Pierre Marteau

Pierre Marteau, Cologne, sometimes in German Peter Hammer, Coelln (Cologne), is the most important publishing fictitious address of the 17th and 18th centuries.

The fictitious imprint goes so far as appears, the Amsterdam-based Elzevier (now Elsevier ) back, the pseudonym for publishing scandalous writings made ​​use since the early 1660s. The publisher's name was an obvious pseudonym in connection with the place of publication Cologne. French publishers avoided the censorship, which developed under Louis XIV, by moving their printing workshops in the Netherlands. The products were shipped from here in the smuggling trade to France, they reached open the entire European book market.

Cologne would be for a Frenchman - Pierre Marteau ( " Peter Hammer ") announced with his name can be seen as such - at least as good Ausweichort like Amsterdam, The Hague or Rotterdam been. Indeed, Cologne, was a Catholic and Wittelsbach regency, everything else as an alternative to France. Marteau was either a publisher very special enforcement power to the authorities or, more likely, a fiction behind which another publisher 's too dangerous goods sold - which in turn made ​​only attractive on the book market.

The pseudonym prevailed among colleagues. A growing production of scandalous headlines and pirated editions appeared under this label. From the 1680ern took over German publisher the pseudonym " Peter Marteau " was the regular German name variant. The German production was their primary flowering in the years of the great European fashion of the 1689 bis 1721st The pseudonym was then again as that of the patriotic resistance against France at the end of the 18th century economy, among others, Carl Christoph Stiller.

1966 attacked Hermann Schulz and Johannes Rau in Wuppertal unprotected name for a new publishing program as Peter Hammer Verlag on before Rau 1967 moved to work as a spokesman of the SPD parliamentary group. In the Wuppertal publisher then appeared initially focus on works by Latin American and African writers like Ernesto Cardenal or pursued Ngugi wa Thiong'o.

The historicum.net with the associated website pierre- marteau.com, which was founded in 2001, however, is an interdisciplinary project, promoted the research on the late 17th and early 18th centuries as well as the press and public history.

Literature (selection )

  • Joseph Gorres: writing samples from Peter Hammer. Huss Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1997, ISBN 3-928833-60- X ( Nachdr d ed Heidelberg, 1808).
  • Léonce de Janmart Brouillant: Histoire de Pierre du Marteau, imprimeur à Cologne ( XVIIe - XVIIIe siècles ), suivi d'une notice d'un livre intitulé: Histoire des amours du Grand Alcandre. Paris 1888 ( Gallica Reprints: Slatkine Reprints, Geneva 1971).
  • Henry Hubert Houben: Forbidden literature from the classical period to the present. Volume 2 Bremen 1928, pp. 251-255 ( digitized ).
  • Viktor Heydemann: About the book publisher Peter Hammer and some writings published at him. In: Journal for book lovers, N.F. 20 (1928 ), pp. 52-54.
  • Karl Klaus Walther: The German -language publishing production of Pierre Marteau / Peter Hammer, Cologne. For the story of a fictitious imprint. Pierre Marteau, Cologne 2001 ( Nachdr d ed Leipzig ² 1983, online).
  • Frank - Rutger Hausmann: Pierre Marteau ou de Pierre Marteau, Imprimeur imaginaire à l' époque de Louis XIV In: Frank - Rutger Hausmann, Christoph Miethung and Margarete Zimmermann ( eds.): " Diversité, c'est ma devise". Studies of French literature of the 17th century. Festschrift for Jürgen Grimm for his 60th birthday. Romance Studies, Tübingen 1994, pp. 229-234.
  • Olaf Simons: Marteau Europe or the novel before it was literature. Rodopi, Amsterdam, 2001, ISBN 90-420-1226-9 ( there also the statistics there was S.671 for the first time printed; For reproduction granted by the author ).
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