Bremen publishing

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The Bremen publishing industry is the economic sector of the Bremen media companies which distribute works from literature and science as well as newspapers and magazines as a publisher or in a publishing system in and around Bremen and Bremerhaven . Bremen authors and Bremen state institutions such as the Bremen State Archives also occasionally act as publishers.

history

In Bremen, too, the printers or engravers used to be the publishers of their printing works. Writings, single sheets, city maps or views on religion, for the Bremen council or for the illustrious grammar school were printed and published . The first printer to be verified in Bremen bore the initials A. G. V. (or A. G. M. ) and is said to have published a book with theses by Heinrich von Zütphen in 1526 . Later, the council printer and book printer Thomas de Villiers (* in Ghent; † 1622) and his son Bartholdus de Villiers (1622–1663) were known. At the end of the 17th century, Philipp Gottfried Saurmann from Erfurt was based in Bremen as a bookseller and publisher of religious works, and his son Nathanael († 1759) continued the company and also published entertainment literature .

Several publishers were already active in Bremen in the second half of the 18th century, including Ludwig Georg Förster. The Bremen Georg Joachim Göschen (1752–1828) and Friedrich Wilmans (1764–1830) from the Wilmanns family of scholars settled elsewhere. It was not until the beginning of the 19th century that merchants and booksellers appeared as publishers, such as Carl Schünemann (1780–1835) and Johann Georg Heyse . From 1820 to 1846 around 1,300 articles were published as books and also as smaller publications. In 1860 the five larger publishers Heyse, Kühtmann, C.Ed. Müller, Schünemann and Heinrich Strack, of whom Schünemann was the leading publisher until the 1920s. Other smaller publishers existed such as Gustav Winter, Franz Quelle and Arthur Geist.

In Bremerhaven and Lehe, the publisher Paulus Friedrich Lamberti worked with the Bremerleher from 1842 , who changed his name frequently until 1969. Johann Bohls and AE Lachmann published the Nordsee-Zeitung in Geestemünde since 1866 . August von Vangerow was co-editor of the Provinzial-Zeitung in Lehe and Bremerhaven in 1887 ; since 1901 the Nordsee-Zeitung has also been part of it. Josef Ditzen founded the Ditzen-Verlag in Bremerhaven in 1895 with the publication of the Nordwestdeutschen-Zeitung . Ditzen became the largest publisher in Bremerhaven and has been publishing his newspaper as Nordsee-Zeitung since 1949.

The Bremer Presse publishing house was announced by Hugo von Hofmannsthal in 1922 with the aim of supplementing the work of the Bremer Presse - based in Bremen, later in Bad Tölz and Munich . Around 20 works are said to have appeared annually by 1934. The journals Neue Deutsche Posts and Corona also appeared in the publishing house .

After the Second World War , there were the publishing houses of Schünemann, Dorn and the Angelsachsen-Verlag , founded in 1921 , which became the Hauschild Verlag . Schünemann remained one of the most important publishers. In 1945 Hans Hackmack founded the Weser-Kurier . The newspaper developed into the most important press organ in Bremen and the importance of the publishing house grew accordingly, which in 1974 also took over the Bremer Nachrichten from Schünemann and in 1981 became the Bremer Tageszeitungen AG . At times, publishers such as Friedrich Röver and Hans Kasten were added. Donat and Temmen founded a publishing house in 1984 and separated in 1987. Edition Temmen has successfully developed into a supra-regional publishing house since 1987 and Donat Verlag not only survived, but also won the Carl Villa Ichon eV culture and peace prize for its work von Ossietzky Prize of the City of Oldenburg and the prize for the best Low German book of 2011. In 1998 there were 80 publishers in Bremen in the business directory and in 2008 there were 62 companies that appeared in the telephone directory under the heading Publisher, while in Bremerhaven only six publishers were named, of which Ditzenverlag was and is the most important.

publisher

Chronological order of a selection

Bremen publisher (selection)

