Waldemar Kramer publishing house

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The publisher Waldemar Kramer was a German book publisher in Frankfurt . The publisher has been managed as an imprint by marixverlag in Wiesbaden since 2010 , which in turn has been part of the Römerweg publishing house since 2014 .

history

The publisher was named Dr. Waldemar Kramer publishing bookstore founded on January 1st, 1939 by Waldemar Kramer. The company emerged from the book and art print shop W. Kramer & Co. , which was founded in 1907 by his father Ludwig Kramer and his brother Wilhelm. The printing company, which in future worked closely with the publishing house in its own printing and publishing house in the Bornheim district of Frankfurt, continued to exist independently after 1939.

The publisher Waldemar Kramer (March 9, 1909– June 16, 1988) had studied business administration in Frankfurt am Main and Berlin and was doing his doctorate in Frankfurt with a dissertation on a topic of scale calculation in book printing, which was extensive for the time . With his first publication , the Frankfurter Anekdoten-Buchlein by Karl-Friedrich Baberadt, Kramer set the future focus of his program on literature about Frankfurt, its history and culture. In 1940 the publisher was called up for military service and the Frankfurt printing and publishing building on Bornheimer Landwehr 57a was destroyed in an air raid on December 20, 1943.

After returning from British captivity in 1945, Kramer immediately began rebuilding the company. He received one of the first publishing licenses in Hessen. This license from the American occupying forces enabled the Senckenberg writings to reappear and thus the early resumption of international exchange for the Senckenberg library. The publishing house and publisher remained connected to the Senckenbergische Naturforschenden Gesellschaft (SNG) for decades. For the 150th anniversary of the SNG in 1967, Kramer wrote and published a comprehensive chronicle of the company. Until the 1980s, Senckenbergiana accounted for half of all publishing house production.

In 1977 Henriette Kramer (* 1949), a daughter of Waldemar Kramer, joined the publishing house as a partner. Henriette Kramer, who received her doctorate from the Friedrich-Alexander University in Nuremberg with a thesis on Georg von Cotta as a publisher , took over the sole management of the publishing house after the death of her father in 1988. While maintaining the traditional program with the focus on "books about Frankfurt and the surrounding area", she carefully reformed the publishing house, which has been operating as a GmbH since 1998, for a future in modern media society.

At the beginning of 2010, Henriette Kramer handed over the Waldemar Kramer publishing house to the marixverlag of the publisher Lothar Wekel in Wiesbaden, which continues the publishing program as an imprint.

Publishing program

Since it was founded in 1939, the focus of the publishing program has been on books about Frankfurt and the surrounding area. Fried Lübbecke was one of the first publishing authors . With his book Merians Frankfurt (1939) he opened the series of annual editions of the Association of Old Town Friends (since 1966 Friends of Frankfurt ). Since then, until his death in 1965, Lübbecke remained associated with the publisher with regular editions. The publisher Waldemar Kramer himself wrote the Frankfurt Lexicon (first in 1960) and the Frankfurt Chronik (first in 1964), which became standard works. Early on, Kramer sponsored the publication of a Frankfurt biography , the two-volume publication of which, however, could not be realized until 1994/96. In the field of Frankfurt dialect literature and research , the Frankfurt dictionary (18 deliveries, 1971–1985, complete edition in six volumes in 1988) appeared as the most important publishing work, alongside editions by Friedrich Stoltze and Carl Malß .

The publisher also focused on: descriptive natural sciences, naturopathy, cultural history, art (including in monographs on the artists of the Kronberg painter colony ), art education, Gestalt psychology, philosophy, and Schopenhauer literature. The publishers also included: Dietrich Andernacht , Thomas Bauer, Helmut Bode, Friedrich Bothe , Georg Eberle, Willi Emrich, Carl Fischer (Cefischer), Manfred Gerner , Ferdinand Happ , Heinrich Heym, Arthur Hübscher , Wolfgang Klötzer , Franz Lerner , Hermann Meinert , Wolfgang Metzger, Hans Meyers, Albert Richard Mohr , Karl Nahrgang , Ernst Nebhut , Alfons Paquet , Dieter Rebentisch , Benno Reifenberg , Rudolf Schäfer , Wilhelm Schäfer, Günther Vogt and others.

Waldemar Kramer has published important book series on Frankfurt history , including the archive for Frankfurt history and art and the studies of Frankfurt history (from 1962) published by the Frankfurt Association for History and Regional Studies (since 2003 Society for Frankfurt History ), as well as the Schopenhauer- Yearbook of the Schopenhauer Society (1952–1992) and the writings of the Frankfurter Bürgerstiftung (in the series Patrons, Stifter, Stadtkultur, from 1998). Above all, however, the publisher brought out the series of publications of the Senckenberg Natural Research Society such as Nature and Museum, Senckenberg books , the Kleine Senckenberg series and others.

Other publishing series included:

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Waldemar Kramer: The scale calculation in book printing. W. Kramer & Co., Frankfurt am Main 1935, DNB 57444940X .
  2. ^ Henriette Kramer: Georg von Cotta (1796–1863) as a publisher. Booksellers Association GmbH, Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-7657-1323-6 . [Special print from: Archive for the History of the Book Industry XXV (1984)]
  3. ↑ Dagmar Olzog, Johann Hacker: Documentation of German-language publishers . 14th edition. Verlag Olzog - Aktuell, Landsberg 2001, ISBN 3-478-38764-7 , p. 177.
  4. ↑ Marix takes over Verlag Waldemar Kramer. In: Buchmarkt , January 18, 2010.