Sauerländer publishing house

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The Sauerländer publishing house was founded in 1807 by Heinrich Remigius Sauerländer (1776–1847) in Aarau (Switzerland). Sauerländer took over the printing company, which had been run jointly with Samuel Flick from Basel since 1803 , as the sole owner of the bookstore and the publishing house. Together with his main author Heinrich Zschokke , Sauerlander spread progressive liberal ideas throughout the German-speaking area from Aarau. Since the middle of the 20th century, the publisher has been known primarily for its children's and youth book program, but also as a teaching material publisher; it was sold in 2001.

history

In 1803, the bookseller, printer and publisher Heinrich Remigius Sauerländer, originally from Frankfurt am Main , moved from Basel to Aarau. Together with his business partner Samuel Flick, he founded a bookstore with a printer and a publisher here. The aim of the company was to publish a new newspaper in the liberal capital of the newly founded canton of Aargau and to set up a high-quality bookshop. On January 4, 1804, the Aarauer Verlag published the first issue of the weekly newspaper Schweizerbote , which was soon known as a liberal newspaper for the people throughout the German-speaking area. In 1807 Flick and Sauerlander separated. The latter took over the Aarau company, while Flick kept the Basel headquarters. 1807 is therefore considered to be the founding date of the Aarau publishing house Sauerländer, which was 200 years old in 2007.

In the founding generation, the aim of the publishing program was closely linked to the concepts of popular enlightenment and popular education. The main author in this phase was Heinrich Zschokke , who came from Magdeburg and who also edited the “Schweizererbote”. The paper initially appeared as a weekly newspaper, later two to three times and finally six times a week. Zschokke was both publisher and editor-in-chief until 1842, his successor was Heinrich Remigius Sauerländer until 1847. After his death, the newspaper was run by changing editors and discontinued in 1878.

After this phase of popular political education in the spirit of liberal democracy, a concentration on dialect poetry and popular theater began in the late 19th century. In the 20th century, children's and youth literature and school textbooks were ultimately the focus of the publishing program - again with the same political purpose of educating and educating the population in the political crises of the two world wars, the East-West conflict and the environmental debate. The publishing house remained in family ownership until 2001. From 1847 Carl Sauerländer headed the publishing house, from 1872 to 1919 Karl Heinrich Remigius Sauerländer . From 1972 to 2001, Hans Christof Sauerländer headed the publishing house, which then sold it.

Since 2001 the Sauerländer Verlage AG has belonged to the Cornelsen publishing group with the Lehrmittelverlagen Verlag Sauerländer, sabe Verlag and Verlag arpartel . Sauerländer Schulbuch has been run as Cornelsen Schulverlage Schweiz AG since 2013.

The children's and youth book program of the Sauerländer publishing house belonged from 2002 to 2010 as a separate label to the Patmos publishing group owned by the Cornelsen group . From mid-2010 to the end of 2012, Sauerländer's books were published by the Bibliographical Institute in Mannheim, which is also part of the Cornelsen Group , and on January 1, 2013, S. Fischer Verlag in Frankfurt took over the children's book programs from Sauerländer, Meyers and Duden.

Authors in the 20th century

The classic books for young people by Kurt Held and Lisa Tetzner (including “ The Red Zora and Her Gang ”, “ The Black Brothers ”) or by Jörg Müller and Jörg Steiner (including “ Every year the jackhammer rushes down ”, “Here falls a house, there is a crane and the digger tooth or The Change of the City ”,“ Animal Uprising or the New Town Musicians ”is threatening forever. My donkey Benjamin achieved a million print run . The numerous licensed editions by world-famous authors such as Josef Lada , Norma Mazer, Cynthia Voigt and many others or by artists such as Sam McBratney, Lucy Cousins, Roberto Innocenti or Martin Handford (“ Where is Walter? ”) Were and are also significantly involved in the success .

archive

There is a historical company and family archive dating back to the early days of the company and a historical book archive with all titles produced from around 1830. These archives are now in the Aargau State Archives and in the Aargau Cantonal Library .

literature

  • Hans Sauerländer, Heinz Sauerländer, Charles Bornet: One hundred and fifty years Haus Sauerländer in Aarau . Aarau 1957.
  • Verena Rutschmann: Pedagogical standards, denominational message and literary market: the children's book production by three Swiss publishers in the 19th century . In: Heidy Margrit Müller (ed.): Poetic freedom and educational utopia . Lang, Bern 1998, ISBN 3-906757-56-0 , pp. 9-39.
  • Patrick Zehnder: Verlag Sauerländer. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Corinne Leuenberger: Swiss messenger, The. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 27, 2012 , accessed June 8, 2017 .