Collection Fischer

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Hermann Bahr: Caph (1894)

The Fischer Collection is the name of an inexpensive series of books with high-quality furnishings from S. Fischer Verlag in Berlin, which had a specially made cover image for each volume. From 1894 onwards the volumes appeared in loose succession with two-color printing, numbered from 1897 to 1899 with a four-color cover design in probably nine volumes, including the first editions by Thomas Mann and Peter Altenberg . The series was based on similar undertakings in the French book market, such as the Ollendorf Collection and the Guillaume Collection . With their sales price of 2 marks, the thread-sewn books without hardcover were very cheap, aimed at the mass market and represented forerunners of the paperbacks . However, they were not successful and the series was soon discontinued. It was not until the 1970s that the S. Fischer Verlag “revived” the series.

Volumes published

Unnumbered volumes

Peter Nansen: From the diary of a lover (1898)

Each volume with an illustrated cover, stapled, 2 marks:

  • Peter Nansen : A happy marriage . (1894)
  • Hermann Bahr : Caph. Novellas . Envelope from Ferry Bératon . (1894)
  • Otto Erich Hartleben : The story of the torn off button.
  • Hermann Bahr: Dora. (1893)
  • Peter Nansen: Maria. A book of love . (1896)
  • Hans Land : The virtuous . (1895)
  • Otto Erich Hartleben: From the hospitable pastor . With a drawing by Otto Langemann. (1895)
  • Maria Janitschek : From women. Character drawings. Cover design by Otto Eckmann. (1896)
  • Herman Bang : On the way. Novel . (1898)

Numbered volumes

Volume 6: Thomas Mann: Little Mr. Friedemann . Envelope from Wilhelm Schulz . (1898)
  1. Herman Bang: The four devils . (An eccentric novella. Authorized translation by Ernst Brausewetter (1897))
  2. Peter Altenberg: Ashantee . (1897)
  3. Maria Janitschek: Rauol and Irene . (1897)
  4. Peter Nansen: From a lover's diary. Love songs and other things . Authorized translation by Mathilde Mann . Draft cover by Th. Th. Heine . (1897/98)
  5. G. de Beaulieu : His brother . (1898)
  6. Thomas Mann: Little Mr. Friedemann . Novellas . (1898)
  7. Otto Erich Hartleben: From the hospitable pastor (again 1898)
  8. Birger Mörner : Very high pleasure. A baroque interior . (1898)
  9. Karl Gjellerup : The envelope. Study by a graphologist . (1898)
  10. Ernst Freiherr von Wolhaben : The wonderful. Novella . Envelope from Walter Caspari . (1898, pre-dated 1899)

literature

  • Peter de Mendelssohn: S. Fischer and his publishing house. S. Fischer, Berlin 1970, pp. 237-239.
  • Friedrich Pfäfflin: 100 years of S. Fischer Verlag. 1886-1986. Book covers. About books and their external form, Frankfurt a. M .: S. Fischer 1986, pp. 52-53. (Illustrations by Caph, Ashantee, Diary, Wonderful)
  • Knut Beck: 100 years of S. Fischer Verlag. 1886-1986. A bibliography. Frankfurt a. M. 1986.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the existence of the series before the numbered cf. Samuel Fischer's unpublished letter to Arthur Schnitzler dated June 5, 1895, in which he wants to purchase the Kleine Komödie for the series and includes a volume of Hartleben and Nansen. See also Friedrich Pfäfflin: 100 years of S. Fischer Verlag. 1886-1986. Book covers. About books and their external form, Frankfurt a. M .: S. Fischer 1986, pp. 52-53.
  2. ↑ Possibly a newly bound edition of the first edition, cf. Note in Bahr bibliography here