Schünemann publishing house
| Schünemann publishing house | |
|---|---|
| legal form | KG |
| founding | 1810 |
| Seat | Bremen, Germany |
| Branch | Publishing |
| Website | www.schuenemann-verlag.de |
The Carl Schünemann Verlag was founded in 1810 in the Hanseatic city of Bremen founded. He is still at its headquarters, the right on the Weser lying Schünemann home , resident.
history
founding
After 1803 Carl Heinrich Schünemann (1780–1835) bought the house on the second battle gate No. 7. In 1809, he took over the Joachim Deetjen playing card factory and moved it from Vegesack to Bremen. In 1810 he finally founded Schünemann Verlag for the book printing and newspapers sectors. In 1812 he became a partner in the Simon Ernsting printing company. The department newspaper - the Journal du Département des Bouches du Weser in German and French - was printed here in 1812 . From this newspaper the Neue Bremer Zeitung emerged as early as 1813, which was printed by Schünemann until 1815. Ernsting left the company in 1815 and Schünemann acquired the license for the printing company, but lost the rights to the newspaper to the Heyse bookstore.
The company paper shop, playing card factory, book printing and publishing book shop Carl Schünemann existed in house number 7, which was then still smaller at the time .
In 1817 the license for a book publisher was acquired. In 1829 a bookshop was added to her. The Museum der neue Literatur shop was located at Obernstraße 11 and moved to Obernstraße 35 in 1833. In 1835 this shop moved to the main building in the second battle gate and was called the Carl Schünemann Buchhandlung. The bookstore was to be taken over by Johann Kühtmann from 1845 while retaining the name . In 1847 the previous company name (company) became extinct.
The Bremen (weekly) news
The son of Carl Heinrich Schünemann, Gustav Bernhard Schünemann (1815-1865), succeeded in taking over the Bremen Weekly News ( called Bremer Nachrichten from 1854 ), which had been published since 1743. At first they were purely an advertising paper, from 1871 they appeared as a daily newspaper. By 1900 the newspaper had 25,000 subscribers. From 1844 the Weser newspaper - a national business newspaper - was also published.
Lower Saxony and local literature
Under the company's founder's grandson, Carl Eduard Schünemann I (1855–1921), the company expanded with extensive structural extensions and the introduction of printing innovations. With the Lower Saxony magazine , the publisher gave Heimatliteratur a platform and thus won numerous Low German writers such as Alma Rogge , Hermann Löns and Georg Droste for the publisher. Carl Eduard Schünemann is the namesake of today's Carl Ed. Schünemann KG.
Book publishing and printing technology
His two sons managed the company in the fourth generation: Carl Eduard Schünemann II (1894–1980) is one of the pioneers of printing technology with the patented development of Trini gravure printing. Walther Schünemann (1896–1974) devoted himself mainly to the field of books and expanded it with writers such as Ricarda Huch and Manfred Hausmann . The brothers ran the printing and publishing company through the Nazi era, from 1936 onwards, excluding newspaper publishing. After the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany, the head office in Bremen was rebuilt and a branch was set up in Bremen-Lesum as well as the delayed resumption of the publication of the Bremer Nachrichten from 1949 - until the newspaper was sold in 1974.
Expansion of the publishing house
Carl Eduard Schünemann III (1924) and Carl Fritz Schünemann (1926–2007) joined the management team as the fifth generation in the mid-1950s. They concentrated on the core competencies of the Schünemann company, book, art and magazine publishing, and built up the publishing house for language newspapers. Today, Hermann Schünemann (sixth generation) and Julia Kracht-Schünemann (seventh generation) run the family business together with senior publisher Carl Eduard Schünemann III.
Major print and publishing products
In 1918/19 Peter Koster's work Neue well-founded Bremer Müntze and Rotermund's Lexicon of All Scholars in Bremen were published . From 1873 to 1930 Schünemann published the state manual of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen . The Bremen Law Gazette has also been published since 1877 . In 1900 Duckwitz 'memorials and Bremen and its buildings were created . At around the same time, publications by August Freudenthal and Wilhelm Rocco appeared . In 1904 Schünemann took over the directory publisher, whose works he had already printed from 1814 to 1854. Works by Georg Droste , Moritz Lindeman and Manfred Hausmann as well as books of entertainment literature appeared between the world wars. In the 1960s there was the City Buch series at Schünemann , in which innovative titles were published, such as B. the German first edition of the comic book Barbarella by Jean-Claude Forest . The Dieterich Collection also became known , within which world literature, great philosophers and poets were published.
