Adolf Kiepert (publisher)

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Adolf Kiepert (born February 7, 1845 in Breslau ; † late March 1911 in Hanover ) was a German publisher and author .

Life

Kiepert was the son of a Breslau preacher and nephew of the well-known geographer Heinrich Kiepert . He received his training as a bookseller from Heinrich Korn in the Wroclaw bookstore Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn (April 1, 1864 to November 15, 1868) and from Theodor Kay in the JC Krieger'schen bookstore in Kassel (until June 15, 1869).

Neisse 1869–1873

On 1 July 1869 he took over the selection of Joseph Graveur'schen bookstore in Neisse , which from now on as J. Graveur'sche books, art and music-action Adolf Kiepert and J. Graveur'sche Bookstore (Adolf Kiepert) firmierte , while the publishing business was initially continued by Graveur under the name Joseph Graveur's Verlag and then sold to Gustav Neumann in June 1871. Little is known about the activities of Kiepert during this time, among other things the distribution of photographic views of French soldiers from a prison camp near Neisse, a new edition of the instructions for the war game by Wilhelm von Tschischwitz and the reports of the Society for Philomathy (16, 1869) are documented. .

Breslau 1874–1878

When the Adam Gosohorskys bookshop in Breslau, taken over by Ludwig Ferdinand Maske in 1846, went bankrupt, Kiepert acquired it on December 20, 1873 from the administrator of the bankruptcy estate and in January 1874 sold the Graveur assortment in Neisse to Gustav Neumann. Under the publisher's name A. Gosohorsky's Buchhandlung (Adolf Kiepert) , since at least 1876 with the addition of “court bookseller” to his name, he published, among other things, university papers in Breslau - especially noteworthy: Richard Pischel's post- doctoral thesis on the grammars of the Prakrit languages ​​( De grammaticis prâcriticis , 1874) -, textbooks for Greek, French and biology lessons and writings on social, ecclesiastical and scientific questions.

Freiburg im Breisgau 1879–1891

On November 18, 1878, Kiepert resigned from A. Gosohorsky's bookstore, which was then continued by Oscar Baumgart and Franz Rott. In the following years he moved his business to Freiburg im Breisgau, where on June 15, 1879 he worked with Adolf Kiepert's publishing house as the “Court Bookseller Sr. Hoh. of the Duke of Gotha ”, with extradition in Leipzig and Freiburg, established and on October 1, 1882 Otto von Bolschwing also accepted as a partner. The Freiburg store was one of those bookstores of the 19th century that were also active as lending libraries: According to an advertisement in the Freiburg address book from 1883, the “Hof-Buch, Kunst- & Musikalienhandlung Kiepert & von Bolschwing” maintained a lending library with around 30,000 volumes in German, English and French and a "music loan institute", it also offered interested readers a "novelty circle", a "journal circle" and an "art circle" for enrollment. In Freiburg, Kiepert also published music and fiction, including works by Oskar Benda ( Im wachen Traum , 1884), Elisabeth von Berge ( Pausanias , 1885), Luise Haidheim ( In deep forest , 1885), Wilhelm Jensen ( Der Kampf für's Reich , 1884; A sketchbook , 1884; In Wettolsheim , 1884; From the days of the Hanseatic League , 1885), Luise Westkirch ( A family quarrel , 1885), Otto Kimmig ( Songs of Peter Sirius , 1885), Louise Otto-Peters ( The Nightingale von Weawag , 1885), Konrad Telmann (d. i. Ernst Otto Konrad Zitelmann, Charitas , 2nd edition around 1880; Sphynx and other short stories , 1887), Pol de Mont ( From Flanders and Brabant , translated by Heinrich Flemmich, 1888), the under the pseudonym E. Meruell writing playwright Elise or Elisabeth Müller ( Anna von Cleve or the Queen's Belt Maid , 1881; Otto the Great , 1881) and the under the pseudonym “A. vd Elbe “well-known successful writer Auguste von der Betten ( A son , 1889; Aref, the Hindu , 1884/1890).

On May 15, 1886, Kiepert left the Freiburg business, which von Bolschwing briefly continued under the previous name Kiepert & von Bolschwing until Kiepert took it back into his sole possession on December 31 of the same year. On June 15, 1888, he sold the assortment business to Johannes Elchlepp , while Kiepert continued to run the publishing house and thus moved to Hanover on July 1, 1891 .

