Friedrich Fontane

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Friedrich Fontane (born February 5, 1864 in Berlin , † September 22, 1941 in Neuruppin ) was a German bookseller and publisher.

Life

Friedrich Fontane was the seventh and last child of Theodor Fontane and his wife Emilie, b. Rouanet grief, born. The parents had been married since 1845. He was married to Dina Toerpisch (1868–1933); both are buried in the Protestant cemetery in Neuruppin.

Activity as a publisher

Friedrich Fontane attended the French grammar school in Berlin, completed a bookseller training with Langenscheidt from 1881 to 1884 . In 1888 he founded the publishing house F. Fontane & Co., also in Berlin, whereby the father had doubts about the business ability of the son from the beginning. The son did not give up and gradually acquired rights to individual works by the father, who only gave up his restraint after Friedrich Cohn joined the publishing house as a partner. Since the mid-1890s, the publishing house had an important program and was on par with the equally young S. Fischer publishing house in terms of content . From 1904 to 1926 his father's works were published in 21 volumes.

The publishing house also published the arts, crafts and literature magazine Pan , which was founded by Otto Julius Bierbaum and Julius Meier-Graefe , from 1895 to 1900 . In 1900 the magazine lost its readership because it gave up its international orientation in a conservative turn to a German art journal with the help of Friedrich Fontane. The end of the magazine ultimately sealed the demise of the publishing house from 1903, which Friedrich Fontane ruined through organizational and financial escapades. Friedrich Cohn left the publisher with numerous successful authors, which then mutated into a purely family publisher, which Theodor Fontane had feared from the start. With the First World War and the sale of all rights to Theodor Fontane's work to S. Fischer Verlag, the publisher ultimately only existed on paper until 1928.

Worked as the administrator of Theodor Fontane's estate

Theodor Fontane's will awarded seven ninths to the daughter Martha Fontane of the estate of 34,200 marks left behind and only the compulsory portion of one ninth to the two sons Theodor and Friedrich. Half of the income from copyrights should go to the daughter and a quarter to the sons for up to 30 years after the death of the father. Friedrich in particular felt the will to be a disadvantage compared to his sister and did not accept it throughout his life. “Friedrich's feeling of being set back was also mixed with anti-Jewish resentment. These were directed primarily against Paul Meyer, whom he held responsible for the will. ”In 1928, when the legal protection period for the author's rights expired, the royalties dried up and Friedrich Fontane found himself in financial distress. He moved to Neuruppin with what was left of the material estate and, with financial commitments, served himself to the NSDAP , which with the active participation of the then press officer of the Brandenburg provincial administration Hermann Fricke , also a member of the NSDAP, “the famous Ruppiner Fontane ... for reinterpreted the ideology of National Socialism . "

literature

  • Iwan-Michelangelo D'Aprile: Fontane: A Century in Motion , Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-498-00099-8
  • Hermann Fricke: The poet's son: in memoriam Friedrich Fontane , in: Yearbook for Brandenburg State History: JBLG. - Berlin: Landesgeschichtl. Association, ISSN 0447-2683, ZDB-ID 2594-X - Vol. 17.1966, pp. 24-51
  • Friedrich Fontane: The literary estate of Theodor Fontane and the Prussian State Library , Neuruppin 1935 [2 sheets]

Literature published by F. Fontane & Co.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Iwan-Michelangelo D'Aprile: Fontane: A Century in Motion, Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-498-00099-8 , pp. 440–442
  2. ^ Iwan-Michelangelo D'Aprile: Fontane: A Century in Movement, Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-498-00099-8 pp. 455–459
  3. ^ Iwan-Michelangelo D'Aprile: Fontane: A Century in Movement, Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-498-00099-8 , pp. 439f.
  4. ↑ Paul Meyer was the notary Theodor Fontanes
  5. ^ Iwan-Michelangelo D'Aprile: Fontane: A Century in Motion, Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-498-00099-8 , pp. 455f.
  6. ^ Iwan-Michelangelo D'Aprile: Fontane: A Century in Motion, Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-498-00099-8 , pp. 460-465
  7. ↑ https://kxp.k10plus.de/DB=2.1/PPNSET?PPN=1543373216
personal data
SURNAME Fontane, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bookseller and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1941
Place of death Neuruppin