De Nieuwe Gids

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De Nieuwe Gids (German " Der Neue Führer " or "Der Neue Gids ") was a Dutch literary magazine that was published by W. Versluys in Amsterdam. It appeared for the first time on October 1, 1885 and was the mouthpiece of the literary movement of the Tachtigers ("Eighties").

history

De Nieuwe Gids dated June 1, 1886

The founders, first editors and owners of the Nieuwe Gids were:

The young writers and poets who founded the literary association Flanor in Amsterdam around 1880 were dissatisfied with the literary climate at the time. They were disgusted by the widely read verses of the bourgeois so-called dominee poets such as Nicolaas Beets , Bernard ter Haar , Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate and Eliza Laurillard, in which worship, morality and domesticity were sung about as ideals. They were attached to the idea that form and content should be one and by founding a new magazine they wanted to set a sign that the old aesthetic had had its day. So they called their publication De Nieuwe Gids ("The New Leader") in contrast to the old, founded in 1837 culture and literary magazine De Gids ("The Leader"). De Nieuwe Gids was not just a magazine of poets and writers, however; In addition to the literary renewal by the Tachtigers , reflections on scientific, social and political topics also shaped the face of the magazine.

The first number of the "new" gid contained, among other things, some chapters from The Little John by Frederik van Eeden. Later numbers contained many important publications: Little Johannes was completely recorded, as well as the sonnet collection Het Boek van Kind en God (“The Book of Child and God”) by Willem Kloos and, in February 1889, the first book by Herman Gorter's Mei ( "May"). Henriette Roland Holst (then still as Henriette van der Schalk) made her debut in 1893 with six sonnets. Naturalism was also at the center.

Soon there were disagreements in the editorial team about questions of an artistic, political and ethical nature. The apolitical Willem Kloos wanted to stick to the Tachtigers' Credo L'art pour l'art ; for the others this conception, which withheld any deeper meaning in art, was too meaningless. Willem Paap left the editorial team after just one year. Lodewijk van Deyssel and Frans Netscher, who were not members of the editorial team but made prominent contributions from the start, soon became estranged from each other. Verwey also gave up in 1890. Pieter Lodewijk Tak still joined the editorial team, but in 1893 van Eeden, van der Goes and Tak resigned from any involvement in the paper. This moment is seen as the real end of the Nieuwe Gids , even if the magazine existed for fifty years after that. In 1894 the poet Pieter Tideman worked for some time as the editorial secretary.

The "second" Nieuwe Gids

After the departure of the other editors, Willem Kloos continued the Nieuwe Gids until his death in 1938 . After that the paper existed until 1943. It had little to do with the original magazine. Over the years, Kloos left the management more and more to his wife, Jeanne Reyneke van Stuwe, who was in the editorial team from 1900 to 1908 and then remained a permanent employee. Even if she was no longer officially part of the editorial team for thirty years, she still exerted a great influence behind the scenes. This became clear in 1929 when she published countless reviews of novels (mostly by female authors) and children's books in the Nieuwe Gids .

Ten days after Kloos 'death in 1938, the wealthy, pro-German and anti-Semitic journalist Alfred Haighton De Nieuwe Gids bought for 5,650 guilders and took over the editing together with Kloos' widow. As a result, the already ailing magazine got into National Socialist waters. A large number of contributing authors then let it be known that they would no longer contribute, "as they expected these changes to have a strong fascist influence in the leadership of the Nieuwe Gids ". This concerned, among others, Augusta Peaux, Joannes Reddingius, PH Ritter jr., Jan Benno Stokvis , Nico van Suchtelen, JD Bierens de Haan, Maurits Dekker , Samuel Goudsmit and Willem de Mérode .

With the death of Alfred Haighton in 1943, the magazine was finally discontinued. Most recently she had 98 subscribers.

Literature and Sources

  • Bernt Luger, Kees Nieuwenhuijzen, Harry GM Prick: De weging van Tachtig. (= Schrijvers prentenboek. 22) Amsterdam 1982.
  • E. van Boven, M. Kemperink: Literatuur van de moderne tijd: Nederlandse en Vlaamse letterkunde in de 19e en 20e eeuw. Uitgeverij Coutinho, 2006, pp. 92-93.
  • Hidde RJ van der Veen: Eenheid en verscheidenheid; De Nieuwe Gids 1885-1894. In: Bzzlletin. 129, October 1985, pp. 3-8.
  • De Nieuwe Gids. Tweemaandelijksch Tijdschrift voor Letteren, Art, Politiek en Wetenschap (1885–1894) . In: literaturgeschiedenis.nl

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