Since his last years in Freiburg, Kiepert has also operated as an author or editor, initially for two collections of photographic views published by his own publishing house, the first with photographs by the Freiburg court photographer Konrad Ruf of the city of Freiburg (1889 and 1890, 2 editions) and the second were dedicated to the southern Black Forest. This was later followed by Kiepert's most famous collection of this kind in Hanover, Freiburg in Words and Images (1910), which was reprinted in 1981. Kiepert's first poem published in print was probably also composed in Freiburg, the libretto based on Wilhelm Hauff's novel Lichtenstein for the opera of the same name in five acts by Ferdinand Schilling , which was orchestrated by Karl Thoms on March 23 or 25, 1892 in the Freiburg City Theater premiered and printed in undated editions of the 1890s by Lehmann in Freiburg and by Kahnt in Leipzig. The opera was received 'enthusiastically' by the audience according to a contemporary review, but no further performances are known.

Hanover 1891–1911

While Kiepert did not appear particularly in clubs or political organizations during his time in Silesia and Baden, apart from his participation in the founding board of the Upper Baden branch of the German Colonial Association , he worked as managing director of the National Liberal Party from 1891 to 1900 since he moved from Freiburg the province of Hanover. With reference to his position in the NLP on the title page, he published a material- rich review of the life of the founding member and former parliamentary group leader of the NLP on the occasion of Rudolf von Bennigsen's 70th birthday in 1894 and also included an anniversary pamphlet for the ceremony in Hanover. A critical contemporary described the review as "a 'club publication' in every sense of the word: written in a bad style, convincing and incessantly nationally liberal, without the exciting luxury of spirit or even critical penetration of the historical material", while Arthur Singer, as biographer and bibliographer Bismarck's, who praises the work as an “excellent book”, “which deals with all of Bismarck's relations with Bennigsen”.

In 1895 his songbook for patriotic festivals was published , with a hymn by Kiepert on the Prussian province of Hanover ( Hanoverland, you beautiful country ). The song is said to have been written in the early 1870s and has striking similarities to the title and structure of the comparatively better-known song Hannoverland, du teures Heimatland by Gerhard Müller-Suderburg , which was written in 1884, first in print in 1889 and in a setting for 1891 Robert Linnarz's male choir appeared.

Kiepert had more success with his text for the cantata From Germany's Great Time by Ernst Hermann Seyffardt , who had directed the women's choir and the Liedertafel there during Kiepert's Freiburg years and had worked in Stuttgart since 1892. The work, which also picks up on existing patriotic songs such as Die Wacht am Rhein and Heil dir in the wreath and closes with a hymn to the emperor, was performed in 1895 in the court theater of Hanover in the presence of Kaiser Wilhelm , who gave the composer and the poet on this occasion Awarded court order IV class and had the soloists presented with "jewelry". It was part of the common repertoire of patriotic festival culture for a long time and had its 31st performance the following year in Wesel, as well as its hundredth on April 2, 1908 in Bautzen. The inclusion in the music review was partly not very enthusiastic. Oskar Eichberg , who discussed a Berlin performance from 1896 for the later Musikpädagogische Blätter, praised the performance as “excellent (...), but the text and the composition were weak”, and attested that the work always progressed “evenly and deliberately” Ductus in "Lack of an energetic upswing", while Carl Krebs in the Deutsche Rundschau on the occasion of the same Berlin performance stated almost "flatness of invention" and said of the composer: "Without a doubt he is a better patriot than a musician."

Kiepert was one of Bismarck's particularly committed admirers and participated in the Bismarck celebrations of his time with several festival poems ( To celebrate the resurrection of the German Empire , 1896; Bismarck celebration at the solstice , 1899; Bismarck , 1901?). When a homage trip for the local Bismarck admirers to his retirement home in Friedrichsruh was planned in Hanover , Kiepert took on a leading role in the preparations as managing director of the NLP and obtained an invitation to a personal reception on June 15, 1896 in Friedrichsruh, which he attended "Most significant [hours] of my life" counted, and about which he published a detailed report in the Hannoversche Courier . Kiepert took part in a breakfast in the presence of Bismarck, the family of Count zu Rantzau and a few confidants, and over coffee made a rhyming toast to Bismarck (“To the man whom God sent us, / who boldly united the German land, / Him many a blessed year, / Des people's love forever! ”), with which he was later allowed to enter himself in the guest book, and had conversations with Bismarck about his relatives in Berlin, Heinrich and Adolf, and other topics. The homage trip itself was postponed indefinitely in consideration of Bismarck's state of health and then does not seem to have taken place.

