Mary Hahn (author)

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Margarethe Martha Maria Hahn , b. Rilke (born March 24, 1867 in Zobten am Berge , † February 10, 1929 in Berlin ) was an author and publisher of cookbooks .

Life

Hahn grew up in a shoemaker's family in Zobten in Lower Silesia and attended the girls' school in Schweidnitz . In 1885 she married the locksmith Ernst Marode in Berlin, from whom she divorced in 1900. The daughters Elsa and Margarethe came from this marriage. After the divorce, Hahn ran a room rental and a bookstore. In 1906 she published her first cookbook under the name Mary Marode .

She married Ernst Hahn and founded the cookbook publisher Mary Hahn with him in Frankfurt am Main in 1912 . The first cookbook in the company's own publishing house, the “ Illustrated cookbook for simple and fine cuisine ”, was republished several times in a short period of time and by the 1970s had exceeded the millions by far. The book is considered to be one of the most successful cookbooks of the 20th century. By 1940 it had reached 41 editions.

Other books on the subject of cooking soon followed. In 1915 the publishing house relocated to Wernigerode . In 1916, in view of the food shortage during the First World War , she wrote a “ war cookbook ”, which received some attention.

In 1925 the cookbook publisher Mary Hahn moved to Neubabelsberg . Mary Hahn had since separated from Ernst Hahn and in 1928 established the cookbook publisher Mary Hahn in Berlin-Steglitz , Sedanstrasse 19. The publishing work had already been completely taken over by her children. Ernst Hahn's second wife, Ingeborg Goldschatt, ran the original Mary Hahn Verlag for a short time as Hahn & Co. cookbooks in Neubabelsberg and Detmold.

Mary Hahn died of pneumonia in Berlin-Lichterfelde in 1929.

The publishing house existed until 1944, was re-established in 1952 and finally ceased operations in 1987.

Works

There are over 60 cookbooks by Mary Hahn. Only a small selection can be mentioned here.

  • 1906: Mary Marode: The canning of the fruits as well as preparation d. Fruit juices, jellies ...
  • 1912: Illustrated cookbook for simple and fine cuisine
  • 1913: Practical cookbook with 150 pictures for the bourgeois kitchen
  • 1913: The canning of fruits and vegetables in the household as well as the preparation of fruit juices, jellies, jams, jams and liqueurs
  • 1916: War cookbook online version available
  • 1916: Illustrated health food online version available
  • 1918: Cheap meals
  • 1920: Savings cookbook with 20 practical illustrations
  • 1921: (as editor): Happy nursery , illustrations: Hermann Frenz. This is her only book on anything other than cooking.
  • 1928: Vitamin food and its preparation

literature

  • Brigitte Scharnhorst: The cookbook phenomenon Mary Hahn: A phantom makes cookbook history. In: Börsenblatt for the German book trade. 1976, vol. 32, pp. 26-27
  • Gabriele Redden: In the books ...: From the editing of a cookbook publisher: Mary Hahns (Munich). In: Börsenblatt for the German book trade. 1981, Vol. 37, pp. 2305-2306

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References and comments

  1. ↑ Mary Marode: The canning of the fruits as well as preparation d. Fruit juices, jellies ... M. Marode, 1906, OCLC 249268946 .
  2. ↑ Mary Hahn: Illustrated cookbook for simple and fine cuisine. 1st edition. Frankfurt a. Main 1912.
  3. ^ Object description for: Mary Hahn: People's cookbook for the simple kitchen  in the German Digital Library
  4. ^ Eckehard Methler, Walter Methler: From Henriette Davidis to Erna Horn: Bibliography and collection catalog of household literature, with comments on the question of women. HDM-Verlag, 2001, ISBN 978-3-9810130-4-7 , p. 304 .
  5. ↑ Anna Wolańska-Köller: Functional text structure and linguistic means in cooking recipes of the 19th and early 20th centuries . ibidem-Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8382-6022-8 , p. 404-405 .
  6. ↑ Book Reviews. Mary Hahn, War Cookbook . In: Otto Janke (Ed.): Deutsche Roman-Zeitung . tape 51 , no. 1 , 1917, p. 25 .
  7. ^ Address book of the German book trade . Publishers of the German Booksellers' Association, 1931, OCLC 81964583 , p. 236 .
  8. ↑ Bavarian National Museum: Happy nursery. Inventory number: 2005/328. 2004, accessed February 2, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Rooster, Mary
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ailing, mary; Rilke, Margarethe; Hahn, Margarethe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cookbook author, publisher
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Zobten on the mountains
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1929
Place of death Berlin