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JJ Heckenhauer

JJ Heckenhauer is one of the oldest antiquarian bookshops in Germany, founded in 1823 as an antiquarian bookshop and publisher in Tübingen in Münzgasse near the collegiate church .

Business creation

The focus was initially on the trade in rare books and the publication of travel guides, dissertations and humanities texts. In the middle of the 19th century after the expansion to include the bookstore, the company moved to Holzmarkt 5 and Lange Gasse 2 in Tübingen. The two houses are connected to each other. In 1596 , Magister Erhard Cellius opened the third printing house in Tübingen in Lange Gasse . His book Imagines Professorum Tübingensis is best known . The famous history and portrait painter Christoph Friedrich Dörr , son of the painter Jakob Friedrich Dörr, was born in Haus Holzmarkt 5 in 1782 . In the 20th century, the Tübingen poetry library was also housed here.

In 1860, Heckenhauer also organized a photography exhibition by August Sinner at the Tübingen trade fair. August Sinner was a photographer from Tübingen who was one of the photography pioneers in Germany. His recordings of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/1871 are known nationwide. When the photography pioneer, Professor Johann Gottlieb Christian Nörrenberg from Tübingen, left Tübingen in 1851 and moved to Stuttgart, he probably gave his equipment to Heckenhauer on commission.

In 1880 Carl August Sonnewald bought the Heckenhauer company and kept the traditional name. Carl August Sonnewald came from a Stuttgart antiquarian, book trade and publisher family. Under his aegis, Heckenhauer sold the library of Ludwig Uhland , among other things , that of the theologian and university chancellor Carl Heinrich Weizsäcker , an ancestor of the former Federal President. Customers were libraries, professors such as B. Werner Sombart , then 29-year-old professor of political science in Breslau.

Apprentice Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse had already started an apprenticeship as a bookseller, in 1893 with S. Mayer in Esslingen am Neckar , which he gave up after just three days. From October 1895 to September 1898, Hesse completed his apprenticeship at JJ Heckenhauer with the "principal" Carl August Sonnewald. First he worked in the bookstore, then he moved to the antiquarian bookshop. For another year, until the summer of 1899, he worked as a sales assistant - with his first salary he financed the printing of his first book, Romantische Lieder - before he left Tübingen for Basel .

Today, in parts of the rooms in which Hesse spent his apprenticeship, there is a memorial, the Hermann Hesse Kabinett.

20th century

Like Hesse, Josef Eberle , who was also known by his pseudonyms Sebastian Blau or Iosephus Apellus , was an apprentice “at the Heckenhauer” from 1917 to 1920. Eberle was a co-founder of the Stuttgarter Zeitung and wrote mainly in Swabian dialect and Latin. After 1945 the later professor of rhetoric, Walter Jens, worked as a temporary worker at Heckenhauer. The company passed from Carl August Sonnewald to Ernst Sonnewald, who managed it until his untimely death in 1937. His widow Luise Sonnewald managed the company until 1956. Then her son Herbert Friedrich Sonnewald (1927–2016) took over the company and focused on Slavic studies / Eastern European studies, theology and Württembergica. Thanks to his studies in Romance studies, Slavic and German studies, the writer and translator Kay Borowsky was able to competently represent the new focus, he worked there from 1978 to 2006. Since 1996, Roger Sonnewald has been the 6th generation managing director of the antiquarian bookshop. Newer commercial objects were, for example, parts of the library of the constitutional lawyer Carl Schmitt , the library of the Slavic studies professor Hermann Kasack , the estate of the editor of the correspondence Hermann Hesse / Thomas Mann , Anni Carlsson , and the working library of the Thomas Bernhard bibliographer Jens Dittmar .

In 1997 the antiquarian bookshop was expanded to include a gallery with a focus on photography, which was located in Berlin from 2000–2008. The gallery focuses on contemporary art, especially painting and drawings, and is now in Munich on Marktstr. 13 to find.

It is a branch of the parent company. Affiliated is the publishing house Edition JJ Heckenhauer , who u. a. Publishes photography books. Among the represented artists are: Jan Bauer, Mauren Brodbeck, Sergii Chaika, Jana Morgenstern, Peter Neusser and Nadya Kuznetsova. Former artists of the gallery are Vladimir Kupriyanov, Franz Lazi, Wiebke Loeper, Jens Liebchen , Frank Mädler, Sandra Senn and Grit Schwerdtfeger; high-quality artist books and catalogs were also published by these.