Siegfried Buchenau (publisher)

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Siegfried Buchenau (born April 3, 1892 in Hann. Münden ; † July 8, 1964 in Schwenningen am Neckar ) was a German book designer and publisher .

Life

Siegfried Buchenau was the eldest son of the philologist and numismatist Heinrich Buchenau and his wife Luise, geb. Huller. He had three sisters and a brother. After school and a commercial apprenticeship from 1909 to 1912 in Bremen, he worked there as a clerk in an import and export company. In 1915, Buchenau initially served in the First World War ; in September of that year he was seriously wounded. In 1917 he was transferred to Munich, where he did clerkship and spent his free time studying art history and literary studies. He volunteered at the Helbig art dealer. On December 12, 1918, he was discharged from military service.

In 1919 Buchenau became an employee of Piper Verlag and had connections with Phantasus Verlag. In 1922 he became self-employed as a partner in a publishing house in Munich (S. Buchenau & A. Häger, from 1923 to 1926 Buchenau & Reichert) and from 1925 onwards he made his first business connections with Rowohlt Verlag . In 1927 he became managing director of the publishing house Der Deutsche Buch-Club, founded by Ernst Hauswedell , where he was responsible in particular for the yearbook Imprimatur of the Society of Bibliophiles , and continued this editing in various publishers until his death. From 1932 on, Buchenau worked as a bookseller for Weitbrecht & Marissal, Hamburg, and as a manufacturer for the publishers Knorr & Hirth and Prestel in Munich. From 1947 to 1952 he was publishing director at Marion von Schröder Verlag, Hamburg. In 1953 he became production manager at Wolfgang Krüger Verlag in Hamburg and from April 1954 production manager at Rowohlt Verlag in Hamburg, 1955 co-managing director. At the beginning of April 1960, when the publishing house moved to Reinbek, he left the company.

Since 1930 Buchenau was married to the writer and press printer Oda Weitbrecht -Buchenau (1900–1988), daughter of the bookseller Theodor Weitbrecht (book store Weitbrecht & Marissal).

Fonts

  • with Eduard Rosenbaum: A printing contract from the 18th century , 1932
  • with Ernst L. Hauswedell (ed.): Hamburg contributions to book studies , Society of Book Friends, Hamburg 1936 ff
  • Book furnishing in Great Britain: a selection of the best-designed British books of 1950 (catalog), National Book League, London 1951

literature

  • Emil Preetorius : Siegfried Buchenau to the memory , in: Imprimatur , 1963/64, p. 7
  • Konrad Friedrich Bauer : Siegfried Buchenau , in: Imprimatur , 1963/64, pp. 9-12
  • Bertold Hack: Farewell to Siegfried Buchenau , in: Der Druckspiegel , Sept. 1964, pp. 660–662
  • Heinz Sarkowski (ed.): Encounter with Siegfried Buchenau , Rowohlt, Reinbek 1964
  • Buchenau, Siegfried , in: Große Bayerische Biographische Enzyklopädie , Walter de Gruyter, 2005, p. 250

Web links

  • Vita at germandesigners.net

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quoted from Heinz Sarkowski: Encounter with Siegfried Buchenau , pp. 99–106.
  2. ^ Oda Buchenau in: Hamburgische Biografie , Volume III, pp. 66–67
personal data
SURNAME Buchenau, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German book designer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Hann. Münden
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1964
Place of death Schwenningen am Neckar