Paul Steegemann

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Paul Steegemann ( Paul Friedrich Johann Steegemann, pseudonyms : Gustav Bock and Rainer Maria Schulze ; born October 3, 1894 in Groß Lafferde ; † January 21, 1956 in Berlin ) was a German publisher .

Life

After graduating from primary school and working as a bookshop assistant in Hanover, he founded Paul Steegemann Verlag in Hanover in April 1919 . The late Expressionist - Dadaist series »Die Silbergäule«, the most important authors of which were Kurt Schwitters , Richard Hülsenbeck , Hans Arp and Walter Serner , was published here until 1922 . In 1927 Steegemann moved his publishing house to Berlin . At this time he published the graphic works of Kurt Schwitters, Christian Schad , Alfred Kubin and George Grosz as well as grotesques, satires, parodies and pamphlets by Franz Blei , Kurt Hiller , Hans Reimann and Mynona .

A constant field of activity in the 1920s was the publishing of erotic literature, such as poems by Paul Verlaine , which repeatedly led to legal proceedings and was punished with convictions. The conviction by the Reichsgericht (see under poems by Paul Verlaine) classified Kurt Tucholsky as “a misjudgment and a political danger”.

Although Steegemann was still planning the Hitler parody Mein Krampf together with Hans Reimann in 1931, from 1933 he published The Elevation in the book series . Documents on the contemporary history of National Socialist literature, including party speeches by Adolf Hitler , Hermann Göring and Hjalmar Schacht . Nevertheless, the publishing house was liquidated in 1935 and Steegemann was banned from working.

After the end of the war Steegemann was interned in Czechoslovakia. In 1947 he returned to Berlin, where he received an American publishing license in 1949. He published two collections of verses by Bonifatius Kiesewetter , but was no longer successful as a publisher. He died as sales manager for the Berlin publishing house arani , part of his estate is in the German Literature Archive in Marbach .

In memory of Paul Steegemann's publishing house, the two Hanoverian booksellers Thomas Mahr and Georg Wiesing-Brandes called their antiquarian bookshop, founded in the mid-1980s, The Silver Column .

Published by Paul Steegemann Verlag (selection)

The silver pillar

  • Rudolf Leonhard : Letters to Margit , 1919 (Die Silbergäule vol. 1/2)
  • Kasimir Edschmid : Stand stroked by lights , 1919 (Die Silbergäule vol. 10/11)
  • Kurt Schwitters : Anna Blume , 1919, cover and design by the author (Die Silbergäule vol. 39/40)
  • Hans Arp : The Cloud Pump , 1920 (The Silver Column, Vol. 52/53)
  • Heinrich Vogeler : Proletkult , 1920 (The Silver Column, Vol. 54)
  • Melchior Vischer : Second through the brain , 1920 (Die Silbergäule vol. 59/61)
  • Walter Serner : Last Loosening - manifest dada , 1920 (Die Silbergäule vol. 62/64)
  • Klabund : Marietta , 1920 (The Silver Column, Vol. 79)
  • Walter Serner : On the blue monkey , 1921, cover drawing by Christian Schad , (Die Silbergäule vol. 91/98)
  • Gustave Flaubert : The book lover . With lithographs by Alfred Kubin , 1921 (Die Silbergäule vol. 101/106)
  • Franz Blei : Immoral Literature and the German Republic, § 184, 1921 (Die Silbergäule Bd. 135/136)
  • Hans Reimann : Artur Sünder: The ink against the blood (Die Silbergäule vol. 132/134)

The assessment. Documents on contemporary history

  • Adolf Hitler : Peace and Security , 1933 (Volume 1)
  • Joseph Goebbels : Will Art Perish? , 1933 (volume 2)
  • Hermann Göring : The Spirit of the New State , 1933 (Volume 3)
  • Peter Hagen / Hans-Jürgen Nierentz : We're building a road . The seal of the labor service, of the German future, 1933 (Volume 4)
  • Sir John Retcliffe : In the Jewish cemetery in Prague , 1933
  • Hjalmar Schacht : National Credit Industry , 1934
  • Richard Walther Darré : In the struggle for the soul of the German farmer , 1934
  • Adolf Hitler: leadership and allegiance . The two great cultural speeches of the Reich Chancellor, held on September 1st and 3rd, 1933 at the party congress in Nuremberg, 1934
  • Wilhelm Frick : The rebuilding of the Reich , 1934

Magazines

  • The stables
  • Störtebeker

more publishments

literature

  • Henning Rischbieter : The twenties in Hanover. Fine arts, literature, theater, dance, architecture, 1916–1933. Hanover 1962.
  • Ulrich Krempel , Egidio Marzona , Jochen Meyer: Paul Steegemann-Verlag 1919 - 1935, 1949 - 1955. Marzona collection , part of the library of the Association of German Book Trade Association in Frankfurt am Main , accompanying text and catalog of the exhibition at the Sprengel Museum Hannover from October 3, 1994 to January 15, 1995, Hanover: Sprengel-Museum, 1994, ISBN 978-3-89169-082-6 and ISBN 3-89169-082-7 ; contents
  • Jochen Meyer: Paul Steegemann Verlag 1919-1935 / 1949-1955. Marzona collection. Hatje, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-7757-0528-7 .
  • Jürgen Peters & Wilhelm Heinrich Pott (eds.): From poet princes and other poets. Little Lower Saxony Literature History, Volume 2. Thirty-seven portraits from Stendhal to Arno Schmidt. Revonnah, Hannover 1994, ISBN 3-927715-31-X .
  • Ines Katenhusen : Art and politics: Hanover's confrontations with modernity in the Weimar Republic. Hahn, Hannover 1998, ISBN 3-7752-4955-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see, for example, the literature, autographs, exile catalog - with parts from the Walther Petry estate , Hanover, Antiquariat Die Silbergäule, 1993
personal data
SURNAME Steegemann, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steegemann, Paul Friedrich Johann; Bock, Gustav (pseudonym); Schulze, Rainer Maria (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Large loaf soil
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1956
Place of death Berlin