The current company
The Schünemann family has been running the company for seven generations. At the top are senior publisher Carl Eduard Schünemann († 2019), his nephew Hermann Schünemann and his granddaughter Julia Kracht-Schünemann.
Carl Ed. Schünemann KG
In the Carl Ed. Schünemann KG are grouped together with the language newspapers, the book publisher and the magazines, three publishing areas.
The language newspaper
Newspapers for foreign language teaching and language didactic publications are published here. This division was operated from 1949 in Eilers & Schünemann Verlag KG , which in 2008 was wholly owned by Carl Ed. Schünemann KG was integrated. The following newspapers are published: the World and Press (English), the Read On (English for less advanced learners), the Revue de la Presse (French), the Revista de la Prensa (Spanish) and the Presse und Sprache (German as a foreign language ).
Magazines
Schünemann Verlag has been publishing the chess magazine 64 since 1980 . In 1992 the traditional chess magazine Schach-Echo was taken over and editorially integrated. In 2010 the magazine was completely revised and from then on it was printed in four colors. In addition, the following magazines are published by Schünemann: Wirtschaft in Bremen and Bremerhaven , BAUEN in and around Bremen (twice a year), Der Aufbau - Forum for Urban Development and Regional Planning , the Bridge Book of the Seesegler (the annual edition of the sailors for the annual ocean sailing evening) and that BREBAU GmbH customer magazine .
Until 2009, until it was sold to the publishing house GeraNova Bruckmann , the magazine ModellFan was also published by Schünemann Verlag.
Book publisher
Today, books are mainly published under the Carl Schünemann Verlag brand . The focus is on Bremen , Hamburg and Regionalia for the north and the North Sea coast. In addition to fiction , the publishing program includes children's books, non-fiction books, illustrated books and gift books as well as Low German titles for different ages.
In addition, specialist publications, for example BASt , and chronicles or commemorative publications appear in Imprint Fachverlag NW .
The company headquarters
After 1803, Carl Schünemann bought the house on the second battle gate no.7. The business expanded to include houses no.5 and 9, then in 1905 the number 6 the baroque house and in 1908 the number 8.
A new building according to the plans of the architect Carl Rotermund was built from 1926 to 1927/28. The building, Schlachte 10, 11, takes up the entire west side of the street. The printing and publishing building was damaged in the Second World War , but not destroyed. In 1955 the building was rebuilt. ( For monument protection see here )
The publishers
- 1. Carl Schünemann , also Carl Heinrich Schünemann (1780–1835), founder of the publishing house in 1810
- 2. Gustav Bernhard Schünemann (1815–1865), son of Carl Heinrich Schünemann
- 3. Carl Eduard Schünemann (1855–1921), grandson of Carl Heinrich Schünemann, since 1880 a partner in the publishing house
- 4. Carl Eduard Schünemann II (1894–1980), son of Carl Eduard Schünemann
- 4. Walther Schünemann (1896–1974), son of Carl Eduard Schünemann
- Carl Eduard Schünemann III, in the management since 1924
- 5. Carl Fritz Hubertus Schünemann (1926–2007), in the management since 1954
- 5. Carl Schünemann, also Carl Eduard Max Schünemann (1924–2019), in the management since 1954, cousin of Carl Fritz Hubertus Schünemann
See also
literature
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
- Lydia Niehoff : 200 years of Schünemann. The history of the Bremen printing and publishing house Carl Ed. Schünemann KG 1810-2010. Carl Schünemann Verlag, Bremen 2010, ISBN 978-3-7961-1961-3 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Weser Kurier of August 8, 2019: publisher, collector, patron. Former publisher Carl Schünemann died at the age of 95 , accessed on August 10, 2019
- ^ Jürgen Hinrichs: publisher, collector, patron . In: Weser-Kurier of August 9, 2019.