Kuppitsch
| Kuppitsch Buchhandels GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1789 |
| Seat | Vienna , Austria |
| management | Martin Seidl, Elisabeth Seidl |
| Branch | Book and media industry |
| Website | www.kuppitsch.com |
Kuppitsch is one of the oldest Viennese bookshops still in existence , although it has been part of the Thalia book chain since 2019 . The address is Schottengasse 4 in Vienna's 1st district, Innere Stadt .
history
In April 1789 Theresia Racca was granted the imperial “authorization to sell copperplate engravings and old books”. In October 1801 Theresia Racca gave this to her colleague Franz Grund (1776-1816), who ran the bookstore until his death. His widow Anna Grund took over the bookstore as his sole main heir and signed a partnership agreement with Matthäus Kuppitsch in January 1821. The bookstore was now called Franz Grund sel We & Kuppitsch , Matthäus Kuppitsch was the sole authorized signatory. After Anna Grund's death in 1825, he took over the company as sole owner, and in the following year he was authorized to run the antiquarian book trade. In 1844 he was appointed to the Imperial and Royal Court library antiquarian, he also published some works himself. Matthäus Kuppitsch died in 1849 and his widow Antonie, b. Haim ran the business until 1868, when it was taken over by Richard Schmidt. In 1876, he moved the location from Franziskanerplatz to Weihburggasse and then to Schottenring.
In 1886 Arnold Schlesinger (1866–1942) joined the bookstore as an assistant. In 1902 he took it over from the then owner Paul Schlott. The bookstore has been family-owned since then. In 1938 with the invasion of the Nazis and the annexation of Austria , the bookstore was “ Aryanized ” by Franz Unger . Arnold and Amalie Schlesinger then committed suicide.
In 1950 Grete Günther, the daughter of Arnold Schlesinger, returned from exile and got the bookstore restituted. She died in 1954 and her daughters Zita Seidl and Monika Beer ran the shop from then on.
1961 opened a branch in the newly built Schottenpassage. In 1971 Kuppitsch moved from Schottenring to Schottengasse. In 1978 a record store was opened in Helferstorferstrasse. In 1988 a branch was opened in the Palais Ferstel . In 1992 Norbert Seidl and Andreas Beer joined the management. In 1998 another branch opened on the campus in the former old general hospital .
In 2000 Andreas Beer resigned from the management and now runs an American-Austrian bookstore. In 2002 the head office was extensively rebuilt and one floor was added. In 2007 the owner and managing director Norbert Seidl died unexpectedly (September 23, 1962– August 1, 2007). His siblings Martin and Elisabeth Seidl have been running the company since then. In 2014 the bookstore celebrates its 225th anniversary.
In autumn 2019, the Kuppitsch bookstore will be sold to the German book retail chain Thalia. The name Kuppitsch as well as the locations will remain according to announcements.
range
As a scientist , Matthäus Kuppitsch owned a private philological library . His successors dealt with the scientific antiquarian bookstore , numerous extensive specialist catalogs were created and sent far away. Rarities are also traded. One focus of Kuppitsch was the legal literature with numerous publications.
Today, in addition to books, DVDs , CDs and audio books are also offered in daily newspapers and magazines .
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Kuppitsch, Matthäus . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 13th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1865, p. 407 ( digitized version ).
- Peter R. Frank, Johannes Frimmel: Books in Vienna 1750–1850: annotated directory of book printers, booksellers and publishers. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag 2008, ISBN 3-447-05659-2 .
Web links
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '47.4 " N , 16 ° 21' 49.2" E
Individual evidence
- ↑ Company history. Kuppitsch Buchhandels GmbH, January 24, 2010, accessed on January 24, 2010 : "220 years of the Kuppitsch bookstore - a family business, founded in 1789 (recte 1826), family-owned since 1895, today the oldest bookstore in Vienna"
- ^ Bernhard Borovansky: Norbert Seidl passed away. (No longer available online.) Main Association of the Austrian Book Trade , August 9, 2007, archived from the original on October 3, 2010 ; Retrieved January 24, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Georg Hupfer: On the history of the antiquarian book trade in Vienna . Diploma thesis 2003
- ^ Wiener Buchhandlung Kuppitsch is taken over by Thalia. Retrieved September 30, 2019 .
