German Book Trade Association

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The German book trade association (founded as a central association for the entire book trade ) existed from 1884 to 1949 with its seat in Leipzig and was an interest group of the book trade and umbrella organization of all national associations of the graphic arts and industry in the book production . The association built the German Book Trade House , published the magazine Archive for Book Trade , founded the German Book Trade Museum (later the German Museum for Books and Writing , now the German Museum of Books and Writing ) and organized the Bugra in 1914.

history

General story

The publisher and printer owner Carl Behrendt Lorck wrote a memorandum in 1884 entitled The future of the book trade in Leipzig . With reference to this, the Central Association for the entire book trade was founded on October 29, 1884 in the German Bookseller House in Leipzig with around 100 participants with the aim of emphasizing the artistic influence of the institutions involved, such as printing works or art establishments, on book production. In addition to the promotion of book art , the association set itself the goals of building a German book trade museum , establishing an academy for graphic arts and maintaining book art exhibitions . The first chairman of the association was the publisher and bookseller Oskar von Hase . a. taken by Ernst Arthur Seemann (deputy chairman of the association), Gustav Wustmann (chairman of the museum commission) or Friedrich Zarncke (chairman of the academy commission). According to the statute passed on February 16, 1885, the association structure consisted of six groups, in which 20 different professions from book production were represented.

Archives for the book trade. Fixed number on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the German Book Trade Association in 1909

1886, the year before the was the Kingdom of Saxony for 400,000 Mark acquired collection of books by Henry clamping the club as a permanent loan left. The so-called Klemm's Collection or the Royal Saxon Bibliographical Collection with numerous incunabula - including a Gutenberg Bible - and other objects of book- historical significance was hugely upgraded by the German Book Trade Museum and is seen as the cornerstone of the museum. From 1888 to 1900 the association had its seat in the German bookseller's house in the Hospitalstrasse, between 1899 and 1900 the German book trade house was built in the Dolzstrasse in the immediate vicinity of the German booksellers house , from there the seat of the association. On January 16, 1899, the Central Association for the entire book trade decided at its general meeting to adopt the name German Book Trade Association . In the same year the association took over the journal Archive for Book Printing and Related Business Branches and continued it as an archive for the book trade . In terms of appearance and design, the publication was based on Art Nouveau , and the magazine Jugend was used as a model . In the years to come, the museum was expanded significantly through the acquisition of extensive thematic collections, including a. through collections of around 50,000 single sheets (1909, collection of Hanns von Weißenbach), miniature paintings (1914, collection of Ansgar Schoppmeyer ), book covers (1911, collection of Karl David Becher), stuff printing (before 1914, collection of Robert Forrer ), paper , Colored and art paper (1901 and 1911, collection of Ernst Seegers and Franz Bartsch) and collotype prints (1914, collection of Joseph Albert and Babette Heller). In addition, graphics , posters , bookplates , postcards , photographs as well as historical tools and machines from book production were collected. A museum library was also set up. In 1915 the German Librarian School was opened under the direction of the museum.

During the air raids on Leipzig on December 4, 1943 , the German Book Trade House was badly damaged, and the association was dissolved on December 14, 1949.

Exhibition and trade fair activities

In addition to the German Book Trade Museum and smaller exhibition projects , especially in the German Bookseller - and later in the German Book Trade House , the association realized the area of ​​the German book trade group at the World Exhibition in Chicago in 1893 , followed by the presentation of the Graphic Trade from Saxony and Thuringia at the Saxon Thuringian industrial and trade exhibition in Leipzig . The German Book Trade Association published the special catalog for the exhibition part of the printing industry in the Deutsches Haus at the Paris World Exhibition in 1900 . Participation in other world exhibitions followed. In 1903 the association published a guide for the book trade museum and the collections; the main focus of the catalog was on new acquisitions from 1898 to 1902. The highlight of the exhibition was Bugra 1914, the first and to this day largest book trade exhibition worldwide; the German Book Trade Association organized the event together with the German Book Trade Association . In 1928 the association conceived the special exhibition on the German book industry at the international press exhibition Pressa in Cologne .

