United Record Works Janus-Minerva

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Late 1907 or later, Limburgstrasse 1 and 2

The United Record Works Janus-Minerva in Hanover manufactured records at the beginning of the 20th century . The company released its shellac records with works by contemporary performers under the Janus Record and Minerva Record labels .

history

Advertisement for the Janus-Record brand of the original Internationale Grammophon Co. GmbH in Limburgstrasse

Around 1905, the record factory Internationale Grammophon Co. GmbH was founded in Hanover-Linden at Limburgstrasse 1 and 2 .

In 1906, the Berlin sound engineer Otto Multhaupt, who had been the manager of the record factory Favorite GmbH at Leinaustraße 27 in Linden-Nord since 1904 , switched to Internationale Grammophon. In July 1907, the company offered double-sided shellac records with a diameter of 25 centimeters for the first time under the Janus Record brand . A double- faced Janus head was used as the logo . After a lawsuit by Deutsche Grammophon against the use of the term gramophone , the company name had to be changed. From the end of 1907, the company changed its name to Vereinigte Schallplatten-Werke Janus-Minerva GmbH and expanded the range to include records from the Minerva brand .

Around 1910 Otto Multhaupt switched to Orpheon-Rekord in St. Petersburg and Robert Grabowski resigned as director due to illness. The company relocated to a building owned by the manufacturer Fritz Beindorff ( Pelikan ) at Engelbosteler Damm 121. At the same time, the instrument maker reported on the new Pakt-Rekord brand of the United Record Works Janus-Minerva.

In 1913 Janus Minerva Records set up a factory in Morchenstern , Bohemia , in order to save customs duties. Max Eisler became director. The two record companies Concordia and Janus-Minerva are said to have been brought in later under the company name "Deutsche Preßgutwerke GmbH".

Artist (selection)

Under Janus-Record recordings a. a. the following artist released:

Under Minerva-Record recordings and a. the following artist released:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ted Staunton: Janus Record (Germany) / c. 1912. In: Ted Staunton's 78 RPM Label Gallery. Retrieved on August 26, 2017 .
  2. ^ A b Andreas-Andrew Bornemann: 1904-1913 gramophone record factory "Favorite GmbH" In: Postkartearchiv. Retrieved August 26, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Hugo Strötbaum: Otto Multhaupt. In: Recordingpioneers. Retrieved on August 26, 2017 .
  4. ^ Paul Marie Guillaume Joseph de Wit, Hermann Karl Anton Matzke: records . In: Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau . tape 30 , 1910, pp. 129 u. 359 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  5. ↑ Compare the information from the address book, city and business manual of the royal residence city of Hanover and the city of Linden from 1910, Department II, p. 76
  6. ↑ Stefan Galoppi: The Tontraeger in Austria from 1900 to 1918 . Doctoral thesis at the University of Vienna, 1987, p. 116 ( phonomuseum.at [PDF]).
  7. ^ Rainer E. Lotz: German Ragtime & Prehistory of Jazz: The sound documents (in English), Storyville Publications, 1985, p. XII; Preview over google books
  8. ^ Janus record in the catalog of the German National Library, database query from August 25, 2017.
  9. ↑ Minerva Record in the catalog of the German National Library, database query from August 25, 2017.