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Friedrich Witz (born March 30, 1894 in Neuchâtel ; died July 1, 1984 in Zurich ) was a Swiss journalist and publisher.

Life

Friedrich Witz studied history, literature and geography at the University of Zurich from 1912 and received his doctorate there in 1920 with a dissertation on the beginning of the liberal movement in Switzerland in the 19th century. He was married to the singer Dora Wyss .

From 1921 he worked as a journalist for the Aargauer Tagblatt and from 1927 to 1932 ran a cinema in Baden . From 1930 to 1940 he was an editor for literature at Zürcher Illustrierte and in 1941 he helped found the magazine du . He then went to Morgarten Verlag as an editor from 1942 to 1944 .

As an editor, Witz discovered the writer Friedrich Glauser and published his detective novels as a serial in the Zürcher Illustrierte . With Karl Hoenn he founded Artemis Verlag in 1943 , in which he published a complete edition of the works of Carl Spitteler and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , the library of the Old World and works by Swiss writers. He also edited anthologies.

Witz wrote essays on the subjects of book trade and publishing.

In 1951 he received the Goethe badge from the city of Frankfurt am Main and in 1984 the “ Prize of the Swiss Book Trade ” from the Swiss Booksellers and Publishers Association .

Fonts (selection)

  • Put an end to the messy languages! In: Sprachspiegel. Deutschschweizerischer Sprachverein , 1973, Issue 2, pp. 36–38
  • I was lived: memories of a publisher . Huber, Frauenfeld 1969
  • 100 years of the Zurich Booksellers Association . Zurich Booksellers Association, Zurich 1965
  • with Bruno Mariacher: persistence and trial. Book Club Ex Libris, Zurich 1964
  • Amongst other things. From the diaries. Artemis Verlag, Zurich 1964
  • Heinrich Nüscheler 1797–1831, editor of the Swiss Monthly Chronicle (1824–1830) and the Swiss Observer (1828–1831): A contribution to the history of the Swiss newspaper industry in the years of the awakening freedom. Noske, Borna-Leipzig 1920 (Diss. Phil. I Zurich).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rosmarie Zeller: Witz, Friedrich. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  2. ↑ Dora Wyss in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data
SURNAME Joke, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss journalist and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuchâtel
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 1984
Place of death Zurich