Nomos takes over Klostermann

Traditional publishing house becomes part of the Nomos Group

Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft takes over the long-established publishing house Vittorio Klostermann. The publishing house, founded in Frankfurt am Main in 1930, has an exclusively humanities programme. It publishes works by “classics” such as Hans-Georg Gadamer, Arnold Gehlen, Werner Hamacher, Martin Heidegger, Max Kommerell, Karl Mannheim and Ludwig Wittgenstein; and by contemporaries, including Dina Emundts, Kurt Flasch, Eckart Förster, Wolfgang Künne, Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff, Dominik Perler and Peter Trawny.

Klostermann has been managing the publications of the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Theory as well as bibliographic databases for German and French literary studies for many years. In 2020, the publishing house took over the famous Frankfurt Hölderlin edition from Stroemfeld and – last month – the historical-critical edition of Franz Kafka’s texts.

Klostermann will be integrated into the Nomos publishing group as a subsidiary and will continue to operate independently within the Frankfurt publishing house. The experienced team of editors will continue to be responsible for the programme; Klostermann will retain its publishing independence.

“For three years,” says publisher Vittorio E. Klostermann, “Nomos has been handling the distribution of our electronic book publications with its eLibrary. Its success in this field, which is also becoming increasingly important for humanities publishers, was so impressive for us that I was happy – now at the age of 75 – to be able to place the continuation of the entire publishing house in the hands of Nomos.” Anastasia Urban: “I am convinced that with Nomos we have found the best solution for the future of our publishing house.”