Max Bauer (publicist)

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Max Bauer (born January 19, 1861 in Teplitz-Schönau , † July 18, 1932 in Berlin ; pseudonyms: M. Dammann and MB von Teplitz ) was a German publicist and journalist of Jewish origin. He worked as an editor for the Berliner Tageblatt , but primarily emerged as the author and editor of works on the history of culture and morals , some of which had several editions over decades. He also published under the pseudonyms M. Dammann and MB von Teplitz

life and work

Bauer came to Vienna early , where he attended high school. When his family got into trouble, he was forced to drop out of school at the age of 14 and earn a living. At first he worked as a businessman . After his mother and one of his brothers were killed in the Ringtheater fire in Vienna in 1881, he wrote his first leading article about the trial against those responsible for the disaster. But it wasn't until the 1890s that he became a full-time journalist. In 1891 he married and had two sons from this marriage. From 1900 he lived in Berlin and was editor of the Berliner Tageblatt . He initially published adventure stories for a young audience. He later wrote and edited treatises on cultural and moral history.

Bauer's moral history publications were explicitly aimed not at specialist scholars, but at a large audience. As editor, however, he intervened considerably in the original texts. So he worked into his edition of the history of the witch trials by Wilhelm Gottlieb Soldan and Heinrich Heppe without further evidence, more recent research results, smoothed the style and deleted not only footnotes , but also entire passages of the text. In his edition of The Torture. History of torture in criminal proceedings of all times and peoples by Franz Helbing (di David Haek ) he made questionable additions. For example, in the history of the witch trials as well as in Die Tortur , Bauer added precise descriptions of torture chairs, which are now viewed as inventions or reconstructions of the 19th century, because in the witch trial files of the 17th century there are at best fragmentary descriptions of such concerns. and torture stools. Nevertheless, the editions for which Bauer was responsible are still frequently cited today.

Works

As an author

  • On impassable paths. A story for the youth. 1900.
  • Allotria. Ullstein & Co., Berlin 1901.
  • Sex life in the German past. 2nd Edition. Seemann, Leipzig 1902.
  • The German thirst. Methyological sketches from German cultural history. Seemann, Leipzig 1903.
  • The German woman in the past. Schall, Berlin 1907.
  • Sex life in the German past. 3. Edition. Seemann, Berlin 1907. 10th edition, Berlin, Zurich Eigenbrödler-Verl. [1929].
  • The prostitute and her followers. Est-Est verlag gmbh, Berlin-Charlottenburg 1912.
  • Culture sins. Night pictures from the German past. Est-Est-Verl., Berlin-Charlottenburg 1912.
  • German women's mirror. : Images from women's life in the German past. Müller, Munich 1917.
  • Love life in the German past. Langenscheidt, Berlin 1924.
  • Moral history of the German student body. Aretz, Dresden 1926. Digitized
  • Woman and morality. The moral history of the German woman. Eigenbrödler Verl., Berlin 1927.
  • German prince mirror. Pictures from the German past are portrayed according to the sources. Kaden, Dresden 1928.
  • Titans of the erotic. Life pictures from the moral history of all times and peoples; compiled from the sources. Eigenbrödler-Verl, Berlin 1929.
  • The prostitute and her followers. A contribution to the history of sex life in the German past. , Dresden 1930.

As co-author, editor and editor

  • Friedrich Christian Benedict Avé-Lallemant and Max Bauer: The German crook in its socio-political, literary and linguistic training to its present day existence. Müller, Munich 1914.
  • Georg Buschan and Max Bauer: The German People in Customs and Customs. Birth, love, wedding, family life, death, costume, way of living, folk art, song, dance and play, handicrafts and guilds, superstition. Union Deutsche Verlags-Gesellschaft, Stuttgart 1922.
  • Wilhelm Theodor von Chézy and Max Bauer: The executioner of Paris. Eden-Verl., Berlin (1927).
  • Karl Friedrich Flögel and Max Bauer: History of the Grotesque-Comic. : A contribution to history d. Humanity. Müller, Munich 1914.
  • Johann Konrad Friederich and Max Bauer: The German Casanova. : Journeys and love adventures based on the memoirs of a German officer in the French army of Napoleon I. Eigenbrödler Verl., Berlin 1929.
  • Friedrich Gerstäcker and Max Bauer: Travel around the world. Neufeld & Henius, Berlin 1910.
  • Andreas Gryphius and Max Bauer: The beloved thorn rose. Joke game in four acts. Rufu-Verlagsges., Hamburg 1926.
  • Georg Adolf Wilhelm von Helbig and Max Bauer: Russian favorites. , Munich & Berlin G. Müller 1917.
  • Franz Helbing and Max Bauer: The ordeal. History of Criminal Torture of All Times and Nations; with pictures after old masters. 1st edition. Langenscheidt, Berlin 1926.
  • Fernand Hue, Max Bauer and B. Schmitt: By twenty million dollars. HJ Meidinger, Berlin [1899].
  • Max Bauer and Wilhelm Roegge: The lightning. , Berlin, Eisenach, Leipzig H. Hillger [1904].
  • Mary Wortley Montagu and Max Bauer: Lady Mary Wortley Montagues [Montagu] Travel Letters 1716-1718. 2nd Edition. H. Seemann Nachf., Berlin, Leipzig 1907.
  • Pius and Max Bauer: Eurialis and Lucretia. A Lovestory. Borngräber, Berlin 1921.
  • Johannes Scherr and Max Bauer: Cultural History of German Women (History of the German Women's World). In 3 books according to the sources; with 64 figs. Plate Aretz, Dresden (1928).
  • Johannes Scherr and Max Bauer: Woman, Lady, Whore. Cultural and moral history of the German woman. Aretz, Dresden 1928.
  • Wilhelm Gottlieb Soldan and Max Bauer: History of Protestantism in France up to the death of Charles IX. , Munich 1911.
  • Wilhelm Gottlieb Soldan, Heinrich Heppe and Max Bauer: History of the witch trials. Müller, Munich 1912.

Under a pseudonym

  • MB from Teplitz: Crowned messalines. Historical studies. 2nd Edition. Iris-Verl., Berlin 1902.

literature

  • Bauer, Max , in: Friedhelm Golücke : Author's lexicon for student and university history. SH-Verlag, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-89498-130-X . P. 28.
  • Robert Zagolla: Bauer, Max. In: Gudrun Gersmann, Katrin Moeller u. Jürgen-Michael Schmidt (Hrsg.): Lexicon for the history of the witch hunt. , in: historicum.net (accessed: June 18, 2010).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Max Bauer. In: Franz Brümmer (Ed.). Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present day. P. Reclam, Leipzig 1913, p. 116.
  2. ↑ Jürgen Scheffler: The torture chair - metamorphoses of a museum object . In: zeitenblicke 1 (2002), No. 1 (July 8, 2002), 14-20 ( PDF , accessed: January 21, 2016).
  3. ↑ See e.g. B. Richard van Dülmen: Theater of horror. Judicial Practice and Punishment Rituals in the Early Modern Era . 4th edition. Munich 1995, pp. 197, 199.
personal data
SURNAME Bauer, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dammann, M. (pseudonym); Teplitz, MB from (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Teplice
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1932
Place of death Berlin