The publishing house Elisabeth Sandmann was founded in autumn 2004, its
philosophy being to produce unique books with well-researched content and
high-quality illustrations. The publication of Women Who Read Are Dangerous
in spring 2005 gave rise to an immediate best-seller, not only in the
German-language market but around the globe. The book has so far been issued
in more than fifteen languages, with new partners coming on board all the
time.

Our list for women, published under the slogan »Beautiful books for clever
women«, currently comprises eighteen titles, many of which have been
successful in a number of countries. The most recent include the first
highly illustrated book on Bauhaus women (who, unlike their male
counterparts, have been almost entirely forgotten), and now, for autumn
2009, the first illustrated book on Chinese women, which recounts the life
stories of empresses, artists, concubines, goddesses, great beauties and
politically active intellectuals (The Subtle Power of Chinese Women).

We have also published a stunning book in the area of photography, which
tells the story of Iren Dornier, who rebuilt his grandfather’s flying boat
(the Do 24, whose maiden flight had taken place in 1937) to cross the
Atlantic and embark on a world tour recorded in spectacular aerial
photographs (Mission – DREAM: Around the World with the Flying Boat).

We have a special interest in untold life stories, many of them with Jewish
backgrounds. The first of our titles in this area was The Devil’s Workshop
by Adolf Burger, a survivor of the Holocaust, published in 2007. Burger
tells the story of his internment in a Nazi concentration camp, during which
he was forced to forge British and American banknotes, producing
counterfeits of the utmost precision. The book became the basis for the film
The Counterfeiters, which won an Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 2008. The
New York Times estimates that close to 600,000 important privately owned
works of art were confiscated from European Jews on Hitler’s orders between
1933 and 1945. Our book, Lost Art, Lost Lives by Melissa Müller and Monika
Tatzkow, focuses on twelve collectors of art and their collections,
describing the lives of these farsighted individuals before the Nazis came
to power, and tracing their fates and those of their collections right up to
the present day. The book had huge press coverage when it came out in
Germany in spring 2009 and has already had some influence on political
decision makers, in that some of the works of art in question have now been
restored to their rightful owners.

Elisabeth Sandmann Verlag publishes on average eight books a year, all of
them designed page by page in-house. We take great pride in our creativity
and our design. And it is with enormous pleasure that we see our books
produced in more than fifteen countries throughout the world.

If you wish to see any of our titles or you would like to receive our
catalogues on a regular basis,
please feel free and get in touch with

Silke Bruenink
Phone +49 (0)89-930 947 44
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who will be happy to be of help.

Very best wishes,
Elisabeth Sandmann

Elisabeth Sandmann Verlag GmbH
Tuerkenstrasse 9
D-80333 Munich
Germany