Cosmopolis (magazine)

A French exercise book cover. These were also published in German

Cosmopolis is an international and multilingual magazine published by Fernand Ortmans between 1896 and 1898. It was published monthly and was printed by T. Fisher Unwin in London and Armand Colin in Paris . In the publishing locations Paris, London, Berlin , Vienna , Geneva , New York , Amsterdam and St. Petersburg , the booklets were given localized covers. The articles were published in French, English, German and, at a later date, in Russian.

Content focus

Helene Lange published her plea for women's suffrage in the magazine as early as 1896 .

Authors

Several well-known authors and famous people published in the magazine:

• Anton Bettelheim
• Paul Bourget
• Georg Brandes
• Max Burckhard
• Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
• Anton Chekhov : With friends
• Joseph Conrad
• Anatole France
• Henry James
• Helene Lange
• Stéphane Mallarmé : Un coup de dés
• Arthur Schnitzler : The dead are silent and Paracelsus
• Hermann Sudermann
• Eugene Richter
• Ernst von Wildenbruch

literature

• Julia Reid. The Academy and Cosmopolis: Evolution and Culture in Robert Louis Stevenson's Periodical Encounters in Louse Henson et al. (eds., 2004). Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishers)
• Britta Marzi: find. Internationality in the debates of the first German women's movement: Helene Lange's article on women's suffrage in the magazine “Cosmopolis” (1896). Online at Querelles, Yearbook for Women and Gender Studies

Web links

• Editions of Cosmopolis from 1896 to 1898 on Gallica
• Cosmopolis Archive ( Memento from January 23, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
• Conrad First (About the magazine in English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gisela Bock: The political thinking of suffragism: Germany around 1900 in an international comparison, in: dies .: Gender stories of the modern age. Ideas, politics, practice. Göttingen 2014, pp. 168–203, here p. 179.