Following the end of World War II, Kiepenheuer & Witsch was one of few publishing houses who received permission to start printing books again. Kiepenheuer died in 1949, after which Witsch took over control and broke the original link with the existing
Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag (publishing house) in
Weimar (which had ended up in the
Soviet occupation zone). For the Kiepenheuer & Witsch publishing business several years of major organisational restructuring followed. The first books to be published under the Kiepenheuer & Witsch imprint was the novel
Marion by
Vicki Baum, which appeared in 1951. In 1953 the firm acquired a new head office incorporating, for the first time, its own onsite publishing facilities, at
Cologne-Marienburg. ==Authors==