Reinhard Wittmann

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Reinhard Wittmann (born November 1, 1945 in Munich ) is a German book trade and publishing historian , editor , author , antiquarian and honorary professor for book studies at the LMU Munich .

He runs an antiquarian bookshop in Fischbachau . His research focuses on the book and publishing trade of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries as well as research on the book and publishing industry during the Nazi era. He has also published on the antiquarian book trade, bibliophile books, the history of the enlightenment and censorship in the 18th and 19th centuries, and the history of the book and publishing industry in Bavaria.

Life

Reinhard Wittmann is a literary and book scholar. He received his doctorate in 1971 with a thesis on "early bookseller magazines as a mirror of literary life" at the LMU Munich under Herbert G. Göpfert . Wittmann worked for Bayerischer Rundfunk from 1975 to 2005 , most recently as head of the literature department. Wittmann has published numerous writings and books on the history of the German book trade.

From 1982 to 1989 he was chairman of the historical commission of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels and has been its deputy chairman ever since; he is chairman of the Horst Kliemann Foundation and co-editor of the Archives for the History of the Book Industry . From 2002 to 2015 he was the first chairman of the Society of Bibliophiles ; For many years he has been an honorary professor in the book studies courses at the LMU Munich and the author of various overviews of the history of the book and publishing trade from its beginnings to the present day, as well as numerous publishing monographs (including Metzler-Verlag , Hanser-Verlag , R. Oldenbourg Verlag ). He was a member of the “Independent Historical Commission for the Processing of the History of the House of Bertelsmann in the Third Reich” and, together with von Saul Friedländer , Norbert Frei and Trutz Rendtorff, co- edited the two-volume publication Bertelsmann in the Third Reich .

In 2008 he received the Bavarian Poet Thaler from the Munich tower writers .

On July 13, 2017, he received the Bavarian Order of Merit .

Fonts

  • The early bookseller magazines as a mirror of literary life . In: Archiv für Geschichte des Buchwesens , vol. 13 (1973), pp. 614–932 (also University of Munich, dissertation 1971)
  • The reading farmer. For the reception of educational efforts by the rural population in the 18th century . In: Dan Berindei u. a. (Ed.): The farmer of Central and Eastern Europe in the socio-economic change of the 18th and 19th centuries. Böhlau, Cologne 1973, pp. 142–196.
  • On the publisher typology of the Goethe era . In: Yearbook for International German Studies . Vol. 8 (1976), No. 1, pp. 99-130.
  • The bibliographical situation for the study of literary life in the 19th century (1830–1880) . In: Hans-Henrik Krummacher (ed.): Contributions to the bibliographical situation in German literary studies. Papers at a colloquium of the DFG. (Communication III of the Commission for German Research). Boppard 1981, pp. 171-198.
  • "The Justified Reprint". Reprint and literary life in the 18th century . In: Giles Barber, Bernhard Fabian (eds.): Book and book trade in Europe in the 18th century. (= Wolfenbüttel writings on the history of the book industry , Vol. 4). Hauswedell, Hamburg 1981, pp. 292-320.
  • Book market and reading in the 18th and 19th centuries. Contributions to literary life 1750–1880 . (= Studies and texts on the social history of German literature, vol. 6). Niemeyer, Tübingen 1982, ISBN 3-484-35006-7 .
  • A publisher and its history. 300 years of JB Metzler Stuttgart . Metzler-Verlag, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-476-00481-3 .
  • History of the German book trade . CH Beck, Munich 1991 (3rd edition 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-61760-7 ; 4th, updated and expanded edition 2019, ISBN 3406720013 ).
  • One hundred years of book culture in Munich . Hugendubel, Munich 1993.
  • On patched streets. New literary beginning in Munich from 1945 to 1949 . A1 Verlag, Munich 1995 (= Monakzente , Vol. 2).
  • The Munich literary post-war scene . In: Yearbook of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, 2000, pp. 163–191.
  • Carl Hanser Verlag 1928–2003. A publishing story . Carl Hanser, Munich 2005. ISBN 978-3-446-20403-4 .
  • Knowledge for the future. 150 years of Oldenbourg Verlag . Oldenbourg, Munich 2008.
  • (with Georg Jäger ) The antiquarian book trade . In: Georg Jäger (ed.): History of the German Book Trade in the 19th and 20th Centuries , Vol. 1: Das Kaiserreich 1871 to 1918 , Part 3. De Gruyter, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-598-24804-7 , Pp. 195-280.
  • The straight way. Catholic publishers in the time of National Socialism . In: 75 years publishing house Schnell & Steiner . Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2011, pp. 29–40. [Reprinted in: Communicatio Socialis. International Journal for Communication in Religion, Church and Society , Vol. 44 (2011), Issue 1, pp. 47–57]

Editorships

  • Johann Georg Heinzmann: Appeal to my nation. About the plague of German literature. 1795 . With an afterword (= texts on literary life of the 18th century , vol. 1). Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 1977.
  • Anton von Bucher : Bavarian sensual pleasure consisting of worldly and spiritual comedies, examples and satires. With an afterword. Idion, Munich 1980.
  • Sources on the history of the book industry. [Reprint edition]. 22 vols. Kraus Reprint, Munich 1981.
  • Book catalogs as sources of book history in the early modern period. (= Wolfenbüttel writings on the history of the book industry , Vol. 10). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1985.
  • (with Ernst Fischer and Jan-Pieter Barbian ) History of the German book trade in the 19th and 20th centuries. Vol. 3: Third Reich , part 1. De Gruyter, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-598-24806-1 .

Festschrift and bibliography

  • Monika Estermann u. a. (Ed.): Book cultures: Contributions to the history of literary communication; Festschrift for Reinhard Wittmann . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-447-05260-0 ; therein: Hermann Staub: Book and Bavaria. A list of Reinhard Wittmann's publications , pp. 591–606.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see http://www.zvab.com/profile/83730a.jsp
  2. ↑ see http://www.muenchner.de/buechernacht/ansicht.php4?veranst_id=20
  3. ↑ Hannes Hintermeier: The time of the unsuspecting antiquarian is over. At the beginning of a series about book collectors, we meet Reinhard Wittmann . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of August 12, 2015, p. 9. online
  4. ↑ Ralf Empl: Bavarian Order of Merit: Awarded 2017. Accessed on July 13, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Wittmann, Reinhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German editor and book scholar
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich