Pegasus Publishing House
The Pegasus Verlag (originally Pegasus Verlag and Distribution for Good Literature ) in Wetzlar was a publishing company that had existed since 1949.
It is named after Pegasus , who was also a symbol of poetry.
1953 to 1961 they had a crime book series in which, among other things, the first Lemmy Caution novels in Germany by Peter Cheyney were published. In the 1950s they also published Tarzan novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs , some of which were first published in German. The first Tarzan novel was published there in 1950.
In addition, from 1959 to 1962 they had a series of jazz books (jazz library) in which the biographies of many well-known jazz musicians appeared (often the first such biographies in German). Hans H. Reinfeldt published a total of 12 books, among others by the authors Peter Kunst ( Sidney Bechet ), Werner Burkhardt / Joachim Gerth ( Lester Young ), Siegfried Schmidt-Joos ( Charlie Parker ), Jimmy Jungermann ( Ella Fitzgerald ), Horst H. . Lange ( Red Nichols , Nick LaRocca ), Werner Götze ( Dizzy Gillespie ), Dietrich Schulz-Köhn ( Django Reinhardt , Stan Kenton ), Ingolf Wachler ( Benny Goodman ), Erhard Kayser ( Mahalia Jackson ) and Hans-Jürgen Winkler ( Louis Armstrong ). Each book was paperboard, had 48 pages of text and 16 full-page black and white illustrations.
In the 1970s they published works on local history. Their first publication in 1949 was also local history.
There was also a publisher of the same name in Vienna and Berlin for a short time in the 1920s. There is also a game publisher Pegasus Spiele .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tarzan Romane in Pegasus-Verlag ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Sidney Bechet. Portrait at zotero.org
- ↑ Entry in Open Library
- ↑ Dominic James “Nick” LaRocca papers, 1885–1961 in the Hogan Jazz Archive
- ↑ Manfred Sack : Were whites the first jazz musicians? In: Die Zeit , No. 14/1961
- ↑ Entry in Open Library
- ↑ August Schoenwerk: History of the city and district of Wetzlar . 2nd Edition. 1975
- ↑ 100 years of optics and precision mechanics in Wetzlar 1849-1949
- ^ Heinrich Mignon: Goethe in Wetzlar , 1949, 1972
