Hinstorff Verlag
| Hinstorff Verlag
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1831 |
| Seat | Hanseatic City of Rostock |
| management | Ansgar Heise |
| Branch | Publishing |
| Website | www.hinstorff.de |
The Hinstorff Verlag is a traditional publishing house in Rostock , which was founded in 1831 by (Dethloff) Carl Hinstorff in Parchim and has belonged to the Heise Group from Hanover since 1992 . The publishing house became successful in the 19th century through the best-known Low German writer Fritz Reuter and during the GDR period through the literature of Ulrich Plenzdorf and Franz Fühmann .
Dethloff Carl Hinstorff
The founder of the publishing house was (Deltloff) Carl Hinstorff . Born the son of a weaver , he first attended a simple school in his hometown of Brüel , before his father recognized his intelligence and sent him to the Wismar school. In 1826 he began an apprenticeship as a businessman with relatives, but soon switched to the Schmidt and von Cossel bookstore as an apprentice . A well-founded training in bookselling was hardly possible at the time, because his teachers were a former post office worker and a hunter. But Hinstorff was ambitious and took private lessons. When he was twenty, he wanted to start his own business and chose the town of Parchim for his business . The reason for this was that the city was the seat of the highest court in the country, the Higher Appeal Court . There was also a teachers' seminar nearby, in Ludwigslust . Since Parchim was an "official town", there was a prospect of good business. Because he had not yet reached the age of majority (which was 25 years old at the time), he was only able to overcome the official hurdles with a special permit from Grand Duke Friedrich Franz I.
history
1831-1849
After the approval was granted, his father took out a mortgage on the weaving mill and the house, enabling his son to open the first bookstore in Parchim on September 2, 1831. He operated this as a "range supplier" who bought and sold the printed matter from publishers. In 1836 he was appointed court bookseller in Parchim by Friedrich Franz I.
In 1835 Hinstorff was able to make himself independent of the commission book trade by opening a printing company in Ludwigslust . Law, education and theology were his preferred subject areas. Among other things, Hinstorff printed Theodor Kliefoth's dogma story and theory of cultus of the Protestant church and Julius Wiggers printed the church history of Mecklenburg . The school books "Schraepsche Fibel" and "Schlotterbecksches Rechenbuch", which generations of Mecklenburg pupils used, were also printed by Hinstorff.
1849-1864
In 1849 the company moved to Wismar . The reason for this was the relocation of the residence of the Grand Duke of Ludwigslust to Schwerin and the move of the Higher Appeal Court to Rostock in 1840. The choice fell on Wismar because of the existing rail link.
The program now also included non-fiction books on agriculture and economics. Hinstorff published the Agricultural Annals , which were edited by Heinrich (Ludwig Joachim) Karsten (1792–1871), A. Graf zur Lippe and Conrad Wilbrandt (1832–1921). However, regional studies books and writings were always published, for example the work Abriß der Mecklenburgischen Landeskunde by Ernst Boll and works by Julius Wiggers .
Hinstorff was the only publisher of legal books in Mecklenburg. Among other things, he published the six-volume collection of laws by Raabe, the handbook for notaries and the decisions of the Higher Appeal Court in nine volumes. In 1879 Hinstorff published the Mecklenburgische Zeitspflege and jurisprudence .
Hinstorff achieved a wide distribution of the products of his publishing house by printing and selling calendars, and a good utilization of his printing house by publishing several newspapers and other periodicals.
1864-1882
In 1864 the new printing works in Rostock was opened with the issue of the Rostocker Tagesblatt . Since that year, the famous "Voss-und-Haas Calendar", which came out from 1864 to 1918 under the name of Grand Ducal Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz Calendar , was published because of the two calendar figures Voss (fox) and Haas (rabbit) Popularly but always used the shorter name. The last issue appeared in 1942. Some attempts to build on this tradition after the end of the war failed - the calendar was only available again after 1990.
Since 1856 Hinstorff published Fritz Reuter, probably the most important Low German poet in Mecklenburg, and with this cooperation secured a big deal: by 1881, 156 editions of Reuter's works had appeared with almost 500,000 printed copies. Reuter also benefited from Hinstorff's publishing work: his popularity and dissemination were extraordinarily promoted.
The collaboration with Reuter made it possible for Hinstorff to present fiction on a larger scale for the first time, as the publisher's program was mainly characterized by non-fiction until then.
