Walter Lehning Verlag

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The Walter Lehning publishing house was established in 1946 German publisher who had the publication of magazines, novels and comics for emphasis. In the field of comics in particular, he achieved a significant market share in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1968 the publishing house was dissolved due to bankruptcy.

History and Development

The publishing house was re-established by Walter Lehning in Hannoversch Münden in 1946 after the previous company was closed by the National Socialists in 1937. At the beginning, the program consisted of detective and magazine novels such as the trivial series Gloria , Stella and Luna , each of which reached several hundred numbers. From 1948 onwards, Scorpio appeared - a literary magazine with a completed novel . Later, the men's magazine Joy and the sex magazine Party were added. In 1952 the company moved to Hanover, initially to Bahnhofstrasse, where Walter Lehning was at no. 5 has had an office since the beginning of 1950. At the end of 1952 / beginning of 1953, however, the company's headquarters were relocated to the large, newly built Lehning publishing house at Ferdinandstrasse 19 (corner of Bernstrasse). The Hanover publishing address also changed to Uhlemeyerstraße 2 in the 1960s, as Ferdinandstraße was split up and the Lehninghaus was then located in the renamed street section. The publication of comics began in 1953. During its existence, the Walter Lehning Verlag got into financial difficulties several times; partly because of a failed project to establish a magazine. In April 1968 the publishing house was dissolved after bankruptcy. Under the direction of Walter Lehning's son Bernd, several reprints were published again in 1971, but business operations ended in September 1972.

comics

After Lehning's trip to Italy, the first comics were published in 1953 with Akim by Augusto Pedrazza , El Bravo by Franco Bignotti and Carnera . The magazines, produced under license from the Italian publishing house Edizioni Tomasina using rotary printing in Piccolo format, were available for 20 pfennigs . Two months later, Pedrazza's Fulgor was added to another series. With the Sigurd series drawn by Hansrudi Wäscher , the first in-house production came onto the market in the same year. Wäscher developed into the publisher's most productive draftsman; his contribution to the publisher's total output was a total of 1173 Piccolo and Kolibri books and over 500 large volumes. He also drew the long-lasting series Akim, Neue Abenteuer, Falk , Nick and Tibor . Other long-lived ranks of others included Adventures of World History and Bob Heinz ' Jan Maat .

The policy of relying on cartoon characters from the Hanna Barbera studios in the early 1960s proved to be a failure . Although a total of 56 issues appeared under the title Daffy , a second series with the title Doggy was discontinued after just two issues. Likewise, the series of issues Blondie and Dankwart - Das Schmunzelmagazin , which in addition to Chic Young's title figure also contained other series such as Otto Soglow's The Little King , was discontinued after just 16 issues. After the Karl May - rights were released at the end of 1962, the various stories was written at the Walter Lehning publishing comic adaptations; The draftsmen were Helmut Nickel and Harry Ehrt. With the cessation of business operations in April 1968, the series that were still running were also discontinued.

Indexing process

With the establishment of the Federal Testing Office for writings harmful to minors in 1954, publications by Walter Lehning Verlag were also affected by indexing procedures. At the first meeting of the newly established institution, issue number 3 in the series Jezab, the seafarers was indexed by means of a preliminary injunction . The indexing was announced on July 14, 1954 in the Federal Gazette No. 132. However, it did not have any immediate effects, as the relevant issue had already been sold. Overall, the Walter Lehning Verlag was hit hardest; Of the first 36 issues that were indexed in the early years of the Federal Inspectorate, 26 came from this publisher. Only the Alfons-Semrau-Verlag was also affected by several indexes; the other small and large publishers who also published comics were largely spared from indexing. Of the six permanent indexes issued during this period, five concerned comics from Walter Lehning Verlag. Most affected by this was the El Bravo series , which was banned from publications for twelve months. There was a six-month publication ban for the series Blauer Pfeil and Franca , while Sheriff Teddy and Akim were given three months each . While permanent indexing meant the de facto end for most issue series, Lehning tried to circumvent the indexing for Akim by renaming the series to Lord of the Jungle .

Reprints

Even while the Walter Lehning Verlag was in existence, earlier published series were reprinted, for example as a Piccolo special volume . From the 1970s onwards, numerous reprints of original Lehning titles were published by other publishers. In 1977 and 1978, for example, the Comic Book Club (CBC) published a 325-part Sigurd Piccolo series, of which the last issue with the number 325 was a first publication. The Norbert Hethke Verlag published the washer series Sigurd , Tibor , Nick and Falk as complete reprints in book form. Comiczeit Verlag published eleven volumes on Walter Lehning Verlag under the title Illustrierte Deutsche Comicgeschichte .

literature

  • Bernd Dolle-Weinkauff: Comics - History of a Popular Form of Literature in Germany since 1945 , Beltz Verlag, Weinheim and Basel 1990, ISBN 3-407-56521-6 , pp. 103-109.
  • Andreas C. Knigge : To be continued. Comic culture in Germany , Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-548-36523-X , pp. 136-138.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Andreas C. Knigge: To be continued. Comic culture in Germany , Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-548-36523-X , p. 136.
  2. ↑ a b Bernd Dolle-Weinkauff: Comics . Beltz Verlag, Weinheim, Basel 1990, ISBN 3-407-56521-6 , p. 89.
  3. ↑ Fred Decker: Interview with Bernd Lehning - About the Lehning-Verlag in: Journal Die Speechblase No. 134, 1993, p. 46 u. 53.
  4. ↑ Andreas C. Knigge: To be continued. Comic culture in Germany , Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-548-36523-X , p. 164.
  5. ↑ a b c Andreas C. Knigge: To be continued. Comic culture in Germany , Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-548-36523-X , p. 167.
  6. ↑ Andreas C. Knigge: To be continued. Comic culture in Germany , Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-548-36523-X , p. 137.
  7. ↑ a b Andreas C. Knigge: Comic Lexikon . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , p. 450.
  8. ↑ (incomplete) list of publications by Lehning-Verlag on comicguide.de , accessed on November 23, 2013
  9. ↑ a b Andreas C. Knigge: To be continued. Comic culture in Germany , Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-548-36523-X , p. 163.
  10. ↑ Andreas C. Knigge: To be continued. Comic culture in Germany , Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-548-36523-X , p. 165.
  11. ↑ Bernd Dolle-Weinkauff: Comics . Beltz Verlag, Weinheim, Basel 1990, ISBN 3-407-56521-6 , p. 104.
  12. ^ Andreas C. Knigge: Comic Yearbook 1989 . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main; Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-548-36565-5 , p. 375.
  13. ↑ Bernd Dolle-Weinkauff: Comics . Beltz Verlag, Weinheim, Basel 1990, ISBN 3-407-56521-6 , p. 103.
  14. ↑ a b c d Bernd Dolle-Weinkauff: Comics . Beltz Verlag, Weinheim, Basel 1990, ISBN 3-407-56521-6 , p. 109.
  15. ↑ a b Bernd Dolle-Weinkauff: Comics . Beltz Verlag, Weinheim, Basel 1990, ISBN 3-407-56521-6 , p. 108.
  16. ↑ Andreas C. Knigge Almighty! Hansrudi Wäscher pioneer of the German comics edition COMICS etc ISBN 978-3-941694-11-8 page 263
  17. ↑ Andreas C. Knigge: To be continued. Comic culture in Germany , Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-548-36523-X , p. 155.
  18. ↑ Sigurd in the Comic Book Club at comicguide.de , accessed on November 23, 2013.
  19. ^ Illustrated German comic history published by Comiczeit Verlag on comicguide.de , accessed on November 23, 2013.