Austrian library

The Österreichische Bücherei is a series of books on Austrian subjects that were published between 1917 and 1938 by three Austrian publishers in different configurations .

Preliminary remarks

The idea of ​​a permanent series specifically related to Austria with smaller essayistic works on political, economic and cultural topics, which ultimately failed at the Austrian Library (1915–1917) in the Leipziger Insel Verlag , was again published in the context of the Austrian Library in Austria on the eve of the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy picked up on itself. Interestingly, it was first published by Verlag Carl Fromme in the final stages of the First World War at a time when the Austrian Library , as a side piece of the Insel-Bücherei, had reached its end point after 26 volumes. Only three authors from the Austrian Library were to be found in the Austrian Library : Adam Müller-Guttenbrunn with Austria's literary and theater life (No. 5 / 1A, 1918), Josef Kallbrunner with housing worries in Old Vienna. Documents on the Viennese housing issue in the 17th and 18th centuries (No. 15 / 2A, 1926) and Felix Braun with Esther . A play in five acts (double volume no. 20/21 / 2B, 1926). It is not known to what extent the publishers have agreed on the gradual takeover of the series title by the respective successor publisher; There were several years between the new beginnings of the individual series.

The series published by Carl Fromme

As number 1 / 1A of the series published by the Austrian Brotherhood of Arms in Vienna and directed by R. von Wettstein, the title of Austria's historical broadcast by Alfons Dopsch came onto the book market in 1917 . The first order up to number 16 / 1A from 1920 was published in paperback bindings by the Carl Fromme publishing house in Vienna and Leipzig. The following titles were published:

No.	author	title	year	Page number
1 / 1A	Alfons Dopsch	Austria's historical broadcast	1917	94
2 / 1A	Michael Haberlandt	The national culture of the Austrian tribes	1917	96
3 / 1A	Richard Charmatz	Austria as a nation of nations	undated [1918]	92
4 / 1A	Rudolf Kobatsch	The Austrian national economy	1918	93
5 / 1A	Adam Müller-Guttenbrunn	Austria's literary and theater life: an overview	undated [1918]	92
6 / 1A	Wilhelm Haas	The promotion of trade and the industrial education system in Austria	1918	85
7 / 1A	Joseph Neuwirth	Fine arts in Austria. 1. From primeval times to the end of the Middle Ages	1918	96
8 / 1A	Joseph Neuwirth	Fine arts in Austria. 2. From the Renaissance to the beginning of the twentieth century	1918	96
9 / 1A	Robert winner	The Austrian state idea and its geographical basis	1918	99
10 / 1A	Max von Millenkovich-Morold	The Austrian art of music	1918	84
11 / 1A	Max Neuburger	The development of medicine in Austria	1918	104
12 / 1A	Alfred Birk	Austria's participation in the development of the transport system	1919	94
13 / 1A	Alfred Birk	Technical work in Austria	1919	89
14 / 1A	Georg Wendel	Austrian arts and crafts	1920	96
15 / 1A	Salomon Frankfurter	Austria's education system: elementary, middle and middle schools	1920	96
16 / 1A	Fritz Hof	The Armed Forces of Austria-Hungary : their history from creation to collapse	1920	96

The second row in A. Hartleben's Verlag

From 1925 onwards an Austrian library with new titles was published again , now by Verlag A. Hartleben Vienna. The most extensive sub-series, consisting of 24 regular and five special volumes with descriptions of the architecture of Lower Austria, ended in 1926 with the regular volume: Anton Bettelheim, Karl Schönherr and the Austrian Volksstück , although the fifth and last special volume, Anton Beckers Eggenburg , was not published until the following year.

The binding was now mostly half-linen; ÖBü 22 / 2B ( The Burgtheater under its founder, Emperor Joseph II von Karl Glossy ) appeared in full linen, and the special volumes also include cardboard bindings and brochures. The front cover had a serial mark and the title was printed on the spine. Most of the volumes came with a dust jacket. The series comprised the following individual titles, with the year of publication being shown in accordance with the information provided by the DNB :

