The month
| The month. An international magazine
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| description | German magazine for politics and culture |
| First edition | 1948 |
| attitude | 1987 |
| founder | Melvin Lasky |
| ISSN (print) | 0026-9204 |
| CODEN | MONAAP |
The month. An international magazine was a German magazine for politics and culture founded by Melvin Lasky in 1948 .
history
1948 to 1971
The month appeared in Berlin-Dahlem and was strictly anti - communist . Melvin Lasky acted as editor , later together with Hellmut Jaesrich . The magazine was published by the Office of Military Government for Germany (US) (US military government in Germany). From April 1960 Lasky took over a magazine in London and from now on Fritz René Allemann acted as editor. The month was intended to establish intellectual exchange, especially among liberal, socially critical and left-wing intellectuals - the so-called non-communist left - in the discussion framework of the congress for cultural freedom , whereby anti-American or communist-minded intellectuals should be isolated or reduced in their public effectiveness. In 1966 it was revealed that funds from the CIA also flowed into the magazine through US foundations. In 1968 the month was sold to Die Zeit .
1978 to 1987
In 1971 the magazine was discontinued, but in 1978 it was re-established under the title The Month (New Series) . The new editor-in-chief was the SPD politician and later Minister of State for Culture of the red-green federal government Michael Naumann . In 1987 the magazine was finally discontinued.
Authors
Among others, the authors Theodor W. Adorno , Hannah Arendt , Raymond Aron , Saul Bellow , Heinrich Böll , Ralf Dahrendorf , Milovan Djilas , TS Eliot , Max Frisch , Hermann Kesten , Arthur Koestler , Irving Kristol , Richard Löwenthal , Peter wrote for the month Härtling , Thomas Mann , Peter de Mendelssohn , Armin Mohler , George Orwell , Hans Sahl , Ernest J. Salter , Ignazio Silone , Hilde Spiel and Peter Szondi .
literature
- Michael Hochgeschwender: Freedom on the offensive? The Congress for Cultural Freedom and the Germans. Classification systems. Studies on the history of ideas in modern times. Volume 1. R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1998. Review here.
- Michael Hochgeschwender: American Impact on Western Europe - Americanization and Westernization in Transatlantic perspective. Conference at the German Historical Institute, Washington DC, March 25-27 1999.
- Marko Martin : Orwell, Koestler and all the others. Melvin J. Lasky and 'The Month' . Mut Verlag, Asendorf 1999, ISBN 3-89182-073-9 (essay)
- Marko Martin (ed.): A window to the world. The magazine “The Month”. Athenaeum-Beltz, Weinheim 2000, ISBN 3-89547-720-6 .
- Frances Stonor Saunders: Who pays the bill ...: the CIA and Cold War culture. Siedler, Bwelin 2001, ISBN 3-88680-695-2 .
- Marko Martin: "A magazine against forgetting". Federal Republican traditions and upheavals in the mirror of the cultural magazine “The Month”. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-631-51105-1 .
- Joachim Gmehling: Theories of totalitarianism in the young FRG: On the criticism of National Socialism and Soviet communism in the magazine "Der MONTH". transcript, Bielefeld 2019, ISBN 978-3-8376-4391-6 .
Web links
- Years 1948 to 1952, 1954 and 1959 online in the "Central and Eastern European Online Library"
- Joachim Gmehling: Critique of National Socialism and Soviet Communism in the magazine “The Month”. (PDF) Diss. Rer. soc., University of Hamburg , 2010.
- Wolf-Dieter Roth: German artists and journalists as "IM" of the USA? Telepolis , November 26, 2006
Individual evidence
- ^ "Geist im Krieg. The Month" and the Congress for Cultural Freedom , FAZ April 14, 1999