On March 22, 1897, Kiepert's festival for the hundredth birthday of Kaiser Wilhelm the Great was performed in Hanover , a recitation of the muse Kio , a personification of heroic poetry and historiography, accompanied by music and interrupted by living images . The living pictures based on well-known paintings visualized important stages in the life of the honored, beginning with the prince's dressing in a hussar uniform on Christmas Eve 1803 and ending with his entry into Valhalla as well as an oath of allegiance by the German people in front of the decorated bust of the emperor. According to the Hannoversche Courier, the piece should also be used in Breslau, Freiburg i. Br., Hagen, Uelzen, Norden, Uslar and Hoya are listed. In terms of genre and content, Kiepert's festival poems corresponded to the conventions of their bourgeois, patriotic genesis, and representatives of more advanced realistic or naturalistic aesthetics received them with corresponding weariness. When Louis Ellmenreich , chief director at the Hoftheater in Hanover and particularly well-known in theater history for an expert refusal by Gerhart Hauptmann, performed Kiepert's festival on September 1, 1902 to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Royal Theater in Hanover , Max Ewert found a place in the magazine Bühne und Welt the “piece skilfully staged”, described Kiepert's work as a “play full of colors and figures, but unclear and lacking a unified basic idea”, which “is only dedicated to the past of the court theater in the introductory words “And“ otherwise mainly a glorification of Hanover and Germania ”.

Works

Title page Hanover in words and pictures , published in 1910 by the Association for Tourism in Hanover
  • Freiburg in words and pictures , in different editions:
    • With 10 views, 1889, 24 pages
    • With 14 collotype views based on original photos by court photographer Konrad Ruf and a “total image” of the university based on photographs by C. Clare and court photographer G. Th. Hase, 1890, 36 pages
    • Small edition with 10 views, 1890, 55 pages
  • The southern Black Forest , two different editions:
    • With 29 original photographs and 57 text illustrations, 1891
    • 20 views, 1891
  • Lichtenstein, romantic opera in 5 acts, text based on Wilhelm Hauff's romantic saga of the same name by Adolf Kiepert, composed by Ferdinand Schilling , Freiburg i.Br .: Lehmann, undated ; Piano excerpt with text , Leipzig: Kahnt, undated
  • The Bennigsen celebration in Hanover on July 9, 10 and 11, 1894. Compiled on behalf of the Election Committee of the National Liberal Party of the Province of Hanover using the reports of the Hanoverian Courier, the Magdeburger Zeitung and other newspapers , Hanover: Carl Meyer, 1894
  • From Germany's great times. Concert cantata in 3 parts for 4 solo voices, mixed choir, male choir and orchestra (organ ad libitum) , 1895, composition by Ernst Hermann Seyffardt based on a text by Adolf Kiepert, several editions, u. a. Stuttgart: Zu Guttenberg, 1895; Düsseldorf: Rheinischer Musikverlag, 1895; Heidelberg: Amman, 1895; Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1901; Düsseldorf: Hartmann & Beck, undated
  • Song book for patriotic festivals , Göhmann: Hannover, 1895
  • Report on the reception on June 15, 1896 at Bismarck, published in the Hannoversche Courier
  • To celebrate the resurrection of the German Empire , Festival, Hanover: Kiepert, 1896
  • For the hundredth birthday of Kaiser Wilhelm the Great on March 22, 1897 , Hanover: Kiepert, 1897
  • Bismarck celebration for the solstice , festival, Hanover: Kiepert, 1899
  • The German song. Festival for the 50th anniversary of the foundation festival of the Hanover Men's Singing Society , Hanover: Kiepert, 1901
  • Bismarck , Festival, 2nd edition, Hanover: Kiepert, 1901
  • For God and people. Historical drama in 5 acts , Hanover: Kiepert, 1901
  • In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Royal Theater in Hanover , Festival, 1902
  • Der Deutsche Schützenbund , in: Fest-Zeitung zum XIV. German Federal Shooting Hanover, 1903. Official organ of the festival management , published by the Press Committee, Hanover: Kiepert, 1903, No. 2
  • For Rudolf von Bennigsen's 70th birthday. Review of the life of a parliamentarian , Hanover: Meyer, 1894; 2., bed. probably edition under the title Rudolf von Benningsen. Review of the life of a parliamentarian , Hanover / Berlin: Carl Meyer, 1903
  • Hanover. A splendid gateway to the Weserbergland , in: Hiking and Travel. Illustrated magazine for tourism, regional and folklore, art and sport , year II, Düsseldorf: Schwann, 1904
  • Hanover in words and pictures , text by Adolf Kiepert, ed. from the Association for the Promotion of Tourism in Hanover, with 286 illustrations based on original paintings and original drawings by Diekmann, Fiermann, Professor Hammel , Professor Hildebrand , Professor Jordan, Ramberg , Professor Schaper, Stocks, Ulbrich , as well as based on original photographs , (Reprint of the edition) Hanover, Kiepert, 1910, 2nd edition - Hanover: Schlütersche , 1981, ISBN 3-87706-181-8

literature

  • Ludwig Kleiber, book printing and book trade in Freiburg i.Br .: a historical overview , Freiburg i.Br .: Wagner, 1949, p. 53
  • Gertrud Stendal, The home hymns of the Prussian provinces and their landscapes. A literary characteristic , Heidelberg: Winter, 1919, pp. 116–118

