Anglo-Saxon publishing house

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The Anglo-Saxons-Verlag was founded in 1921, German publishing house, based in Bremen . It was a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Kaffee HAG company (Kaffee-Handels-Aktien-Gesellschaft) , which the entrepreneur and patron of the arts Ludwig Roselius (1874–1943) founded and ran. Georg Eltzschig acted as publishing director. Bernhard Hoetger , Ludwig Roselius and his nephew Ernst Roselius (1904–1941) sometimes acted as editors of individual titles.

The publishing house published advertising materials for the brand and the product Kaffee HAG , as well as publications (books and periodicals) from the fields of architecture , visual arts , performing arts , literature and nautical items .

Examples include publications on works by Albrecht Altdorfer , Paula Modersohn-Becker , Albrecht Dürer , Hoffmann von Fallersleben , Anselm Feuerbach , Johann Gottlieb Fichte , Caspar David Friedrich , Matthias Grünewald , Otto Haupt , Hans Holbein the Younger , Stefan Lochner , Martin Luserke , Lucas Moser , Karl August Musäus , Michael Pacher , Karl Friedrich Schinkel , Adalbert Stifter , Veit Stoss , Hans Thoma , Ludwig Tügel or Werner Wittgenstein .

Furthermore, depictions of the Bremer Böttcherstraße or the Bremen Roselius House as well as the city of Bremen and the Bremen Roland , the Worpswede artists' colony , largely supported by Roselius, or about the Cologne Cathedral , Danzig , the Naumburg Cathedral , the city of Nuremberg , the Bamberg Cathedral , the Munich Residenz , the city of Landshut , the medieval monasteries of Lower Saxony , old inns and guild houses in Lower Saxony, Lower Saxony folk customs and traditions, the Strasbourg Cathedral , Vienna's Ringstrasse , Vienna 's St. Stephen's Cathedral , Brazil ( Ernst Roselius ), about Germanic early art or the German family names, but also political topics such as the doctrine of propaganda as a practical social theory by Johann Plenge or educational treatises such as the basis of German language education - with an art of improvisation as a practical background by Martin Luserke .

As a special feature, the publisher has published all publications on the North Sea island of Juist settled educational reform school by the sea of Martin Luserke that by the amateur theater decisively formative Luserke, composer and music teacher Eduard Zuckmayer and Kurt Sydow had a strong musical orientation. Roselius was one of the school's sponsors.

After the Second World War , the publishing business was transferred to Hauschild-Verlag in Bremen . When Adolf Hauschild died in 1950 , his widow continued to run the publishing house until it was taken over by Kaffee HAG . The Hauschild publishing house later went completely to General Foods (today: Mondelēz International ) because this food company had also taken over Kaffee HAG . Books with the label of the Angelsachsen-Verlag appeared until around the 1990s.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stefan Knödler: Rudolf Borchardt's anthologies . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2010. ISBN 978-3110228304 , p. 199.
  2. Markus Behmer (Ed.): German Journalism in Exile, 1933 to 1945: People - Positions - Perspectives. Festschrift for Ursula E. Koch . LIT Verlag, Münster 2000. ISBN 978-3825846152 , p. 285.
  3. ^ Edelgard Bühler, Hans-Eugen Bühler: The front book trade 1939–1945: Organizations, competencies, publishers, books - a documentation . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2002, ISBN 978-3110937756 , pp. 189, 197.
  4. ^ The books of the school by the sea. Tent stories II. Strange adventures that were told about in the tent and around the fire . Angelsachsen-Verlag, Bremen 1926
  5. ^ The books of the school by the sea. Tent stories I. Strange adventures that were told about in the tent and around the fire . Angelsachsen-Verlag, Bremen 1925