Verlag Die Schmiede

Verlag Die Schmiede was an avant-garde literature publishing house in the 1920s in Berlin.

It published works by Franz Kafka, Alfred Döblin, Joseph Roth,[1] Rudolf Leonhard,[2] and many more.

Most of its dust jackets were designed by George Salter, later a US citizen.

Kafka had prepared the collection for print, his friend Max Brod the novel.

Rudolf Schottlaender's first translation of the first part of À la recherche du temps perdu was published under the title of Der Weg zu Swann (The way to Swann).