Akadeemia

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Akadeemia is an Estonian science and culture magazine published monthly.

prehistory

A magazine called Akadeemia existed in Estonia from 1937 to 1940. It was founded by intellectuals from the University of Tartu and saw itself as a counterbalance to the authoritarian politics of Konstantin Päts . After the Sovietization of Estonia in 1940 and the occupation of the country after World War II , the magazine, like many others, was discontinued.

Restart

Only after the end of censorship in Estonia in the wake of the Singing Revolution did a revival of the pre-war tradition be considered. After lengthy preparations, the first number was published in April 1989 after it had already been set in December 1988. The lengthy production process is due, among other things, to the censorship that still prevailed in (Soviet) Estonia at that time. It was not until the fourth issue (July 1989) that the censorship was completely removed. Since 1990, 12 issues have been published each year, each with over 200 pages, so a volume usually comprises over 2,500 pages.

The Estonian poet and translator Ain Kaalep became the editor-in-chief of the new establishment, and in his programmatic preface to the first number he set the framework: “Akadeemia endeavors to convey today's level and the latest achievements of the various scientific disciplines to as many readers as possible without making universal ones To demand special education, while at the same time avoiding popular science simplification, in the hope of developing a necessarily interdisciplinary thinking that strives for synthesis. ”This claim was derived on the one hand from the nation-state postulate for a separate academic culture, but on the other hand it was also related explicitly to Friedrich Schiller , whose introduction to the Rheinische Thalia Kaalep also referred to in the foreword: “The Rheinische Thalia will be open to every subject that interests people in general and that is directly related to their happiness connected. "

meaning

The circulation of the first issue was 15,000 copies and fell to just under 3,000 by the mid-1990s. It has continued to decline since then, totaling 1,570 copies in August 2017.

In addition to the interdisciplinarity and concentration on current scientific and social issues, the focus on forgotten texts is also an important concern of the journal. In the appendix, extended over several numbers, numerous buried texts of Estonian cultural history are made accessible again. These can be both unpublished manuscripts and former publications that had been forgotten as a result of the Stalinist purges . The latter concerned, for example, a text by Uku Masing , which appeared in 1940 but was hardly received. After its rediscovery, a quote from this became known and was often used by the later President of Estonia, Lennart Meri : "Small peoples have a wider horizon because they cannot bypass the existence of others."

Editors-in-chief

literature

  • ch: The spirit of Tartu gets a voice, in: Estonia 3/1989, pp. 128–131.
  • Toomas Kiho: Akadeemia ilu - kirjandus, in: Akadeemia 4/2014, pp. 574-582.

Web links

Single receipts

  1. ↑ Cornelius Hasselblatt : History of Estonian Literature. From the beginning to the present. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter 2006, p. 503.
  2. ↑ Information in the imprint of the first issue.
  3. ↑ The spirit of Tartu gets a voice, in: Estonia 3/1989, p. 129.
  4. ↑ Ain Kaalep: Teed jätkates, in: Akadeemia 1/1989, p. 4.
  5. ↑ Review of Schiller's works and collection of variants. Fourth volume. Stuttgart and Tübingen: JG Cotta'scher Verlag 1841, p. 157.
  6. ↑ Information in the imprint of the first issue.
  7. ↑ See: http://www.postimees.ee/2469363/akadeemia-viljeleb-demokraatlikku-vaimsust-ettevotte-tulumaks-lohestab-valitsusliitu-kriitika-valismaalt-edgar-savisaare-osavott-rublamuugi-erikomisjonist-haalet-tusele -reformierakondlased-pakuvad-riigikogule-uurimiseks-tallinna-korruptsioo
  8. ↑ As recorded on the inside cover of issue 8/2017.
  9. ↑ Uku Masing: Kiriku ülesanne kultuurimandumisel, in: Akadeemia 1/1989, pp. 144–150; originally in Tänapäev 5-6 / 1940, pp. 130-132.
  10. ↑ Cf. Cornelius Hasselblatt: I loved an Estonian. Autobiographical Forays. Husum: ihleo Verlag 2012, pp. 262–264.