Max Rascher
Max Theodor Rascher (born July 30, 1883 in Zurich-Hottingen ; † December 5, 1962 there ) was a Swiss publisher .
Life
He was the fifth child of Eduard Rascher and Maria Magdalena Fritzsche. In 1901, Rascher took over his father's bookstore, which he expanded to include an art shop in 1906.
In 1908 he founded the Rascher Verlag . The publisher specialized in pacifist literature, art and psychology: The authors included Carl Gustav Jung , Carl Spitteler , Alja Rachmanowa , Konrad Falke , William Somerset Maugham , André Maurois , Marcel Proust , Ernst Wiechert , Charlot Strasser , Yvan Goll , Andreas Latzko and Henri Barbusse .
On January 16, 1909, he married Olga Bertha Früh. They had three children together, the first son Ernst Albert died on April 14, 1913 one day after his birth. Hans Eduard was born on July 17, 1915 and Albert Max was born on September 10, 1916.
Rascher offered a journalistic platform for poets, painters and philosophers who fled to Switzerland before the First World War. In 1917, Rascher Verlag published three classics of international pacifism: People in War by Andreas Latzko, Requiem for the Fallen of Europe by Iwan Goll and the German first edition of Henri Barbusses Das Feuer in the pacifist series European Library .
The Kunstverlag published reproductions by Ferdinand Hodler , Augusto Giacometti , Paul Cézanne and Oskar Kokoschka .
From 1920–1921 Max Rascher was President of the Swiss Booksellers Association, the forerunner of the Swiss Booksellers and Publishers Association .
literature
- Friedrich Witz: The Rascher Verlag Zurich - A Review , Zurich 1973
- Robert Leucht: Bridge Builder, in: Swiss Book Year 19, October 23, 2017 ( online )
- Max Rascher: Twenty-five years of publishing activities at Rascher & Cie AG: 1908-1933; A catalog with a brief history of the publisher . Rascher: Zurich, 1933.
Web links
- Literature by and about Max Rascher in the catalog of the German National Library
- Susanne Peter-Kubli: Max Rascher. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rascher, Max |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rascher, Max Theodor (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 30, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich-Hottingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th December 1962 |
| Place of death | Zurich-Hottingen |