Carl Friedrich Kunz

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Carl Friedrich Kunz (born July 19, 1785 in Zerbst / Anhalt ; † January 27, 1849 in Bamberg ; first name also Karl, pseudonym: Zacharias Funck) was a German wine merchant, lending librarian, publisher and writer.

Life

After his childhood in Zerbst, Kunz completed an apprenticeship as a businessman in Magdeburg, but was always interested in literature and theater. After meeting Ludwig Devrient and August Wilhelm Iffland , he came to Bamberg in 1806 and established a wine shop there in 1809. His house became a meeting place for local and traveling scholars, musicians, actors and writers; u. a. wrong ETA Hoffmann and Jean Paul here. On January 2, 1813, Kunz opened a new royal reading institute , which by 1828 had 15,000 volumes and was the largest lending library in Bavaria. “The Reading Institute was [...] the best lending library in Bavaria. The business success was so 'disproportionately' low that Kunz decided not to continue his reading institute. He probably closed it at the end of 1828. “The rich book holdings must have been taken over by other Bamberg lending libraries.

In 1814 Kunz also founded a publishing bookstore in Bamberg. The first titles that his publishing house published included Hoffmann's Fantasiestücke in Callot's manner , Gotthilf Heinrich Schubert's Symbolik des Traum and Friedrich Gottlob Wetzel's handwriting samples . Kunz was able to win over Jean Paul as the previous speaker for Hoffmann's anonymously published fantasy pieces. A second, reviewed edition of the Fantasiestücke was published by Kunz in 1819, supplemented by a portrait of the author. In addition to religious or philosophical writings, Kunz also published medical works by Adalbert Friedrich Marcus or Adolph Henke , art historical works by Joseph Heller and literary criticism, such as by Otto von Loeben ( lotus leaves. Fragments by Isidorus , 1817). For a short time, Kunz published a magazine, Weekly Art News for Artists, Art Lovers, Literators, Art and Booksellers (1825/26), which Joseph Heller edited. After numerous publications, he sold his publishing house in 1833 and from then on devoted himself to his own literary projects, such as his memoirs, an adaptation of Götz von Berlichingen and several anthologies. Kunz used the pseudonym Z. Funck in his publications.

"Mr. Kunz from Bamberg" reading a "wine list"

The Kunzische or Kunzsche crack , which Hoffmann sent from Berlin to Kunz in the summer of 1815, is named after Kunz.

Works

  • Rachel . Bamberg 1835.
  • Bettina . Bamberg 1836.
  • Reading fruits from the whole area of ​​the higher entertainment literature . Bamberg 1836.
  • Memories from my life in biographical memorial stones and other communications . Vol. 1–2: Leipzig, Brockhaus 1836–1838; Vol. 3: Schleusingen, Glaser 1839.
    • Vol. 1: From the life of two poets: Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann's and Friedrich Gottlob Wetzel's.
    • Vol. 2: From the life of two actors: August Wilhelm Iffland's and Ludwig Devrient's.
    • Vol. 3: Jean Paul Friedrich Richter.
  • Götz von Berlichingen . Bamberg 1839.
  • The book of German parodies and travesties. Erlangen 1840/41.
  • Sounds from the time. Erlangen 1841.

literature

  • Wulf Segebrecht : Kunz '›New Reading Institute‹. In: Mitteilungen der ETA Hoffmann-Gesellschaft 23 (1977), pp. 50–56.
  • Wulf Segebrecht:  Kunz, Carl Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 307 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Karl Klaus Walther: Carl Friedrich Kunz. A literary entrepreneur from Bamberg. Bamberg 1994.
  • Hans Peter Buohler: [Art.] Kunz, Carl Friedrich. In: Killy Literature Lexicon. Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area. Lim. by Walther Killy, ed. by Wilhelm Kühlmann (among others). Second, completely revised. Edition. Volume 7. Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-022046-9 , pp. 134f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alberto Martino: The German lending library. History of a literary institution (1756–1914). Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz, 1990, p. 99
  2. ^ Hoffmann's apartment in Taubenstrasse and the surrounding area on staatsbibliothe-berlin.de
personal data
SURNAME Kunz, Carl Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Funck, Zacharias (pseudonym); Kunz, Karl Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1785
PLACE OF BIRTH Zerbst / Anhalt
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1849
Place of death Bamberg