBN 3-596-21566-8
• Die Neue Rundschau vom 6. Juni 1945. Faksimileausgabe, S. Fischer, Frankfurt 2001, ISBN 3-10-048184-4 (Hg.)

External links

• Nachlass im Marbacher Literaturarchiv