Vittorio Klostermann publisher

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Vittorio Klostermann (1901–1977)

The publishing house Vittorio Klostermann , based in Frankfurt am Main, is a science publisher with a focus on the humanities , especially philosophy .

history

Foundation of the publishing house and the program until 1945

In 1924, the 22-year-old publisher Vittorio Klostermann joined the university bookstore and publisher Friedrich Cohen in Bonn . He initially took on tasks in the second-hand bookshop, a little later in the publishing house. After Fritz Cohen's death in 1927, his widow Hedwig Bouvier Klostermann took over the management of the humanities publishing department.

Between 1928 and 1930 there appeared u. a. Works by Hans Lipps , Günther Anders , Friedrich Dessauer , Martin Heidegger and Karl Mannheim . Due to the global economic crisis , however, the Cohen company ran into economic difficulties and the publishing work had to be essentially stopped. Klostermann therefore left the company in 1930 to become self-employed.

On October 1st of that year he founded a publishing house and an antiquarian bookshop under his own name in Frankfurt am Main . The numerous author contacts he had made at Cohen provided him with a broad basis. The publisher's first publication was Jugend ohne Goethe by the Germanist Max Kommerell . In the years after the founding, however, it was mostly philosophers with whom Klostermann worked. The phenomenological orientation of the philosophical program developed primarily through Martin Heidegger's work as a consultant and close contact with the “Marburgers” in his environment . It remains associated with names such as Otto Friedrich Bollnow , Walter Bröcker , Eugen Fink , Hans-Georg Gadamer , Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann , Hans Lipps, Herbert Marcuse and others.

Klostermann compensated for the lack of scientific proofreading in the early days through intensive correspondence with the authors. Until 1938, the publishing house was not self-sufficient, the second-hand bookshop was necessary to cover publishing costs and living expenses.

In 1934 Klostermann published the “Introduction to Philosophical Anthropology” by Paul Ludwig Landsberg, who had recently gone into exile . From 1937 Klostermann published Hanns W. Eppelsheimer's “Handbuch der Weltliteratur”, which posed a risk for the publisher because the work listed authors such as Heinrich Heine and Karl Marx that the regime did not like . The author, a Social Democrat and married to a Jew, was dismissed as director of the Darmstadt State Library in 1933. In 1939 the head of the Central Security Office in Berlin formulated "numerous concerns of a political and ideological nature" against the publisher. Klostermann lost its license in 1944, and in the same year the book stocks of the publisher that had been relocated there were destroyed in an air raid on Freiburg .

In 1945 the publisher received License No. 14 from the American military government and was able to start over. Klostermann had given the military authorities a list of titles that were forbidden or undesirable during the “Third Reich”.

The publishing program since 1945

philosophy

The Martin Heidegger Complete Edition, begun in 1975, became the best-known publishing project : 95 of the 102-volume edition had been published by 2019. The publication of the Schwarzhefte (Volume 94 ff.) From 2014 rekindled the discussion about Heidegger's position during the Nazi era. A bibliography of the University of Siegen on the black books lists almost 1,000 entries for the years 2013 to 2016. Heidegger's estate administrators and the publisher came under criticism for their editing practice: How was it possible that only now, 38 years after the beginning of the complete edition, did Heidegger's massive anti-Jewish statements reach the public? In order to clarify the allegations, publisher Vittorio E. Klostermann turned to the editors and asked for clarification about any smoothing or deletion in the Heidegger volumes they published. In the debate that flared up, the publisher and a. with statements and letters to the editor.

The originally phenomenological focus of the philosophical publishing program was expanded in the 1980s; Since then, the publisher's publications have covered almost all directions in the subject, from the history of philosophy to analytical philosophy , from Werner Beierwaltes , Kurt Flasch and Dieter Henrich to Maurizio Ferraris , Andreas Kemmerling and Wolfgang Künne . In 2019, Klostermann took over the continuation - after an interruption of 18 years - of the Viennese edition of Ludwig Wittgenstein's writings founded by Springer-Verlag in Vienna .

Legal history

The publications of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History have made up the largest share of the legal history publishing program with over 420 volumes since 1967 . The Institute's most extensive series, with 319 volumes (as of January 2020), are studies on European legal history. Since 1995, a 32-volume documentation on the history of the Basic Law has been published by constitutional lawyer Hans-Peter Schneider . Since 2012 the publisher has been publishing the series “Law as Culture” from the Käte-Hamburger-Kolleg in Bonn.

