About Eichborn

In 1980 Vito von Eichborn founded a new publishing house with a list including international fiction, politics and humour. The humour list was an immediate success, making it possible to develop a strong and diverse fiction and non-fiction list. This list ranges from entertaining fiction over ancient and modern classical literature to contemporary fiction by German and foreign authors to a successful non-fiction list, featuring popular dictionaries, general non-fiction on current interest, plus a strong list of career reference books for students and academics.

In 1989 Franz Greno and Hans Magnus Enzensberger decided to join Eichborn with their series "Die Andere Bibliothek" (The Other Library) founded in 1985. Hans Magnus Enzensberger, as editor of this series, has remained completely independent in choosing authors and subjects, whereas Franz Greno has continued as esthetical spiritus rector of this highly esteemed list. The Last World by Christoph Ransmayr, The Emigrants, The Rings Of Saturn and Vertigo by W.G. Sebald and Pious Secrets by Irene Dische, to mention but a few, were originally published within this series.

Since 1996 the company entertains an office in Berlin which both represents Eichborn in the German capital and scouts for yet undiscovered German authors. Under the imprint "Eichborn Berlin" authors as Karen Duve, Jenny Erpenbeck and Sven Regener were already successfully introduced to both a domestic and an international audience.