The Wandsbecker Bothe
The Wandsbecker Bothe was the newspaper published by Heinrich Carl von Schimmelmann in Wandsbeck (until 1879 still written with "ck", today: Wandsbek ), which was written as the successor to the popular Wandsbecker Mercurius from 1770 to 1775 by Matthias Claudius as the sole editor .
His contributions to the literary part are still highly regarded today. Claudius also succeeded in winning important contributions for this part, for example from Goethe , Herder , Lessing , Klopstock , Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg , Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim , Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty , Johann Martin Miller , Johann Heinrich Voss , Karl Wilhelm Ramler , Gottfried August Bürger , Stolberg and Eschenburg. The circulation remained low (around 400) because the political part - which made up the largest part of the volume - could not achieve the explosiveness of the previous newspaper due to previous censorship . Therefore Claudius was fired in 1775, the Bothe was only continued for a few months by a student (Bernhard Christoph d'Arien).
The Wandsbecker Bothe was published from January 1, 1771 to October 28, 1775.
Web links
- Full text at de.wikisource: ASMUS omnia sua SECUM portans or all works by Wandsbeck Bothen
- Claudius: Der Wandsbecker Bothe (Family Library of the German Classics Volume 31; Hildburghausen & Amsterdam: Bibliographical Institute 1842)
- Texts by Matthias Claudius from the Wandsbeck Bothen in the Gutenberg project
- Claudius and the Wandsbecker Bothe (PDF file; 53 kB)
- Newspaper story with a report about the Wandsbeck Bothen