The Krater Library

Spine of the series (five volumes of Shakespeare are missing from the picture)

The Krater Library was a series of books published by Franz-Greno in Nördlingen , in which 22 volumes and an almanac appeared between 1985 and 1989 .

Authors and Topics

The main project of the Krater Library, named after the Nördlinger meteorite crater, was the new edition of the Shakespeare translations by Christoph Martin Wieland , which, however, was discontinued after eight volumes and could only be fully realized by Haffmans Verlag in the 1990s . Other authors of the Krater Library were Johann Beer , Wilhelm Heinse , Achim von Arnim , Johann Gottfried Seume (with two volumes), Johann Karl Wezel , Marcel Schwob and John Webster (also with two volumes). In addition to authors from the 16th to 18th centuries, the book series also contained five literary anthologies: Genius and Money , edited by Karl Corino, The animal that doesn't exist. About the unicorn , edited by Jochen Hörisch, In der Kutsche durch Europa , edited by Helmut Popp, A garter belt for my love of love , edited by Jonathan von Alb, and The blue book. Readings of a color , edited by Angelika Lochmann. In some cases there were overlaps and additions with the Other Library, also published by Greno , for example with authors such as Seume and Arnim, who appeared in both series. Likewise, in the case of Wezel and Wieland, references between the Krater library and the series of Haidnian antiquities published by authors rediscovered by Arno Schmidt can also be shown . Dr Faustus by Christopher Marlowe, which was actually also intended for the Krater Library, was only published by Greno in 1988 in a full leather special edition in a larger format and without the series logo.

Furnishing

The Krater Library was, alongside the better known Other Library, the second ambitious and bibliophile book series from Greno Verlag, which was initially furnished with particular care. These included thread stitching , silk binding, cover embossing and multicolored metal type printing on high-quality 100 g paper. All volumes in the crater library are published in large octaves (24 × 16.5 cm) with a bookmark and a uniform blue dust jacket. The fonts used are all Cicero monotypes (Bodoni, Walbaum, Garamond, Bembo, Albion) or Neo Didot and Old French. Of the volumes edited between 1985 and 1988, Greno published an all-leather-bound precious special edition in a slipcase. The last volume in the collection, In the Carriage Through Europe , appeared in 1989 only in a normal edition with an embossed cardboard cover and dust jacket.

Volumes

• Karl Clausberg (Ed.): Almanach of the Krater Library. The first year . 1986. ISBN 3-921568-80-3 .
• Christoph Martin Wieland : Shakespeare , Theatrical Works in Individual Editions . Reissued after the first Zurich edition from 1762 to 1766 by Hans and Johanna Radlayers. Translated from English by Mr. Wieland (discontinued after eight volumes)
  • Volume 1. Shakespeare: A St. John's Night Dream . 1986. ISBN 3-921568-86-2
  • Volume 2. Shakespeare: The Life and Death of King Lear . 1986, ISBN 3-89190-407-X .
  • Volume 3. Shakespeare: As You Like It; or, the girlfriends. a comedy . 1986, ISBN 3-89190-411-8 .
  • Volume 4. Shakespeare: Maass for Maass; or: as someone measures, he is measured again . A comedy. 1987, ISBN 3-89190-416-9 .
  • Volume 5. Shakespeare: The Storm; or: The enchanted island . 1987, ISBN 3-89190-417-7 .
  • Volume 6. Shakespeare: The merchant of Venice . 1988, ISBN 3-89190-419-3 .
  • Volume 7. Shakespeare: Timon of Athens . 1988, ISBN 3-89190-433-9 .
  • Volume 8. Shakespeare: Life and Death of King John . 1989, ISBN 3-89190-438-X .
• Johann Karl Wezel : Belphegor or the most likely story under the sun. 1986, ISBN 3-921568-84-6 .
• Marcel Schwob : The novel of twenty-two CVs . Translation by Jakob Hegner . 1986. ISBN 3-921568-82-X
• Johann Gottfried Seume : My life . In addition to the continuation of GJ Göschen and CAH Clodius. 1986, ISBN 3-921568-88-9 .
• Johann Gottfried Seume: My Summer 1805 . Travel journal. 1987, ISBN 3-89190-415-0 .
• John Webster : The Duchess of Amalfi . The Duchess of Malfi . Tragedy in five acts. 1612; Translated from the English by Alfred Marnau. Bilingual edition. 1986, ISBN 3-921568-90-0 . (With an imaginary portrait of the Duchess by Oskar Kokoschka and twelve photographs of the London performance in 1945 by Cecil Beaton .)
• John Webster: The white devil. The white divel. Tragedy in five acts. 1609. Translated from the English by Alfred Marnau. Bilingual edition. 1986, ISBN 3-89190-410-X . (With a visionary dream by Franz Luby; and sixteen photographs of the London performance in 1976 by John Haynes.)
• Achim von Arnim : Hollin's love life novel. 1986, ISBN 3-89190-408-8 .
• Jochen Hörisch : The animal that doesn't exist. A text & picture collage about the unicorn. 1986, ISBN 3-89190-409-6 .
• Wilhelm Heinse , Dürten Hartmann-Wülker (Ed.): Ardinghello and the happy islands. An Italian story from the sixteenth century. 1986, ISBN 3-89190-406-1 .
• Johann Beer : The Fool's Hospital. 1st edition. 1987, ISBN 3-89190-414-2 . (The famous fool's hospital, where it is circumscribed what the lazy Lorentz led a dissolute life behind the meadow, and what honest Pursche had been found in the hospital. Described to interested parties for the best, masculine but to shorten the melancholy hours published, through Hanß look into the world.)
• Karl Corino (Ed.): Genius and Money. On the livelihood of German writers With 34 portrait drawings by Peter Anders. First edition. 1987, ISBN 3-89190-413-4 .
• Jonathan von Alb (Hrsg.): A garter belt of my love lust. Stories from and about the garter belt. 1987, ISBN 3-89190-418-5 .
• Helmut Popp: Through Europe in a carriage. The pleasure and burden of travel in the 18th and 19th centuries. 1989, ISBN 3-89190-454-1 .
• Angelika Lochmann (ed.), Angelika Overath : The blue book: Reading types of a color. 1988, ISBN 3-89190-432-0 .

literature

• Almanac of the Krater Library. The first year. Noerdlingen 1986.