Literature and literary studies

A focus in the field of literary studies are the Thomas Mann studies, which were taken over by Francke-Verlag in 1991 .

With the Jünger Debate , the yearbook of the Ernst and Friedrich Georg Jünger Society, the publishing house resumed an old program in 2017. It goes back to Vittorio Klostermann's wife Helena, who was managing director of the publishing house for a while in the 1930s. She had made the acquaintance of the Jünger brothers in Überlingen in 1939. The writings of Friedrich Georg Jünger were published by Klostermann since 1943, those of Ernst Jünger between 1949 and 1963.

The series Das Abendland , which was re-established in 1972 by Eckhard Heftrich with Paul Oskar Kristeller's Ficino book , has been published since 2018 under the editorship of Dirk Werle .

Magazines and databases

Two literary databases are published by the publisher, the bibliography of German linguistics and literary studies and the bibliography of French literary studies. The publishing house publishes eight scientific journals, including the Romanisches Forschungen (founded in 1848, since 1947), the Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie (since 1954), the Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung (founded 1946, since 1990) and the Zeitspring (since 1997) . In 2017 the journal for psychoanalytic theory and practice was taken over by Stroemfeld.

The time after the death of the founder

During the lifetime of its founder, the publisher was considered to be a one-man publisher tied to Klostermann. After his death on August 29, 1977, Klostermann's two sons continued the publishing business. The older son Michael Klostermann died in 1992, and the younger brother Vittorio Eckard Klostermann has been running the publishing house since then ; from 2006 together with Anastasia Urban.

Awards

In 2019 the publisher received one of the first German publishing awards and in 2020 it was awarded the main prize of the Hessian Publishing Prize.

