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German-Language Book Production in Central Europe (1840-1890)

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Year

Total

Fiction

Popular writings

1840

10,808

1841

11,080

993

1842

12,509

1843

14,039

1844

13,119

1845

13,008

1846

10,536

1847

10,684

1848

9,942

1849

8,197

1850

9,053

1851

8,326

829

167

1852

8,857

844

175

1853

8,750

908

171

1854

8,705

848

158

1855

8,794

887

168

1856

8,540

945

134

1857

8,699

950

135

1858

8,672

888

135

1859

8,666

913

209

1860

9,496

1861

9,566

1862

9,779

1863

9,889

1864

9,564

971

196

1865

9,661

935

212

1866

8,669

704

165

1867

9,855

852

212

1868

10,563

958

237

1869

11,305

999

335

1870

10,108

739

271

1871

10,669

950

236

1872

11,127

998

209

1873

11,315

948

205

1874

12,070

912

388

1875

12,516

1,061

471

1876

13,356

1,070

547

1877

13,925

1,126

540

1878

13,912

1,181

715

1879

14,179

1,170

642

1880

14,941

1,209

657

1881

15,191

1,226

639

1882

14,794

1,260

654

1883

14,802

1,207

724

(by comparison, Federal Republic of Germany, including West Berlin:)

1971

42,957

8,165

Note: Data from 1860-1863 was not available. These figures also include German-language book production in Austria-Hungary and Switzerland, insofar as these titles were distributed in the German Empire (by way of Leipzig) after 1871.



Source: “Systematische Übersicht der literarischen Erzeugnisse des deutschen Buchhandels” [“Systematic Review of Literary Products by the German Book Trade”], published annually in the financial newspaper for the German book trade by J.C. Hinrichs’schen Bookstore.

Original German data reprinted in Max Bucher, Werner Hal, Georg Jäger, and Reinhard Wittmann, eds. Realismus und Gründerzeit: Manifeste und Dokumente zur deutschen Literatur 1848-1880 [Realism and the Founding Era: Public Statements and Documents on German Literature 1848-1880], 2 vols. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzlersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1975, vol. 1, pp. 166-69.

Translation: Erwin Fink

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