Kurt Wolff

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Kurt Wolff, (1887 Bonn - 1963 Marbach), was a German publisher, editor, writer and journalist. Together with Ernst Rowohlt he began to work in publishing in Leipzig in 1908. He was the first to promote and publish the authors Franz Kafka and Franz Werfel. Wolff's close contact to other writers in Prague and the support for unknown, but talented writers, helped him develop Kafka's friends, Max Brod and Felix Weltsch who were more well known in Berlin and Germany. Later in Munich, Florence and the United States, Wolff tried to develop different publishing houses. In the U.S., his "Pantheon Books" became famous as well.