The high bank

The high bank
description	literary journal
publishing company	Ludwig Ey, Hanover
First edition	1919
attitude	1920
editor	Hans Kaiser

Das Hohe Ufer was a late expressionist monthly published by Hans Kaiser that appeared in the vicinity of the Kestner Society . The publisher was Hans Kaiser , the magazine was published from January 1919 to December 1920 by the Ludwig Ey publishing house in Hanover . The title of the avant-garde - Dadaist paper refers to the Hanoverian district of Hohes Ufer .

Molling & Co. supplied the print as well as the poster for “Das Hohe Ufer - new issue” by Ferdy Horrmeyer .

Contributions included:

• Paula Modersohn-Becker
• Franz Blei
• Kasimir Edschmid
• Walter Gropius ("The new building concept")
• Klabund
• Hans Poelzig ("State Construction")
• Paul Scheerbart
• Christoph Spengemann ("The painter Kurt Schwitters")
• Heinrich Tessenow
• Georg Trakl
• Bruno Taut
• Franz Werfel

The following worked as illustrators:

• Ernst Moritz Engert
• Lyonel Feininger
• Wilhelm Plünnecke
• Arnold Topp
• Kurt Schwitters

The author and dramaturge Johann Frerking was mostly responsible for the selection of the older texts also published in the magazine ( Novalis , Jean Paul and others) .

literature

• C. Klösel: The Zweemann . A Hanoverian journal of late expressionism. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series 41 (1987), pp. 111-137
• Ines Katenhusen : Art and Politics. Hanover's examination of modernity in the Weimar Republic , at the same time a dissertation entitled Understanding a Time, is perhaps best gained from her art at the University of Hanover , in the series: Hannoversche Studien : Schriftenreihe des Stadtarchiv Hannover , Hannover: Hahn , 1998 , ISBN 3-7752-4955-9 , pp. 589-625
• Ines Katenhusen: Hohe Ufer - Das HU In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 305.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ines Katenhusen ' Hohe Ufer - Das HU , Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 305
2. ↑ Snippet view
3. ^ Poster in the Imperial War Museum; another copy can be found in the Hanover Historical Museum
4. ↑ See: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Dieter Brosius: History of the City of Hanover: From the beginning of the 19th century to the present. Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Hanover 1994, ISBN 978-3-87706-364-4 . P. 467. ( Online in Google Book Search)