  • Philipp Gottfried Saurmann published religious works in Bremen (but also in Franckfurt and Leipzig) such as The Life of Faith (1697), the New Testament (1711) or chronicles and stories.
  • In 1767, Ludwig Georg Förster published an attempt at a dictionary in Bremen and Lower Saxony .
  • Georg Joachim Göschen (1752–1828), bookseller in Bremen, Leipzig and Dessau , publisher in Leipzig and Grimma .
  • Friedrich Wilmans (1764–1830) had been a bookseller since 1792, and soon afterwards also a publisher in Bremen. In 1802 he and his publishing house moved to Frankfurt am Main .
  • The Schünemann Verlag was founded in 1810 in Bremen and is still a family business in Bremen in Schünemann house located directly at the Weser. It is one of the oldest publishing houses in Germany that still existed at the place where it was founded. Today the company combines the four areas of book publishing, language newspaper publishing, magazine publishing and art and design mail order company. As a newspaper, it sold the Bremer Wochenlichen Nachrichten , which was called Bremer Nachrichten from 1854 and was transferred to Bremer Tageszeitungen AG in 1974 . The Handelsblatt Weser-Zeitung appeared from 1844 to 1934 and then merged with the Bremer Nachrichten. He published works by Manfred Hausmann , Wilhelm Scharrelmann and Georg Droste , among others .
  • Johann Christian Kühtmann (1815–1869) became a partner in the Schünemann publishing house in 1844. In 1845 he took over the company. Now called Carl Schünemann bookstore, Inh. Johann Kühtmann and from 1847 Kühtmann & Co . School books, dictionaries, city maps, cityscapes and geographical works were also published. His wife ran the business until 1885 and sold it to Gustav Winter.
  • Paulus Friedrich Lamberti (1815–1871), newspaper publisher in Bremerhaven and Lehe a. a. from 1842 to the Bremerleher , from 1846 weekly advertisements for Lehe, the surrounding area and Land Wursten , from 1848 the Mitteiler on the Lower Weser , from 1861 the Volksblatt on the North Sea and from 1862 the Volksblatt on the Weser . 1969 sold to the Nordsee-Zeitung and discontinued publication.
  • Johann Bohls and AE Lachmann founded and published the Nordsee-Zeitung in Geestemünde since 1866 . The bourgeois-liberal newspaper was sold in 1901 to the Provinzial-Zeitung of Geestemünde.
  • Gustav Winter was initially a bookseller from 1871. In 1885 he acquired the bookstore and the Kühtmann publishing house . He published modern language and technical textbooks, Bremen literature and individual writings.
  • Franz Quelle (1871–1914) took over the business from Winter in 1907 and ran it as Gustav Winter's bookstore, Franz Quelle . He published school and textbooks, Bremen literature and literary and scientific works. After 1914 Arthur Geist took over the bookstore and publisher.
  • August von Vangerow (1863-1935) was co-editor of the Provinzial-Zeitung in 1887 (since 1926 Wesermünder Latest News ), to which since 1901 also the bourgeois-free-thinking Nordsee-Zeitung belonged. In 1905 he founded the Provinzial-Zeitung GmbH .
  • Julius Bruhns (1860–1927), trade unionist, journalist and member of the Bremen Reichstag ( SPD ), was the first publisher and editor of the SPD's new Bremer Bürger-Zeitung from 1890 to 1895 . In 1895 the newspaper from Auer-Verlag was acquired in Hamburg and from 1907 to 1974 by the SPD - publishing Schmalfeldt & Co .
  • Josef Ditzen founded Ditzen-Verlag (today Ditzen GmbH & Co. ) in Bremerhaven with the publication of the Nordwestdeutschen-Zeitung . In 1913 Ditzen bought the Unterweser newspaper and renamed the company Nordwestdeutsche Zeitung, Zeitungsverlag und Druckerei GmbH . The Nordwestdeutschen-Zeitung appeared under this name from 1895 to 1945. The publisher has been publishing the Nordsee-Zeitung since 1949 , which was transferred to the Provinzial-Zeitung in Geestemünde in 1901 and which was taken over in 1941 by the Nordwestdeutschen-Zeitung . The Ditzen Group currently comprises several newspaper and book publishers and the North Sea printing center .
  • Hinrich Schmalfeldt (1850–1937), politician (SPD, USPD) and member of the Bremen Reichstag, joined the SPD-supported printing company and publishing house Schmalfeldt Co. in 1904 . which was published by the Bremer Bürger-Zeitung since 1907 .
  • Arthur Geist took over the bookstore and publishing house from Franz Quelle in 1914 under the name Gustav Winters Buchhandlung, Franz Quelle Nachf . From 1934 the house operated as the Arthur Geist bookstore . The publishing house published, among other things, Low German literature in the Roland library (around 1939–1962) with works by Heinrich Schmidt-Barrien and local writings. The Geist Am Wall bookstore was founded as a bookstore in 1829 and still exists today.
  • The Döll-Verlag was a publishing house and bookstore from 1919 to the 1980s, founded by Johann Heinrich Döll sen.
  • The Anglo-Saxons-Verlag was founded in 1922 and was one of Kaffee HAG by Ludwig Roselius . He published advertising brochures for Kaffee HAG and works from the arts. In 1928 the artistic journal Die Böttcherstraße appeared , and since 1935 portfolio works Die deutsche Kunst . After the Second World War, the Hauschild publishing house considered itself the legal successor.
