Ludwig Ey (publisher)

Ludwig Ey (born November 30, 1887 in Hanover ; † March 31, 1968 there ) was a German bookseller and publisher and played an important role in the cultural life of the Lower Saxony state capital Hanover.

Life

Ludwig Ey comes from the Ey family . He was the son of the bookseller Christian Ludwig Ey (born November 17, 1849 in Clausthal / Harz ; † May 21, 1926 in Hanover), the founder of the “Buch-, Kunst- und.” Opened on September 18, 1878 in Georgstraße 37 in Hanover Map shop and second-hand bookshop ”.

Ludwig Ey completed his training as a bookseller as well as his first practical experience in Hamburg , Geneva and Berlin and - after his father suffered a stroke in 1907 - in his father's business, which he took over in 1912. Shortly afterwards he enlarged the bookstore by taking over the shop next door and set up a “book room” there. The author Albrecht Schaeffer praised this “guest cabinet”, in which one could “sink into hours, days and months”. In 1913, when he was seventeen, the later librarian and writer Werner Kraft made the acquaintance of the then private lecturer in philosophy at the Technical University Theodor Lessing in the bookstore Ludwig Ey , a friendship that lasted until Lessing's violent death in 1933 and gave the young Werner Kraft important impulses .

Publishing house Ludwig Ey

In the same year he founded the Ludwig Ey publishing house , incorporated it into the bookstore and gave two early collections of poetry by Albrecht Schaeffer , Amata, Wandel der Liebe , still as commission publishing house Ey and printed by Pokrantz in 1911, and Kriegslieder (1914) and in 1913 the biography with the first catalog raisonné of the graphic oeuvre of the painter James Ensor by Herbert von Garvens-Garvensburg .

Also in 1912 , Ey initiated the so-called “Tuesday Society” to encourage interest in contemporary art and literature; Julius Bab , Albrecht Schaeffer, von Garven-Garvensburg and Johann Frerking performed at these lecture events . Set in the First World War Ludwig Ey 1916 one of the founders of was Kunstverein Kestner-Gesellschaft .

At the beginning of the Weimar Republic , Ey developed the idea for an avant-garde - Dadaist magazine in 1918 : from the beginning of 1919 he published Das Hohe Ufer , a late Expressionist monthly that appeared from January 1919 to December 1920. The magazine was published by Hans Kaiser . Ey and Kasiser introduced the ideas of the utopian socialists , the November group and the AfK . The Hohe Ufer contributed significantly to the transformation and flourishing of culture in Hanover. In 1920 Ludwig Ey published the poems of Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty , whose selection and arrangement Johann Frerking “worried”. The work contained 9 copper engravings from the hand of Daniel Chodowiecki . In 1920 the volume Florentinische Nights by Heine was published by Ey.

Club in Hanover

After the end of the Second World War , Ludwig Ey was one of the co-founders of the “Club zu Hannover”, a “ men's club based on the British model to foster an exchange of ideas”. Ludwig Vierthaler was elected chairman of the club . In addition to Ey and Vierthaler, Georg Beltermann , Gustav Bratke , Wilhelm Hübotter , Carlo Nagel , Vicar General Wilhelm Offenstein , Bernhard Sprengel , Wilhelm Stichweh and Karl Wiechert were members.

Fonts

• 50 years of bookstore Ludwig Ey. Festschrift (on September 18, 1928). Hanover 1928.

literature

• Ey, Ludwig (Hanover bookstore) . In: Georg Jäger (Ed. On behalf of the Historical Commission of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels): History of the German book trade in the 19th and 20th centuries . Volume 1, Das Kaiserreich 1871-1918, Part 3, De Gruyter Saur 2010, ISBN 978-3-598-24804-7 , p. 148 ff.
• Henning Rischbieter : Hannoversches Lesebuch, or: What was written, printed and read in and about Hanover. Volume 2: 1850-1950. 2nd edition, Hannover: Schlütersche, 1991, ISBN 3-87706-359-4 , p. 240. 242.
• Ines Katenhusen : Art and Politics. Hanover's struggles with modernity in the Weimar Republic. Hahn, Hannover 1998, ISBN 3-7752-4955-9 , pp. 569-570. 583 ( Hannoversche Studien. Series of publications by the Hannover City Archives ).
• Hugo Thielen : Ey, (2) Ludwig. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , pp. 112-113 and others. ( Google books ).
• Hugo Thielen: Ey, (2) Ludwig. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 172.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 50 years of bookstore Ey , p. 8, quoted. after: Georg Jäger, Georg J. Ger, History of the German Book Trade in the 19th and 20th Century. Volume 1 - Das Kaiserreich, 1871-1918 , de Gruyter 2010, p. 148f. ( online at Google Books )
2. ↑ Werner Kraft: Spiegelung der Jugend. Frankfurt am Main 1973, p. 28f.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Peter Brooker, Sascha Bru, Andrew Thacker: The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines , Volume 3: Europe 1880 - 1940, Oxford Univ. Pr. 2013, ISBN 978-0-19-965958-6 , pp. 948-954
4. ^ Klaus Mlynek : 1945. In: Hannover Chronik . Pp. 189-203; here: p. 202 ( available on Google Books)
5. ↑ Dieter Tasch : Hanover between zero and new beginning , Leuenhagen and Paris, 2nd edition Hanover 2002, ISBN 3-923976-05-4 , p. 142
6. ↑ can be borrowed from libraries in Hanover and Leipzig