The Manesse Verlag is a German publishing house for classical literature, founded in 1944 in Zürich in Switzerland.

Two years earlier, he had discussed the idea of a "world literary library" for classical literature, with the printing house Conzett & Huber.

[7] After Walther Meier had handed over the management of the publishing house to Federico Hindermann in the early 1970s, Conzett & Huber completely separated from Manesse in 1983.

[13] Random House publishing group took over all shares in the Manesse Verlag GmbH and was therefore the sole shareholder.

In the publishing house, works by authors such as Jane Austen, Herman Bang, Tania Blixen, Elizabeth Gaskell, Eduard von Keyserling, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Nizami Ganjavi, Italo Svevo, Dante Alighieri, and Jun'ichirō Tanizaki[15] were published.

[17] Among the best known works of the publishing house are Sophia Tolstaya's "Eine Frage der Schuld" (A question of guilt) and "101 Nacht" (101 nights).