Heinrich Conrad

The grave of Heinrich Conrad and his wife Margarethe Storm in the family grave at the Parkfriedhof Lichterfelde in Berlin.

Heinrich Conrad (born October 16, 1866 in Hamburg ; † December 20, 1918 ), also Conradt , actually Hugo Storm , was a German writer , publisher , editor and translator from Italian and French.

Life

Born in Hamburg under the name Hugo Storm, Conrad initially worked as a publisher and bookseller in Berlin , where on June 10, 1894 he founded an association for free writing . With this, Conrad tried to establish a significant publishing house for the representatives of naturalism and “youngest German poetry” in the capital .

In a letter to Richard Dehmel , he explained that his company would “offer talented writers the opportunity to find their own way in artistic matters completely independently and uninfluenced by traditional traditions, as well as free of fearful consideration for the prudish family paper - to give the audience the design and realization of their artistic intentions ”.

The Association for Free Literature, which resided at Gleditschstraße 35, published, among others, Dehmel's Der Mitmensch (1895), works by Stanisław Przybyszewski (trilogy Homo sapiens , 1895/1896), Michael Georg Conrad ( In purpurner Finsterniß , 1895), Gustav Falke ( Landen and Stranden , 1895) and Paul Scheerbart ( Tarub , 1897). Under the publisher's name Hugo Storm, he also published non-fiction books such as The Social Question - a Grund- und Bodenfrage. Serious chats about Henry George’s social reform by Bernhard Eulenstein (1895) and the encyclopedia Das Geistige Berlin by Richard Wrede and Hans von Reinfels (1897). Karl Schneidt edited the magazine for criticism at Hugo Storm , for which his own criticism publishing house was founded in 1896 and whose contributors include Otto Julius Bierbaum , Karl Bleibtreu , Wilhelm Bölsche , Eduard Engels, Hanns von Gumppenberg , Adalbert von Hanstein and Johannes Schlaf counted.

After a bankruptcy, which owed him 100,000 Reichsmarks, Conrad left Berlin at the beginning of April 1898 with an unknown destination, allegedly he fled to the USA . The publishing house Schuster & Loeffler bought the book inventory.

In 1902 he lived in Siena , Italy , later in Brixen , returned to Siena and finally settled in Monte Carlo .

Since 1900 he has also emerged as a translator of, for example, the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henri Rochefort . In Siena, his translation of the pictures from the private life of the Roman Caesars by Pierre-François Hugues d'Hancarville was self-published and without a date . For the Stuttgart publishing house Robert Lutz, he translated masterworks by Fritz Reuter into standard German. Here and in other publishers, the Rara series , which was managed jointly with Hanns Heinz Ewers , was published . A library of the bizarre .

He also became known in Munich under the name Heinrich Conrad . He found work as an editor at the publishing house of George Mueller , designed for the erotic it more rows and cultural history more interesting literature and he also advised on issues of book design. Among other things, he re-edited the writings and letters of Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau .

As a translator he transferred the works of Casanova , Aretino , the letters of Ferdinando Galiani and also edited the book series Classics of Antiquity (First Series).

Fonts

Napoleon's hatred and struggle against England: political, military, economic according to Napoleon's own account. A book for our time . 2nd edition, Lutz, Stuttgart 1915
Magister Hosmann's book on Jews . ( Rara. A library of the strange , Volume 4) New ed. v. Heinrich Conrad, Verlag Lutz, Stuttgart 1919
Napoleon's battle with England: Napoleon on naval warfare a. Colonial policy of England . Compiled by Heinrich Conrad. New ed. by Hans Eberhard Friedrich , R. Lutz Nachf. O. Schramm, Stuttgart 1940

Transfer from Italian

Benvenuto Cellini : The life of Benvenuto Cellini. Written by himself. German by Heinrich Conrad. 2 volumes. Georg Müller, Munich 1908. 319 and 377 pages.
Giovanni Boccaccio : The Decameron . 5 volumes. Georg Müller u. Hans v. Weber, Munich; Leipzig 1912-13.

literature

Franz Jäschke: Hugo Storm alias Heinrich Conrad (t) - List of publications. In: Erotic literature. Research and bibliography communications. Ed. V. W. v. Moreau, Vol. 7, ars amandi, Berlin 2003, pp. 11-92

Web links

Literature by and about Heinrich Conrad in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by Heinrich Conrad in the Gutenberg-DE project

Individual evidence

↑ Author page on [1]
↑ ^a ^b cf. Franz Jäschke: Hugo Storm alias Heinrich Conrad (t) - List of publications. In: Erotic literature. Communications on research and bibliography, Vol. 7, Berlin, ars amandi 2003, pp. 11–92
↑ Cf. New literary sheets. Monthly for friends of contemporary literature and the arts. Vol. 3 (1894/95), p. 16.
^ Letter to Richard Dehmel, July 12, 1894, cited above. According to Birgit Kuhbandtner: A company between the market and the modern. Publishers and contemporary German-language literature on the threshold of the 20th century. Wiesbaden, Otto Harrassowitz 2008 (Mainzer Studien zur Buchwissenschaft Vol. 20), p. 308, note 663, ISBN 978-3-447-05658-8 Web resource .
↑ Cf. Georg Klim: Stanislaw Przybiszewski. Life, work and worldview in the context of German literature at the turn of the century. Biography . Paderborn, Igel 1992 (Series Literature and Media Studies 6, Cologne Works on the Turn of the Century, Vol. 2), pp. 90 f., ISBN 3-927104-10-8
↑ See Rudolf Schmidt: German booksellers. German book printer. Contributions to a company history of the German book industry. Vol. 5, Berlin, Eberswalde, Verlag der Buchdruckerei Franz Weber, 1908, p. 882 Web resource .

personal data
SURNAME	Conrad, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Storm, Hugo; Conradt, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH	October 16, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH	December 20, 1918

[1] Author page on [1]

[Erotische_Literatur-2] . Franz Jäschke: Hugo Storm alias Heinrich Conrad (t) - List of publications. In: Erotic literature. Communications on research and bibliography, Vol. 7, Berlin, ars amandi 2003, pp. 11–92

[3] Cf. New literary sheets. Monthly for friends of contemporary literature and the arts. Vol. 3 (1894/95), p. 16.

[4] Letter to Richard Dehmel, July 12, 1894, cited above. According to Birgit Kuhbandtner: A company between the market and the modern. Publishers and contemporary German-language literature on the threshold of the 20th century. Wiesbaden, Otto Harrassowitz 2008 (Mainzer Studien zur Buchwissenschaft Vol. 20), p. 308, note 663, ISBN 978-3-447-05658-8 Web resource .

[5] Cf. Georg Klim: Stanislaw Przybiszewski. Life, work and worldview in the context of German literature at the turn of the century. Biography . Paderborn, Igel 1992 (Series Literature and Media Studies 6, Cologne Works on the Turn of the Century, Vol. 2), pp. 90 f., ISBN 3-927104-10-8

[6] See Rudolf Schmidt: German booksellers. German book printer. Contributions to a company history of the German book industry. Vol. 5, Berlin, Eberswalde, Verlag der Buchdruckerei Franz Weber, 1908, p. 882 Web resource .