Word: ullsteins
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...Honor of Revolt. Koestler joined the party in 1931, while he was a science and foreign editor for the publishing house of Ullstein in Berlin. It was the era when "wheat was burned, fruit artificially spoiled and pigs . . . drowned ... to keep prices up and enable fat capitalists to chant to the sound of harps, while Europe trembled under the torn boots of hunger-marchers . . ." Just like all the other authors of this volume, Koestler decided "that in the face of revolting injustice the only honorable attitude is to revolt, and to leave introspection for better times...
...never been on the Nazi side, he was quizzed for seven days in the Army screening center in Bad Orb. Then the A.M.G. rounded up ten editorial assistants for him, lent them newsprint, and put them to work in the big red brick building that once housed the famed Ullstein publishing house...
Died. Herman Ullstein, 68, youngest of the five German brothers who lost their famed "non-Aryan" publishing house to the Nazis in 1933; after long illness; in Manhattan. He helped build his father's 1877-founded firm into one of the world's richest publishing enterprises. When he left Germany in 1938, he crossed the border with ten marks in his pocket...
...post-war Berlin she edited a woman's magazine for the Ullstein publishing house, took up writing again in desperation to pay doctor bills for her two sons. From her trunk she dragged a half-made romance about people in a big hotel which, with 40 days' work, became Menschen im Hotel-in English, Grand Hotel, one of the hits of the decade. It brought Vicki Baum to Manhattan and Hollywood, where she "fell in love" with...
...this sensational subject the subtle and shrewd Countess Waldeck is almost the ideal reporter. When she was Frau Dr. Ullstein in 1930, she was the storm center of a sensational Berlin spy trial involving the once-great Ullstein publishing house. Later, as plain Rosie Goldschmidt, she wrote (under the initials R.G.) Prelude to the Past, in which she described with unusual candor the Ullstein affair and one or two of her own. Still later she married the Hungarian Count Waldeck, a marriage in which friendship and German passport considerations were deftly blended. She is now in Manhattan...