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The lighthouse
First edition of the newspaper Der Leuchtthurm 1846
description Monthly for entertainment and instruction for the German people.
Later a
weekly for politics, literature and social life.
language German
publishing company Ernst Wedge
First edition January 20, 1846
attitude September 30, 1850
Frequency of publication Monthly
later four times a month.
Editors-in-chief Ernst Wedge
ZDB 147183-1

The magazine Der Leuchtthurm was first a “monthly for entertainment and instruction for the German people” later a “weekly for politics, literature and social life”, first published in Zeitz and later in Leipzig . The weekly paper was an independent paper from 1846 to 1850. The newspaper consisted of an editor and additional freelance workers.

history

On August 3, 1845, Ernst Keil founded his own bookselling business in Leipzig. First, in 1846, he published the monthly newspaper “Der Leuchtthurm”, which he edited himself. In the pre-March period , the magazine became one of the leading papers of the liberal opposition thanks to its critical articles. Since no license could be obtained for this in Saxony, Keil initially chose Zeitz as the place of publication. This sheet already contained steel-engraved illustrations; it often produced satirical portraits of well-known politicians, and the texts left no doubt about the liberal and revolutionary attitude of the editors. His employees included respected representatives of the liberal movement, among others Robert Blum , Johann Jacoby , Gustav Adolf Wislicenus , Ernst Dronke , Otto Ruppius and Leberecht Uhlich and others. By March 1848, Keil had to change the place of publication 6 times for political reasons (most recently in Braunschweig).

When the censorship eased after the events of 1848, the publishing house and editorial team were able to return to Leipzig. The journal was turned into a weekly and decidedly on the side of the revolution. After the outbreak of the revolution in 1848, Keil took the stand of the democratic-republican popular movement. When the reaction in Saxony grew stronger in 1850, Keil was subjected to severe persecution. In 1851 the censors ordered the journal to be closed; especially because of the sharp-tongued side dish, which was first called "lantern" and then, in order to escape the grip of censorship, constantly changed its name: "Deutsche Reichs-Bremse", "Spitzkugeln", "Wespen" or "Schildwacht".

Ernst Keil was deprived of his civil rights because of his political commitment . In 1852 he was sentenced as a "state criminal" to 9 months' imprisonment, which he served in Hubertusburg .

Caricature published anonymously: The "good" press.

The cartoon appeared in 1847 in the magazine "Der Leuchtturm". You can see a train of good children on the lead behind a mole who is known to be blind. He wears a flag with a cancer - the cancer as a symbol of regression. He is followed by the censor who has scissors instead of a head, the pen for censorship, the rod for tribulation, the eyes for surveillance. The man who decides to move is characterized by a sheep's head for the stupidity of the state power and leads a spitz on a leash - a symbol for a spy. Below were the following verses:

Sweet holy censorship,
let's go on your track;
Lead us by your hand like
children, by the lead tape!

literature

  • History of the German newspaper industry, from the first beginnings to the rebuilding of the German Empire. Schulzesche Hof-buchhandlung and Hof-buchdr., Schwartz, 1906. Volume 3, page 521.
  • Language and the bourgeois nation: Contributions to the German and European language history of the 19th century. Edited by Dieter Cherubim, Siegfried Grosse, Klaus J. Mattheier. Page 446
  • Media change in the industrial and mass age (1830-1900), by Werner Faulstich. Page 78
  • Media and Economics: Volume 1/1: Fundamentals of Media Economics: Communication and Media Studies Economics. Edited by Klaus-Dieter Altmeppen, Matthias Karmasin. Page 195.
  • Chronicle of the city of Bad Langensalza in Thuringia 786-2000. Editor and publisher Harald Rockstuhl.

Web links

  • Der Leuchtthurm digital Date of publication: 1.1846 - 1850.36

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jakob Franck:  Keil, Ernst . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, pp. 530-532.
  2. ↑ Gerd Schulz:  Keil, Ernst. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 402 f. ( Digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Ursula Forberger : Keil, Ernst Viktor . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
  4. ↑ picture with text