The own
The company's own, “a sheet for male culture” (one of the subtitles) was the world's first homosexual magazine, published from 1896 to 1932 by Adolf Brand (1874–1945). The first ten issues appeared quarterly, then Der Eigen came out on a monthly basis, but sometimes irregularly and with interruptions.
The name goes back to Max Stirner's work The Only One and His Property . One of the subtitles was "Monthly for Art and Life". In the first editions, Stirner's philosophy and anarchist topics were also dealt with, but hardly in the following years. From 1898 onwards, his own mainly contained poems , prose , nudes and drawings. Contributors included Benedict Friedlaender , Klaus and Thomas Mann , Theodor Lessing , Erich Mühsam and Ernst Burchard .
The paper initially started as a literary magazine. At the latest by the end of the second year of publication, however, it was recognizable as a homosexual magazine and can therefore be described as the first known gay magazine in the world.
The magazine struggled with censorship : in 1903, for example, a lawsuit was brought against the paper because of the poem The Friendship , but this was put down when it came out that the poem was by Friedrich Schiller . In 1933 there were several searches and seizures of Brand's house, which made it impossible to publish further issues of the magazine.
literature
- Joachim S. Hohmann (Ed.): The own. A sheet for male culture. A cross-section through the world's first gay magazine. Reprint . With a contribution by Friedrich Kröhnke . Foerster Verlag, Frankfurt / M. / Berlin 1981.
Web links
- Copies of the IHLIA LGBT Heritage: full text scans (.pdf) 1896–1900 and 1903 which were previously available at http://www.homodok.nl/dutch/collectie/digitale_collectie?file=%2FDer+Eigene ( Memento from February 12, 2015 in Internet Archive ) were online.
- Extract from a 1933 letter from Brands about the end of the magazine
- Digital copies of individual volumes at the UB of the Humboldt University in Berlin
Individual evidence
- ↑ See on this: Joachim S. Hohmann (Ed.), Reprint of Der Eigen
- ↑ The own . In the database of German-speaking anarchism (DadA)
- ^ Erwin in het Panhuis: Different from the others - gays and lesbians in Cologne and the surrounding area 1895 to 1918 ; Emons, Center for Gay History, Cologne, 2006, ISBN 3-89705-481-7 , page 177