Dispenser Andersen Nexö Leipzig
| Dispenser Andersen Nexö Leipzig
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1746 |
| Seat | Zwenkau near Leipzig |
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| sales | * 25 million in Zwenkau
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| Branch | Zwenkau: Complete production of books and brochures for publishers
Group: Complete production of commercial and publishing-related commercial jobs |
Offizin Andersen Nexö Leipzig was a manufacturer of books from Leipzig . The company , which was known for its OAN brand , consisted of large print shops , publishing houses and industrial bookbinders as well as a luxury manufacture . Books of all kinds were produced - mainly for publishers - in particular illustrated books , non-fiction books , guides, travel guides as well as school and children's books .
The long-established company was already world-renowned in the field of book production in the mid-19th century. The entire group of companies temporarily employed around 600 people at various locations.
After the second filing for bankruptcy within two years, the company had to cease operations in April 2015.
history
Friedrich Nies and Carl Lorck
Offizin Andersen Nexö Leipzig continued the tradition of the Friedrich Nies book printing and type foundry . In 1829, Nies had acquired one of the then oldest printing works in Leipzig, the Deutrich'sche Offizin , founded in 1746 in the “Haus zum Goldenen Schiff” . Nies, who gave the company his name after the takeover, subsequently added an important font and stereotype foundry as well as an engraving company to the company . As early as 1840, the company was printing in around 300 languages with its fonts, which were largely cast by itself.
In 1856 Nies sold the printing company to the Leipzig-based Dane Carl Berendt Lorck . The new owner, who continued to operate under the Nies company, worked in the following years on a continuous expansion of the company, with a special focus on the production of foreign-language works. The company received a silver medal at the Paris World Exhibition in 1867 , whereby the jury stated in its official report that at that time in France only the Imprimerie Imperial was able to do something similar to Nies.
The Drugulin store
In 1868 Lorck sold the Nies book printing and type foundry to Wilhelm E. Drugulin, who had also acquired the extremely important font inventory of the Leipzig book printing and type foundry Carl Christoph Tauchnitz .
The most important field of activity of the companies Nies and Tauchnitz, which merged under the new name Offizin Drugulin, was foreign-language, especially oriental printing. Due to the constant expansion of the font inventory, Drugulin was the largest private company in the world for oriental fonts as early as 1870. In 1876, the Offizin won a first prize at the World's Fair in Philadelphia for its outstanding performance.
When Wilhelm Drugulin died in 1879, the company was continued by his son-in-law Johannes Baensch-Drugulin . The new owner developed the Offizin in terms of book design and printing as well as foreign language printing to ever new heights until the outbreak of the First World War . In 1892 the Offizin had 894 fonts, of which 231 were oriental, 246 Fraktur and 417 antique , which was even included in the 14th edition. of the " Great Brockhaus from 1898" found. During this time, quality in printing and book design as well as the extensive collection of publications created many close relationships with the most important publishing houses of the time, such as the publishers of Kurt Wolff , Ernst Rowohlt , S. Fischer and Eugen Diederichs . Several well-respected magazines such as "Genius", " Die Insel " (1899–1903) and " Pan " (1895–1900) were published in the open shop.
Around 1884, Drugulin began producing a small edition calendar for business partners and friends. A special feature of these initially small-format private prints are calendars for the international orientalist congresses, because the publishing house maintained particularly close relationships with this group of specialists. Later, the Offizin did not present calendars, but rather elaborately produced books in various designs and formats as annual editions. These annual editions - interrupted by both world wars and by the period 1996 to 2006 - appeared in almost continuous succession.
Landmarks of world literature in original fonts
Letters to a friend, Wilhelm von Humboldt, annual edition of Offizin Andersen Nexö, 2008
Calendar 1897, Vademecum for the Orientalist Congress of the year 1897
A high point in the history of the Offizin is the production of the century work "Landmarks from world literature in original scripts" - published on the occasion of the 500th birthday of Johannes Gutenberg by Johannes Baensch-Drugulin with book decorations by L. Sütterlin - which was delivered in 1902. At that time W. Drugulin was regarded as the best type foundry and printing company in the German-speaking area. Johannes Baensch-Drugulin received many different awards in recognition of his outstanding achievements.