Hinstorff began early on to transfer his now flourishing business into other hands. He passed the printing works to his son Carl and his sons-in-law Louis Eberhardt and Heinrich Witte, he himself kept the pure publishing business. Hinstorff's youngest son Gustav did not inherit the management of the Rostock printing company.
1882-1907
After the patriarch's death in 1882, Carl Hinstorff also ran the Rostock branch in addition to the printing works in Ludwigslust, while Louis Eberhardt held the bookstore in Wismar. His son Werner Eberhardt followed later. Heinrich Witte ran the printing works in Wismar. After the early death of Carl Hinstorff in 1884, the publishing house lost its importance over the next few years. In addition to important folklore editions by Richard Wossidlo , many homelike to reactionary authors with often irrelevant writings were published.
1907-1945
At the beginning of 1907, the 26-year-old book printer Peter E. Erichson bought the company. Despite his youth, he already had some experience in the commercial sector, having previously been managing director of the Unterweser-Zeitung . Erichson came from Schwedt an der Oder and came from a poor background, had to learn his profession with great difficulty autodidactically. The beginning in Rostock was difficult, Erichson could only run the printing company at first. He did not appear as a publisher until 1925, after he had bought up the Ludwigslust operating part. The positive development of Rostock University , new production processes and technical developments, such as B. photography, but also through the daring and commercial skills of Erichson, the development of the publishing house took a favorable course. In the 1920s the workforce had grown to 84 employees.
The publisher had great success with the publication of the Mecklenburg monthly magazines , which were of high quality for the time and with good polygraphic equipment from 1925 to 1936. In this way scientists, writers, visual artists and photographers could be won over to work. The editors included the writer Johannes Gillhoff and the art historian Oscar Gehrig .
Since Erichson was very skeptical to negative about National Socialism, the monthly issues were no longer allowed to appear in his publishing house. With the September 1936 issue (12th volume, 141st issue) from Carl Hinstorffs Verlag in Rostock, they switched to the regime-loyal publishing house “Niederdeutscher Beobachter” , Schwerin GmbH, and instead appeared from October 1936 (142nd issue) as a monthly issue for Mecklenburg-Lübeck . The new editor was briefly (from October 1, 1936 to April 1, 1937) the writer Friedrich Griese .
In 1942, the factory buildings in Lagerstraße 4/5 and Langen Straße 87 were completely destroyed in the heavy bombing raids on Rostock . In the Pädagogienstraße bought Erichson a Behelfsdruckerei, but he had to close road in the 1950s, back when generous construction of Langen. The headquarters of the publishing house was then on Schröderplatz in very modest rooms.
1945-1959
On December 13, 1946, Carl Hinstorff Verlag was granted its first printing permission after the war by the Soviet military administration in Schwerin. 1947 appeared Kaspar-Ohm un ick by John Brinckman . In 1947 the company Carl Hinstorff Verlag, founded by Erichson, the writer Willi Bredel , the pastor Karl Kleinschmidt , the Lord Mayor Christoph Seitz , the city councilor Günther Matern and the managing director Adolf Holst as shareholders, received the publishing license. In 1953, all partners except Erichson and Holst left the company. Both continued to run the publishing house. Erichson had adapted to the conditions in post-war Germany in the GDR and had mastered the new beginning with native literature and fiction.
In 1959 Peter E. Erichson and Adolf Holst sold the publishing house to the Ministry of Culture, Headquarters Publishing House. This led him on as VEB Hinstorff Verlag. Konrad Reich became head, Kurt Batt as chief editor .
In 1963 Peter E. Erichson died. He was a Brinckman Prize Winner, Honorary Senator of the University of Rostock and National Prize Winner of the GDR .
1959-1990
The VEB Hinstorff publisher focused his work on regional authors, maritime issues and literature of the northern European countries from. Authors such as Ehm Welk and Fritz Meyer-Scharffenberg have been published . 1960 appeared with the book The Columbus Ships of 1492, the first in the "Blue Series" of maritime non-fiction books, and the "Hinstorff Bökerie" was a successful series of Low German classics, songs, poetry and folklore books.
