Pierre Marteau

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Statistics of the German-language production of the fictional publisher Pierre Marteau (works per year) Figures based on Karl Klaus Walther (1983/2001)

Pierre Marteau, Cologne , sometimes also in German Peter Hammer, Cölln (Cologne), is the most important bogus publishing address of the 17th and 18th centuries.

history

As far as can be seen, the bogus imprint goes back to the Amsterdam company Elzevier (now Elsevier ), which has been using the pseudonym to publish scandalous writings since the early 1660s. The publisher's name was an obvious pseudonym in connection with the publishing location Cologne . French publishers avoided the censorship that developed under Louis XIV by moving their printing workshops to the Netherlands . From here, the goods were surreptitiously returned to France, they reached the entire European book market more openly.

For a Frenchman - Pierre Marteau ("Peter Hammer") identified himself as such by his name - Cologne would have been a good alternative to Amsterdam, The Hague or Rotterdam . The pseudonym caught on with colleagues. A growing production of scandalous fonts and pirated prints appeared under this label . From the 1680s, German publishers took over the pseudonym: "Peter Marteau" was the regular German name variant. German production found its original heyday in the years of the great European fashion from 1689 to 1721. The pseudonym then became popular again at the end of the 18th century as that of patriotic resistance against France, among others with Carl Christoph Stiller .

In 1966 Hermann Schulz and Johannes Rau took up the unprotected name for a new publishing program as Peter Hammer Verlag in Wuppertal , before Rau switched to spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group in 1967 . In the Wuppertal publishing house then primarily works by Latin American and African authors such as Ernesto Cardenal or the persecuted Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o appeared .

Edition of the Lettres Persanes by Montesquieu , Amsterdam 1721

List of publishing authors and works

Literature (selection)

  • Joseph Görres : Script samples from Peter Hammer . Publishing house Huss, Frankfurt / M. 1997, ISBN 3-928833-60-X (reprint of the Heidelberg edition 1808).
  • Léonce Janmart de Brouillant: Histoire de Pierre du Marteau, imprimeur à Cologne (XVIIe – XVIIIe siècles), suivi d'une notice d'un livre intitulé: Histoire des amours du Grand Alcandre . Paris 1888 ( Gallica , reprint: Slatkine Reprints, Geneva 1971).
  • Frank-Rutger Hausmann : Pierre Marteau ou Pierre de Marteau, Imprimeur imaginaire à l'époque de Louis XIV. In: Frank-Rutger Hausmann, Christoph Miethung and Margarete Zimmermann (eds.): "Diversité, c'est ma devise". Studies of 17th Century French Literature. Festschrift for Jürgen Grimm on his 60th birthday . Romance seminar, Tübingen 1994, pp. 229-234.
  • Heinrich Hubert Houben : Forbidden literature from classical times to the present. Volume 2. Bremen 1928, pp. 251-255 ( digitized version ).
  • Viktor Heydemann: About the book publisher Peter Hammer and some of his publications . In: Zeitschrift für Bücherfreunde , NF 20 (1928), pp. 52–54.
  • Wolfgang Schmitz: Cologne's name as a sign of freedom: the fictitious imprint Pierre Marteau. In: The Name of Freedom 1288–1988. Supplementary volume for the exhibition, ed. v. W. Schäfke, Cologne 1988, pp. 73-80.
  • Olaf Simons: Marteau's Europe or The Novel Before It Became Literature . Rodopi, Amsterdam 2001, ISBN 90-420-1226-9 (the statistics p. 671 was also printed there for the first time; authorization for further distribution granted by the author).
  • Karl Klaus Walther: The German-language publishing house production by Pierre Marteau / Peter Hammer, Cologne. To the history of a fictitious imprint . Pierre Marteau, Cologne 2001 (reprint of the Leipzig edition ²1983; online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Emil Weller : The wrong and fictitious places of printing: Repertory of the German, Latin and French fonts that have been published under the wrong company since the invention of the art of printing. First volume, containing the German and Latin scripts. Second increased and improved edition. Engelmann, Leipzig 1864, p. 161 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).