In 1906 Emil Richard Wilhelm Baensch took over the commercial and technical management of the shop as the third generation authorized signatory. In 1910 the first drug prints were published, which were supposed to combine bibliophile features with a higher number of copies.
The Offizin Haag Drugulin
After the company got into major economic difficulties during the First World War, it merged with the FE Haag printing company in 1928 after several intermediate sales. The book printer Haag founded his business in Melle near Osnabrück in autumn 1867 and developed from humble beginnings into an important graphic company in the region. The owner at the time, Emil Ölrich, made the decision in 1926 to relocate his business in Leipzig, the center of book printing and book trade at the time. Then in 1927 a new printing house was built at Salomonstrasse 7 in Leipzig and equipped with 19 printing machines of the most modern design and a large collection of fonts. In 1928 it merged with Offizin W. Drugulin to form Offizin Haag Drugulin AG. In 1930, after renewed economic difficulties, Köhler & Volkmar , then the largest commission agent in the German book trade based in Leipzig, took over.
In 1937 Ernst Kellner, the artistic and technical director at the time, founded the Drugulin Press. This was a small workshop, which was run by a master and taught the tradition of manual printing to apprentices and young workers of the large company in constant rotation. Initially, the press produced single-sheet prints for certain occasions, and it was not until 1939 that the first more extensive press prints were made.
The Offizin was destroyed to 60% in the Second World War after two air raids . The number of staff members fell from 340 in 1938 to 171 in 1945.
On the basis of the referendum in Saxony , Offizin Haag Drugulin AG and other companies in the graphic arts industry were expropriated in 1946 and handed over to the city of Leipzig under the name VEB Offizin Haag-Drugulin. At that time, the company was mainly working on orders for the Soviet military administration. In 1948 Horst Erich Wolter (1906–1984), who had returned from captivity, took over the artistic and technical management of the shop.
The Andersen Nexö store
In 1954, many companies in the GDR were instructed to rename all companies that had the names of their previous owners with the names of well-known socialist personalities. In view of the decades of book-making tradition, the name of the Danish novelist , essayist , publicist and social critic Martin Andersen Nexö , who died on June 1, 1954 in Dresden, was chosen for the Offizin . The name was changed to Offizin Andersen Nexö (OAN) on June 26, 1954, the poet's 85th birthday.
After various changes in management, the book designer Siegfried Hempel took over management of the company from 1962 to 1992. In the course of the concentration efforts of the economic management agencies, many formerly independent Leipzig graphic companies were transferred to OAN. Significant companies that were taken over were the Leipziger Druckhaus (formerly the printing company of the Bibliographical Institute ) and the large graphics company CG Röder , which had developed into an important graphic company with its own collotype department since it was founded as a sheet music engraver in 1868 .
After Offizin Haag Drugulin had already presented a few miniature books, Offizin Andersen Nexö took up this tradition for the first time at the 1959 International Book Art Exhibition . The first mini-book was the Communist Party's manifesto by Marx and Engels. As a result, a large number of bibliophile miniature books appeared for various publishers up to 1994. The work was continued by the miniature book publisher Leipzig.
In the years to 1989 Offizin Andersen Nexo, despite the encroachment of phototypesetting and offset printing endeavor traditionally maintained in the company hot type and high pressure to maintain. For this purpose, the entire inventory of lead types and high-pressure machines was brought together at the Nonnenstrasse site, creating a rounded high-pressure operating section. In the course of these efforts, OAN had repeatedly tied the tradition since 1948 of compiling the inventory of fonts with the help of updated font sample books. From 1948 onwards, extensive script and application samples were created for the interested publisher in an irregular sequence.
