Hugo Heller

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Hermine Heller-Ostersetzer: Ex-libris Hugo Heller (before 1903)
[That is the last word of wisdom:]
Only he who deserves freedom like life,
who has to conquer it every day
Sigmund Freud: Totem and Taboo , 1913

Hugo Heller (born May 8, 1870 in Székesfehérvár (Alba), Austria-Hungary ; died November 29, 1923 in Vienna ) was a Viennese bookseller, journalist, publisher and owner of a concert management who belonged to Sigmund Freud's inner circle .

Life

Hugo Heller broke off his attendance at the Wasagasse grammar school and did an apprenticeship as a bookseller in the Schönfeld bookstore in Vienna. After completing his apprenticeship, he moved to Stuttgart , worked in the Otto Gerschel bookstore and met Karl Kautsky , August Bebel and other leading social democrats. In 1898 he returned to Vienna and worked in Ignaz Brand's Viennese bookstore. Around 1899 he converted from Judaism to Protestantism. In 1900 he was a delegate of the Wieden party district at the Graz Congress of the Social Democratic Workers' Party . He was involved in trade union politics, education policy and also joined the Freemasons . In 1899 he published the Austrian Proletarian Songbook with songs for the working people in the publishing house of the Volksbuchhandlung .

From 1902, Heller worked in Berlin for two years , became secretary of the social democratic newspaper Neue Zeit and was the features editor of the Swabian Tagwacht . He returned to Vienna in 1904 and started his own business with the Hellerchen bookstore, later Hugo Heller & Cie, at Bauernmarkt 3 . Initially, the bookstore was a delivery point for Callwey Verlag for its magazine Der Kunstwart . Due to the connection to the Dürer Association , Hellers bookstore was able to call itself Wiener Dürerhaus from 1907 . Between 1906 and 1913 Heller published the “New Leaves for Literature and Art”. He was the publisher of authors such as Egon Friedell , Alfred Polgar , Rosa Mayreder , Bertha von Suttner , and from 1905 also the early works of Sigmund Freud .

In the business premises, Heller organized readings with Rainer Maria Rilke , Hermann Hesse , Hugo von Hofmannsthal , Jakob Wassermann , Stefan Zweig , Thomas Mann and others. In 1907, Sigmund Freud gave the lecture The Poet and Fantasizing in the bookstore , probably the only one he has ever given a lay audience. In 1910, Heller organized the first exhibition of Arnold Schönberg's pictures and drawings in the bookstore , including Schönberg's portrait of Hugo Heller ; two days after the vernissage, the Rosé Quartet and Marie Gutheil-Schoder played in front of 80 invited guests, the critic from the illustrirte Wiener Extrablatt lost hearing and seeing . Tickets for a reading by Arthur Schnitzler's play Professor Bernhardi were sold in Heller's bookstore. In 1913, Heller tried to have his friend's play, which was banned by censors in Austria, performed at a private event in Pressburg . In 1921 the bookstore's window was smashed because a copy of the controversial stage work Reigen was displayed there.

At the beginning of the 1914/15 concert season, the Hugo Heller concert management began its work, organizing over 800 events in the Wiener Konzerthaus alone over the next ten years , with artists such as Adolf Busch , Fritz Busch , Gaspar Cassadó , Ernst von Dohnányi and Hans Duhan , Edwin Fischer , Paul Grümmer , Marie Gutheil-Schoder , Georg Maikl , Oskar Nedbal , Elly Ney , Hans Pfitzner , the Rosé Quartet , Bruno Walter , Felix Weingartner and Alexander Zemlinsky .

