The New Orient

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The magazine Der Neue Orient was a specialist journal for oriental studies published in Berlin from 1917 to 1943 .

The bi-monthly publication for political, economic and intellectual life in the entire Orient , so the subtitle, was published as part of the activities of the news agency for the Orient . The semi-official news center was set up by the orientalists Eugen Wednesday and Max von Oppenheim . The forerunner was the correspondence sheet of the news agency for the Orient , which appeared in three editions 1915–1916 / 17, printed on one side in the first two years, as is usual for correspondence sheets. The suggestion for the magazine came from the Foreign Office. "The New Orient" initially served as a propaganda instrument for German interests and primarily processed the material coming from Turkey. In 1917, Wednesday suggested to the Foreign Office to convert the news office into an Orient Institute.

The editor was initially Herbert Müller, then Armin T. Wegner (from volume 3) and Eugen Wednesday (from volume 6, volume 2). According to Georg Kampffmeyer , the content, especially of the first 6 years, was “very significant and rich, it included not only economic life but also the entire cultural and intellectual life of the Orient. In addition to important articles, we find documents, contracts, etc. printed. After the unfortunate outcome of the war, the New Orient, which evidently the authorities were no longer interested in, gradually shrank. "

The Italian magazine Oriente Moderno , which began reporting in 1921, also reported on recent developments in the Orient and "basically picked up the thread that the magazine Der Neue Orient and its predecessor ... had started in Germany."

Remarks

  1. ^ Mustafa Gencer: Educational Policy, Modernization and Cultural Interaction . LIT Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-8258-6370-0 , p. 193.
  2. ↑ Georg Kampffmeyer: About the basics for the structure of a comprehensive report on the present conditions of the Orient . In: Die Welt des Islams , Vol. 18 (1936), pp. 12-53 (here: 29), ISSN  0043-2539 .
  3. ↑ Walther Björkman : Summary publications on the contemporary history of the Islamic Orient . In: Die Welt des Islams , Vol. 14 (1932), pp. 28-40 (here: p. 28).

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