Otto Weber Verlag

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The Otto Weber Verlag was from 1884 to 1928 existing publishing in Heilbronn , several weeklies and magazines published that found primarily in southwest Germany spread. After 1919 the publishing house also ran the fine-tuning Walter Seifert Verlag , whose employees included numerous well-known writers from all over Germany.

history

Otto Weber (born August 22, 1861 in Roigheim ; † 1916) came from a family of millers and had originally also learned the miller's trade, but then started working as a bookseller in Graz and Verona, later in Heilbronn. In 1884 he bought a small print shop in Heilbronn, where he produced his first weekly newspaper, the Allgemeine Sonntags-Anzeiger , in 1887 . From 1890 he also published the family friend , which, however, was soon discontinued due to the lack of success. In contrast, the Süddeutsche Tierbörse ( Süddeutsche Tierbörse) , a magazine for small animal breeders with an extensive advertising section , started in 1892 was more successful .

In 1897, a large publishing house was built in Heilbronn on the corner of Gartenstrasse and Weinsberger Strasse (today's location of the trade union building), which was followed a few years later by an extension on Weinsberger Strasse.

Süddeutsche Illustrierte , founded in 1907, was the first illustrated newspaper in southwest Germany to be printed using rotary printing. The print run sometimes reached 60,000 copies, which were distributed in Württemberg, Baden, the Palatinate and Hesse, and above all in Alsace. From 1912, another similar illustrated weekly was published with Aus Zeit und Leben . The employees of the two magazines included Alexander Renz , Hans Franke and the poet Hans Gäfgen .

In addition to the newspapers and magazines, the publisher also produced novels and booklets at that time.

After the founder's death in 1916, his widow temporarily managed the company until, after the end of the First World War, the sons Otto junior and Bernd returned from the field and took over the publishing house, which had lost an important sales area with the disappearance of Alsace.

In 1919 the Otto Weber Verlag was affiliated with the beautiful Walter Seifert Verlag , whose chief editor was the writer Theodor Etzel (born January 9, 1873; † August 19, 1930). Etzel had written numerous novels of his own and translated the complete works of Poe and La Fontaine, and by 1900 he had already published the magazine The Reading .

At Walter Seifert Verlag , Etzel was the editor of the bimonthly magazine Die Fahne , whose employees included Ludwig Klages , Manfred Kyber , Hans Reiser , Hans Brandenburg , Richard Euringer , Martin Luserke , Rudolf von Laban and others. Another magazine published by Walter Seifert Verlag was Telos - bi-monthly publication for work and success , edited by Raoul Francé (1874–1943).

The aftermath of inflation, the increasing pressure of the big city magazines and some incorrect dispositions led to the liquidation of the publishing house in 1928. The publishing house became the school building of the Heilbronn Business School in 1929 .

literature

  • Hans Franke: 200 years of newspaper history in Heilbronn . In: Heilbronn Historical Association. 23. Publication . Historischer Verein Heilbronn, Heilbronn 1960. pp. 243–276