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Börsenblatt für den Deutschen Buchhandel 36, Vol. II, No. 157, July 10, 1869, pp. 2166–2167, see there Adolf Kiepert's circular of July 1 and the attached letter of recommendation from Heinrich Korn.
  2. ↑ a b Börsenblatt für den Deutschen Buchhandel 36, Vol. II, No. 157, July 10, 1869, pp. 2166–2167; Directory of the business circulars available in the library of the German Booksellers 'Association , Leipzig: Verlag des German Booksellers' Association, Leipzig 1897, p. 188; Total publishing house catalog of the German book trade , Adolph Russell's Verlag, Münster / EF Steinacker, Leipzig 8 (1881), Sp. 967–974, Sp. 967–968.
  3. ^ Rübezahl - Schlesische Provinzialblätter , year 74, NF 9, 1870, p. 570.
  4. ↑ Ibid., P. 518.
  5. ↑ a b Directory of the business circulars available in the library of the Börsenverein der Deutschen Buchhandels , Verlag des Börsenverein der Deutschen Buchhandels, Leipzig 1897, p. 183. The statement by Kleiber, Buchdruck ... (1949), p. 53, that “Adolf Kieperts Verlag (...) was [founded] in Breslau in 1823 ”can already be found with the specification“ in May 1823 ”in the GVK for“ Adolf Kiepert's Verlag ”in Freiburg ( Gesammt-Verlags-Katalog des Deutschen Buchhandels , Adolph Russell's Verlag, Münster / EF Steinacker, Leipzig, 4 (1881), Sp. 441/442) as well as the same name for the Adam Gosohorskys bookstore in Breslau, which has since gone bankrupt, under the management of Kiepert's successors there, Rott and Baumgart ( Gesammt-Verlags-Katalog des Deutschen Buchhandels , Adolph Russell's Verlag, Münster / EF Steinacker, Leipzig, 3 (1881), Sp. 467-468), but is neither for Kiepert in Freiburg, nor for Gosohorsky in Breslau, nor for engraver in Neisse with the respective to agree on company history data as they result from the evaluation of the bookselling circulars in the directory of the business circulars available in the library of the German Booksellers Association .
  6. ↑ So on the title page of Felix Bobertag , History of the novel and its related poetry genres in Germany , Section I, Volume 1, 1876; also in an advertisement in Friedrich Zarncke's Literarisches Centralblatt für Deutschland , born in 1876, Leipzig: Avenarius, 1876, Sp. 1575 (November 18), he signs as “Adolf Kiepert, court bookseller. Breslau Albrechtstrasse, No. 3. “On the title page of the 1875 edition by Rudolf Peiper, Q Valerius Catullus. Contributing to the criticism of his poems , the addition “court book dealer” does not appear yet.
  7. ↑ Gesammt-Verlag-Katalog des Deutschen Buchhandels , Adolph Russell's Verlag, Münster / EF Steinacker, Leipzig, 16, Section 1 (no year [1894]), Sp. 5127-5128, therefore the year “1880” is incorrectly included Kleiber, Buchdruck ... (1949), p. 53.
  8. ↑ Total publishing catalog of the German book trade , Adolph Russell's publishing house, Münster / EF Steinacker, Leipzig, 4 (1881), Sp. 441–452.
  9. ^ Directory of the business circulars available in the library of the German Booksellers 'Association , Leipzig: Verlag des German Booksellers' Association, Leipzig 1897, p. 280; Gesammt-Verlag catalog of the German book trade , Adolph Russell's Verlag, Münster / EF Steinacker, Leipzig 16, Section 2 (n.d. [1894]), Sp. 589-592, Sp. 589-590; Total publishing catalog of the German book trade , Adolph Russell's Verlag, Münster / EF Steinacker, Leipzig, 16, section 1 (n.d. [1894]), Sp. 5127-5128, on the other hand, mentions von Bolschwing as a founding partner for 1879.
  10. ↑ Alberto Martino, Die deutsche Leihbibliothek , Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1990 (= contributions to the book and library system, 29), p. 59f. Note 138.
  11. ↑ To identify the author, see Susanne Kord, A look behind the scenes: German-speaking playwrights in the 18th and 19th centuries , Stuttgart: Metzler, 1992, p. 409.
