Business novel
The business novel is a form of the memory novel . Figures from several generations of the family shape him.
About history
Clemens Brentano (1778–1842) took the Magdeburg businessman Johann Gottlob Nathusius as a literary model in the fairytale businessman novel Das Märchen von Kommanditchen , published in 1824 . His company Nathusius Gewerbeanstalten Althaldensleben is considered to be the first conglomerate in early industrial Germany.
Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer (1816–1877) published Handel und Wandel in 1850 . A business novel.
In 1855 a novel written by Gustav Freytag (1816–1895) appeared in six books with the title Debit and Credit . It was one of the most widely read novels in the 19th century and is considered a representative of bourgeois realism . He was probably inspired by Hackländer's work.
In 1880 the Norwegian author Alexander Lange Kielland (1849–1906) published Garman & Worse, his (to this day) most famous novel. He impressed Thomas Mann ; In the tradition of Kielland, Mann initially set up his Buddenbrooks as a collective "businessman's novel".
The two Rochus Winkler appeared in 1921 . A Danzig merchant novel by Otfried von Hanstein (1869–1959).
Hans Parlow (1856–1928) published the maritime and merchant novel The Blackheads of Riga in 1922 .
Josef Kastein (1890–1946) published Melchior in 1927 . A Hanseatic business novel.
Otto Nebelthau (1894–1943) published The City of Clouds and Winds in 1928 : A Bremen merchant novel .
Paul Georg Münch (1877–1956) published Frank Anders Pelzwaren in 1940 . A business novel from Leipzig.
Fritz Müller-Partenkirchen (1875–1942) (Bertelsmann, 1941): Kramer & Friemann. A happy business novel.
Others
Some business novels contain social criticism . They describe aspects of economic life at that time, which are of cultural and economic historical interest today. Many of them address sea trade or merchant families in cities with a seaport .
The 19th century was characterized, among other things, by industrialization and technical progress, an enormous increase in world trade and overseas trade , strong population growth, a long period of peace after Napoleon's end (see Pax Britannica ), and the rise of the USA after the end of the civil war , great progress in shipbuilding ( steamboat , iron ship , ship propeller) and from colonialism and imperialism .
literature
- Wolfgang Kockjoy: The German businessman novel . Attempt of a cultural and intellectual history genetic representation. Dissertation, Albert Ludwig University, Freiburg im Breisgau, 1932.
Footnotes
- ^ Reprint: Döll-Verlag, 1997
- ^ Directory ( People's Association of Book Friends ), Berlin.