Greven Verlag Cologne
The Greven Verlag Köln GmbH is part of Greven-group to which among other 's Address Book publishing Greven belongs.
Since the second half of the 1940s, the publishing house has primarily devoted itself to literature on Cologne and the Rhineland . This includes both text and picture books on topics such as art, history, landscape, cities, legends and dialects such as dialect and regiolect .
Founded in the 19th century
The company has been family-owned since it was founded in 1827 by Anton Greven (1793–1870). The first publishing item was the daily foreigner newspaper of the city of Cologne , which appeared for the first time on January 1, 1828. In addition to a daily newspaper and the first Cologne address book, mainly contemporary historical works followed. In 1848 books by Ferdinand Lassalle and Franz Raveaux were published .
In 1862, Greven's son Johann Wilhelm Greven (1820–1893) first published non-localized state address books in addition to the Cologne address book. Four years later, after almost 40 years, the daily newspaper Kölnischer Anzeiger and Rheinische Handelszeitung were discontinued in order to be able to concentrate primarily on publishing address books. In 1870 the founder of the publishing house Anton Greven died in Cologne.
In 1879 Anton Carl Greven, a grandson of the publisher's founder, published the 25th year of Greven's address book for Cologne, Deutz and Mülheim . After the first telephones were installed in Cologne in 1882, the address book also recorded the telephone subscribers.
Development in the 20th century
Over the years, the publishing house and printing house expanded, so that from 1902 numerous rooms in the neighborhood had to be rented. In the years that followed, a large, modern print shop was built into which the print shop and later the address book publisher moved.
Anton Carl Greven died in 1910. His son Wilhelm Richard took over the management until the beginning of the war in 1914 . His mother Hedwig Greven ran the business until 1932, when Wilhelm Richard died as an officer in France in 1917. In the same year her son Sigurd Greven took over the publishing house in the fifth generation. The first district address books appeared under his leadership.
In 1938 the first local telephone book for Greater Cologne was published under Sigurd Greven. During the Second World War , the publication of new telephone and address books was not worthwhile. In 1943 the publishing house was destroyed.
After the war, Sigurd Greven prepared the resumption of the publishing house and its license acquisition in a makeshift corner in a bookbindery. Since then, Greven Verlag Cologne has existed independently alongside Greven's Adressbuch-Verlag. The first Cologne books to appear were Hoßdorf Et Gespens om Schötzefeß , Hoster Wegweiser through Cologne Cathedral and Schmitt-Rost Am Museum . In the same year, after an interruption of 16 years, the youth magazine JUNG KÖLN , which had been discontinued in 1933, was published again. DER CICERONE, an advertisement for collectors and art lovers , also started in 1949 .
Since 1954, Greven Verlag has published the Cologne works on library and documentation. One year later, the monthly KDA sheets of the Catholic German Academic Union, Unitas, followed . In 1956, work began on the most extensive work to date on the Cologne language , the three-volume New Cologne Language Collection. Lexicon of Cologne dialect by Adam Wrede , the twelfth edition of which appeared in 1999.
In 1981 Sigurd Greven died in an aircraft accident. His widow Irene Greven (1927–2015) took over the management as the main shareholder. In 1996 she founded the Sigurd Greven Foundation in honor of her late husband. Its aim is to promote Cologne's cultural, art, music, legal and economic history in ancient, medieval and modern times as well as to support the Cologne Schnütgen Museum .
Current works
The most important works include the history of the city of Cologne in 13 volumes, published by the Historische Gesellschaft Köln eV Each volume and each period is edited by a different author. The individual volumes are not published in chronological order. So far (as of August 2019) eight volumes of the book series have been published.
The long-time director of the Museum Schnütgen, Anton Legner , published Der Artifex in August 2009 . Artists in the Middle Ages and their self-portrayal as a further sum of his research.
In the area of dialect, the publisher works with the LVR Institute for Regional Studies and Regional History . The linguists Georg Cornelissen and Peter Honnen deal with the Rhenish language, Rhenish words and word stories in their books. Georg Cornelissen also wrote the book Der Niederrhein und seine Deutsch. Almost everyone speaks by examining the Lower Rhine language in particular .
The yearbooks of the Friends of Roman Churches in Cologne with the title Colonia Romanica have also been published since 1986 .
literature
- Eva-Maria Neubert: 125 years of Greven Verlag, Cologne. In: Börsenblatt für den deutschen Buchhandel Vol. 12, 1956, pp. 1806–1808.
- 150 years Greven Verlag Cologne, Greven's address book publisher Cologne. 1828-1978. Greven, Cologne 1978.