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Goldmann (formerly Wilhelm Goldmann Publishing) is a publishing house in Munich and part of the Random House Publishing Group, in turn belonging to the Bertelsmann group. They are the best-selling commercial publishers in Germany, especially in .
Today the publishing house is an imprint of Penguin Random House, a subsidiary of Bertelsmann.
In the Nazi Germany, Goldmann also published increasingly popular science books on environmental and economic issues; the high-circulation authors of that period included, for example, Anton Zischka, Walter Pahl, Paul August Schmitz and Ferdinand Fried. During World War II, Goldmann produced special editions for the support of troops and benefited from preferred paper allocations. Although the publishing house at the Leipzig Rossmarkt was completely destroyed in an air raid in December 1943, the production could be maintained until the war ended.
After the war, Wilhelm Goldmann was arrested in February 1946 by the Soviet secret police on charges of "fascist book", and detained for four years without a trial in the special camps Mühlberg and Buchenwald. Meanwhile, the publishing house continued production to the end of 1949.
In 1970 Goldmann published over 2,900 titles with a total circulation of over 110 million copies, in the mid-1970s they were in terms of sales, classed as mediocre, and in terms of produce titles, one of the biggest paperback publishers in the Federal Republic. After the death of its founder in 1974, the publisher had a period of stagnation. Critics had given him a bad name and considered the program as a "general store with highly different levels of quality." Most importantly, Goldmann had not "taken care of current literature” and in the international licensing business played "so far only a minor role".
Goldmann published German language of a number of Doctor Who novelisations in the 1980s, mostly stories involving the .
The focus of the Red series was predominantly English-language crime fiction, in which the covers were created in the corresponding color. The first title in the series was The Frog with the Mask from Edgar Wallace, who along with Agatha Christie, initially dominated the series. Later came Victor Gunn, Arthur Upfield and Thomas Muir, and even later, Francis Durbridge and Rex Stout. Other well-known recurring authors were Louis Weinert-Wilton, Earl Derr Biggers, John Creasey, Ellery Queen, Dick Francis and Bill Knox. In addition, in the Yellow series demanding literature also appeared from Stefan Heym, Walter Kempowski, Manfred Bieler and Ingeborg Drewitz.
Today at Goldmann Publishing, a wide range of fiction as well as the non-fiction is offered. Known authors include Bill Bryson, Joy Fielding, Elizabeth George, Wladimir Kaminer, Richard David Precht, Lucinda Riley, Michael Robotham and Donna Tartt. Recently Goldmann Publishing became more well known, with the Fifty Shades trilogy by British author E. L. James, in Germany alone, more than seven million copies were sold until spring 2013.
In addition to the brand Goldmann, the publisher published books on mysticism, spirituality and alternative medicine since 1980, first labeled the Goldmann Esoteric and then later branded Goldmann Arkana. Guides have been published at Goldmann since 1998 under the brand Mosaic. In 1998 the original Goldmann Esoteric became the Arkana Verlag, which is now run as an independent publisher from Random House Publishing Group. The same applies to the Mosaic Publishing.
In 1998 Goldmann published a 24-volume encyclopedia entitled "Goldmann Lexikon". (1998). 9783442900008, Goldmann. ISBN 9783442900008
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