Heinrich FS Bachmair

Heinrich Franz Seraph Bachmair , pseudonym Jacobus Fellgiebel , Lazarillo (born October 4, 1889 in Pasing , † October 11, 1960 in Freising ) was a German publisher , poet and storyteller.

Life

Franz Seraph Henseler : Book Cover (1913)

Bachmair studied literature and philosophy in Munich before the First World War . In 1911 he moved to Berlin. He founded Heinrich FS Bachmair-Verlag in 1911 and was the first to publish the writings of his childhood friend Johannes R. Becher . He founded two of the first expressionist magazines (together with Becher "Neue Kunst" and "Revolution"). He was appointed her master of ceremonies by Else Lasker-Schüler . He also wrote poems and stories himself, which often appeared under pseudonyms. A return to Munich followed before the First World War. There he made the acquaintance of Emmy Hennings . In 1914 he had to auction his publishing house. He joined the SPD and volunteered for the war.

Bachmair joined the USPD in 1918 . In 1919 he founded the publishing house Bachmair & Co. and the bookstore "Die Bücherkiste". He was a member of the Action Committee for Revolutionary Artists in Munich. During the Munich Soviet Republic , he led the Red Artillery off Dachau under Toller. He was sentenced to one and a half years imprisonment for his participation in the Munich Soviet Republic. In 1920 he was released from prison. In 1922 he married Maria Luise Weissmann and worked as a bookseller and publisher during the Weimar Republic. Marie Luise Weissmann died in 1929 of complications from severe angina. In 1946 he re-founded his publishing house in Starnberg. The then very well-known translator of French and Latin poetry, Carl Fischer, worked during this time as an editor, editor and author at Bachmairs Verlag. After four years, Bachmair had to file for bankruptcy. In 1951 he took part in the Starnberg Poets' Conference. He visited Becher in Berlin in 1951 and took over the marketing department at Aufbau-Verlag. In 1956 he moved to the Academy of Sciences and archived Becher's estate there.

Publications

• Detlev von Liliencron. An introduction to his work. EW Bonsels, Munich 1909.
• The pure gate. Poems. Publishing house Heinrich FS Bachmair, Berlin 1912
• Aglae. Bachmair, Munich and Berlin 1913
• The excited feast. Narrative. Private printing by the Society of Munich Book Friends, Munich 1926
• Kukuruz Lahemi. A strange story , by Jacobus Fellgibel (d. I. Heinrich FS Bachmair) Verlag der Münchner Drucke, Munich 1927. Cover drawing by Paul Renner, set in the Renner - Futura in 500 copies. Munich 1927/1928.
• Font and typesetting in a beautiful book . Bachmair, Starnberg 1947.
• The manuscript. A note to writers . Soecking 1948.

literature

• The publisher Heinrich FS Bachmair 1889–1960. Expressionism, revolution and literature . Publication for the exhibition at the Akademie der Künste from October 6th – 19th. November 1989, Akademie der Künste, Berlin 1989
• Maria Kühn-Ludewig (Ed.): Johannes R. Becher / Heinrich FS Bachmair. Correspondence 1914–1920. Letters and documents on the publishing history of Expressionism. Foreword by Paul Raabe . Frankfurt 1987.
• Jens-Fietje Dwars: Abyss of Contradiction. The life of Johannes R. Becher . Berlin 1998
• Oskar Maria Graf : Laughter from outside. From my life 1918–1933 . Munich 1983, p. 106ff (memory of Bachmair during the Munich Soviet Republic)
• Herbert Schmied: Authors, books, changing times. 2000 years of literary traces in the Starnberg area. Pp. 133 and 143f.
• Hansjörg Viesel: The publisher Heinrich FS Bachmair 1889-1960. Antiquariat Magister Tinius, catalog 23, autumn 1990
• Hansjörg Viesel: Heinrich FS Bachmair. In: Hansjörg Viesel: writers on the wall. The Munich Soviet Republic and the writers. Book guild Gutenberg, Frankfurt a. M. 1980, ISBN 3-7632-2426-2 , pp. 641-663.