Dieter Wagner (publisher)

Dieter Wagner (* 1941 ; † 2004 in Berlin ) was a German printer , book designer and publisher . He is the founder of the small bibliophile publisher Edition Dieter Wagner , Berlin.

Life

Dieter Wagner was a trained printer. In the early 1960s, new printing techniques emerged (e.g. offset printing ). The old lead letters had become superfluous and were lying around in the factory yards for collection by scrap dealers or the garbage disposal. In addition, there were scraps of paper and waste . From 1963 he began to collect what was suitable and to experiment with it after work. In 1971 (?) He came to West Berlin , where he met the legendary Victor Otto Stomps , who almost exactly 40 years earlier had also published very original printed works from printer waste and unusual materials. (However, Stomps died in 1970.)

In Berlin, Wagner was in charge of the editions of the APO publishing house Oberbaum-Verlag , which he gave an attractive appearance. From 1979 he worked as an offset assembler in the Gerike printing company, which from 1980 supported him in publishing his own books in small editions.

In addition to Vauo Stomps, the printing experiments of Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman and Franz Mon were his role models. In 1985 the city of Mainz awarded him the prestigious Victor Otto Stomps Prize . By 1989 (Spindler's editorial deadline) 30 originally designed books had been published in small editions. The FU library in Berlin , the Frankfurt University Library, the Klingspor Museum in Offenbach am Main , the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris , the Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry in Miami Beach and the Mainz Minipressen Archive have complete or almost complete collections of the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz.

Expenses (selection)

HG Vogel : Dieter Wagner: 10 little bitches - anonymous from the Nazi era , typography, 10 pages printed on brown packing paper, with ring binding, printed in 1980 in 50 copies by the Gerike printing company, Berlin

• Alexander Blok : Die Zwölf , German by Paul Celan , 1980, approx. 100 pages, spiral binding , 51 copies printed on brown wrapping paper and therefore as thick as the Berlin branch telephone book.
• Harald Schmid: bin ia kaschperl (cabaret texts in old Bavarian dialect ). Edition Dieter Wagner, Berlin 1982. 36 pages, original ct. Block book , blue and black print on black-gray paper. 200 copies, signed by the author and publisher.
• Dieter Wagner: Fukujuso . Short story (anonymous, 1778) from Japanese. Edition Dieter Wagner, Berlin 1984. 62 phone book pages, two-tone alphabet game, block book with cord stitching. 80 copies.
• Jacob Frey : The Garden Society. Edition Dieter Wagner, Berlin 1984. 26 pages, original ct., Chinese cord binding, two-tone print in an old Schwabach font on coffee-colored paper. 150 copies, signed by the designer and publisher. The original edition by the town clerk of Maursmünster in Alsace appeared in 1556.
• Wolfgang Nieblich : Waste. Narrative. Edition Dieter Wagner, Berlin 1984. 156 pages, paperback, Chinese string binding, printed on various papers, some waste. 250 copies, signed by the author and publisher.
• The dream is over. N ° 1 (variations on male impotence ). With an original photo by Wolf Gutbier . Edition Dieter Wagner, Berlin 1985. 116 pages, paperback, block book, screw binding, multicolored printing. 100 copies, signed by the photographer and publisher.
• is da wirgli a rua or goethes fettflecken ( typographical new version of Goethe's Wanderers Nachtlied ). Edition Dieter Wagner, Berlin 1985. 42 pages, paperback, screw binding, cover sheets made of Astralon , a special foil . The text is printed in grease and translucent on the inside of the sheets. 100 copies, signed by the publisher.
• No experiments - small experiments. Typographical tampering, destruction, etc. of a text, line and sound shifts . Edition Dieter Wagner, Berlin 1985. 78 pages, paperback, screw binding, two-tone printing on colored waste. 100 copies, signed by the publisher.
• Jean Mottin : love songs of the white Hmong . Selection and translation from the French by Francoise and Johannes Strugalla , text attachment Barbara Müller. Edition Dieter Wagner, Berlin 1985. 38 pages, paperback, 4 ° , printed on hand-made paper from the bark of the mulberry tree from Thailand , Chinese cord binding . 120 numbered and signed copies.
• baroque . Transience of beauty . Texts by Johann von Besser , Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau , Simon Dach . Edition Dieter Wagner, Berlin 1986. 166 pages, paperback, Chinese block book binding, two-tone print on two-tone waste printed with overpainted pages from a porno magazine. Edition of 100 copies, signed by the publisher.
• roll over Marilyn . Edition Dieter Wagner, Berlin 1986. 112 pages, paperback, Chinese block book binding with multicolored cotton threads, five-color print with collages from porno magazines ; erotic text collages from Gilgamesh , Georges Bataille and the Springer press . Edition of 150 copies, Spindler 131.26, signed by the publisher.
• Dieter M. Gräf : On the legs Erika Hoch . Audio text. Edition Dieter Wagner, Berlin 1987. 30 undefined. Sheets, original box, screw cap, printed in different colors, each sheet plays with the three letters SAU FROM USA. 50 Roman numbered copies, signed by the publisher and author.
• Thomas Gruber : Winged bellies. Poems etc. With two compositions by Hans Reffert and five nudes and a portrait photo by Wolf Gutbier. Edition Dieter Wagner, Berlin 1988. Various objects ( single-sheet prints , block books , music sheets ) in a black box. Edition of 170 copies.
• Simon Traston et al. a .: Vox populi , vox Dei. A wall newspaper from a Berlin urinal / The endless orgy. Language structure of picture porn . Typographical processing, Edition Dieter Wagner, Berlin 1987. Approx. 500 pages, 2 block books with screw binding, bound together with oversized plastic film (“Wanted aesthetics of ugliness”), 4 °, printed on waste pages and phone book pages, collages , smudges, three-color printing. 180 copies, signed by the author and publisher.
• Robert Wienes : Everything that has been written so far Quark. Edition Dieter Wagner, Berlin 1987. 193 pages, Chinese block book with multicolored cotton threads and various found objects (bottle opener, screws, buttons), multicolored printing on phone book pages and waste. 130 copies, signed by the publisher.
• Simon Traston: Garbage tract. Edition Dieter Wagner, Berlin 1988. 52 pages, binding in oversized plastic film, 4 °, screw binding, printed on waste pages with deliberate signs of destruction, overpainting. 100 copies, signed by the author and publisher.
• Jürgen Beckelmann : The faucet or the resurrection of scrap. Edition Dieter Wagner, Berlin 1989. 62 pages, 4 °, landscape format, binding in an unfolded original six-pack cover from the Berlin Schultheiss brewery . Four-color printing. One of 100 copies, signed by the author and publisher.

literature

• Albert Spindler: Types. Press prints of the German-speaking area since 1945. A bibliography by Albert Spindler. Merlin-Verlag, Gifkendorf 1988.

Awards

• 1985: Victor Otto Stomps Prize for "Edition Dieter Wagner"

Web links

• VO Stomps Prize Winner
• Scores by Dieter Wagner in the catalog of the German National Library