Letterpress FL Wagener
The Wagener book printing company , actually FL Wagener, Lemgo , was a printing company and a publisher in Lemgo / Lippe ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). The independent Lippe print shop and the publishing house played a central role in the history of printing and publishing in Ostwestfalen-Lippe and thus represented one of the most important cultural institutions for the former Principality of Lippe and later the Land of Lippe . The publishing house was founded on September 26th Founded in Lemgo in 1843 by Friedrich Leopold Wagener and published the Sonntagspost from 1856 and the Lippische Post in 1877 .
history
During the time of the German Revolution of 1848/1849 two newspapers were published here. From March 25, 1848 to 1852, the democratically oriented newspaper Die Wage appeared twice a week - a magazine for discussing the affairs of the people . The editors were Karl Vette and Carl Volckhausen from Detmold and Gustav Adolf Wolff from Lemgo. From November 11, 1848 to July 19, 1850, the democratically oriented weekly newspaper Der Volksfreund - a weekly for Westphalia with the motto “Freedom, Prosperity, Education for All” was printed and published. Gustav Adolf Wolff also joined the editorial team of the Westphalian People's Friend from November 1848.
One of the employees of the publishing house was the later state president Heinrich Drake , who was a simple employee until 1903 and then acted as managing director until 1910. Later FL Wagener, Lemgo among others by the publishing house owner Friedrich Leopold (Fritz) (1885-1951), Carl Arnold Wagener (1885-1959) and by the great-grandson of the founder, Bruno Wagener-Köhler (1917-1988, born Köhler - von Carl and Else Wagener adopted in 1951).
This publishing house published works such as Die Subscription des Clarkinnus (printed 1800), Poets for the Fatherland by Christian Dietrich Grabbe , We Were the Emperor's Children , too, by Ruth Michaelis-Jena and local history editions, and the newspaper Lippische Post (1877), later " Lippische Rundschau ", published.
Other works, which were published here in several editions, relate, among other things, to the Principality of Lippe, the Land of Lippe, the city of Lemgo and Lippe personalities such as Engelbert Kaempfer .
The printing house and the publishing house were located at Mittelstrasse 23/25 in the old town center of Lemgo until the company relocated in 1981 and then moved to the industrial area in Lieme . A few years later, the printing company was sold to the company Busse-Druck from Herford. Busse-Druck later became part of the Westfalen-Blatt media group, which still exists today .
literature
- LZ 140,2 (1988), 97
- Lippische Rundschau. - 43 (1988), 97 of April 26th / SYKLippe: MIIIWagenerKöhlerB; HVIII3 - LZ 140.2 (1988.97)
- Lippische Rundschau. - 40,265 of November 15, 1985, p. 7
- The time. - 40.50 of December 6, 1985, p. 63
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Harald Pilzer: From the preparations for the Lippe 1848 exhibition. June 13, 1998, accessed on March 24, 2014
Coordinates: 52 ° 1 '42 " N , 8 ° 54' 4.4" E