When the Sebastian Lux publishing house in Munich was bombed in 1944, Sebastian Lux decided to move his publishing house to Murnau and moved into the premises of the former country house of Emanuel von Seidl, which had been owned by the market town since 1941. The Lux publishing house's publishing program consisted of practical guides, reference works, a forty-volume world history, a variety of dictionaries and the magazine "Orion", which was published in 1943 and was the first technical and scientific magazine in Germany. The publishing house became known, however, through the publication of the series "Lux-Jugend-Lesebogen". It was published every two weeks and had a circulation of 30,000 to 60,000 copies. Each of the 10.5 x 15 cm booklets was written by scientists, engineers and specialist authors and each issue was devoted to a topic from the fields of technology, history, natural sciences and humanities. The size was predetermined and always the same: two printed sheets made up 32 pages. With a price that was reasonable for the post-war period, initially 20 and finally 30 pfennigs, the booklets were an inexpensive source of information for teenagers, young adults and - as it quickly turned out - also for adults, so that from issue 45 onwards it was decided to remove the word "youth" from the title and to run the series only as "Lux-Lesebogen". The engineer Erich Laßwitz was brought on board as an expert editor and author, and Karlheinz Dobsky as a graphic designer for the layout, who contributed to the great success of the series from issue 63 onwards with his modern and varied design. After three years, the total circulation already comprised four million booklets. When the last issue appeared in 1964, the publisher could look back on 25 million reading sheets sold.