Max Bruns

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Max Bruns (born July 13, 1876 in Minden ; † July 23, 1945 there ) was a German publisher , translator and poet .

Max Bruns (printed 1900)

Life

Max Bruns was a son of the publisher Gustav Bruns. He attended the classical grammar school in Minden up to the upper secondary level . For a short time he trained as a printer in Hanover. He then started working as an apprentice in his father's book printing and publishing house, which also continues to publish the Mindener Tageblatt to this day. After completing his apprenticeship, he became the technical manager in his father's company.

In 1895 he began to write his own poems. In 1899 he married the poet and storyteller Margarete Sieckmann (1873–1944). Together they translated works by Charles Baudelaire and edited the series On Silver Strings: Masters of Poetry . From 1902 to 1910 his own poetic work took a back seat to his work as a translator and editor.

After his father's death in 1908, he and his brother Julius ran the company for ten years - until his brother left.

Despite his success as a publisher, at the end of the 1920s he was forced, for financial reasons, to cede his books and publishing rights to other publishers. From then on he limited himself to managing the printing company belonging to the publishing house. A few days after Germany's unconditional surrender , Max Bruns was the victim of a robbery. He died in Minden on July 23, 1945 after a two-month hospital stay.

meaning

Bruns published the leading journal of naturalism, Society , which was founded in 1885 by Michael Georg Conrad in the time frame from 1898 to 1899. His publishing house has published works by German-speaking authors such as Max Dauthendey , Karl Henckell , Ludwig Jacobowski , Alfred Mombert , Paul Scheerbart , Johannes Schlaf , but also the works of the Dutch author Eduard Douwes Dekker , including the novel Max Havelaar in a translation by Wilhelm Spohr .

He published important works of world literature in translation, especially poems, e.g. Some even authorized editions by Charles Baudelaire, Fjodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski , Gustave Flaubert , André Gide , HG Wells and Oscar Wilde . The first German edition of Edgar Allan Poe's works was published in his publishing house, translated by Hedda Eulenberg .

In addition to Max and Margarethe Bruns themselves, the most important translators and editors of the publishing house were Felix Paul Greve (later known as Frederick Philip Grove ), Karl Federn , Hedwig Lachmann , Hedda Eulenberg , Moeller van den Bruck and Friedrich von Oppeln-Bronikowski .

In addition, he maintained numerous connections to writers, artists and publishers, such as Eugen Diederichs , Hermann Hesse , Hugo Höppener (alias Fidus) Paul Scheerbart , Heinrich Vogeler and Stefan Zweig .

Works

  • Lyric interlude. First collected poems with an appendix. Private printing, [1893].
  • Spring and love. Private printing, [1894].
  • The great minstrel. One sang of love and sorrow. 1895.
  • The Baptist. A seal in the time of the Messiah. 1896.
  • From my blood. Poems. 1897.
  • Sleeping Beauty. A German fairy tale poem. Hardcover manuscript, [1897].
  • Devotions. Five books of becoming :
  • Lenz. A book of strength and beauty. Schuster & Loeffler, Berlin and Leipzig 1899. Later JCC Bruns
  • We fools. A devotional book for fools and those who want to become one . Announced.
  • Two-unit. A devotional book for people. 1899 [1900]
  • Transfigurations. Of the last beauties of love. Eugen Diederichs, Leipzig 1900. Later JCC Bruns
  • Ascension. A devotional book of the Spirit. 1901
  • Magic lantern. An antiphantasus. 1901
  • Kaleidoscope. 1903
  • Poems (1893–1908). Bruns, Minden [1909]
  • Fire. The story of a crime. Bruns, Minden 1913
  • The songs of the evening. Bruns, Minden 1916
  • Night sonnets. Bruns, Minden 1919
  • The festival of the sun. A summer vision. Bruns, Minden 1919
  • The festival of the lemurs. A tragic grotesque. Bruns, Minden 1919
  • The ark. Of the nights of the flood, of destruction and of the dream. Bruns, Minden 1920
  • About the humor, its ways and its goal. Bruns, Minden 1921
  • The great minstrel. Bruns, Minden o.J.
  • Garden of the Ghazels. Bruns, Minden 1925
  • Happy journey. A circle of thirds. Bruns, Minden 1926
  • Funeral mass for a child. Bruns, Minden 1926
  • Flooded worlds. Bruns, Minden 1936

Essays

literature

  • Max Bruns. His essence and his work. Along with a selection from the poet's oeuvre. With contributions by Fritz Droop, Hermann Eicke, Hanns Martin Elster (among others), Bruns, Minden 1926.
  • Hans Gressel: Max Bruns as a critic of his time. Special print from country and people serve. Ed. Ratsgymnasium der Stadt Minden. JCC Bruns, Minden [1976].
  • Leo Ikelaar (Ed.): Paul Scheerbart. Correspondence with Max Bruns 1898–1903 and other documents. Peter Lang (= European University Writings, Series 1, German Language and Literature, Volume 1124), Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-631-41727-6 .
  • Klaus Martens (Ed.): JCC Bruns' Publisher: His authors and translators. Writings of the Saarland University and State Library, Volume 1. With a foreword by Paul Raabe . Röhrig Universitätsverlag, St. Ingbert 1996, ISBN 3-86110-094-0 . in this:
    • Klaus Martens: Views and contexts of the literary publisher JCC Bruns: On the interaction of authors, translators and publishers. Pp. 14-28.
    • Jutta Ernst: Between art and justice: the translation of world literature and its legal framework. Pp. 29-38.
    • Margit Peterfy: Topics of the time at JCC Bruns: Via “Ethics” into the twentieth century. Pp. 39-46.
  • "Damn whoever this is not sacred!" The correspondence of Wilhelm Spohr with Mimi Douwes Dekker and the JCC Bruns Verlag in Minden 1898–1928. Selection, commentary and epilogue Jaap Grave, Müggel-Verlag Rolf F. Lang (= edition friedrichshagen 6), Berlin 2003.
  • Mark Behrens: Charles Baudelaire with Max and Margarete Bruns. Translation and in-house production in JCC Bruns' publishing house (1881–1929). Dissertation Bielefeld University, 2005 ( full text ).
  • Max Brun's reading book . Compiled and with an afterword by Anne Kathrin Pfeuffer, Nyland Foundation (= Nylands Small Westphalian Library, Volume 11), Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-936235-12-0 ( full text ).
  • Alfred Mombert: Letters from the years 1893–1942. Edited by Benjamin Joseph Morse. Lambert Schneider, Heidelberg 1961 (on the JCC Bruns publishing house, p. 186 f.)

Web links

Commons : Max Bruns  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Bruns estate, archived in the municipal archive of the city of Minden. Note in the Hessian archive of the German youth movement  (AdJb inventory N 38). In: Archive Information System Hessen (Arcinsys Hessen).
personal data
SURNAME Bruns, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Minden
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 1945
Place of death Minden