Outsiders to society

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Outsiders to society. The crime of the present is a literary series with reportage-like representations of criminal cases and trials that Rudolf Leonhard published in 1924/25 in the Berlin publishing house Die Schmiede . A total of 14 texts have appeared in this series (some of which are also available in more recent editions):

• Alfred Döblin : The two friends and their poison murder , 1924, 117 pp. + Unpag. Appendix (manuscript facsimiles and diagrams).
• Egon Erwin Kisch : The Fall of the Chief of Staff Redl , 1924, 90 pp.
• Eduard Trautner : The murder of the police agent Blau , 1924, 193 pp. + Unpag. Appendix (manuscript facsimiles).
• Ernst Weiß : The Vukobrankovics Case , 1924, 203 pp.
• Iwan Goll : Germaine Berton. Die Rote Jungfrau , 1925, 77 p., Portrait drawing + unpag. Appendix (manuscript facsimiles).
• Theodor Lessing : Haarmann. The story of a werewolf , 1925, 232 p., Ill. + Unpag. Appendix.
• Karl Otten : The Strauss Case , 1925, 109 pp.
• Arthur Holitscher : Ravachol and the Parisian Anarchists , 1925, 86 pp.
• Léo Lania : The Hitler-Ludendorff Trial , 1925, 134 pp.
• Franz Theodor Csokor : Shot in business. (The Otto Eissler case) , 1925, 105 pp.
• Thomas Schramek : Freiherr von Egloffstein . With a foreword by Albert Ehrenstein , 1925, 192 p., Portrait photo.
• Kurt Kersten : The Moscow Trial against the Social Revolutionaries 1922. Revolution and Counterrevolution , 1925, 163 p., Fig.
• Karl Federn : A judicial crime in Italy. The Murri-Bonmartini Trial , 1925, 233 pp.
• Hermann Ungar : The murder of Captain Hanika. Tragedy of a Marriage , 1925, 96 pp.

If one disregards the fact that criminal trials are presented in the series that were of long-term concern to the public at the time, their significance for literary history lies above all in the fact that the prominent authors deal intensively with the tradition of authentic crime stories (see e.g. the collection Der neue Pitaval , 60 vols., 1842–1890) and in doing so found a modern understanding of the connections between criminal acts, criminal proceedings and their media processing. Outsiders are no longer perceptible in their roles as disorderly people, but also as innovators who have to be approved if societies are to change.

The series was closely related to the Pitaval tradition and endeavored to provide a truthful and documented representation of criminal cases. The authors were politically committed writers who use this series to criticize the justice system of the Weimar Republic and to inform the reader about social grievances.

Most of the authors in the series are members of the group founded by Rudolf Leonhard in 1925 .