Heinrich Gotthold Münchmeyer

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Heinrich Gotthold Münchmeyer (born June 29, 1836 in Lauterbach near Bischofswerda , † April 6, 1892 in Davos ) was a German publisher and journalist in Dresden .

biography

Münchmeyer grew up in Upper Lusatia and initially earned his living as a journeyman carpenter and village musician. He later lived in Oberlungwitz, where he met his wife Pauline Ey. The couple had four daughters together.

In 1862 Münchmeyer and his brother Friedrich Louis founded their own publishing bookstore in Dresden. Various fiction magazines, novels and other colportage works were published. The authors who worked for Münchmeyer included Gustav Adolph Berthold , Rudolf Kürbis , Valeska von Gallwitz , Friedrich Axmann and Karl May . May, who had already met Münchmeyer in his hometown Hohenstein-Ernstthal , worked as an editor in his publishing house in 1875/76 and later worked as a freelance writer for Münchmeyer. Between 1882 and 1888 he wrote five colportage novels for the publisher.

In April 1892 Münchmeyer died during a stay at a health resort in Davos (Switzerland), where he was treated for pulmonary consumption. His grave is in the Johannisfriedhof in Dresden-Tolkewitz . After his death his widow took over the management of the publishing house and sold it with all rights to Adalbert Fischer in 1899.

literature

  • Gerhard Klußmeier: HG Münchmeyer in Hamburg and elsewhere . In: Special issue of the Karl May Society. News from the Waldröschen and its publisher Münchmeyer. Issue No. 31 (1981), pages 12-20.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kaspar Maase: The children of mass culture: Controversies about dirt and trash since the Empire , Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 9783593396019 , page 65.

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personal data
SURNAME Münchmeyer, Heinrich Gotthold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Münchmeyer, Heinrich G.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Lauterbach near Bischofswerda
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1892
Place of death Davos