  12. ↑ a b Gesammt-Verlag-Katalog des Deutschen Buchhandels , Adolph Russell's Verlag, Münster / EF Steinacker, Leipzig, 16, section 2 (n.d. [1894]), Sp. 589-590, cf. ibid. Section 1 (n.d. [1894]), Col. 5127-5128.
  13. ^ Total publishing house catalog of the German book trade , Adolph Russell's publishing house, Münster / EF Steinacker, Leipzig, 16, section 2 (undated [1894]), Sp. 589-592.
  14. ↑ The date of the performance is usually given in the literature as March 25th, as has already been said in Hugo Riemann, Opern-Handbuch , Leipzig: Koch, 1887, Supplement 2, ibid. 1893, p. 807; the performance in Bartholf Senff's Signals for the Musical World (year 59, 1892, p. 375) was announced for March 23rd.
  15. ^ The Musical Times and Singing-Class Circular 34 (1893), p. 554 ("enthusiastically received").
  16. ↑ Kiepert is listed as a board member in the news about the foundation on January 8, 1885 in the Deutsche Kolonialzeitung , Volume 2 (1885), Issue 3, p. 61, also as a participant in a discussion on June 25, 1885, ibid, issue 15, p. 481f.
  17. ↑ According to the self-description on the title page of the 2nd edition of his book Rudolf von Bennigsen , 1903; In contrast, the reports of his reception at Bismarck usually call him “General Secretary”, see p. u., and as "General Secretary" of the NLP, who in Northeim in 1893 "gave a speech dripping with 'nationalism'", the social democratic popular will of July 10, 1893, cited in Gottfried Christmann / Jürgen Kädtler, Northeim im Kaiserreich: On the everyday and social history of a small town in Lower Saxony 1871-1914 , published by the DGB Region Südniedersachsen-Harz, Göttingen 1990/2003, p. 89 ( PDF ).
  18. ↑ Das Magazin für Litteratur , ed. by Otto Neumann-Hofer, vol. 36 (1894), no. 28, p. 1894 note.
  19. ↑ Arthur Singer, Bismarck in literature , 2nd verb. u. Probably ed., Vienna: Konegen, 1912, p. 199.
  20. ↑ Printed and commented by Stendal, Die Heimathymnen ... (1919), pp. 116–118.
  21. ↑ Hofmeister 1889 ; Biography Linnarz on alt-alfeld.de ; in Stendal, Die Heimathymnen ... (1919), pp. 118–120 the first name Rudolf is mistaken .
  22. ↑ The Piano Teacher , Volume 18, 1895, p. 314.
  23. ↑ Die Redenden Künste (Leipzig Concert Hall) , Volume 2, 1895/96, p. 1284.
  24. ↑ Musikalisches Wochenblatt , year 39, 1908, p. 323; see. Die Woche , Volume 10, 1908, No. 23, p. 1014.
  25. ↑ Oskar Eichberg, in: Der Klavier-Lehrer , year 19, 1896, p. 39f.
  26. ↑ Carl Krebs, From the Berliner Musikleben, end of May , in: Deutsche Rundschau , Volume 88, 1896, pp. 130–140, p. 134.
  27. ↑ a b Reprinted by Johannes Penzler, Prince Bismarck after his release , Volume 7, Leipzig: Walther Fiedler, 1898, pp. 64–67; Horst Kohl (Ed.), Bismarck-Jahrbuch , Volume 3, Berlin: O. Häring, 1896, p. 518, does not refer to the Hannoversche Kurier named by Penzler as the source for the relevant entry in the Bismarck Chronicle as of June 15 , but rather on the Berliner Neuesten Nachrichten of June 25, 1896.
  28. ↑ a b Reproduction of the content after Gerhard Schneider, About political festivals of the citizens in Hanover ( 1866-1918 ) , in: Niedersächsisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 72 (2000), pp. 89–141, p. 121.
  29. ↑ Georg Altmann , From strange and own scenes , Emsdetten: Lechte, 1964 (= Die Schaubühne, 1964), p. 332.
  30. ^ Max Ewert, in: Bühne und Welt , Volume IV, 2nd half of the year (April-September 1902), p. 1059.
  31. ↑ Kristina Barth, Hannelore Effelsberg: Bookseller Business Circulars - Introduction ( Memento from December 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Kiepert, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Author, publisher and court book dealer in Hanover
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH March 1911
Place of death Hanover