Publishing house, originally in Berlin.

The Ullstein Buchverlag was founded by the Ullstein family, newspaper publishers since 1877 (Ullstein Verlag, publisher of the Berliner Zeitung and Vossische Zeitung), in 1903, producing books across a broad spectrum. Notable were the six-volume Ullstein Weltschichte (1908‒10), and the 1-Mark series "Rote Ullstein-Bücher" (1910‒). With the founding of subsidiaries Propyläen Verlag in 1919 and Theaterverlag Arkadia 1924, Ullstein attracted authors such as Brecht, Gerhart Hauptmann, Heinrich Mann, and Erich Maria Remarques (All Quiet on the Western Front, 1928). In the field of music, the company issued Musik für Alle: Monatshefte zur Pflege volkstümlicher Musik between 1904/05 and 1937, Pfohl's Richard Wagner: Sein Leben und Schaffen in 1918, and Joachim Delbrück's novel Spiel in Moll: ein Chopin-Roman in 1919.

In 1934, the family was forced to sell up and the company was nazified, becoming in 1937 the "Deutscher Verlag," which published the Nazi organs the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, also Das Reich and Signal. After the war the Ullstein family re-established the company in Vienna, Berlin, and Frankfurt; it was purchased by Axel Springer in the 1960s, and is now (2011) part of the Bonnier group.

Ullstein and the Schenker circle

On November 25, 1925, Schenker wrote to Artur Schnabel in Berlin to "ask him for information on the honorarium from Ullstein" (OC 52/819; diary p. 2895). Viktor Zuckerkandl was from 1927 to 1933 a music critic for the Ullstein-Blätter. Walter Dahms wrote disparagingly in 1927 of "some Berlin Ullstein scribbler" in connection with Furtwängler.

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