Berlin booklets for intellectual life
| Berlin booklets for intellectual life
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| publishing company | Wedding publishing house ( French sector ) |
| First edition | June 1946 |
| attitude | 1949 |
| Frequency of publication | per month |
| editor | Wolfgang Goetz |
| ZDB | 500660-0 |
The Berliner Hefte für Geistiges Leben was, in addition to the cultural-political monthly Aufbau , a “ cultural-political and literary magazine characteristic of the post-war years ”.
It was published by Wolfgang Goetz only from 1946 to 1949, among other things because it "seeped into West German indifference".
ideology
The magazine was created under a certain spirit of the French occupation , as the editorial team writes under the title To the reader on the first page of the first edition from 1946:
“... If we ... are asked about the desire that motivates us to publish these papers, it is this, to do the politique de l'esprit, to use a word from the recently deceased poet-philosopher Paul Valéry . We therefore welcome everyone who has something essential to say in this sense, regardless of the area. We are open to all phenomena and look forward to any discussion that does not turn into blind polemics. And so we will not shy away from keeping the elders faithfully in these days, which only seem to belong to the gloomy present and the dark future, because our great past is the only thing we truly have; we want to fall back on the good tradition of genuine German culture that existed in spite of everything, which we ask politely and urgently not to confuse with reaction . [Paragraph] When we call our magazine “Berliner Hefte”, we, who are under the protection of the tricolor , did it with care, because this city has its mission. Their culture was influenced not least by the French colony of the expelled Huguenots . But it is far from us to pay homage to the dreary local patriotism . [Paragraph] To reawaken that culture of the 18th century, since education and enlightenment were not yet stripped of their high meaning, would be the goal to wish most heartily. "
Varia
The thirteenth scene by Friedrich Karl Fromm's Urian was published for the first time in the first edition (issue 1/1946) .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ursula Heukenkamp : Post-war literature in Berlin . In: Under the emergency roof: Post-war literature in Berlin 1945-1949 . Erich Schmidt Verlag , 1996, ISBN 3-503-03736-5 , p. 17 .
- ^ Christian E. Lewalter: Berlin - The city of decision: The situation of the four sector city: misunderstandings and necessities . In: The time . No. May 20 , May 18, 1950.