Publishing house Die Runde

The publishing house Die Runde was founded in 1930 by Edwin Maria Landau and Wolfgang Frommel with the participation of Percy Gothein in Berlin . The publisher's name suggests a group of young men who had gathered around Gothein and Frommel and who were united by their admiration for Stefan George's poetry . In addition to Gothein and Frommel, this group included the poet Achim von Akerman and the French teacher Willy Hellemann (alias Hans Boeglin ), then also Frommel's musical brother Gerhard , the art historian Wilhelm Fraenger and the classical philologist Heinrich Weinstock . Their reverence for the poet they gave in 1931 in its intended volume of poetry homage expression, the first publishing house publication. Further production by the publisher shows, however, that the focus was by no means primarily on poetry, but on the "attitude of a person who was educated through poetry or who was in another symbolic, for example mythical, relationship". In fact, only Akerman's Gesichte der Heimat (1933) and Frommel's poems (1937) appeared after the homage .

In 1931 the series "Die Tafel" was taken over by Adolf Klein Verlag in Leipzig. The series emerged from the Berlin student group of the historian and poet Friedrich Wolters , who also belonged to the George group , and was published by Hans Eberl and Hellmut Mebes. The Norwegian Arvid Brodersen and Kurt Hildebrandt were added as new authors .

In 1932, Frommel's book The Third Humanism appeared as the publisher's "program font" under the pseudonym Lothar Helbing. For financial reasons, the writer Gerhard Bahlsen , a son of the Hanoverian biscuit manufacturer Hermann Bahlsen , joined the publishing house as a partner and editor of the series "Obligation and Awakening". He gave the publishing house an "essentially philosophical and overall cultural line" by bringing along the philosopher Helmut Kuhn , the writer Bruno Erich Werner and the sociologist René König , who also worked as an editor in the publishing house, as other authors .

The spectrum of further production by the publisher ranged from the writings of Brodersen, Lepsius and Pellegrini to Stefan George, from classic editions and humanities studies to books on the German School, on the German dramatic theater or on German poetry, with which some of the authors made a national one Pursued concerns. König used the rhetoric of revolution, struggle and fate of that time to defend an idealistic ideal of education, in which the "reconciliation of science education and the state" in the sense of Hegel was combined with the demand for "freedom of science education from all state influences" (" The state, however, which encroaches on the freedom of science, has annihilated itself as a cultural state ", while Kurt Hildebrandt commented on norm, degeneration and decay in relation to the individual, race and the state . In addition to writings by endangered authors such as Helmut Kuhn and Karl Löwith , there was the anthology National Socialism Seen From Abroad , which was supposed to show "why this movement is so deeply rooted in our being". The Englishman Rolf Gardiner, the Norwegian Arvid Brodersen and the alleged Swiss Karl Wyser said that if the publisher and editor advocate a "correctly understood" National Socialism, that is, a "heroic-humanistic, truly conservative attitude" , a pseudonym Frommel, understanding about the "free colonization in Eastern Europe", leadership and community, blood and soil, military sport and labor service and only doubted that "the last word had been said on the Jewish question".

In 1935 König's book about the university was banned; further bans followed in 1936. However, the heroic sagas of the Greeks appeared in the same year , re-portrayed by the Jewish author Herlint von den Steinen under the pseudonym Erich Wolff. Landau had to leave the publishing house in 1936 because of his Jewish descent. Frommel went into exile in 1937, as did René König. The publishing house continued to publish new works until 1940. In 1943 he received no more paper deliveries and was struck from the Berlin commercial register.

literature

• Günter Baumann: Poetry as a way of life. Wolfgang Frommel between George-Kreis and Castrum Peregrini . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1995, chap. 4.2.2 and 4.2.3.
• René König : Autobiographical writings (= writings , vol. 18), ed. v. Oliver King. Leske + Budrich, Opladen 1999, pp. 99 and 322-330.
• Edwin Maria Landau: Resistance against time and courage for today. The history of the publishing house "Die Runde" . In: ders .: Lost ways, lasting ways. "The Round", Paul Claudel and Reinhold Schneider , ed. v. Carsten Peter Thiede. Bonifatius, Paderborn 1994.

