The only one (magazine)

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The only one is the title of three periodicals. The first was a magazine with an individualistic-anarchistic orientation that appeared from 1919 to 1925 with very different frequencies. The second was a quarterly published from 1998 to 2006. The third was a yearbook that followed the second from 2008 to 2013. Each time the title refers to Max Stirner's book The One and His Own , the content of which is the thematic focus of all editions.

The only one (1919–1925)

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Area of ​​Expertise Individualistic anarchism
language German
publishing company The only one (Berlin)
First edition 1919
attitude 1925
Frequency of publication Weekly, later irregularly
editor Anselm Ruest, Mynona (only 1st year).
Web link In the DadA
Article archive In the library of the free . One and only

The founder and editor of The Only One was Anselm Ruest ( pseudonym for Ernst Samuel). In the first year Mynona (pseudonym for Salomo Friedlaender ), who contributed a four-page "humorous" supplement with changing titles, was the second editor. The magazine contained a column for the newsletter of the "Society for Individualistic Culture (Stirnerbund)", whose representative was the budding philosopher Gerhard Lehmann .

The program of the paper was printed on the last page of a booklet:
“The only one… knows no parties. He stands on strictly individualistic ground and fights against all mass suggestion and mass psychosis. He is of the opinion that salvation from a confused present in a clearer future can only be found again in an appeal to the ego, by going back to individualists like Stirner and Nietzsche, whose ideas he will develop and further expand before everyone else ... "

At the beginning the paper appeared six to eight pages a week, from No. 20 biweekly and from 1922 irregularly. The 2nd year (1921) did not appear at all for unknown reasons. Instead, the members of the Stirnerbund were offered three brochures as a substitute - Max Stirner: About School Laws (1834) , ed. v. Rolf Engert ; Paul Cohn: Emotional excitement as a cause of illness ; 3. Reinhard Hanko: Dissociativism. A genealogical epistemology .

Each edition of the first year contained, mostly on the last four pages, a supplementary sheet edited by Mynona with satirical, parodic or "humorous" content with a corresponding title, such as: Der Menschenfresser (No. 4), Das Glotzauge (5) , The selfless mummy (10), The crooked tiger (13), The skimmed milk road (14), The Philoso drover (17). Since 1923 the supplement The Complicacy: A sheet for humor and satire appeared . Published by Willy Bürger with the collaboration of “Mynona”.

The only one had a strong attraction to bohemian anarchism at the beginning and is said to have been, according to HG Helms , an "excellent tribune for Berlin writers from the vicinity of the café 'megalomania'".

In the only literary contributions were published on individualist anarchism in a broad sense. In the double edition 27/28 (November 1, 1919) a call for self-help appeared with the note that the editors had joined together with others to form an association. The aim of the association was, in the spirit of Stirner, that the individual person, the egoist, (i.e. the only one ) in this form of association should not have to give up their individual characteristics and views, but could make them available to the association. In addition, the association wanted to spread Max Stirner's ideas through the magazine Der Einzige . It was also planned to establish personalistic schools .

Articles, texts and contributions by, among others, Iwan Bloch , Raoul Hausmann (pseudonym: Panarchos), Walter Mehring , Henrik Ibsen , Benedict Lachmann (pseudonym: Antibarbarus), Paul Scheerbart have been published. Foreign correspondents were: Alberto Spaini (Rome), Rudolf Grossmann (pseudonym: Pierre Ramus ), Marcel Sauvage (Paris), Ludwig Bünger (Denmark), Roel Houwink (Netherlands) and others.

After the National Socialists came to power in Germany, Anselm Ruest went to France, where he tried unsuccessfully in 1937 to create a follow-up magazine for The One with the title Die Outrage. To publish a magazine for adults .

The only one (1998-2006)

A journal with the same title was published from 1998 to 2006 as a quarterly by the Max Stirner Archive in Leipzig . It was founded by Kurt W. Fleming and edited (at times with Bernhard Piegsa) and was expressly not intended to be a continuation of the paper published in 1919–1925 and wanted to keep a distance from everyone who tried to defame Stirner "or attempt to instrumentalize him for themselves".

The only one (2008-2013)

The journal Der Einzige (1998–2006) was continued from 2008 to 2013 as the yearbook of the Max Stirner Society . The yearbook had a scientific advisory board of six professors, including Wolfgang Eßbach , Nikos Psarros and Jean-Claude Wolf . Since the Max Stirner Society dissolved in 2014, a continuation of the publication is uncertain.

Reprint

An almost complete facsimile edition of all published editions of The Single (1919-1925) was compiled by Hartmut Geerken in 1980 and - with an afterword by him - published as a book (356 pages in total) by Kraus Reprint, Munich.

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  1. ↑ See: HG Helms, Die Ideologie der anonymous Gesellschaft . Pages 411 to 414 and 513f
  2. ↑ See on this: HG Helms, Die Ideologie der anonymous Gesellschaft , page 569
  3. ↑ Cf. on this: The Free Society , No. 40 (1953)
  4. ↑ The only one in the Max Stirner Archive Leipzig .