  • Walter Dorn (1891-1957) founded in 1923 in Bremen-Horn to Walter Dorn publisher , brought out the scientific and belles lettres. In 1926 he founded the industrial and commercial publishing house Walter Dorn , which among other things published address and company manuals. After 1945 subsidiary publishers were established in Bielefeld, Hamburg, Hanover and Frankfurt am Main. Both publishers existed until 1981.
  • Heinrich Moritz Hauschild founded the publishing house HM Hauschild GmbH . From 1855 there was initially a printing company in Bremen, which developed into a publishing house. She printed the emigrant newspaper , the Lloyd newspaper , the Bremen church newspaper , the magazine Der Schlüssel and the Hauschild calendar . In 1950, after Hauschild's death, the company was transferred to Kaffee HAG (now Mondelēz International ) and it merged with Angelsachsen-Verlag . Today the publisher produces regional literature, especially Bremen .
  • Hans Hackmack (1900–1970) was editor or co-editor of the newspaper Weser-Kurier from 1945 to 1960. In 1946 he founded the newspaper publisher Weser-Kurier GmbH . The newspaper developed into the most important press organ in Bremen and the Lower Weser region and the importance of the publishing house grew accordingly. Around 2008 his grandson Ulrich Hackmack became the publisher's CEO.
  • Peter Kurz founded a mail order bookshop for motor literature in 1980 and has been publishing books on Bremen's corporate history since 1988.
  • Hermann Rudolf Meyer (1902–1979) became the publishing director of Weser-Kurier in 1949. In 1952 and 1956 he took over large shares in the publishing house (parity). In 1974 the publisher bought the Bremer Nachrichten from Schünemann. In 1981 the company became the Bremer Tageszeitungen AG .
  • The Donat & Temmen publishing house was founded in 1984 by Helmut Donat and Horst Temmen . The focus of the publishing house was German pacifism, contemporary history as well as the dissident scene and its development in Eastern Europe. In 1987 the two publishing partners separated and each founded their own publishing houses.
  • The Donat Verlag by Helmut Donat exists since the separation of caulking; Today, in addition to the book publisher, an affiliated mail-order antiquarian bookshop is operated under the name Donat Verlag & Antiquariat . Helmut Donat received the Culture and Peace Prize of the Bremen Villa Ichon in 1990 for his publishing work and in 1996 the Carl von Ossietzky Prize for contemporary history and politics from the city of Oldenburg. By 2007, the publisher had published around 300 titles with topics such as contemporary history, peace policy, historical, educational, religious and psychological topics.
  • The publishing house Edition Temmen was re-founded by Horst Temmen after separating from Donat in 1987. Mainly travel guides , travel books and Bremen were published ; the range was gradually expanded in the non-fiction area, mostly related to northern Germany. By 2002 around 1,200 titles had already been published and around 200,000 books had been sold in 2010.
  • The NW - Verlag was founded in 1976 in Bremerhaven as a subsidiary of the group Nordsee-Zeitung and published scientific publications and media history, Highway, occupational safety and health, physics and engineering.
  • The W. Wächter GmbH publishing house has existed as a family business since around 1980 and focuses on the areas of home & living, garden & nature, hobbies and social issues.
  • Raimund Cassalette founded Hallo TAXI Fachverlag in 1983, which was taken over by his son Jan Cassalette in 2007. In 2013 the Cassalette Verlagsgesellschaft mbH was founded.
  • In 1988, Klaus Kellner founded Kellner Verlag (also SachBuchVerlag Kellner ), which publishes specialist literature for interest groups and trade unions as well as Bremen, travel guides and practice series.
  • As a publisher, Roland Verlag is mainly active in the cultural sector for theaters and galleries in Bremen and Bremerhaven.
  • The waiter publishing , operating under the name under Sachbuchverlag waiter , was founded in 1988 by Klaus Kellner and laid next to specialist and non-fiction books for interest groups also Bremensien.
  • The brilliant Verlag was founded in 1992 by Sigrid Lony shepherd and laid next to the city magazine Brilliant - The Magazine from Bremen and the brilliant Edition "Typical Bremen" - the brilliant pages of the Hanseatic city, a Bremensie, published 1997th
  • The Sujet Verlag was founded in 1996 by Madjid Mohit and specializes in literature by foreign authors who do not live in their home country and do not want or cannot publish there. Iranian exile literature takes up a large part of this.

Publisher related to Bremen

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Focke : Bremische Werkmeister from an older time . Ed .: Historical Society Bremen. Müller Verlag, Bremen 1890, p.  1 , urn : nbn: de: gbv: 46: 1-132 .