Remarks

1. ↑ Baumann: Poetry as a form of life , p. 153
2. ↑ Landau: Resistance against Time , pp. 11 and 21
3. ↑ König: Autobiographische Schriften , p. 323
4. ↑ René König: Vom Wesen der Deutschen Universität , Die Runde, Berlin 1935, p. 196 and 195.
5. ^ Rolf Gardiner / Arvid Brodersen / Karl Wyser: National Socialism seen from abroad: to the educated among its opponents . Die Runde, Berlin 1933, blurb and pp. 8, 15 and 93; see. P. 15 f. and 80.
6. ↑ König: Autobiographische Schriften , p. 95 f.
7. ^ Günter Baumann: Wolfgang Frommel and Die Runde (1931-43). Considerations for a national-humanistic publishing house . In Philobiblon 40, 1996, pp. 215-235, esp. 234.

Publications of the publisher (selection)

• Anonymous: tribute. Poems of a round. 1931 (for Stefan George)
• Hans Boeglin (d. I. Willy Hellemann): The gate. Fairy tales and figurations 1931.
• Petrarca : letters of Francesco Petrarca. A selection translated by Hans Nachod and Paul Stern. 1932.
• AMS Boethius : De consolatione philosophiae libri 5. Lat.- German, trans. v. Eberhard Gothein , afterword by Marie Luise Gothein . 1932.
• Percy Gothein: Francesco Barbaro. Early humanism and statecraft in Venice. 1932.
• Lothar Helbing (d. I. Wolfgang Frommel): The third humanism. 1932, 1933, 1935.
• Achim von Akerman: Faces of the homeland. 1933.
• Gerhard Frommel (ed.): The spirit of antiquity in Richard Wagner. Testimonials and a preface. 1933.
• Rolf Gardiner / Arvid Brodersen / Karl Wyser: National Socialism seen from abroad. To the educated among his opponents. 1933, ² 1934.
• Kurt Hildebrandt: Individuality and Community. 1933.
• Rudolf Steinmetz: Paideia. Establishment and plan of a German school. 1933.
• Virgil : Aeneid. Transfer v. Goetz von Preczow. 1933.
• Richard Gothe: The worker and his work. 1934.
• Kurt Hildebrandt: Norm, degeneration, decay related to the individual, race, state. 1934.
• Ferdinand Junghans: The dramatic theater of the German nation. 1934.
• Helmut Kuhn: Socrates. Attempt on the origin of metaphysics. 1934.
• Bruno E. Werner: On the permanent face of German art. 1934.
• Heinrich Weinstock: Polis. The Greek contribution to a German education today explained to Thucydides. 1934.
• Arvid Brodersen: Stefan George. German and European. 1935.
• Wilhelm Fraenger: Clemens Brentanos Alhambra. A review. 1935.
• Hartmann Goertz: On the essence of German poetry. 1935.
• René König: On the essence of the German university. 1935.
• Sabine Lepsius: Stefan George. Story of a friendship. 1935.
• Karl Löwith: Nietzsche's philosophy of the eternal return of the same. 1935.
• Alessandro Pellegrini: Stefan George. 1935.
• Ulrich Christoffel: Old Spain. Symbol and role model. 1936.
• Heinrich Weinstock: The higher school in the German people's state. Attempt to locate and interpret its meaning. 1936.
• The heroic legends of the Greeks. Re-portrayed by Erich Wolff. 1936.
• Wolfgang Frommel: Poems. 1937.
• Ernst von Schenck (ed.): Letters from friends. The age of Goethe in the mirror of friendship. 1937.
• Hermann Stresau: Joseph Conrad. The tragedy of the west. 1937.
• Morris Bishop: Pascal, trans. v. Erika Pfuhl and Richard Blunck. 1938.
• Herbert Werner Rüssel: Alkibiades. 1939.
• Bernhard Knauss: State and people in Hellas. 1940.
• Hanns Studniczka: Saturnian Earth. Places, men and powers of Italy. 1940.