Karl Heinrich Bischoff

Karl Heinrich Bischoff (born June 6, 1900 in Laichingen ; † September 14, 1978 ibid) was a German publisher and writer . He also published under the pseudonyms Veit Bürkle and Karl Aich .

Life

After the First World War, Bischoff worked as a bookseller in Vienna . At the time of National Socialism , Bischoff became a member of the NSDAP in May 1933 . From 1934, Bishop was district culture warden of the NSDAP in Bremen . At the Reichsschrifttumskammer he headed the department for booksellers' educational issues and was also a specialist in the special department for monitoring harmful and undesirable literature . After the annexation of Austria in March 1938, Bischoff headed the synchronization of the publishing industry in Vienna and liquidated z. B. Gottfried Bermann Fischer's publishing house . In the course of the conformity, he finally became the owner of what was once the largest fiction publishing house in Austria - the Paul Zsolnay publishing house was " Aryanised " by Hannes Dietl in 1938 and then temporarily administered and was called Karl H. Bischoff Verlag from autumn 1941 .

Bischoff was also active as a writer himself and published under the pseudonym Veit Bürkle short stories and novels that were successful at the time of National Socialism.

After the end of the Second World War , Bischoff worked as a contract bookseller in his hometown.

His writings Until I Return Home in Summer (1936) and Let Spring Come! (1940) were placed on the list of literature to be segregated in the Soviet occupation zone after the end of the war .

Fonts

• as editor: book and job in the new state . Angelsachsen-Verlag, Bremen 1933.
• Until I return home in summer . Grote, Berlin 1936.
• as editor: Voice of the Heart. Love stories and love poems of the time . Breitkopf & Härtel , Leipzig 1938.
• Book, books, politics. The book as an act. The publisher as a politician in the light and shadow of the 19th century . Lühe, Leipzig 1938.
• The clam . Grote, Berlin 1938.
• The job description of the bookseller . Publishing house of the German Labor Front, Berlin 1939; Teaching aid center of the German Labor Front, Berlin-Zehlendorf 1940.
• Home without end. 2 calendar stories . Salzer, Heilbronn 1939.
  • Home without end. 3 stories . Salzer, Heilbronn 1952.
• Until I return home in summer . German Book Association, Berlin 1939; Oestergaard, Berlin-Schöneberg 1939; Grote, Berlin 1939; Eastern European Publishing Community, Riga 1943.
  • Translated into Dutch by Jan van der Made : Terugkeer in den zomer . Roskam, Amsterdam 1942.
• Let spring come! A human story from our time . Zeitgeschichte-Verlag, Berlin 1940.
• Schiller . Cotta, Stuttgart 1940.
• The path of the bright glow. A story . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1940.
• The goose hunter. 4 stories from the plains . Grote, Berlin 1940.
• The greater happiness. A love story . Händle Elser, Mühlacker 1941. Field post 1942.
• The rogue sack. Old German rogue, fool and joke stories, retold for adults . Rather , Munich 1941; Berlin 1941.
• The land of the golden cacique . Upward publishing house, Berlin 1941.
• Rebel Schiller . Upward publishing house, Berlin 1941.
• Bernardo Philippi or The encounter with the wild earth. Report and narration of the fate of German colonists in southern Chile in the nineteenth century . Heilbronn, Salzer 1942 ² .
• Erdmann Staellbommer . Grote, Berlin 1942.
• Florelle . Drawings by Max Unold . Händle, Mühlacker 1943.
• The strong gray wild cat . Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1943 ² .
• The house "Zum Stempel" . Enßlin & Laiblin, Reutlingen 1943.
• Early love story about Karl May . Münchner Buchverlag, Munich 1943.
• Book, books, politics . Lühe, Leipzig 1944.
• My hometown . Bischoff, Laichingen ² .
• The Roman forest fountain. A summer with Klara . Silberburg publishing house, Stuttgart 1956.
• Urban and the long weaver . Hess, Ulm 1964.

Awards

• 1937 Swabian Poet Award
• 1965 honorary citizen of Laichingen

literature

• Murray G. Hall : The Paul Zsolnay Verlag. From the foundation to the return from exile. Max Niemeyer, Tübingen 1994, ISBN 978-3-484-35045-8 .
• Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl Heinrich Bischoff in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry by Karl Heinrich Bischoff in the online database of the Baden-Württemberg State Bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-b.html
2. ↑ Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 1973. De Gruyter. Berlin / New York, p. 79.