Bücher Bücher Bücher Bücher - Aus der Blütezeit der Münchner Bibliophilie

By Eberhard Ktler

Bhern bin ich zugeschworen,
Bher bilden meine Welt.
Bin an Bher ganz verloren,
Bin von Bhern rings umstellt.

These words by the poet Karl Wolfskehl were the hymn of the bibliophiles during the 1930s. It was sung for the first time on April 5th, 1930, at the annual meeting of the Gesellschaft der Mchner Bherfreunde. At that point the Munich bibliophiles were in their prime with collectors like Karl Wolfskehl, Carl Georg von Maassen and Rolf von Hoerschelmann. Societies like the Gesellschaft der Mchner Bibliophilen (1907-1913), the Gesellschaft der Mchner Bherfreunde (1923-1931) and Die Mappe (since 1926) were centres of book culture. Eberhard Ktler portrays the life, the collections, and the societies for the German magazine Imprimatur.

Eberhard Ktler: Bher Bher Bher Bher. Aus der Blezeit der Mchner Bibliophile. In: Imprimatur. Ein Jahrbuch f Bherfreunde. Herausgegeben von Ute Schneider im Auftrag der Gesellschaft der Bibliophilen, Mchen. Neue Folge XXI (2009). S. 259-286. Click above to read the article.

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