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The first critical anthology of major programmatic texts of cultural journalism from the crucial period known in Germany as the Vormärz, the time before the March Revolutions of 1848. Cultural journalism-a broad category of periodical writing encompassing criticism, reporting on the arts, popular culture, politics, and society-was one of the most dynamic fields of German intellectual activity in the nineteenth century, particularly during the crucial period in Germany's history known as the Vormärz, leading up to the March revolutions of 1848. Many of the most prominent German writers, among them Heinrich Heine, Ludwig Börne and Goethe, were active in cultural journalism during this period of increasing nationalism and clamor for a unified, democratic Germany on one hand and absolutist repression, including censorship, on the other. This critical anthology is the first collection, in English or German, of major programmatic texts of German cultural journalism from the period. It provides complete texts or excerpts, many for the first time in English, along with critical introductions to each text by a leading scholar in German Studies or a related field. It reveals the richness and dynamism of the period's discussion of the status and function of journalism and its significance for politics, aesthetics, historiography and philosophy. Of interest to scholars in German Studies, media and book history, and those working on the history of political journalism, the book is also well suited for undergraduate and graduate courses on European literature, history and media studies.

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Author:   Dr Sean Franzel (Contributor) ,  Michael Swellander ,  Dr Volker Mergenthaler ,  Dr Christiane Arndt (Contributor)
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint:   Camden House Inc
Weight:   0.666kg
ISBN:  

9781640141735

ISBN 10:   1640141731
Pages:   442
Publication Date:   15 July 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Language:   German

