Frommann-Holzboog Verlag

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The Frommann-Holzboog Verlag is a German humanities publisher founded in 1727 . The company has been based in Stuttgart- Bad Cannstatt since 1955 . The thematic focus is on philosophy , theology , the history of science and literature as well as psychoanalysis in the form of critical editions and editions of works as well as contributions to current philosophical and psychoanalytic discourses. More than 1,400 titles are currently available, with around 30 new titles being added every year. Since 2010, titles that are available and out of print have also been gradually made available electronically. The publishing house is economically independent and has ten employees.

history

Züllichau (1727–1798)

The first 150 years of the publishing house's history are closely interwoven with the family history of the Frommanns. Based on the model of the Hallesche orphanage bookstore, Sigmund Steinbart founded a bookstore with an attached printing shop in Züllichau (today Sulechów, Poland) in 1727 and headed by Gottlob Benjamin Frommann. The company passed into the possession of the Frommann family in 1742, who expanded the range in 1759 by purchasing the large bookstore. While the publishing program was initially strongly pietistic , over the years more and more Masonic , Enlightenment and moral-philosophical writings were published, and from the fourth generation of publishers, school books and dictionaries also gained in importance.

Jena (1798–1886)

Portrait of the bookseller Carl Friedrich Ernst Frommann (painting by Georg Friedrich Kersting , 1824)

In 1798/99 the publishing house moved from Züllichau to Jena . One of the reasons was Carl Friedrich Ernst Frommann's membership in the Evergeten Bund, a Masonic secret society, and the associated fear of persecution by the Prussian authorities. Added to this was the great attraction of the Weimar and Jena region as a cultural center that offered favorable conditions for the book trade and printing. In the years that followed, the Frommann'sche Haus played a prominent role in this cultural region. Goethe described the family house as a "meeting point for many scholars, artists and other distinguished people". In addition to Goethe, the numerous famous friends of the house also included Jean Paul , Ludwig Tieck , the Schlegel, Herder , Fichte, Hegel , Schelling , Schopenhauer , Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt brothers and the Grimm brothers . In Jena, under Carl Friedrich Frommann, not only medical and scientific titles but also historical and legal titles were published. His son, Friedrich Johannes Frommann , who took over the publishing, printing and product range management in 1830, was very committed to the German Booksellers Association and played a decisive role in the development of censorship and copyright law . After his death, the publishing house was sold to Emil Hauff in 1886, who moved the headquarters from Jena to Stuttgart.

Stuttgart (1886 until today)

In the years between 1886 and 1955 the publisher changed hands several times. The publishing program focused on philosophical and educational literature. The publishers Hermann Kurtz and Wilhelm Kohlstädt expanded the philosophical focus from 1920 to 1955. In 1943 the business premises and the prefabricated warehouse of the publishing house were completely destroyed in an air raid. In 1955 Günther Holzboog took over the publishing house and rebuilt it together with his wife Eva Holzboog as Friedrich Frommann Verlag - Günther Holzboog. The place of publication has since been Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt. In 1998 he received the Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his outstanding publishing achievements in the field of humanities publications. Günther Holzboog died in 2006. His son Eckhart Holzboog, who has been with the publishing house since 1995, took over the management together with Sybille Wittmann in 1999 and has been the publisher of the company since 2006, which has since operated under the name of frommann-Holzboog Verlag eK .

program

With the reconstruction of the publishing house in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, the new program priorities included historical-critical editions, lexicographical aids and bibliographies. One of the journalistic focuses is German Idealism (Classical German Philosophy) and its contemporary environment:

Documenting the Reformation and late humanism:

Other epochs are also represented with historical-critical editions and scientific source editions, such as:

The platforms for current philosophical and psychoanalytic discourses include series (problemata, medicine and philosophy, intercultural philosophy) in particular the periodicals Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie and the Jahrbuch der Psychoanalyse .

Sources and literature

  • The estate of the Frommann family is now in the Goethe-Schiller Archive , Weimar.
  • General German biography. Volume 8. Leipzig 1878. Keyword: Frommann, Carl Friedrich Ernst, pp. 140–143.
  • Günter Bien, Eckhart Holzboog, Tina Koch (eds.): History of science to touch. From Frommann to Holzboog. Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 2002. ISBN 978-3-7728-1727-4 .
  • Friedrich Johannes Frommann: The Frommannsche House and its friends. 1792-1837. Jena 1870 ( 2 1872, 3 1889 Stuttgart).
  • Uta Kühn: Tradition and importance of the Frommanschen Waisenhaus-Verlag zu Züllichau and the social background for Carl Friedrich Frommann's move to Jena in 1798. Diss. Jena 1991.
  • Uta Kühn-Stillmark: The move of the Frommanschen Verlag to Jena in 1798 - background and consequences. In: Jürgen John (Ed.): Small states and culture in Thuringia from the 16th to the 20th century. Weimar, Cologne, Vienna 1994, pp. 273-292.
  • Günther Schmidt: Between office and salon. Two hundred years of Frommann in Jena. In: Palmbaum 1998. H. 3, pp. 61-75.
  • Günther H. Wahnes: Friendly encounters. Goethe, Minchen Herzlieb and the Frommann House. 5th edition Stuttgart, Jena 1927.
  • Frank Wogawa: "Too much citizen ..."? The Frommann family of publishers and booksellers in Jena in the 19th century. In: Hans-Werner Hahn , Werner Greiling , Klaus Ries (eds.): Citizenship in Thuringia. Life world and life paths in the early 19th century. Rudolstadt, Jena 2001, pp. 81-107.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.frommann-holzboog.de/verlag/geschichte
  2. ^ Johann Peter Eckermann: Conversations with Goethe in the last years of his life, 1823-1832. First part. Leipzig 1836, p. 45.