The call

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The reputation - independent papers of the young generation
Title header
description cultural-political journal
publishing company Nymphenburger Verlagshandlung, Munich
First edition August 15, 1946
attitude March 15, 1949
Frequency of publication bi-monthly
Sold edition 20,000–70,000 copies
( bpb.de )
Editor-in-chief Hans Werner Richter
editor Alfred Andersch
Web link 1st year no.1

The Ruf was a German cultural-political magazine founded in Munich in 1946 with the programmatic subtitle “Independent papers of the young generation”. The political orientation of the magazine corresponded to a " socialist humanism ". Its founders are considered to be the pioneers of Group 47 .

history

The call: newspaper of German prisoners of war in the USA , issue of November 15, 1945

As a forerunner of the Ruf , founded in 1946, the first edition of the magazine Der Ruf was published on March 1, 1945 : Newspaper of German prisoners of war in USA . It was created as part of the American re- education program in the Fort Philip Kearney prisoner-of-war camp in Rhode Island and edited by Curt Vinz. Distributed to the German prisoners of war in various camps, their circulation initially ranged from 10,000 to 75,000 copies before the 26th edition was discontinued on April 1, 1946. Alfred Andersch and Hans Werner Richter , both of whom were American prisoners of war, were among the staff of the magazine.

After her return to Germany, Curt Vinz, now a publisher of the Nymphenburger Verlagshandlung in Munich, developed the idea of publishing a successor to the prisoner of war newspaper. On August 15, 1946, the first issue of the magazine Der Ruf - independent papers of the younger generation appeared with an initial circulation of 35,000 copies. The editor was Alfred Andersch, and Hans Werner Richter acted as editor and since the fourth edition has been co-editor. Other employees included the editor Gustav René Hocke , the graphic artist Franz Wischnewski as well as Walter Maria Guggenheimer , Walter Kolbenhoff , Walter Heist and Friedrich Minssen, and later Hildegard Brücher .

The first eight pages of the magazine were usually about political issues. This was followed by cultural and literary articles on four to five pages, followed by book reviews and advertisements. In particular in the leading article on the first two pages and in the German comments section on page three, the political convictions of the editors flowed, which Andersch summed up in retrospect: “We made this paper under the aspect of freedom, so that one could say in Germany what it was thought necessary to say. And that also included criticism of the occupying power. […] There were two central red threads that ran through the newspaper. One was the idea [...] that the future Germany [...] would have to build a bridge between East and West. - The second thing was that we said: socialism. We advocated a socialist Germany that should serve as a bridge between the Western powers and the Soviet Union in foreign and domestic politics . "

The edition of reputation s increased, not least because of the critical attitude towards the American occupation forces, soon to 50,000 and since the 10th edition on January 1, 1947 70,000 copies before the Information Control Division of the American occupation zone after the 14 Edition was cut to 50,000 after various articles in that edition attracted the indignation of American censorship bodies. With the planning of issue 17 on April 4, 1947, the ICD finally banned the reputation , which could only be circumvented under the condition that the editors Andersch and Richter were dismissed. With a changed political profile and under new editorship, initially provisionally by Erich Kuby , from January 1948 by Walter von Cube , the magazine was able to appear again shortly afterwards. The place of publication changed from Munich to Mannheim in 1948. In 1949 the call was finally abandoned.

While Andersch devoted himself to literary projects after his departure, Richter planned a new magazine called Der Skorpion , which never got beyond its zero number , but from their first employee meeting, Group 47 emerged, which subsequently had a great influence on German post-war literature. The importance of the magazine Der Ruf itself is controversial. Gerd Bucerius spoke of a “glamorous political magazine” and saw in Hans Werner Richter the journalist with the greatest influence in the American zone of occupation. Alexander Gallus rated the reputation as one of the leading media of its time. Heinz Ludwig Arnold put it into perspective: "Its importance remained ephemeral , a side note from this time, if it had not been enhanced by the later fame of Andersch and Richter and above all by the subsequent success story of Group 47."

See also

literature

  • Hans A. Neunzig (ed.): The call - independent papers for the young generation. A selection . Foreword by Hans Werner Richter, introduction by Hans A. Neunzig. Nymphenburger Verlagshandlung, Munich 1976
  • Hans Schwab-Felisch (Ed.): The call. A German post-war magazine. With a foreword by Hans Werner Richter. Munich 1962.
  • Jérôme Vaillant: The reputation. Independent papers of the younger generation (1945–1949). A magazine between illusion and adaptation. Munich u. a. 1978
  • Volker C. Wehdeking: The zero point. About the constitution of German post-war literature (1945–1948) in the American prisoner-of-war camps. Stuttgart 1971
  • Merle Krüger: The “Third Way” of the “Young Generation”: Hans Werner Richter and “Der Ruf”. In: Jost Hermand, Helmut Peitsch, Klaus R. Scherpe (eds.): Post-war literature in West Germany. Vol. 2. Berlin 1983, pp. 28-40
  • Uwe Puschner: The reputation. Germany in Europe (1946–1949). In: Michel Grunewald, Hans Manfred Bock (ed.): The European discourse in German magazines (1945–1955). Frankfurt / M. u. a. 2001, pp. 105-120

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexander Gallus: "The Call" - Voice for a New Germany
  2. ^ Heinz Ludwig Arnold: The group 47 . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2004, ISBN 3-499-50667-X , p. 17
  3. ^ Arnold: Die Gruppe 47 , p. 20
  4. ↑ Alexander Gallus: "The Call" - Voice for a New Germany . Federal Agency for Civic Education
  5. ↑ a b Alexander Gallus: "The Call" - Voice for a New Germany . Federal Agency for Civic Education
  6. ^ Arnold: Die Gruppe 47 , p. 21
  7. ^ A b Arnold: Die Gruppe 47 , p. 23
  8. ↑ J. Vaillant: Der Ruf (note 3), pp. 106–145.
  9. ↑ Gerd Bucerius : Controversial Conservative . In: Die Zeit , No. 13/1974