The books by authors from Northern European countries that have been included in the program since 1963 were of course limited to those of leftist or system-critical authors. In spite of this, the publishing house was referred to as “Suhrkamp des Ostens” because of its efforts in contemporary literature and up-and-coming authors - authors such as Jurek Becker and Fritz Rudolf Fries are evidence of this. One of the publishing highlights was the 1973 publication of Ulrich Plenzdorf's The New Sorrows of Young W. Due to the filming of the book and its sometimes socially critical passages, the book achieved cult status in the GDR and was translated into more than 20 languages.
Franz Fühmann was won as an author, whose work is still looked after and edited by Hinstorff Verlag. Kurt Batt died in 1975 and was succeeded by Horst Simon. Konrad Reich resigned as publishing director in 1977, Harry Fauth followed him in the management of the publishing house. In 1981 the publishing house celebrated its 150th anniversary. In 1987 the new publishing house at Lagerstraße 7 was moved into.
The era of the GDR meant a constant tightrope walk for the publishers based in it, as only the publication of politically acceptable authors and topics that had been approved by the SED leadership was possible. A shortage of materials and circulation contingents curtailed the publishing activities, although the demand - also because of the relatively low prices for books - was enormous.
VEB Hinstorff Verlag was involved in cultural policy in a variety of ways: writers' readings were held in large companies, a series of events called “Hinstorff Maritime” was launched and book premieres took place in front of a large audience. Together with other publishers, VEB Hinstorff Verlag was also present at the annual Rostock book bazaar. Here, publishers set up stands on Kröpeliner Strasse to present and sell their products, and the authors held book signing sessions. There was a great rush for the books, which were otherwise hard to come by because of the small print runs and high export numbers in the GDR. From 1970 to 1990 Hinstorff published an in-house magazine called Trajekt .
today
After the political change in 1990, the Hinstorff Verlag GmbH was founded. The first managing directors were Birgit Heinze and Uwe Eberhardt. The Heise Group from Hanover took over the publishing house in 1992, Christian Heise became chairman of the management board , later Ansgar Heise.
Today the publishing house is one of the leading publishing houses in Northern Germany. There are over 300 titles in the program and around 50 new publications appear annually. This includes representative photo books with pictures by the best photographers on countries, regions, cities and on special topics such as castles and gardens, brick Gothic and spa architecture . Historical, cultural and folkloric non-fiction books and travel guides to Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and the neighboring federal states as well as maritime literature can also be found in the publisher's program.
The children's book section has been available from the publisher since 2002. Fühmanns Anna, known as the Humpelhexe with illustrations by Jacky Gleich, was published in the same year and was awarded the “Luchs” youth literature prize of the time . The children's book series was firmly established in the program with four to six titles per year: in spring 2006, the children's books “Who reads is” and “The long-stretched wonder” appeared on the Deutschlandfunk's best list . The traditionally existing Low German program with Fritz Reuter, John Brinckman and Rudolf Tarnow will be continued with new editions.
Following the trend towards audio books, a cooperation was entered into with the NDR . Audio books were created with the texts by Rudolf Tarnow, John Brinckman, Fritz Reuter and Franz Fühmann. The first CD of the audio books is Fritz Reuter's De Urgeschicht von Meckelnborg , read by Gerd Micheel . The CD Anna, known as the Humpelhexe , read by the author Fühmann , reached first place in the Hessischer Rundfunk audio book best list in 2003 . In 2004 a CD with four Fühmann fairy tales, read by Elke Heidenreich , was released.
The high-quality edition of Franz Fühmann's classic children's book, The Steaming Necks of Horses in the Tower of Babel, was a great success in 2005 .
2006 the books of the Rostock Konrad Reich publishing house appear under the label "Edition Konrad Reich" by Hinstorff.
In 2007 the “Geschichtswerkstatt Rostock e. V. "and the" Landesheimatverband Mecklenburg-Vorpommern e. V. ”published by Hinstorff Verlag the“ Lexicon Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ”with 1483 headwords on approx. 600 pages, which takes up the history of the state up to the present day.
The "Hinstorff Media" area is new to the publisher's offer. He offers companies services such as layout, typesetting, printing and distribution.
The publisher is a member of Regionalbuch AG.
literature
- Jürgen Grambow : 150 years of Hinstorff Verlag . In: Contributions to the history of the city of Rostock . Rostock 1981, Volume 1, pp. 25-47.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ regionalbuchag.de ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 54 ° 5 ′ 27 ″ N , 12 ° 8 ′ 13 ″ E
