German novel library
The German Novel Library for On Land and Sea , or German Novel Library for short , was a weekly literary magazine in which novels were printed in sequels. The magazine was published from 1873 to 1911.
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The novel library was founded in Stuttgart in 1873 by Eduard Hallberger as editor and publisher and by Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer as editor. It was a spin-off of the illustrated magazine “ Über Land und Meer ”, which printed alternately essays, articles, novellas and two larger serial novels. The new magazine should relieve the sister magazine and create "the novel its own organ".
The weekly magazine was published in 39 years from 1873 to 1911, first by Eduard Hallberger's publishing house, and from 1881 by the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt . The editor was Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer until his death in 1877. Eduard Hallberger was the editors until his death in 1880, then temporarily his brother Karl "Charles" Hallberger, from 1881 Edmund Zoller, from 1885 Otto Baisch and Hugo Rosenthal-Bonin and from 1892 five other editors.
Unlike the sister magazine “Über Land und Meer”, the novel library was not illustrated. In the individual years between 9 and 14 novels were reprinted in sequels. The column “Feuilleton” contained new German poems (“From the new German lyric poetry”), short readings from foreign print media (“International readings”) and amusing snippets in the “Mosaic” section.
In editorials in the magazine “Über Land und Meer” and the novel library itself, the novelists were touted as the “first names in novel literature”. In fact, the contributors to the magazine at the time were well-known and widely read authors, including a quarter women, who sometimes wrote under male pseudonyms. The names of these authors are hardly known today. This fate also met the publisher Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer, who opened the round of booklets with his novel "Nullen" in 1873 and in 1876/1877 contributed the novel "The End of Countess Patatzky".
The German Novel Library was neither the first nor the last magazine to specialize in the printing of novels. The "Deutsche Roman-Zeitung" was founded in 1864 and lasted until 1944. The magazine “Illustrirte Romane aller Nations. Entertainment sheets for everyone ”was published from 1881 to 1894 by Eduard Hallberger. The “Roman Library of the 'Gazebo'” existed for only 5 years from 1883 to 1887, “Engelhorn's general Roman Library” from 1884 to 1919, “Velhagen & Klasings Roman Library” from 1890 to 1907 and Cotta's “Die Romanwelt. Journal for the narrative literature of all peoples ”from 1984 to 1900.
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- The family papers published by Eduard Hallberger. In: Dieter Barth: The family sheet - a phenomenon of the entertainment press of the 19th century. In: Das Archiv für Geschichte des Buchwesens, Volume 15, 1975, Column 257-272, here: 270-271.
- Thomas Dietzel; Hans-Otto Hügel: German literary magazines: 1880 - 1945; a repertory. Volume 1: 1 - 764: A travers les Vosges - German-Nordic yearbook. Munich: Saur, 1988. 336 pages, pages 297-298.
- Alfred Estermann : The German literature journals: Bibliographies, programs, authors - 1850 - 1880. Volume 5. Sp - Z, 2435 - 2953. Register. Munich: Saur, 1989, number 1237, pages 124–142, here: 125–126, 134–135, 136, 139–142.
- Andreas Graf: Novel magazines. In: The Origins of the Modern Media Industry: Family and Entertainment Magazines of the Imperial Era (1870–1918). Online 2007, pages 64-69, online .
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Footnotes
- ↑ #Estermann 1989.5 , page 139.
- ↑ # Dietzel 1988.1 .
- ↑ Years 1873–1878.
- ↑ #Estermann 1989.5 , page 139.
- ↑ Years 1873–1878.