The customer

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The customer (from 1931 the vagabond )

description Journal of the vagabonds
language German
publishing company Verlag der Vagabunden, Sonnenberg (Germany)
First edition 1927
attitude 1931
Frequency of publication quarterly
Sold edition 1000 copies
editor Gustav Brügel (later Gregor Gog)

The customer was the first " Vagabonds ' magazine and polemic " (subtitle).

history

The customer was published in the spring of 1927 by the Balinger tramp and writer Gustav Brügel . Gregor Gog first became editor and then editor. The name of the magazine is based on the Rotwelschen term customer for 'wandering craftspeople, beggars, tramps', which has been used since the early 19th century . The magazine appeared casually (around four times a year) with a circulation of 1,000 copies. According to the announcement (1929, issue 9/19), Der Kunde had not appeared because the publisher was on the move . It was printed by the Vagabunden publishing house in Sonnenberg , in the August Dussler printing house in Stuttgart-Cannstatt. A third of this was distributed to stamp offices, employment offices, hostels and shelters for the homeless. The magazine cost 30 pfennigs , vagabonds who were “on the go” paid nothing. The magazine contained a potpourri of autobiographical reports, drawings and poems, songs and mocking verses, social reports and stories as well as complaints and practical tips for surviving on the country road. To finance the magazine through donations, a “customer hostel fund” was set up at the Städtische Sparkasse Stuttgart.

The very first number was confiscated. Brügel, who had described the love between the boy Rolf and the itinerant preacher and hermit Polo under a pseudonym , was summoned to the local court, but escaped to Yugoslavia via Austria. Issues 7, 8 and 34 were confiscated and Gregor Gog was charged with blasphemy. All other issues up to the end of 1929 were published by the " Brotherhood of Vagabonds " initiated by Gog . When Gregor Gog returned from the Soviet Union as a communist in 1930 , things also changed. A distinction was now made between customers and vagabonds and the anarchist positions turned into communist . In 1931 the magazine was renamed " Der Vagabund ", with the subtitle "Zeit- und Polotschrift of the International Brotherhood of Vagabonds", and was published for another 5 issues until it was completely discontinued.

“ The Syndicalist ” on the “Client”: “One of the most original magazines that has ever appeared. A magazine of a strange intellectual size! Written and edited by customers, in the spirit of those great homeless wanderers and vagabond poets: Villon, Rimbaud, Peter Hille, Jack London, Walt Whitman. "

bibliography

In: Walter Fähnders, Henning Zimpel (Hrsg.): The era of the vagabonds. Texts and pictures 1900-1945 . Klartext, Essen 2009, ( Writings of the Fritz Hüser Institute 19), ISBN 978-3-89861-655-3 .

literature

  • Gregor Gog: What does the Brotherhood of Vagabonds want? In: Der Kunde 3rd year, 1929, issue 1/2.
  • Michael Haerdter: Residence: Nowhere. About life and survival on the street . Published by Künstlerhaus Bethanien. Frölich & Kaufmann, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-88725-070-2 .
  • Ulrich Linse : Barefoot prophets. Savior of the twenties . Siedler Verlag, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-88680-088-1 , p. 256.
  • Hartmut Rübner: Freedom and Bread. The Free Workers' Union of Germany. A Study of the History of Anarcho-Syndicalism . Libertad Verlag , Berlin et al. 1994, ISBN 3-922226-21-3 , ( Archive for Social and Cultural History 5), (At the same time: Bremen, Univ., Diploma thesis, 1992: History and theory of anarcho-syndicalism in Germany ), p. 294 .
  • Klaus Trappmann (ed.): Landstrasse, customers, vagabonds. Gregor Gog's League of the Homeless . Gerhardt, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-920372-32-8 .
  • Klaus Trappmann: Another need. Gregor Gog, a biography . In: Michael Haerdter: Residence: Nowhere. About life and survival on the street . Published by Künstlerhaus Bethanien. Frölich & Kaufmann, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-88725-070-2 , pp. 223-232.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Siegmund A. Wolf, Dictionary des Rotwelschen / Deutsche Gaunerssprache , Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim 1956, p. 188, no. 3017
  2. ↑ In the journal Grassroots Revolution No. 295, January 2005
  3. ↑ StA Bremen, 4.65-515
  4. ↑ Stefan Schneider: Customer or vagabond? 80 years of street newspapers 1927 - 2007 (in street sweeper 13/2007)
  5. ↑ “Der Syndikalist”, 9th year [1927], no. 49 [attachment].