Emil Herz (publisher)

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Emil Herz, ca.1922 (unknown photographer, note copyrights)

Emil Emanuel Herz (born April 5, 1877 in Essen ; died July 7, 1971 in Rochester , New York , USA ) was a German publisher.

Life

Emil Herz was the son of a hide and fur trader, the family moved to Warburg in Westphalia around 1880 . There he attended the Marianum high school and graduated from high school.

In Bonn he completed a degree in German, which he completed with a dissertation for Dr. phil about acting in Shakespeare's time in 1901. After a two-year publishing apprenticeship in Hamburg, he was hired in 1903 by Ullstein Verlag in Berlin to be responsible for the program. He introduced the Ullstein paperbacks and founded the Propylaen publishing house .

After more than 30 years at Ullstein, at the end as director, the Nazis forced his dismissal in 1934. Because of the steadily increasing pressure to which he was exposed as a Jew, he decided to emigrate in 1938. Stops were Switzerland , Italy and Havana in Cuba . In 1941 he reached the USA , where he settled in Rochester in the US state of New York and lived until his death.

Works

  • I think of Germany at night . Berlin 1951; New edition of the Warburg Museum Association, 2005; English translation: Before the fury. Jews and Germans before Hitler . New York 1966
  • English actors and drama in Shakespeare's time in Germany . Hamburg 1903; New edition 1977
  • The banks of the Palatinate and their relationships with the Palatinate industry . Schweitzer, Munich 1903

literature

  • Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of the German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, p. 289

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personal data
SURNAME Heart, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Herz, Emil Emanuel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH 7th July 1971
Place of death Rochester , New York , USA