Katharina Gerlach (printer)

Katharina Gerlach (in the 16th century Gerlachin or Gerlächin , * 1520 as Katharina Bischoff, † 1591 or 1592 ) was a printer in Nuremberg . From 1564 until her death, she was in charge of the Berg & Neuber printing workshop, which was founded in 1542 by her second husband, Johann vom Berg, and Ulrich Neuber.

Katharina Bischoff married Nicolas Schmid in 1536 and was then called - in the then usual female form of her husband's surname, Katharina Schmidin. In 1539 she gave birth to a daughter who was baptized Katharina. After the death of her first husband in 1540, she married Johann vom Berg in 1541, with whom she had another daughter, Veronika, in 1545. After von Berg's death in 1563, she married his junior partner Dietrich Gerlach († 1575). From 1564 to 1568, the company's print products were published under the name Gerlach & Neuber. In 1568 Neuber left the partnership and founded his own company. After the death of her third husband, Gerlach operated as a printer herself until her death. The ownership of the printing workshop passed to her grandson Paul Kauffmann in 1601.

The printing workshop was particularly known for the production of many sheet music prints and collections of compositions. In addition, works of the Reformation , e.g. B. published by Martin Luther or Johannes Mathesius and poems by Hans Sachs .

In 1582 she was involved in a copyright dispute by the Berg printing company in Munich (at that time a dispute on rights, see History of Copyright / Late Middle Ages ) regarding a work by Orlando di Lasso .

See also

• Anton Koberger

Individual evidence

1. ^ Susan Jackson, Berg and Neuber: Music Printers in Sixteenth Century Nuremberg , 2 volumes, 1998
2. ↑ Susan Jackson, 'Who is Katherine? The Women of the Berg & Neuber - Gerlach - Kaufmann Printing Dynasty ', Yearbook of the Alamire Foundation 2 (1995), pp. 451-463
3. ^ Richard Hellmuth Baum, Wolfgang Rehm, Karl Vötterle, Musik und Verlag , Bärenreiter, 1968, p. 567