Julius Zeitler

Julius Zeitler on a bronze medal from Paul Sturm

Julius Zeitler (born September 10, 1874 in Kulmbach , † January 15, 1943 in Leipzig ), pseudonym Robert Rehlen, was a German philosopher , writer , literary historian , librarian , publisher and translator.

Life

Julius Zeitler was born in Kulmbach in 1874 as the son of a businessman. His studies in art history and philosophy led him over Munich and Berlin to Leipzig, where a study on it diagonally Read Dr. phil.

After completing his studies, Zeitler initially worked as a publishing editor at the Hermann Seemann Nachf publishing house . In addition, as a freelance writer, he published essays on Nietzsche and Taine and translated works from the Renaissance and Rococo that were relevant to cultural history .

Publishing house Julius Zeitler

Zeitler belongs to the group of individual publishers of the book art movement and contributed to the renewal of German book art early on. As early as 1904 he founded a publishing house under his own name in Leipzig, in which he tried with little financial means to realize his ideas of literature and book art. The publisher Julius Zeitler, Leipzig published the magazine Die Opale - Blätter für Kunst und Literatur , edited by Franz Blei , which dealt primarily with erotica and was published in 225 copies for subscribers . In 1908, the publisher and his editor were acquitted in court proceedings for the distribution of pornographic works before the Munich regional court. Zeitler was able to hold his publishing house until 1912 and then sold it with all rights to the publisher Kurt Wolff .

Temple Publishing House

Together with the publishers Hans von Weber , Eugen Diederichs and Samuel Fischer , the type founder Georg Hartmann and the printer and publisher Carl Ernst Poeschel , Julius Zeitler founded the Tempel-Verlag in 1909 . The aim of the publishing association was to publish German classics in an aesthetically and technically high-quality design. In addition to editions of works by Goethe , Schiller and Lessing , in which Zeitler was co-editor, he was the sole editor responsible for a volume of crime stories with stories by Kleist , Schiller, Hebbel , Heine , Hoffmann , Eichendorff , Arnim and Droste-Hülshoff (1924).

Teaching

From 1916 to 1939 Zeitler was a professor at the Academy for graphic arts and book trade in Leipzig, for which he also worked as a librarian. In 1920 he also received a teaching post for advertising art and advertising technology at the Leipzig Commercial College. He was also an extremely prolific author and wrote numerous articles on literary history, book art, and bibliophile topics. Julius Zeitler died in Leipzig in 1943.

literature

• Ludwig Bielschowsky: Julius Zeitler - a pioneer of modern book art. In: From the Antiquariat 1980, pp. 190-201.
• Heinrich FS Bachmair: Three outsiders. Julius Zeitler - Hans von Weber - the temple publishing house. In: Imprimatur - yearbook for book lovers. Year 1939/40, Ss. 69-80.
• Ernst Kreowski : Julius Zeitler, deeds and words. A piece of literary psychology. Leipzig 1903, Herm. Seemann Nachf. In: Die Neue Zeit . Weekly of the German Social Democracy . 21.1902-1903, Volume 1 (1903), No. 23, p 736. Digitalisat

Web links

• Literature by and about Julius Zeitler in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Julius Zeitler: Tachistoscopic studies on reading. With 1 figure in the text. Inaugural Dissertation, 86 Ss. Leipzig, Engelmann 1900.
2. ↑ The same in: Wilhelm Wundt (Ed.), Philosophische Studien XVI, Ss. 380-463. Leipzig 1900.
3. ↑ Hartmut Walravens: Franz Blei as a publishing consultant. The letters from Bleis to the publisher Julius Zeitler. In: Archives for the history of the book industry. Published by Monika Entenmann and Ursula Rautenberg on behalf of the historical commission of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels eV. Volume 64, pp. 1-90. Berlin / New York, Walter de Gruyter 2009