Herbert Reichner

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Herbert Reichner (born March 4, 1899 in Vienna , † 1971 in Stockbridge , Massachusetts ) was an Austrian publisher and antiquarian.

Live and act

Book edition of James Hiltons The Lost Horizon with the title Irgendwo in Tibet published in 1937 by Reichner-Verlag

Reichner was Austria's publisher of Stefan Zweig's works until the Anschluss , he also published works by Alexander Lernet-Holenia , Alexander Jakowlew , Katherine Mansfield and the first edition of Elias Canetti's novel Die Blendung . In 1934, Reichner took over Stefan Zweig's books that had previously been published by Insel-Verlag , including Marie Antoinette. Portrait of a Medium Character (1938), Joseph Fouché. Portrait of a political man , three masters: Balzac. Dickens. Dostoevsky (under the new title Builder of the World, 1936), Encounters with People, Books, Cities (1937) and Magellan. The man and his act (1938).

His publishing house, founded in 1925, published lavishly designed works on music, literature and history, such as Willi Reich's biography (1937) Alban Berg . In 1936, after being rejected by the Zsolnay Verlag , Stefan Zweig helped Hermann Broch to get his essay James Joyce and the Present to be published by Reichner. In the mid-1930s, Reichner was under pressure with his publishing house, since it was primarily considered a "Jewish publishing house" because of its branch in the German Reich . In 1936 the publishing depot in Leipzig was quickly confiscated.

He also published the bibliophile journal Philobiblon in Vienna from 1928 to 1936 . Magazine for book lovers . From 1938 it was taken over and continued by the folk-based Rudolf M. Rohrer Verlag. Herbert Reichner and his publishing house were among the opponents of the Nazi regime and suppliers of the book recycling agency. Aware that as a Jew his life was in danger, he fled with his wife on March 13, 1938 to Switzerland, where his publishing house had a branch, and in 1939 to the USA. Here he turned back to the secondhand book trade and opened a shop in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

Publications (selection)

  • Book art of the present: book u. Writing; With chronological tables on the history of the beautiful book from 1880 to 1923 [catalog] W. Braumüller Sohn, Vienna 1924.
  • (Ed.): ER Weiss on the fiftieth birthday. October 12, 1925. Insel Verlag; Bauer Foundry; S. Fischer, Leipzig, 1927.
  • Printing in the United States of North America (1927)
  • with SC Cockerell (Ed.): The Kelmscott Press: 1891 to 1898: A Note By William Morris on His Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press. Together With a Short History and Description of the Press By SC Cockerell. Central School of Arts & Crafts / Herbert Reichner, London / Vienna (Wien), 1934.
  • Great Thinkers: Portraits and Books - From Albertus Magnus to Albert Einstein . H. Reichner, 1944.

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ a b The truth is often improbable: Thomas Theodor Heine's letters to Franz Schoenberner from exile . Edited by Thomas Raff. 2004
  2. ↑ Lernet-Holenia, Alexander: The resurrection of the Maltravers . Vienna, Herbert Reichner Verlag, 1936
  3. ↑ Jakowiew, Alexander: Man and the steppe novel. Vienna: Herbert Reichner Verlag, 1936
  4. ↑ Von Mansfield was published by Reichner: For six pence upbringing and other stories. (Selection and transfer from Herberth E. Herlitschka , 1937).
  5. ↑ Emmerich Tálos, Wolfgang Neugebauer: Austrofaschismus . Politics, Economy, Culture, 1933-1938 . 2005
  6. ^ Willi Reich: Alban Berg. With Berg's own writings and contributions by Theodor Wiesengrund-Adorno and Ernst Krenek . Vienna, Leipzig, Zurich: Herbert Reichner Verlag.
  7. ^ Paul Michael Lützeler: Hermann Broch: Eine Biographie 2011, p. 150
  8. ↑ Roger Perret , Annemarie Schwarzenbach : In this rain: stories . 2013
  9. ↑ Continuity and Break 1938 - 1945 - 1955: Contributions to Austrian cultural and scientific history. Published by Friedrich Stadler. 2004, p. 86; Murray G. Hall, Christina Köstner: ... to get hold of all sorts of things for the national library ...: An Austrian institution during the Nazi era . 2006, p. 112.
  10. ^ Norbert Bachleitner, Franz M. Eybl, Ernst Fischer: History of the book trade in Austria . 2000, p. 316.
personal data
SURNAME Reichner, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian publisher and antiquarian
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 1971
Place of death Stockbridge , Massachusetts