No.	author	title	year	Illustrations photographs	pages
1 / 2A	Oswald Redlich	Grillparzer and Science: Three Lectures	undated [1925]	-	68
2 / 2A	Ernst Lothar	Triumph of feeling: 2 stories	undated [1925]	-	100
3 / 2A	Karl Glossy (preface)	From the memoirs of a mayor of Vienna (Dr. Kajetan Felder )	undated [1925]	-	77
4 / 2A	Emil Ertl	Maze of Life: Novellas	undated [1925]	-	106
5 / 2A	Hans Tietze	The Viennese art museums. Its history and its meaning	undated [1925]	13 fig.	93
6 / 2A	Raoul Auernheimer	Older Vienna: Images and Shadows	undated [1925]	-	107
7 / 2A	Josef Friedrich Perkonig	The people stand up: How Carinthia struggled for its freedom	undated [1925]	-	81
8 / 2A	Viktor Iovanovic	Eisenstadt and the Neusiedlersee	undated [1925]	1 lithograph 7 Draw.	83
9 / 2A	Otto H. Stowasser	Lower Austrian wisdom texts	undated [1925]	-	107
10 / 2A	Joseph Neuwirth	The Technical University in Vienna 1815-1925	undated [1925]	-	96
11 / 2A	Egid Filek	The happiness of the poor devils: short stories	undated [1926]	-	106
12 / 2A	Franz Martin	Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau, Archbishop of Salzburg	undated [1925]	-	91
13 / 2A	Gustav Renker	Carinthian novellas	undated [1925]	-	91
14 / 2A	Alfred Orel (Ed.)	Viennese letters from musicians from two centuries	undated [1925]	1 facsimile	88
15 / 2A	Josef Kallbrunner	Housing worries in old Vienna: documents on the Viennese housing issue in the 17th and 18th centuries	undated [1926]	-	82
16 / 2A	Friedrich Rosenthal	Theater in Austria	undated [1926]	NN Fig.	95
17 / 2A	Gisela von Berger	The old man: short stories	undated [1926]	-	106
18 / 2A	Hans Tritschel	Heiligenblut and its mountains	undated [1926]	13 fig.	109
19 / 2A	Eduard Golias	The way to the state: An educational problem of the present	undated [1926]	-	76
20/21 / 2A	Felix Braun	Esther : A play in 5 acts	undated [1926]	-	91
22 / 2A	Karl Glossy Franz Herterich (Preface)	The Burgtheater under its founder, Emperor Joseph II.	undated [1926]	1 fig.	104
23 / 2A	Hans Fraungruber	From the Styrian Salzkammergut . Poems and stories	undated [1926]	-	91
24 / 2A	Anton Bettelheim	Karl Schönherr and the Austrian folk piece	undated [1926]	3 fig.	84
Special volume 1	Emerich Schaffran	The Lower Austrian pens	undated [1925]	26 fig.	244
Special volume 2	Georg Binder	The castles and palaces of Lower Austria. Part 1. On and south of the Danube	undated [1926]	30 photos	160
Special volume 3	Georg Binder	The castles and palaces of Lower Austria. Part 2. North of the Danube	undated [1926]	3 photos	152
Special volume 4	Emerich Schaffran	The region around Krems : The cities of Krems, Stein, Mautern, Göttweig Abbey, the Kremstal and Gföhl	undated [1926]	30 lithogr.	148
Special volume 5	Anton Becker	Eggenburg	undated [1927]	29 Fig. 1 map	135

ÖBü No. 2 / 3A, H. Burgert, The Viennese Coffee House (1937)

The third row in Heimat-Verlag

Finally, the series name was revived again in 1937. The Österreichische Bücherei had found its publishing home with the Heimat-Verlag based in Brixlegg / Tyrol. The publisher was the Austrian journalist Alfred Missong , who was arrested after the Anschluss in 1938, but was able to emigrate that same year, which, however, did so again From the third row also meant. It began with Paul Graf Thun-Hohenstein's Austrian way of life (No. 1 / 3A) and ended with number 10 / 3A, Rudolf Allers' Die Wiener Medizinische Schule .

According to the announcement prospectus from 1937, which reminds in structure and language of that of Hofmannsthal for the introduction of the Austrian library in 1915, the editions should appear “casually in rows of 5 volumes” and “give an insight into all areas of the poetic, artistic, state and socio-political, economic and technical work of Austria ”.

The volumes were again published in a brochure volume, which, with its two-tone design based on an idea by Carry Hauser and the stuck-on title and back labels, borrowed from the Insel-Bücherei, as the editor expressly points out in his autobiographical writings, and taken on by the Austrian library and has a stylized double-headed eagle as a symbol of Austria's heraldic animal in repeat . The series was apparently manufactured and sold in Austria and Germany in 1937. In the imprint of No. 2 / 3A, for example, it is stated: “Matthias-Grünewald-Druckerei, Wiesbaden. For Austria: L. Beck & Sohn, Vienna ”. The DNB catalog also shows two prices up to No. 5 / 3A: 1.- ( Reichsmark ) and S 1.75 ( Schilling ). A sale in Switzerland for 1.40 Swiss francs was also planned. No information is available about the number of copies. The following titles have been published (year of publication according to DNB):

Advertising leaflet for the series from 1937, outside

Inside, list from volumes 1 to 7

No.	author	title	year	Cover color	Page number
1 / 3A	Paul Thun-Hohenstein	Austrian way of life	no year (1937)	Red orange	68
2 / 3A	Helmuth Burgert	The Viennese coffee house	no year (1937)	yellow-orange	79
3 / 3A	Hans Sündermann	Johann Strauss , a finisher	no year (1937)	burgundy	63
4 / 3A	Viktor Zatloukal	Creations of Austrian technicians	no year (1937)	black gray	77
5 / 3A	Ernst Streeruwitz	Austria's economic structure	no year (1937)	moss green	67
6 / 3A	Hugo Hantsch Alfred Missong (Ed.)	Austria's peace efforts 1916/18	undated (1938)	beige	77
7 / 3A	Carry Hauser	From art and artists in Austria	undated (1938)	blue	62
8 / 3A	Heinrich Suso Waldeck (Ed.)	Read from Abraham a Sancta Clara	undated (1938)	NN	61
9 / 3A	Ernst Joseph Görlich	Perthaler , a statesman from Tyrol	undated (1938)	Gray	59
10 / 3A	Rudolf Allers	The Vienna Medical School	undated (1938)	anthracite	63

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Army sheet. Military scientific weekly for the interests of our land and sea power from April 27 and May 4, 1918, Vienna 1918, No. 17–18, p. 8 (ANNO digitalisat ).
2. ^ ^{A b} Alfred Missong jun. in connection with Cornelia Hoffmann and Gerald Stourzh (eds.): Alfred Missong - Christianity and Politics in Austria. Selected Writings 1924–1950 . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna-Cologne-Graz 2006, p. 32 ( digitized version ), ISBN 978-3-205-77385-6
3. ↑ See also Forum Austria for Missong's biography .
4. ↑ The original erroneously says “the”.
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Prospectus of the Heimat-Verlag Brixlegg / Tirol for the Austrian library undated [probably 1937], 4 pp.