The inner realm

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The inner realm
Title page of the first edition (April 1934)
description German literary magazine
publishing company Albert Langen / Georg Müller, Munich
First edition 1934
attitude 1944
Frequency of publication per month
editor Paul Alverdes, Karl Benno von Mechow
ZDB 208148-9

The Inner Reich was a literary magazine published in Munich from April 1934 to autumn 1944 with a national-conservative attitude.

Content, history and reception

The "magazine for poetry, art and German life", so its subtitle, was published by Paul Alverdes and Karl Benno von Mechow and reached a circulation of 5000 to 6000 copies. The plan to create a conservative counterbalance to the Neue Rundschau , the literary magazine of the S. Fischer Verlag , had existed since 1932, but the first edition did not appear until April 1934. Mechow started editing in 1934, but left again in 1938. Even if the magazine offered a broad literary spectrum and published not only National Socialist, but also politically undefined or unencumbered authors, the editors acknowledged the “new conditions”. In the programmatic essay at the beginning of the first number, Mechow criticizes literary exiles and explains the name of the monthly: We speak against the opinion of a desperate, so-called “spirituality” that has long since broken away internally and externally through emigration from the people's soul confidently here from the "Inner Reich", and name a new magazine that wants to serve German poetry and German art after this word . The monthly is controversial, also because the above-mentioned article previously glorified Adolf Hitler .

In October 1936 the magazine was banned for a short time because of three articles in the August issue (two on the birthday of Frederick the Great ) that did not match the ideology . The SS magazine Das Schwarze Korps attacked an article about the Prussian king as “ grotesque insolence ” under the title “And this is called Inner Reich” ; the party newspaper Völkischer Beobachter called the cultural magazine a " product of that evil literacy which, in its arrogant intellectualism, consciously stayed away from the community of the new state and saw the epitome of literary work in mental athletics as silly as it was sought after ".

Joseph Goebbels noted in his diary on October 13, 1936:

“Yesterday: read, worked. Two magazines, "Inneres Reich" and " Cross Section ", banned because of brazen insolence. That was good. They were cheeky as dirt again. "

After interventions by the publisher Gustav Pezold and the writer Ernst von Salomon with several Nazi leaders, the ban was lifted on October 23, 1936. The magazine could then continue to appear until the autumn of 1944.

Authors

In addition to the two editors published in the sheet z. B.

literature

  • Paul Alverdes, Karl Benno von Mechow (Hrsg.): Das Innere Reich - magazine for poetry, art and German life . 1st issue, April 1934

Secondary literature

  • Marion Mallmann: "The Inner Realm". Analysis of a conservative cultural magazine in the Third Reich . Treatises on art, music and literary studies, 248. Bouvier, Bonn 1978 ISBN 3-416-01383-2
  • Werner Volke: "The Inner Empire" 1934–1944. A "magazine for poetry, art and German life". Edited by the Marbach Literature Archive . Marbacher Magazin, issue 26, 1983
  • Günther Penzoldt: The Inner Reich in the Third Reich. Curt Hohoff's "intelligent literary magazine" was a Nazi newspaper , in: Die Zeit No. 14 of April 2, 1965; online at zeit.de (accessed on April 3, 2015)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bruno Jahn: The German-language press. A biographical-bibliographical handbook . KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2005 ISBN 978-3-5981-1710-7 p. 694
  2. ^ Ernst Fischer / Reinhard Wittmann (eds.): History of the German book trade in the 19th and 20th centuries. Third Reich, Part I. De Gruyter Verlag Berlin 2015 ISBN 978-3-598-24806-1 p. 320
  3. ↑ Thomas F. Schneider, Hans Wagener (ed.): Von Richthofen to Remarque: German speaking prose for World War . 1st edition Editions Rodopi, 2003, ISBN 90-420-0955-1 , p. 346
  4. ↑ Karl Benno von Mechow: Inneres Reich S. 8 in: Paul Alverdes, Karl Benno von Mechow (Hrsg.): Das Innere Reich - magazine for poetry, art and German life . 1st issue, April 1934
  5. ↑ The Inner Reich in the Third Reich . In: Die Zeit , No. 14/1965
  6. ↑ The Inner Empire, p. 7
  7. ^ Gunther Nickel, Johanna Schrön (ed.): Carl Zuckmayer - Secret Report . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich April 2004, 2nd edition September 2007, ISBN 978-3-423-13189-6 , p. 359 (notes on p. 157–158)
  8. ↑ Paul Alverdes, Karl Benno von Mechow (ed.): "The Inner Empire". Journal for Poetry, Art and German Life . Albert Langen / Georg Müller, August 1936 edition. Rudolf Thiel: Friedrich the Great. Character studies for a biography (pp. 543 to 573); Reinhold Schneider: The Berlin Palace (p. 630 to 637); Jochen Klepper: The birthday (p. 638 to 643)
  9. ↑ Werner Bräuninger: The inner realm. Portrait of a national-conservative literary magazine of the Inner Emigration . in: dsb: "I didn't want to stand by ..." Life plans from Alfred Baeumler to Ernst Jünger. Aresverlag, Graz 2006 ISBN 3-902475-32-3 pp. 176–198, here pp. 190ff.
  10. ↑ Joseph Goebbels: Diaries . Part I - Records 1923-1941. (Ed. By Elke Fröhlich, edited by Jana Richter). Vol. 3 / II, March 1936 to February 1937. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-598-23729-4 , p. 211
  11. ^ Alverdes in volume 1, 1941: On the 75th birthday of Emil Strauss.
  12. ↑ welcomed the return of German Austria to the Reich in May 1938 in the special issue
  13. ↑ texts; as well as all illustrations in the special issue of the return of German Austria to the Reich, May 1938
  14. ↑ Der tote Bauer (poem), June 1938, pp. 273–274.
  15. ↑ Vol. 3, December 1936, no. 9, pages 1065-1078
  16. ↑ as note on Brehm
  17. ↑ On contemporary poetry
  18. ↑ as note on Brehm
  19. ^ Graphic artist, painter 1904–1999 in Freiburg : To my pictures.
  20. ↑ From my life. With 6 illustrations and 2 textile. Vol. 3, 1936, no. 9
  21. ↑ about the sculptor Adolf Wamper
  22. ↑ as note on Brehm
  23. ↑ z. B. Issue 1, 1939, essay: The Führer!
  24. ^ Supplement by Adelheid Westhoff: Directory of the contributions in all issues. Enclosure: List of the pieces of the booklet exhibited in the 1983 exhibition