Tobias Hill was born in Kentish Town, in North London, to parents of German Jewish and English extraction: his maternal grandfather was the brother of Gottfried Bermann, confidant of Thomas Mann and, as owner of S. Fischer Verlag, German literature's leading publisher-in-exile during the Second World War.
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The series "original+ungekürzt" presents unabrigded readings of English Classics (Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, James Joyce etc.), "Get Shakespeare! Fast and Easy" re-tells the plots of Shakespeare's most famous plays in prose, and the series "Crime Wave" presents modern American crime literature (Raymond Chandler, Elmore Leonard).
Together with S. Fischer, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Rowohlt, and other publishers, it was a member of the “Article 19 publisher”, who in 1989 printed Salman Rushdie The Satanic Verses in Germany.