In 1989 the large graphic company Offizin Andersen Nexö employed more than 1,000 people in 15 business units in Leipzig. The traditional specialization in the complete production of high-quality books and brochures, a worldwide unique inventory of font and engraving plates as well as a fully functional collotype department with 4 machines (years of construction 1885–1895) had survived the times until German reunification .
As part of the restructuring after 1989, many of the smaller shops were transferred back to the previous owners or closed. The high-pressure operation Nonnenstraße was sold to Eckhardt shoemaker Gebler and now houses the initiative of the buyer and with financial support from & Devrient Giesecke founded Museum of Printing .
The remaining core of the store at the main locations Salomonstrasse and Perthesstrasse /gerichtsweg was sold in 1994 to the Munich-based Wartelsteiner family, under whose management a modern new building was built for OAN in Zwenkau near Leipzig in 1993/94. With the move to the new premises in 1994 and based on the latest technology, the Offizin was able to build on the leading position in the book-making industry in the German-speaking area, which it had already achieved in the 19th century.
In 1996 Offizin Andersen Nexö was continued by the Munich-based company Treuleben & Bischof , whereby the specialization in the field of book production was continuously expanded through high investments. In addition, particular emphasis was placed on researching and continuing the company's exceptionally rich book-making tradition.
In the period between 2007 and 2009, OAN took over all of the graphic companies remaining in Leipzig (Messedruck Leipzig GmbH, Gebr. Klingenberg Buchkunst Leipzig GmbH, Leipziger Kunst- & Verlagsbuchbinderei GmbH) as well as Sachsdruck Plauen GmbH in Plauen.
Another bankruptcy application was filed on April 9, 2015, affecting around 210 employees. Between 2012 and 2014, the company had already gone through insolvency proceedings on its own responsibility. This second bankruptcy led to the permanent closure of the plant. Individual subsidiaries are to be continued.
Invitation to the ceremony on the occasion of the change of name to Offizin Andersen Nexö, 1954
Spenglerallee 26–30, Zwenkau near Leipzig, location since 1995 until today
Zwenkau 2010, a look at the publishing house bindery
Zwenkau 2010, a look at the large print shop
The Leipzig book works
The great publishing bookbinding tradition of Offizin Andersen Nexö Leipzig was continued at the Zwenkau and Leipzig-Baalsdorf locations by the 100% subsidiary Leipziger Kunst- & Verlagbuchbinderei. This bookbinding shop, founded in 1921 by the owner of the same name under the Paul Altmann company and later renamed, distinguished itself from the outset not only through the industrial production of high-quality publisher's bindings, but especially through the creation of rare leather, parchment and bibliophile bindings. The atelier for book art product range work located at the Leipzig-Baalsdorf location and a long-term collaboration with the Leipzig University of Graphics and Book Art enabled the valuable combination of industrial and handicraft production. From 1958 onwards, many facsimiles that have remained unrepeatable were created here, including the “Astronomikum Caesareum” and the “Atlas of the Great Elector”. In addition, the bookbindery was awarded more than 150 times in the competition for the most beautiful books in Germany organized by the Stiftung Buchkunst .
The tradition of fine bookbinding founded in the Leipzig book art movement at the beginning of the 20th century was continued by the luxury manufacturer Treuleben & Bischof, which belongs to the Andersen Nexö Leipzig office. She survived the bankruptcy. This manufactory, founded in 1917 by Wilhelm Treuleben and Franz Bischof, includes a publisher in the publishing tradition of the Drugulin company for the finest calendars, classy paper goods and artistic portfolio goods to this day, workshops for fine bookbinding and pad finishing, as well as ateliers for bag making, leather blanket production, decoration and finishing .
Leipziger Kunst- & Verlagbuchbinderei, Leipzig, location since 1994
Leipzig 2010, a look into the publishing house bindery
Leipzig 2010, look into product development
Luxury manufacturer Treuleben & Bischof, hand gilding of leather attachments
Luxury Manufaktur Treuleben & Bishop, process of cutting chasing
literature
- Wilhelm Baensch: The Offizin W. Drugulin, Leipzig. In: Deutsche Bücherstube. 2.
