Island Almanac

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Island almanac for the year ...
Insel-Almanach 1908 Titel.jpg
publishing company Insel-Verlag
First edition 1906
attitude 2010
ISSN (print)

The Insel-Almanach for the year ... was a literary periodical from the Insel-Verlag with an annual publication. It should provide information about the publishing program and the publishing focus of the current edition activity.

history

In 1899 Otto Julius Bierbaum , Rudolf Alexander Schröder and Alfred Walter Heymel founded the literary magazine Die Insel . At the same time, the island's almanac appeared in the same year , but was discontinued after being published twice in 1906.

Well-known artists were entrusted with the decoration right from the start: Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke , Thomas Theodor Heine , Friedrich Wilhelm Kleukens , Max Slevogt , Walter Tiemann , Heinrich Vogeler and others. a.

It was only when the publisher Anton Kippenberg took over the management of Insel-Verlag in 1906 that he began to publish the almanac again that same year . He used this to refer to Insel authors and their works in the current publishing program. Often this was done through text and illustration excerpts. The planned annual production was presented in an overview at the end of the respective volume. Under the aegis of Siegfried Unseld , the orientation of the content of the almanacs shifted to current topics, while reducing their advertising character. Most of them were then dedicated to anniversaries of famous poets and writers, for example for Rilke (1977), Diderot (1983) or Georg Büchner (1987). But there were also issues that - often linked to the respective thematic focus of the Frankfurt Book Fair - were dedicated to a country or a historical event, such as Japan (1990), 200 years of Goethe's “Faust” (2008) or China (2009).

Apart from the exceptions 1920 and 1942–1951, the almanac appeared continuously until 2010 (edition for 2011). The place of publication was Leipzig until 1941 . Between 1952 and 1959 the editions appeared in Wiesbaden , from 1960 in Frankfurt am Main and - now again in all of Germany - from 1990 to 2009 with the additional publishing location Leipzig. The last almanac for 2011 appeared in Berlin in 2010 under the title Küsse, Bisse / Heinrich von Kleist .

chronology

Almanac of the island

  • 1900 - Otto Julius Bierbaum u. a. (Ed.)
  • 1906 - Otto Julius Bierbaum u. a. (Ed.)

Island almanac for the year ...

The war almanac of 1915 was withdrawn in its original version with the poem by Arno Holz on September 2nd at the instigation of the kuk censorship authorities. After Holz's poem was removed, a revised version with Heinrich Leuthold's poem Das Eisen and an excerpt from Bismarck's speech in the Reichstag on February 6, 1888, went on sale in its place.

Austrian almanac for 1916

In connection with the publication of the series of pages on the Insel-Bücherei, the Austrian library , Hugo von Hofmannsthal also published the Austrian Almanac for 1916 , which only appeared in 1916 .

literature

  • Helmut K. Musiol: Island Almanacs . In the S. Variations of the island library (catalog; 10). Antiquariat Musiol, Murnau 1989, pp. 379–381
  • Gerd Plantener: The island library . 1912-1984
  • Heinz Sarkowski : 75 years of the island library
  • The island. Exhibition on the history of the publishing house under Anton and Katharina Kippenberg . German Schiller Archive, Marbach 1965

Web links

Wikisource: Island Almanac  - Sources and Full Texts