The morning star (newspaper)

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The Morgenstern was a populist German-language newspaper for Graubünden . It appeared from 1841 to 1843. It was founded by Ludwig Christ after he had left the Bündner Zeitung (1830–1858) in a dispute. "Der Morgenstern" was a combative paper in the service of the "ordinary citizen". Ludwig Christ's articles were often polemical in nature. The newspaper described its target audience with the sentence: "Big gentlemen and beggars do not read this newspaper." The sheet was named after the medieval weapon of the same name , which was a symbol of resistance against the cities in rural areas until the time of the Sonderbund War . "The mighty Morgenstern should work in the hands of the mountain country in the fight against malice, stupidity, mutilation and hypocrisy." The competitors of the “Morgenstern” were the conservative Churer Zeitung (1800–1856) and the progressively liberal Bündner Zeitung (1830–1858). After a short time the fighting spirit of the "morning star" waned. The last issue appeared in September 1843. A few days later the same publisher launched the Free Rätier (1843–1848) .

Remarks

  1. ↑ Foppa (2002), page 24, does not provide any information about the frequency of appearance of the “morning star”. So it can only be assumed here that it was a daily newspaper.
  2. ↑ In more recent times this so-called "simple citizen" corresponds to the so-called "middle class".
  3. ↑ Quotation from the morning star, handed down by Candreia (1909), page 43.
  4. ↑ What exactly the term “national mutilation” means is not clear. But the example shows that ethnic vocabulary was in use long before the rise of the National Socialists.
  5. ↑ quoted from Candreia (1909), page 43.

literature

  • Jakob Candreia: The Graubünden newspaper system in the 19th century until 1870 . Fiebig, Chur 1909, ( supplement to the canton school program 1908/09, ZDB -ID 380705-8 ).
  • Daniel Foppa: The history of the German-language daily press in the canton of Graubünden . In: Yearbook of the Historical Society of Graubünden 132, 2002, ISSN  1011-2049 , pp. 1–71, (also Separatum).

See also

At other times, sheets of the same name appeared that have nothing to do with the events described here: