Aldus-Verlag (Diez an der Lahn)
The Aldus Publishing Diez was a small German publisher .
The publisher is named after Aldus Manutius , the printer's mark of the Aldus press, an anchor with a dolphin, was used as the publisher's logo.
The publishing house was founded in 1947 by Wolfgang Krüger (1891–1970), Heinrich Scheffler (1915–1998) and the publishing house book dealer Hartmann Goertz (1907–1991). Wolfgang Krüger was previously director of the Universitas Deutsche Verlags-AG in Berlin and owner of the publishing house he founded in 1934 (1934 Krüger-Verlag Berlin, from 1948 Wolfgang Krüger - Hamburg). A planned collaboration with Walter Hummelsheim did not materialize because he insisted on the publisher's independence.
"In addition, Aldus-Verlag will be so dependent on the parent company that it has practically no possibility at all of exercising a right of self-determination [...]."
The publishing house can be understood as a dependency of the publishing house of Wolfgang Krüger, which was founded in Diez in order to be able to publish books in the French occupation zone . The novel Jean Schlumberger's Ein Glücklicher, printed in Frankfurt, was published in 8,000 copies without a license notice by Wolfgang Krüger Verlag in Hamburg and in 4,000 copies with a French license by Aldus Verlag. As a result of the progressive opening up and connection of the western zones , such double publications became unnecessary. The publishing house was dissolved in 1949.
literature
- Hans Altenhein: Founded in 1947. The Aldus publishing house . In: From the Antiquariat NF 7 (2009) No. 6, pp. 386–391.
Web links
- Search in DNB for prints from the publisher
- Wolfgang Krüger in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
- Publishing history of the Krüger publishing house
Individual evidence
- ↑ DLA Marbach, publishing archive Heinrich Scheffler, quoted. after Hans Altenhein: Founded in 1947 , in: From the Antiquariat NF 7 (2009) No. 6, p. 388