Der Türmer (magazine)
The tower keeper. Monthly for Mind and Spirit was the name of a national-conservative , Protestant cultural magazine that was first published in Stuttgart from 1898 to 1943, then in Berlin and was published for a long time by the Baltic German writer Jeannot Emil Freiherr von Grotthuss , who lived in Bad Oeynhausen . The name should refer to the tower keeper from Faust II : "Born to see, ordered to look."
history
The magazine sought to give a glimpse of the entire intellectual and social culture in the present; since 1902 there was also the “Türmer Yearbook”. Grotthuss made the "Türmer" a central cultural and political medium of the Wilhelminian era. From 3000 (1899) the circulation climbed to a monthly number of 17,500 i. J. 1913/14. In the rubric “Türmer's Diary” he attacked the social democracy , court nobility, money aristocracy and industry, which he accused of “ Byzantinism ”, class justice and “political eunuchism”. In 1918 he was on the side of the old order against the republic and became a bitter advocate of the stab in the back legend . When he died in 1920, the "Türmer" was "well on the way to becoming one of the strongest and most dangerous opponents of the Weimar system". In doing so, Grotthuss focused on the local art movement. His successor was the Alsatian local artist Friedrich Lienhard , who steered the magazine into völkisch waters. In 1929, the early National Socialist Friedrich Castelle took over the publication and brought in the two völkisch magazines, Deutsche Monatshefte and Die Bergstadt . In 1943 the magazine was included in Westermann's monthly magazine . The magazine was printed and published by Greiner and Pfeifer in Stuttgart until 1930, then by the National Socialist Beenken-Verlag.
The authors of the "Türmers" included u. a. Walter Ehrenstein , Hedwig Forstreuter , Stephan Ley , Otto Rennefeld , Otto von Taube , Karl August Walther and Reinhold Zimmermann .
literature
- Danielle Goubard: The image of France in the magazine Der Türmer (born 1898 - 1920). A contribution to comparative imagology . Diss. RWTH Aachen 1977