Poor Conrad (Calendar)
| Poor Conrad. Illustrated calendar for the working people. | |
|---|---|
| description | Workers' calendar, party calendar |
| publishing company | Printing and publishing of the cooperative book printing company Leipzig (Germany) |
| First edition | 1875 |
| attitude | 1878 |
| Frequency of publication | yearly |
| Sold edition | 60,000 copies |
| ZDB | 520052-0 |
Poor Conrad. Illustrated calendar for the working people was considered the most important worker's calendar , which was published annually for the years 1876 to 1879 by the publishing house of the Leipzig Cooperative Book Printing Company.
history
The name is linked to the peasant uprising, which in 1514 rebelled as an alliance of the "common man" in the Duchy of Württemberg and called itself " Poor Conrad ". They called themselves that because the nobility mocked them with the dirty name. The term poor Konrad meant something like poor devil or poor guy. The insurgents' war flag showed a simple man lying in front of a cross under the words "Poor Conrad".
Its predecessor was the workers 'calendar "German Workers' Calendar of the New Social Democrat", which appeared in Berlin in 1875. The successor was the " Omnibus . Illustrated People's Calendar", which was published from 1880 to 1881 by Fink Verlag in Leipzig.
"Poor Conrad" stood for the revolutionary workers' calendar. In the subtitle he called himself: Illustrated Calendar for the Working People “. From 1876 the state committee of the Social Democratic Party of Germany published it in the cooperative printing house in Leipzig. “The calendar increased its circulation from 41,000 in 1876 to 60,000 in 1878.
Well-known social democratic writers wrote for the first year of the “Poor Conrads”: Friedrich Wilhelm Fritzsche , both active trade unionist and poet, Johann Most , Johann Philipp Becker , August Geib , Wilhelm Hasselmann , Carl Hirsch and Wilhelm Liebknecht . In “Armen Conrad”, astronomical treatises are compatible with astrological rules. The "reading" worker and the pensive peasant should be addressed. The content was emphatically social democratic.
He replaced the traditional names of saints in the calendar with the dates of non-profit people, he presented portraits of Ferdinand Lassalle and Heinrich Heine , François Noël Babeuf and Ludwig Börne , Ludwig Feuerbach and Georg Herwegh, among others; the anecdotes were critical of society, the puzzles were political; it also included poems, e.g. B. von Herwegh in the year 1876.
Books were presented, for example the famous book by Lissagaray on the Paris Commune, which was first published in Brussels in 1876 and was only available in French, was reviewed in 1878. History was also mentioned, e.g. B. the Hambacher Fest of 1832 in the year 1876 and the planning of the Gotha party congress in 1877 in the corresponding year. Three examples of calendar stories in “Armen Conrad”: Carl Hillmann's “Happiness and Long Life” (1878), Friedrich-Wilhelm Fritzsche's “Christmas Pictures from a Proletarian Life” (1878), Robert Schweichel's “In the Secret Annex” (1879). It is more a question of descriptions than actual calendar stories; they are written by the “working class” and draw their material from the world of the proletariat. The "Poor Conrad" fell victim to the socialist law of 1878.
literature
- Calendar history and calendar, by Ludwig Rohner, Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Athenaion, 1978.
- Calendar stories Text editions on early socialist literature in Germany, Akademie-Verlag, 1975.
Individual evidence
- ^ The German calendar history by Jan Knopf, Verlag Suhrkamp 1983.
Web links
- Poor Conrad 1876 digital