Baltic monthly

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The Baltic Monthly was a German-Baltic monthly publication that was created in 1859 in the reform era after the Crimean War and was published until 1939.

history

Founding members were Theodor von Boetticher , Alexander Faltin and the Riga mayor Otto Mueller. The first two mentioned were also active as editors and authors in the following period.

The reform tendencies, which originally made up the core of the publication, gave way to a different focus due to the later russification period towards persistence and also gave the newspaper a different face for decades. The short-term association with the “German Monthly Journal for Russia” had no effect because the ban on all German-language newspapers in Russia during the First World War led to a publication pause until 1927. With the revival under the original title Baltic Monthly, the publication was explicitly aimed at the German public in Latvia and Estonia. From 1932, attempts were also made to consolidate the connection to the German-Baltic groups in Germany; in addition, for formal reasons, the name was changed to “Baltic Monthly Books”. The publication expired in 1939 when the Baltic Germans were resettled as a result of the German-Soviet border and friendship treaty .

A first register appeared in Riga in 1936, but it only lasted until 1934 and only included the essays. In 1973, suggested by the Baltic Historical Commission , a new register was published. This contains the other years up to the point of discontinuation and for the first time also the reviews and smaller articles.

literature

  • Baltic Monthly Journal (Baltic Monthly Issues). Register 1859-1939 . Compiled by Renate Wittram-Hoffmann on behalf of the Baltic Historical Commission. (Scientific contributions to the history and regional studies of East Central Europe No. 92). Marburg / Lahn 1973. ISBN 3-87969-100-2 . P. I – II (online at ostdok.de ).
  • Thomas Dietzel, Hans-Otto Hügel: German literary journals 1880–1945: Ein Repertorium , Saur, Munich 1998, p. 294.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gert von Pistohlkors, Matthias Weber: State unity and national diversity in the Baltic States: Festschrift for Prof. Dr. Michael Garleff on his 65th birthday . R. Oldenbourg, 2005, ISBN 978-3-486-57819-5 , pp. 19 + 20 ( google.de [accessed on April 25, 2020]).