The diary

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The diary
Cover of the daily book of July 5, 1924
description German political-literary magazine
First edition January 1920
attitude January 1933 (1940)
Frequency of publication weekly
editor Stefan Großmann, Leopold Schwarzschild

The Tage-Buch was an independent, non-partisan German weekly that was published from January 1920 to January 1933. It was founded by the left-liberal Viennese publicist and theater critic Stefan Großmann with the help of the publisher Ernst Rowohlt . In 1922 the journalist Leopold Schwarzschild from Frankfurt am Main joined the editorial team and became co-editor. In exile in Paris he published Das Neue Tage-Buch until 1940 .

history

The day book until 1933

The day book was founded by Stefan Großmann with the help of Ernst Rowohlt in 1920 in Berlin . In 1922 Leopold Schwarzschild joined the editorial team and became co-editor.

Großmann resigned as editor in 1927 due to a serious illness, but continued to publish in the Tages-Buch and other media. Then the journalist Kurt Reinhold took over the management of the columnist section; on the title page only Schwarzschild was noted as editor. The quality of the paper suffered from Großmann's departure as well as from the enticement of Carl von Ossietzky by Die Weltbühne in April 1926, but never fell below a certain level. From issue 2 in 1927, the hyphen was removed from the title and the magazine was called “Tagebuch”.

In the first edition of the daily book , Großmann explained the concept of his magazine:

“This magazine expects discerning readers.
The 'daily book' cannot and will not serve any party, but I do hope for a conspiracy of the creative minds alongside, above, despite the parties. [...]
The 'Tag-Buch' wants to report rather than judge, rather bring material for judgment formation than the judgment itself. "

Although the weekly was independent of political parties, it had a pronounced left-democratic profile, which was particularly evident in a new section: From November 26, 1921, the magazine was no longer opened by a leading article, but by a conglomerate of anonymous daily political glosses entitled Diary of Time . In addition to political issues in the narrower sense, critical statements on legal practice in the Weimar Republic were repeatedly published. For example, under the pseudonym Ein Richter, texts appeared at irregular intervals that raised problems at the criminal court in Berlin-Moabit .

Another important role of the magazine was the promotion and establishment of the New Objectivity in journalism. Famous reports by Kisch appeared here for the first time, the young Bertolt Brecht published early poetry and prose, and many exponents of this trend such as Felix Stössinger , Polly Tieck , Walter Mehring and Oskar Maurus Fontana had their say. Some of Erich Kästner's most famous texts were first printed here, including a. Do you know the land where the cannons bloom? and born in 1899 .

The Saturday magazine with the green covers was inspired by the world stage . Siegfried Jacobsohn , editor of the Weltbühne , had a violent argument with Großmann in 1920, so that the Tages-Buch is more likely to be seen as a competing magazine. This is how Jacobsohn did not like it when authors wrote for both papers. Exceptions were celebrities such as Roda Roda , Alfred Polgar , Max Brod and Egon Erwin Kisch , whom Jacobsohn valued so much that he remained inconsistent here.

The tensions between the Tages-Buch and Weltbühne persisted for some time after Jacobsohn's death in 1926; Kurt Tucholsky never published a line there and complained in letters that Weltbühne employees like Anton Kuh wrote the better texts for the Tages-Buch . Also in the structure and format that was day-book of the world stage recreates - there was the front part of political and ended with two-column glosses, both magazines were Antiqua font set. Both papers followed a consistently pacifist line. Politically, the paper was closer to social democracy than the communist- friendly world stage - probably also because of Großmann's socialist past .

From 1928 at the latest, a clear reconciliation and rapprochement of the two sheets can be felt, and with the historical number 12 from November 1931, in which the Tag-Buch aggressively sided with Ossietzky in the Weltbühne trial and attacked the judiciary in the same tone as Tucholsky , both sheets are to be seen as complementary sister magazines.

The theater criticism played only a minor role in the daily book , probably because of the overwhelming competition from the world stage , which originally was a pure theater paper under the name Schaubühne and which still maintained this tradition. In return, the Tages-Buch had an excellent books section with reviews of high columnist quality. From the mid-1920s, the journal began to become one of the most important sources for the reception of new literature in the Weimar Republic . Surveys in which writers talked about what they were reading were popular.

From today's perspective, one of the most outstanding merits of the Tages-Buch is the early and prophetic realization that Adolf Hitler posed a serious threat to the Weimar Republic. The highlights of the left-liberal Hitler analysis in the Weimar Republic include Stefan Großmann's review of Mein Kampf in issue 45/1925 and Karl Tschuppik's dissection of Hitler's speech technique in the essay “Hitler speaks” (issue 13/1927).

After the Schaubühnen- and Weltbühnen -Reprint 1978/1979 the Athenäums-Verlag also planned a completely new edition of the daily book . For financial reasons, the project was canceled after the 8th volume in 1981; the years 1927 to 1933 were never reprinted.

The New Day Book

Edition of the exile magazine Das neue Tage-Buch published by Schwarzschild , with reference to Brother Hitler by Thomas Mann

After the takeover of the Nazis fled Schwarzschild to Paris , where he from July 1, 1933 The New Days book brought out also as a weekly and published by the 1940th The magazine had a Dutch company as chargé d'affaires. Schwarzschild regularly published economic analyzes of the situation in Germany in the New Daily Book . These analyzes have been read in many European capitals. In addition, under the title “Abseits der Reichskulturkammer ” , the paper made contributions to literature and artistic events.

Authors of the journal

Well-known authors were:

literature

Web links

Wikisource: proof of digitized material  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ ÖNB-ANNO - Das Tagebuch / Das Tagebuch. Retrieved August 6, 2020 .
  2. ^ Walter A. Berendsohn : The humanistic front. In: Heinz Ludwig Arnold (Ed.): German Literature in Exile 1933–1945. Volume II: Materials. Frankfurt am Main 1974, pp. 3-23, here p. 11 f.