Hermann Seemann's successor

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Hermann Seemann's successor was a publishing house in Leipzig and Berlin .

In 1899 Victor Schweizer made the acquaintance of the wealthy Friedrich Richard Pfau . Together they acquired the Hermann Seemann publishing house in Leipzig from the publisher Albrecht Hermann Seemann . He was the son of the well-known art publisher Ernst Arthur Seemann , owner of the renowned EA Seemann publishing house . Pfau and Schweizer continued the publishing house in 1900 under the name of Hermann Seemann Successor . They published an unusually large number of titles in a short period of time, an average of 20 novelties per month in the first four years. The publishing program was mixed. It is worth mentioning, among other things, the appearance of the main works by William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement in German first editions under the direction of the publisher Julius Zeitler . He worked for the publishing house until 1903 and published his experiences in publishing in the form of a novel ( Annual Market of Words , 1904).

A number of book designers created designs for envelopes and Verlagseinbände : Walter Tiemann , Heinrich Vogeler and Emil Rudolf Weiß .

Two sub-publishers were founded: the Verlag der Frauen-Rundschau (1902), which developed into a journalistic center for women's emancipation , and the Magazin-Verlag Jaques Hegner (1903), which mainly published erotica .

In 1903 the company was converted into a GmbH and expanded to Berlin.

In 1904 another sub-publisher was founded: the medical publishing house K. Singer & Co.

In 1904, increasing financial difficulties led to a drastic reduction in publishing output.

Pfau committed suicide on September 6, 1905. As a result, the publisher went bankrupt in 1905 and the proceedings dragged on until 1908. The publishing house continued to work as a GmbH with a small program until around 1911. In 1915 it was sold to Deutsche Buch- und Kunstverlag GmbH and the company was finally deleted .

A company archive was not preserved.

literature

  • Mark Lehmstedt : Full steam ahead in bankruptcy. The publisher Hermann Seemann successor in Leipzig and Berlin (1900-1915) , in: From the Antiquariat , New Series 10 (2012), No. 5, pp. 199–220 ( publisher's advertisement ).
  • Julius Zeitler: Fun fair of words: a novel , Leipzig 1904.