[1] In 1994, the publishing house was founded by the Schwerin photographer Thomas Helms[2] who by then had already created the illustrations for many books.
[5] Since the founding of the publishing house, which was first called thomasius, more than 350 titles have been produced, many of them in several editions, with a focus on regional, cultural, architecture, church and art history of Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania.
The authors and editors of the publishing house include Axel Attula, Sabine Bock, Michael Buddrus, Adrian Bueckling, Norbert Buske, Bodo von Dewitz, Otto Emersleben, Friederike Drinkuth, Dieter Greve, Hellmut Hannes, Ulrich Hermanns, Johannes Hinz, Max Reinhard Jaehn, Volker Janke, Bernd Kasten, Otto Kindt, Ingrid Lent, Günter Möbus, Ernst Münch, Christian Nieske, Frank Pergande, Haik Thomas Porada, Hans Reddemann, Fred Ruchhöft, Dirk Schleinert, Manfred Schukowski, Horst Wernicke, Rainer Wiedemann and many others.
In 2007, Sabine Bock received the prize for her work Herrschaftliche Wohnhäuser auf den Gütern und Domänen in Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
7.1–3), ISBN 978-3-935749-05-3, and in 2016, Friederike Drinkuth was awarded for her historical-biographical sketch on Duchess Dorothea Sophie of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1692-1765),[7] was published under the title Männlicher als ihr Gemahl.