The poor devil
The poor devil was an American anarchist magazine, published in Detroit ( Michigan ) from 1884 to 1900.
history
The first two volumes of the magazine were published in the spirit of the free thinker movement and mainly contained articles on the subject of criticism of religion. In issue no. 583, page 83, of February 1, 1886, the editor Robert Reitzel stated that The Poor Devil was now an anarchist publication. According to Max Nettlau , the magazine was "a treasure trove of serious and amiable liberal and rebellious feeling and thinking of the most cutting edge social criticism and disorder of authority in all its open and veiled forms". Half of the contributions were taken from the journals Gesellschaft , Zeit , Die Zukunft , the Magazin für Literatur and the Simplicissimus . According to the laws of the time, issues 86, 88, 93, 100, 104 and 107 were banned. The subtitle was organ of the poor devil clubs and topics of politics and literature were preferred. 822 issues were published in 16 years. The successor to Der poor Teufel were the magazines Wolfsaugen, edited by Martin Drescher , a sheet for free spirits , published around 1900 and Der Zigeuner (Chicago, around 1902).
Authors and collaborators were: Karl Henckell , John Henry Mackay , Christian Wagner, Leo Tolstoi , Adolf Ehrenberg, Franz Held , Eduard Fern, Georg Herwegh and others.
Anarchist magazines of the same name
- The poor devil , the editor was Albert Weidner, the editor was Erich Mühsam . Published from 1902 to 1904.
- The poor devil , appeared in Northern Bohemia (Austria). 1906
- The poor devil , a local newspaper in Ludwigshafen from the Free Workers' Union of Germany (FAUD). Published around 1930.
literature
- Ulrike Heider: The poor devil. Robert Reitzel - From Vormärz to Haymarket. Elster-Verlag, 1986, ISBN 3-89151-033-0 .
- Oliver Benjamin Hemmerle: The poor devil. A transatlantic journal between the labor movement and educated middle-class cultural transfer around 1900. LIT-Verlag, Münster 2002, ISBN 3-8258-5849-9 .
- Rudolf Rocker : The poor devil (Detroit). In: Johann Most. The life of a rebel. Pp. 379-381. Berlin 1924/25. (New edition: Libertad Verlag, Berlin / Cologne 1994, ISBN 3-922226-22-1 ).
- Max Nettlau (Ed.): History of Anarchy. In collaboration with the International Institute for Social History (IISG, Amsterdam). Newly published by Heiner Becker. Library Thélème, Münster 1993, 1st edition, reprint of the edition, Verlag Der Syndikalist, Berlin 1927.
- Volume 3: Anarchists and Social Revolutionaries. P. 389.
- Hartmut Rübner: Freedom and Bread. The Free Workers' Union of Germany. The poor devil (Ludwigshafen). P. 283. Libertad Verlag, Potsdam 1994, ISBN 3-922226-21-3 .
Web links
- In the library of the free
- Brief information about The Poor Devil (Detroit). and brief information about Der arme Teufel (Berlin) 'in the database of German-speaking anarchism (DadA).
- In the catalog of the German National Library