At the end of 1902 Heller was invited to the Psychological Wednesday Society of the doctor Sigmund Freud . Heller was one of the oldest members of the Wednesday Society, and in 1909 he gave his first lecture on the history of the devil . In 1913 he was co-opted to the board of the Vienna Psychoanalytical Association. He took part in the 1st International Psychoanalytic Congress in Salzburg in 1908 and was also among the participants in Munich (1913) and Budapest (1918). Heller published, among other things, Freud's work Der Wahn und die Träume in W. Jensen's "Gradiva" in 1907 , Totem and Tabu in 1913, and the introductory lectures in psychoanalysis in 1916 . At Freud's request, he became the publisher of the psychoanalytic Periodica Imago from January 1912 and from 1913 of the International Journal for Medical Psychoanalysis , later under the name International Journal for Psychoanalysis .

General share for 100 × 400 crowns of Bukum AG from June 26, 1924

In 1901 Heller married the painter and graphic artist Hermine Ostersetzer , with whom he had two sons, Thomas and Peter. After her untimely death in 1909, he married Hedwig Neumayr (1881–1947) in 1916 and had a son, Clemens Heller . After his death she continued the concert management with Thomas Heller until 1926, the bookstore was renamed “BUKUM-AG” (that is: “Book, Art, Music”) in 1922, one year before Heller's death. It got caught in the vortex of the post-war economic crisis. Hedwig Heller retired in 1926 from the company and emigrated to New York City in order to succeed there in the book business, but returned in the Great Depression around 1931 destitute and opened with Thomas Heller 1932 a bookstore. Meanwhile, BUKUM went bankrupt in 1933, and a new bookstore was founded in 1934 under the name it had introduced. The owners of this company fled abroad in 1938 after the annexation of Austria and the company was deleted from the commercial register in 1941. Hedwig Heller ran a concert agency for two years after the Second World War.

literature

  • Elke Mühlleitner: Biographical Lexicon of Psychoanalysis. The members of the Psychological Wednesday Society and the Vienna Psychoanalytical Association 1902–1938 . Edition Diskord, Tübingen 1992, ISBN 3-89295-557-3 , pp. 141f.
  • Heller, Hugo , in: Élisabeth Roudinesco ; Michel Plon: Dictionary of Psychoanalysis: Names, Countries, Works, Terms . Translation. Springer, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-211-83748-5 , p. 396
  • Martin Flinker (Ed.): Twenty-five years of BUKUM. Festival literary almanac for the year 1930 , Vienna 1929 (not viewed)
  • Walter Grossmann: Hugo Heller (1870–1923) bookseller and educator. In: Book trade history. Articles, reviews and reports on the history of the book industry. Edited by Historical commission of the Börsenverein. No. 4, 1990, pp. B148 – B157 (not viewed)
  • Erwin Barta: Heller, Hugo. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-7001-3044-9 .
  • Sabine Fuchs: Hugo Heller (1870–1923). Bookseller and publisher in Vienna (= Society for Book Research in Austria : Communications of the Society for Book Research in Austria . No. 1: 54-56), Vienna 2004, DNB 1030875367 (Diploma thesis University of Vienna, 2004, 151 pages, full text PDF, free of charge, 151 pages, 9.9 MB).

Web links

Commons : Hugo Heller  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Goethe : Faust II , verse 11574 ff.
  2. ^ Murray G. Hall : Österreichische Verlagsgeschichte 1918–1938 . Volume 1 history of the Austrian publishing industry. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 1985, p. 68
  3. ↑ Ernest Jones : The life and work of Sigmund Freud. Volume 2. Transl. Katherine Jones and Gertrud Meili-Doretzki. Huber, Bern 1962, p. 406
  4. ↑ The portrait of Heller has been lost, see Catalog raisonné # 341 , at the Arnold Schönberg Center
  5. ↑ Illustrirtes Wiener Extrablatt, October 13, 1910, p. 12, quoted in Sabine Fuchs: Hugo Heller , 2004, p. 89
  6. ↑ Ernest Jones : The life and work of Sigmund Freud. Volume 2. Transl. Katherine Jones and Gertrud Meili-Doretzki. Huber, Bern 1962, p. 21
personal data
SURNAME Heller, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bookseller, journalist, publisher and owner of a concert management
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Székesfehérvár
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1923
Place of death Vienna