As part of the Leipzig sample fair , the association organized the book trade Bugra and Bugra book fairs at Peterstraße 38 from 1919 to 1928 with up to 300 exhibitors. From 1921 separate Bugra machine fairs were held in the book trade . Initially housed together with the exhibition of historical machines and equipment, the association expanded the exhibition area from 1000 to 3600 square meters. The Bugra machine fair then established itself as one of the world's leading trade fairs of its kind.

Well-known club members (selection)

literature

  • Exhibition of new acquisitions from 1899–1902. At the same time, an introduction to the use of the collections of the German Book Trade Association. Führer , ed. from the administration of the German Book Trade Association. Poeschel & Trepte, Leipzig 1903, DNB 572082959 .
  • Archives for the book trade. [Fixed number on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the German Book Trade Association] 46 (1909), Issue 10, DNB 993963412 .
  • Archives for the book trade and commercial graphics. [Half a century of the German Book Trade Association 1884 1934] 71 (1934), issue 10, DNB 367400898 .
  • Fifty years of the German Book Trade Association 1884–1934. [To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the German Book Trade Association] , Ed .: Deutscher Buchgewerbeverein. Leipzig 1934, DNB 579268349 .
  • Sabine Knopf: The book city of Leipzig. Myth and symbols . Sax-Verlag, Beucha 2008, ISBN 978-3-86729-025-8 , pp. 38-43, 58 f.
  • Sabine Knopf: Book City Leipzig: The historical travel guide . Christoph Links Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86153-634-5 , pp. 10-12.
  • Lothar Poethe: German Book Trade Association . In: Helmut Bähring , Kurt Rüddiger (Hrsg.): Lexikon Buchstadt Leipzig. From the beginning until 1990 . Tauchaer Verlag, Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-89772-147-0 , p. 66.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Sabine Knopf 2008, p. 38.
  2. ^ A b Oskar von Hase: The emergence of the German book trade association . In: Archiv für Buchgewerbe 46 (1909), issue 10, p. 288 f.
  3. ^ Oskar von Hase: The emergence of the German book trade association . In: Archiv für Buchgewerbe 46 (1909), issue 10, p. 290.
  4. ^ Bettina Rüdiger: German Museum of Books and Writing. In: Fabian Handbuch. Handbook of the historical book collections in Germany, Austria and Europe. Goettingen State and University Library, 1997, accessed on September 21, 2019 .
  5. ^ Oskar von Hase: The emergence of the German book trade association . In: Archiv für Buchgewerbe 46 (1909), issue 10, supplement, sheet [1].
  6. ^ Carl Wagner: The archive for book trade 1899-1934 . In: Archiv für Buchgewerbe 71 (1934), issue 10, p. 581.
  7. ↑ Paper historical collections. In: German National Library. May 15, 2019, accessed September 22, 2019 .
  8. ^ Hans H. Bockwitz : The German Museum for Books and Writing 1884-1934 . In: Archiv für Buchgewerbe 71 (1934), Issue 10, pp. 626–632.
  9. ↑ Sabine Knopf 2011, p. 12.
  10. ↑ Lothar Poethe 2008.
  11. ^ Carl Wagner: The exhibition activities of the German Book Trade Association 1884-1934 . In: Archiv für Buchgewerbe 71 (1934), issue 10, p. 553 f.
  12. ^ Exhibition of new acquisitions from 1899-1902, 1903.
  13. ↑ Sabine Knopf 2008, p. 58.
  14. ^ Carl Wagner: The exhibition activities of the German Book Trade Association 1884-1934 . In: Archiv für Buchgewerbe 71 (1934), issue 10, p. 556.
  15. ^ Bruno Grünzig: The trade fair system of the German book trade association (Bugra trade fairs) . In: Archiv für Buchgewerbe 71 (1934), issue 10, pp. 665–667.
  16. ^ Oskar von Hase: The emergence of the German book trade association . In: Archiv für Buchgewerbe 46 (1909), issue 10, p. 310.