Klett-Cotta Verlag, till 1977 Ernst Klett, full name Verlagsgemeinschaft Ernst Klett-J.G. Cotta’sche Buchhandlung Nachf. GmbH, is a German publishing company.[1]
The domicile of the book publisher is in Stuttgart, Germany. Klett-Cotta publishes books of diferent genres, from Fantasy, Nonfiction, History to books about Psychology, Educational science and Philosophy.
During the 1960s Michael Klett (*1938), son of the former head of the publishing company Ernst Klett (1911- 1998), effected, that J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings was incorporated in Klett's publishing program. The book was declined by every greater German publishing house before. In 1966 Ernst Klett made Allen & Unwin an official offer for the German publishing rights of The Lord of the Rings. The first German The Lord of the Rings-edition, translated by Margaret Carroux and Ebba-Margareta von Freymann, was published 1969/70 under the title Der Herr der Ringe. With the second edition of 1972, Paperback and slipcase, Der Herr der Ringe became a success for Klett.
The publishing company was renamed after the merger of Ernst Klett and the publisher Cotta’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung in 1977. In 1987, The Complaint of Mîm the Dwarf[2] was translated by Hans J. Schütz[2] and published in Klett-Cotta: Das erste Jahrzehnt 1977-1987: Ein Almanach.[3] Most of Tolkien's works in German were and are published first or only by Klett-Cotta.
Editions
The Lord of the Rings (2003)
- ISBN 3608930000 - Four-volume (The Lord of the Rings and Appendices) limited edition of 3,333 copies.[4]
- ISBN 3608911111 - Single-volume limited edition of 1,111 copies was released, each hand-signed and numbered by the calligrapher and book illuminator, Alexandra Remmes. This single volume, 1,416 in length, features full leather binding (smooth parchment-colored leather), blind embossing on the front cover, raised spine bands, two-color colored edges all around, two ribbon bookmarks, four-color text printing with high-quality gold embossing, and thread stitching.[4]
- A second limited edition of only 111 copies was also produced, identified with roman numerals I to CXI. This edition was not sold to the general public.[4]
Links
References
- ↑ . "Mîms Klage [The Complaint of Mîm the Dwarf"]. Tolkien Collector's Guide. Retrieved 8 February, 2026
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond (2017), The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide (Second Edition): II. Reader's Guide, Part I, p. 261 (entry "The Complaint of Mîm the Dwarf")
- ↑ Klett-Cotta: Das erste Jahrzehnt 1977-1987: Ein Almanach (Herausgegeben von Thomas Weck), Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1987 (ISBN 3-608-95502-X), pp. 302-5
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Der Herr der Ringe". https://www.meine-tolkien-sammlung.com. Retrieved 8 February 2026