Béla Horovitz
Béla Horovitz (born April 18, 1898 in Budapest , † March 8, 1955 in New York City ) was a Hungarian publisher who was active in Austria and Great Britain.
Life
Horovitz, who comes from a Hungarian-Jewish family, was a co-founder of Phaidon-Verlag and Strom-Verlag in Vienna in the interwar period . He successfully positioned himself as the publisher of beautifully designed but inexpensive editions of authors who were already royalty-free and as a partner to popular contemporary writers (for example, he edited several books by Klabund and conducted extensive correspondence with Joseph Roth , who, however, was extremely cautious about the Nazi regime for commercial reasons resentful). His attempt to publish modern novels in magazine form at particularly low prices through the Strom-Verlag failed due to legal obstacles. With the timely sale of the Phaidon publishing house to Allen & Unwin (London), Horovitz succeeded in avoiding its " Aryanization " in 1938 . The most successful title that Horovitz produced in England was "The Story of Art" by Ernst Gombrich . (The book, an art history for young people that had already been commissioned in Vienna, has had a total circulation of over seven million since 1950 and has been translated into 30 languages). In the UK, Phaidon Press became one of the leading art book publishers. Horovitz suffered a heart attack on a trip to America and died in New York.
literature
- Alexander Altmann (Ed.): Between East and West: essays dedicated to the memory of Bela Horovitz. East and West Library, London 1958, DNB 451027825 .
- Werner E. Mosse (Ed.): Second Chance. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1991, ISBN 3-16-145741-2 .
Web links
- From Murray G. Hall's publishing history
- Movie notice
- Event program Literaturhaus
- From Google Books: Excerpt from Werner E. Mosse, English
Individual evidence
- ↑ See the program of events in the Wiener Literaturhaus for February 28, 2008, weblink
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Horovitz, Béla |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 18, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 8, 1955 |
| Place of death | New York City |