literature

  • Vittorio E. Klostermann, Blasche, Siegfried (eds.): Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1930–2000: Publishing history and bibliography. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-465-03106-7 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Vittorio E. Klostermann: Publishing in the net: for the discussion about the future of the scientific book. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-465-02938-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New German biography . tape 12 . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , pp. 125 .
  2. ↑ Herbert Grundmann (Ed.): Bouvier 1828 - 1978 . Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1978, ISBN 3-416-01454-5 , p. 14 .
  3. ^ Ernst Fischer: Publishers, booksellers and antiquarians from Germany and Austria who emigrated after 1933. A biographical handbook . Verband Deutscher Antiquare eV, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-9812223-2-6 , p. 48 .
  4. ↑ Herbert Grundmann (Ed.): Bouvier 1828 - 1978 . Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1978, ISBN 3-416-01454-5 , p. 74, 221, 222 .
  5. ↑ Reinhard Mehring: Heidegger's "great politics": The semantic revolution of the complete edition . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-16-154374-6 , p. 253 .
  6. ^ Siegfried Blasche: Vittorio Klostermann Frankfurt am Main 1930–2000 Publishing history and bibliography . Ed .: Vittorio E. Klostermann. Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-465-03106-7 , p. 15, 16 .
  7. ^ German biography: Klostermann, Vittorio - German biography. Retrieved February 12, 2020 .
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  9. ^ Siegfried Blasche: Vittorio Klostermann Frankfurt am Main 1930–2000 Publishing history and bibliography. Ed .: Vittorio E. Klostermann. Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-465-03106-7 , p. 16-18 .
  10. ↑ Person and education: considerations in the border area of ​​philosophical anthropology and educational theory in connection with Paul Ludwig Landsberg. In: philpapers.org. Retrieved February 12, 2020 .
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  13. ↑ From Petra Kipphoff: To the death of Hanns W. Eppelsheimer: Ordered memory. In: The time. Zeit Online GmbH, September 1, 1972, accessed on February 12, 2020 .
  14. ^ Klaus G. Saur: Ulrich Hohoff: Scientific librarians as victims of the Nazi dictatorship. A dictionary of persons. Contributions to books and libraries Volume 62. (PDF) In: degruyter.com. Retrieved February 12, 2020 .
  15. ^ Federal Archives, inventory signature: NS 21/1805, Klostermann Vittorio, slide 2876
  16. ^ Siegfried Blasche: Vittorio Klostermann Frankfurt am Main 1930–2000 Publishing history and bibliography. Ed .: Vittorio E. Klostermann. Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-465-03106-7 , p. 35 .
  17. ↑ Michael Roesler-Graichen: Interview with Vittorio E. Klostermann and Anastasia Urban / "The discussion goes on". In: boersenblatt.net. April 30, 2014, accessed February 12, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Edition plan. In: klostermann.de. Vittorio Klostermann GmbH, accessed on February 12, 2020 .
  19. ^ Eggert Blum: The Heidegger debate after the "Black Hefts" | Voices of the time. In: herder.de. Verlag Herder GmbH, 2015, accessed on February 12, 2020 .
  20. ^ Bibliography on the black books. (PDF) In: uni-siegen.de. Retrieved February 12, 2020 .
  21. ^ Eggert Blum: The Heidegger brand. In: The time. Zeit Online GmbH, November 13, 2014, accessed on February 12, 2020 .
  22. ↑ LJ .: More black? Heideggers Verlag demands clarification from editors . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . March 28, 2015.
  23. ^ Vittorio E. Klostermann: Duplicate, re. Heidegger Complete Edition. (PDF) In: ifz-muenchen.de. Institute for Contemporary History, accessed on February 12, 2020 .
  24. ^ Wittgenstein, Ludwig: Vienna edition, Volume 8.2. In: klostermann.de. Vittorio Klostermann GmbH, accessed on February 12, 2020 .
  25. ^ The Wiener Ausgabe of Wittgenstein's writings has found a new publisher: Vittorio Klostermann in Frankfurt am Main. (PDF) In: British Wittgenstein Society. Retrieved February 12, 2020 .
  26. ↑ Studies on European legal history. In: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History. Max Planck Society, Munich, accessed on February 12, 2020 .
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  28. ^ Catalog of the German National Library / The Basic Law: Documentation of its creation / edited by Hans-Peter Schneider with the collaboration of Ulrich Bachmann. Retrieved February 12, 2020 .
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  31. ↑ Publications. In: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. Retrieved February 12, 2020 .
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  33. ↑ Federal Archives, inventory signature: R9361 / 55005, Helena Klostermann, personnel questionnaire Ministry of Arts
  34. ↑ Interview with Vittorio Klostermann on the new “Jünger Debate”. In: juenger-gesellschaft.com. Ernst and Friedrich Georg Jünger Gesellschaft eV, accessed on February 12, 2020 (German).
  35. ^ Siegfried Blasche: Vittorio Klostermann Frankfurt am Main 1930–2000 Publishing history and bibliography . Ed .: Vittorio E. Klostermann. Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-465-03106-7 , p. 18 .
  36. ↑ Kristeller, Paul Oskar: The philosophy of Marsilio Ficino. In: klostermann.de. Vittorio Klostermann GmbH, accessed on February 12, 2020 .
  37. ↑ DAs West - New episode. (PDF) In: klostermann.de. Vittorio Klostermann GmbH, accessed on February 12, 2020 .
  38. ↑ Prof. Dr. Dirk Werle - German Department - Heidelberg University. In: Heidelberg University. Retrieved February 12, 2020 .
  39. ^ Result list of Romanesque research. In: Kubikat. Retrieved February 12, 2020 .
  40. ^ Journal for Philosophical Research. In: Kubikat. Retrieved February 12, 2020 .
  41. ^ Friedrich Georg Jünger: Vittorio Klostermann on his 70th birthday . In: Börsenblatt for the German book trade - Frankfurt edition . December 1971, p. 2966 .
  42. ^ Siegfried Blasche: Vittorio Klostermann Frankfurt am Main 1930–2000 Publishing history and bibliography . Ed .: Vittorio E. Klostermann. Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt on May 2000, ISBN 3-465-03106-7 , p. 10, 37 .
  43. ↑ Hannes Hintermeier: Anastasia Urban - Klimapflegerin . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . No. 270 , November 20, 2006, pp. 42 .
  44. ↑ These 66 publishers are awarded the German Publishing Prize. In: book report. September 17, 2019, accessed on February 12, 2020 (German).
  45. ↑ Hessischer Verlagpreis 2020 goes to Vittorio Klostermann and gutleut verlag , Wissenschaft.hessen.de, published and accessed on June 16, 2020.
  46. ^ Annual report of the German Schiller Society (2002), p. 489.