In the category of popular fiction, historical novels, detective stories, thrillers, fantasy and romantic literature are published.
The origins of the publishing house lie in the Leipzig steam bookbinding Theodor Knaur, which dates back to 1846.
The publishing house was sold to the Berlin bookseller Gabriel Hendelsohn in 1901, and renamed the Theodor Knaur Nachf.
In 1934 the Jewish Hendelsohn brothers fled Nazi persecution and emigrated to the United States and Droemer took over the publishing house.
published its Knaurs Welt-Atlas with maps that represented the greater German Reich and the lands recently annexed and conquered by the Nazis.
After the end of World War II, Willy Droemer founded the publisher as the new Droemersche Verlagsanstalt, in Schloss Wiesentheid (Unterfranken), which soon after moved to Munich.
Among the best-known fiction authors of the publishing group include Iny Lorentz, Sebastian Fitzek, Anne Hertz, Sabine Ebert and Andreas Franz.
Also known international writers like Karen Rose, Val McDermid, John Katzenbach or Michael Connelly are part of the program.