Table of Contents

List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction - Sean Franzel and Michael Swellander I. NEW BEGINNINGS: JOURNALISTIC PROGRAMS 1. J. F. Cotta recruits Jean Paul to contribute to the inaugural issue of the Morning Pages for Educated Classes and Jean Paul offers readers a vision of its end (1807) - Sean Franzel Jean Paul, ""Farewell Speech on the Occasion of the Future End of the Morning Pages"" 2. The Berlin Evening Pages takes to the stage of Berlin publishing (1810) - Volker Mergenthaler Heinrich von Kleist, ""Introduction"" 3. Joseph von Görres exhorts the German press to cultivate an independent spirit (1814) - Sean Franzel Joseph Görres, ""The German Newspapers"" 4. Lorenz Oken evaluates the current situation of scientific review journals in Isis or Encyclopedic Journal (1818) - Christiane Arndt and Nicholas Saul Lorenz Oken, ""On Criticism and Review Journals"" 5. Ludwig Börne elaborates his vision of a public sphere where nothing is off limits (1818) - Michael Swellander Ludwig Börne, ""Introduction"" to The Scale 6. Johann Peter Hebel returns to editing his yearly calendar The Rhenish Family Friend after a four-year absence (1819) - Michael Swellander and Ilinca Iurascu Johann Peter Hebel, ""The Rhenish Family Friend's Preface"" II. EDITING, CRITICISM, AND THE BUSINESS OF JOURNAL LITERATURE 7. Helmine von Chézy reports from Napoleonic France and highlights the achievements of women writers (1803, 1805, 1820) - Karin Baumgartner Helmine von Chézy, Introductions to French Miscellanies Life and Art in Paris Iduna 8. F.A. Brockhaus surveys the market for yearly anthologies in his Conversations-Lexicon and advertises his own print products in the process (1820) - Nicola Kaminski Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, ""Pocketbook and Almanac Literature in Germany"" 9. The Polytechnic Journal advertises new high-speed printing technology for the uneven German print market (1826) - Petra S. McGillen Andreas Bauer and Friedrich Koenig, ""High Speed Presses of Mssrs. Bauer and König in Oberzell near Würzburg"" 10. Wilhelm Hauff picks apart contemporary belletristic journals (1827) - Petra S. McGillen Wilhelm Hauff, ""The Belletristic Journals in Germany"" 11. Willibald Alexis offers readers topics for conversation about present-day Berlin (1831, 1838) - Lynne Tatlock Willibald Alexis, ""Walks through Berlin"" ""Berlin in its New Form"" 12. In his satirical entertainment weekly Berliner Don Quixote, Adolf Glaßbrenner digs graves for journals and anticipates the burial of his own (1832) - Carlos Spoerhase and Pauline Solvi Adolph Glaßbrenner, ""The Graveyard of Journals"" Final Article from Berliner Don Quixote 13. The publishers Carl Joseph Meyer and Philipp Jakob Siebenpfeiffer attempt different journal projects in the face of censorship (1830s) - Kirsten ""Kit"" Belgum Carl Joseph Meyer and Philipp Jakob Siebenpfeiffer, selections from The House Friend and The People's Friend 14. Ernst Keil founds the revolutionary journal The Lighthouse before turning to the less political format of the domestic journal The Garden Arbor (1846, 1853) - Kirsten ""Kit"" Belgum Ernst Keil, selections from The Lighthouse and The Garden Arbor (with Ferdinand Stolle) 15. Karl Gutzkow skeptically evaluates illustrated journal literature (1834) - Shane D. Peterson Karl Gutzkow, ""Penny Literature"" 16. Heinrich von Kleist's Berlin Evening Pages anticipates the journalistic applications of telegraphy almost forty years before the technology is introduced for the first time in German newspaper publishing (1810) - Jake Fraser Heinrich von Kleist, ""Useful Inventions: Proposal for a Projectile Post"" Bernhard Wolff, announcement of introduction of telegraphic dispatches (1849) III. JOURNALISM AS CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION 17. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe insists on journals' role in the development of world literature (1828) - Daniel Purdy Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, ""Foreign Relations"" 18. Therese Huber leaves her mark on the Morning Pages for Educated Classes as editor and contributor (1817) - Christine Lehleiter Letters from Therese Huber to Paul Usteri Therese Huber, ""Can a Female Novelist Depict Men, and Is a Man Fit to Serve as the Hero of a Novel?"" 19. August Lewald and Gustav Kühne introduce European society to Germany in Europe, Chronicle of the Educated World (1836-1846) - Nora Ramtke August Lewald, selections from Europe F. Gustav Kühne, ""Foreword,"" Europe (1846) 20. From Parisian exile, Arnold Ruge announces that the future of political discourse in journals rather than books (1844) - Michael Bies Arnold Ruge, ""Plan for the German-French Yearbooks"" 21. Heinrich Börnstein publishes the political emigre journal Forward! from Paris(1843) - Sean Franzel Heinrich Börnstein, selections from Forward! IV. JOURNALISM UNDER CENSORSHIP AND POLITICAL EMANCIPATION 22. The German Confederation, and then the Grand Duchy of Baden, pass press laws of differing liberality (1819 and 1831) - David Meola The Press Law of the German Federal Assembly, Sept. 20, 1819 Press Law for the Grand Duchy of Baden, December 28, 1832 23. From beyond the grave,August von Kotzebue writes letters to the editor of the Literary Weekly critiquing censorship (1820) - Nora Ramtke Adolph Müllner, fictional letters as August Kotzebue 24. Karl Gutzkow, banned from publishing in Prussia, considers a practical approach to censorship (1837) - Michael Swellander Karl Gutzkow, ""Articles of a Censorship Code"" 25. Ludwig Philippson introduces his new newspaper as an impartial organ for all Jewish interests (1837) - Andreas Brämer Ludwig Philippson, ""On Our Editorial Principles"" 26. Louise Aston asserts her ""free personality"" against the Berlin press (1846) - Viktorija Bilić Louise Aston, excerpts from My Emancipation, Expulsion, and Defense V. JOURNALISM AS HISTORY AND THE HISTORY OF JOURNALISM 27. Heinrich Heine begins, and abruptly abandons, a historical writing project on the origins of the French Revolution (1832) - Michael Swellander Heinrich Heine, selections from Conditions in France 28. A new works edition presents Friedrich von Gentz, a figurehead of the Restoration establishment, as a classic German journalist-author (1832) - Sean Franzel Gustav Schlesier, ""Introduction to the Writings of Gentz"" 29. Heinrich Heine eulogizes the German-Jewish writer Ludwig Marcus and the Society for Jewish Culture and Jewish Studies (1844) - David Meola Heinrich Heine, ""Remembrances"" 30. Robert Prutz begins his history of German journalism in search of ""the most obscured veins of our times"" (1845) - Johannes Lehmann Robert Prutz, introduction, History of German Journalism 31. Heinrich Börnstein looks back on a journalistic career in Europe and North America (1881) - Sean Franzel Heinrich Börnstein, ""Journalistic Activities,"" Memoirs Index

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SEAN FRANZEL is Professor of German at the University of Missouri. MICHAEL SWELLANDER is Assistant Teaching Professor of German at Skidmore College, NY. KARIN BAUMGARTNER is Professor of German at the University of Utah. LYNNE TATLOCK is the Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities and Chair of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Washington University in St. Louis, MO.

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