Werner E. key note
Werner E. Stichnote (born January 28, 1908 , † September 15, 1994 in Darmstadt ) was a German publisher .
Career
Werner E. Stichnote was the son of the Potsdam printer Eduard Stichnote († 1937) and his wife Anna. In 1937 he took over the company together with his brother Eberhard. In 1943 a publishing house was founded, in which the Potsdam prints were published (edited together with Edwin Redslob ). During the time of National Socialism , the publisher published a number of bibliophile works, e.g. B. to Arno Breker . Key note acquired the holdings of the Cranach press of exile Harry Graf Kessler stored in Weimar . After the end of the war, the publishing house was rebuilt in Potsdam, he received the license on February 7, 1947. Ulrich Riemerschmidt was the publishing director . In November 1950, Stichnote fled to the Federal Republic. The publishing house in Potsdam was continued under fiduciary management and made public property. In 1952, Stichnote founded the publishing house Stichnote GmbH in Darmstadt together with Gérard Du Ry van Beest Holle . In 1953 they both bought the rights to the series of Bürgers Taschenbücher from Alfons Bürger and founded the publishing house Das goldene Vlies . The publisher's program was taken over by Ullstein Verlag . In 1955, Stichnote worked for Ullstein Taschenbücher and is therefore one of the founders of Ullstein Verlag. Holle got out of the publishing house and worked in his own publishing house (see Holle Verlag ). From 1961, Stichnote was a member of the board of directors at Ullstein. In addition to his work at Ullstein, Stichnote continued his own publishing house, which was transferred to the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt in 1969 . From 1968 to 1971 he was head of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels . From 1971 he was “Managing Director Production Management and Bibliophilia” at Ullstein for 2 years. From 1978 to 1987 a series of bibliophile anthologies with the imprint edition cue note was published by Ullstein / Propylänen Verlag , from 1982 the series Posie der Welt appeared in this context .
" However, a line of continuity can be seen in the eventful life of the publisher Werner E. Stichnote: It is the typographical tradition of the Potsdam publisher Eduard Stichnote, that is, the priority of book production over the publishing program."
In 1954 he became a member of the Darmstadt Masonic Lodge Zum Flammenden Schwert , which belongs to the Great State Lodge of the Freemasons of Germany .
Honors
- 1968: Johann Heinrich Merck honor of the city of Darmstadt
- 1976: Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
literature
- Hans Altenhein: Werner E. Stichnote and his publishers , in: Aus dem Antiquariat , 6/2014, pp. 208–211
Web links
- Works by and about Werner E. Key note in the German Digital Library
- Literature by and about Werner E. Head note in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature port author lexicon (data record can be found via search mask)
Individual evidence
Vittorio Klostermann (1948–1949) | Carl Hanser (1949–1951) | Josef Knecht (1951–1953) | Arthur Georgi junior (1953–1956) | Reinhard Jaspert (1956–1959) | Werner Dodeshöner (1959–1962) | Friedrich Wittig (1962–1965) | Friedrich Georgi (1965–1968) | Werner E. key note (1968–1971) | Ernst Klett (1971–1974) | Rolf Keller (1974–1980) | Günther Christiansen (1980–1989) | Dorothee Hess-Maier (1989–1992) | Gerhard Kurtze (1992–1998) | Roland Ulmer (1998-2001) | Dieter Schormann (2001-2005) | Gottfried Honnefelder (2006–2013) | Heinrich Riethmüller (2013–2019) | Karin Schmidt-Friderichs (since 2019)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Key note, Werner E. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 28, 1908 |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 15, 1994 |
| Place of death | Darmstadt |