The new Pitaval
The new Pitaval is “a collection of the most interesting crime stories from all countries, old and new”. It was published in 60 volumes from 1842 to 1890 by Brockhaus in Leipzig. It was founded by Julius Eduard Hitzig and Wilhelm Häring (stage name: Willibald Alexis ), continued by Anton Vollert .
precursor
The most important role model for Hitzig and Häring were the cases that Paul Johann Anselm von Feuerbach collected during his time in the Bavarian Ministry and Justice Service and published in several volumes from 1808 to 1829.
It was named after the French lawyer François Gayot de Pitaval (1673–1743), whose collection Causes célèbres et intéressantes, avec les jugemens qui les ont décidées 1734–1741 appeared in 20 volumes and was translated into many European languages. With this he founded the literary genre of the Pitaval . Friedrich Schiller wrote a preface for a German processing of the Pitaval cases, in which he suggested “also from other writers and from other nations (especially, where possible, from our fatherland) to take up important legal cases and thereby gradually to a complete collection To raise magazine for this genre ”.
content
The new Pitaval contains around 600 documentary narrative depictions of criminal cases, which were processed according to judicial files or other traditions for an audience that is less interested in the aspects of legal proceedings than in the biographies of the criminals and the psychological, social and historical circumstances of their actions interested and, above all, looking for exciting and instructive reading.
successor
In 1949, the Munich publisher WE Freitag (he also published Der Simpl ) published a magazine that was also entitled Der neue Pitaval . Interesting, also unexplained criminal cases - newly researched and psychologically examined - should be told in an exciting and sophisticated manner. Only three issues appeared, then the magazine was discontinued for economic reasons. The publisher was Ernst Hoferichter .
Between 1963 and 1969 the Kurt Desch publishing house published another new Pitaval with fifteen volumes . The editor was Hermann Mostar , whose work was later continued by Robert Adolf Stemmle .
See also
Web links
- Works by Der neue Pitaval in the Gutenberg-DE project with several volumes of the new Pitaval