- Helmut Bähring, Kurt Rüddiger: Lexicon of the book city Leipzig. Tauchaer Verlag, p. 216 f.
- Walter Bergner: The Offizin Haag-Drugulin. In: Marginalia. Journal of book art and bibliophilia. 131: 3-33 (1993).
- Bergner: A fund of Leipzig book culture. On the history of the letter treasure of the Haag-Drugulin store. In: Leipzig yearbook on book history. 3: 257-274 (1993).
- Siegfried Hempel: The Offizin Haag-Drugulin. Leipzig 2009.
- Walter Hempel: Leipzig and the beautiful little books. Annual edition of Offizin Andersen Nexö 2005/2006.
- Councilor Dr. Johannes Baensch-Drugulin. Publisher and human. A contribution to the history of JJ Weber. In: Illustrated Newspaper. Leipzig (150), June 27, 1918, p. 4.
- Herbert Kästner : The annual gifts of Offizin Haag-Drugulin / Offizin Andersen Nexö. In: magazine marginalia. 162. Heft (2, 2001), pp. 49-62 with an appendix to the bibliography
- Ernst Kellner: The Drugulin Press in Leipzig. In: Imprimatur. 7, 1937. Weimar, pp. 145-147.
- Carl B. Lorck: Friedrich Nies. In: Annals of Typography. Vol. I Leipzig 50 (1869/70)
- Carl B. Lorck: Handbook of the history of book printing. Second part.
- Hugo Meyer: The Offizin W. Drugulin. In: Deutsche Buchhandelsblätter. 3 (1903) Issue 9, Erfurt, pp. 329-334.
- Theo Neteler: The officers W. Drugulin and Haag-Drugulin. In: Philobiblon. 36 (1992) 1, pp. 27-52.
- Theo Neteler: From Melle to Leipzig. The book and art print shop FE Haag. In: same: beginning of industrialization in Melle. 1984, pp. 45-53.
- Theo Neteler: On the history of Drugulin. From the Niesschen printing and type foundry to Andersen Nexö. In: From the second-hand bookshop. 1 (1988), Frankfurt a. M., pp. A1-A7.
- Theo Neteler: Die Offizin W. Drugulin. Haag-Drugulin, Leipzig 2009.
- Dispenser Andersen Nexö. The company history. Andersen Nexö, Leipzig 1995.
- Karl Friedrich Pfau : Baensch, Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 46, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1902, pp. 203-205.
- Bettina Rüdiger: Carl Berendt Lorck - a Dane in Leipzig. In: Leipzig yearbook on book history. Leipzig 14 (2005), pp. 317-323.
- Karl H. Salzmann: Baensch-Drugulin, Egbert Johannes, printer. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 522 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Karl H. Salzmann: Drugulin, Wilhelm Eduard, printer. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 139 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Georg Kurt Schauer : The Drugulin Press in Leipzig. In: Philobiblon. 12. Vienna 1940, pp. 46–51.
- Paul Stier (editor): We create for ourselves. Offizin Andersen Nexö, Leipzig 1961.
- Karl Christoph Traugott Tauchnitz. Bookseller, printer and type founder in Leipzig. A picture of life. At the same time as a contribution to the history of the German type foundry. Edited by Heinrich Heinrich Schwarz. Leipzig 1924.
- Horst Erich Wolter: Script and application sample for work scripts for beautiful letterpress printing. Offizin Haag-Drugulin 1948, p. 5 f.
- Horst Erich Wolter: Type sample book of the VEB Offizin Haag-Drugulin. 1953, p. 13.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Andrzej Rydzik: After 250 years: out of the traditional Nexö print shop . In: tag24.de. April 16, 2015, accessed May 5, 2019 .
- ↑ Another application for bankruptcy
- ^ The Andersen Nexö store is closed. MDR Saxony. April 14, 2015. ( Memento from July 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Swabian investor saves the Plauener Sachsdruck. Free press. June 10, 2015.