The Argonauts (magazine)

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The Argonauts. A monthly

description Literary magazine
language German
publishing company Richard Weissbach Publishing House
First edition 1914
attitude 1921
Frequency of publication irregular
editor Ernst Blass
ZDB 502076-1

The Argonauten was a monthly magazine that appeared in 10 issues in 1914 (6), 1915 (2) and again in 1916 (1) as well as in a final edition in 1921 by Richard Weissbach's publishing house in Heidelberg .

The editor Ernst Blass , who himself emerged as a poet, was then twenty-four years old and a law student at Heidelberg University . He moved there for the winter semester 1912/13 or the summer semester 1913 and moved to his Berlin friend, the literary doctor and philosopher Arthur Kronfeld an der Neckar, in the house on Brückenstraße number 1 , to which the writer Friedrich Burschell is a permanent memorial in his memories has set.

Blass had become known in the circle of Kurt Hiller and his New Club since 1910 in Berlin and nationwide through Hiller's much-discussed poetry anthology Der Kondor , which was also published by Weissbach in 1912 - possibly through the mediation of Kronfeld, who had studied in Heidelberg since 1908 , worked at the Psychiatric University Clinic in Heidelberg and knew the publisher at the latest because of a collaboration with the “Heidelberger Zeitung”, where he had edited a monthly supplement with the title “Literature and Science” until 1911.

Shortly afterwards, Blass had published his first collection of poems, The Streets I Come Along Blown near Weissbach, which had suddenly made him famous as an independent writer.

Weisbach could therefore have offered him favorable terms and good cooperation for other projects; he was personally very interested in contemporary literature and for years had also been involved in various other ways in Heidelberg for its communication and dissemination. Perhaps Weissbach found it appealing to oppose the SATURN magazine , founded in Heidelberg in 1911 by Hermann Meister and Herbert Grossberger, with a literary alternative.

The title "The Argonauts" refers to the saga of the Argonauts to which Blass refers in his foreword, as does the quatrain by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on the title page:

CHIRON. In the noble Argonaut circle
Everyone was good in his own way,
and according to the strength that animated him,
Can he suffice where the others lacked it?

Contents

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literature

  • Friedrich Burschell : Memories 1889-1919. Edited by Roland Krischke for the Stadtarchiv Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Weinheim 1997. Vol. 23 of the publications of the Stadtarchiv Ludwigshafen am Rhein. Pp. 91-102
  • Roland Krischke: Kurt Wildhagen 1871-1949 - The sage from Heidelberg. HVA, Heidelberg 1997
  • Jacob Picard : Ernst Blass, his environment in Heidelberg and "The Argonauts" . Biographical fragment. IMPRIMATURE. A yearbook for book lovers new series, Volume III (1961/62), pp. 194–199, ren. In: Paul Raabe (Ed.): Expressionismus. Records and memories of contemporaries. Walter & Olten, Freiburg 1965, pp. 137–145