the company was reconstituted as betrieb und veb druckhaus "maxim gorki" altenburg, the namesake of a russian and soviet writer and five-time nominee for the nobel prize in literature. in 1951, it was merged into thüringer volksverlag gmbh . from 1952 to 1990, the firm specialized in fiction and scientific publications. in 1956, the firm was transferred to the german academy of sciences at berlin, and continued to print mostly scientific journals.