The Change (monthly magazine)
Die Wandlung was a monthly magazine published in Heidelberg from November 1945 to autumn 1949. It was founded by the philosopher Karl Jaspers , the political scientist Dolf Sternberger , the Romance scholar Werner Krauss and the cultural sociologist Alfred Weber . The publication, immediately after the National Socialist era , was intended to contribute to the intellectual renewal of Germans (not only) in the western zones. Dolf Sternberger acted as editor.
Authors were u. a. Hannah Arendt , TS Eliot , Karl Jaspers, Marie-Luise Kaschnitz , Werner Krauss, Dolf Sternberger, Gerhard Storz , Wilhelm E. Süskind , Alfred Weber and Viktor von Weizsäcker . Also contained spending documents of contemporary history, especially of National Socialism .
In the preface to the first edition, Karl Jaspers wrote that after National Socialism there were no valid, binding norms . He would dare to be responsible again, to find his way through this immense hardship thinking. Memory will not suffice for this. He didn't want to focus the new magazine on history, but on the present and the future. After experiencing the National Socialist ideology , Jaspers emphasized: “We don't make a program.” The key concepts were: spiritual renewal, responsibility, freedom and humanism .
Twenty-eight linguistic critical articles by Sternberger, Storz and Süskind were published in book form in 1957 under the title From the Dictionary of the Unmenschen ; in the third edition in 1967 the dictionary contained 33 terms.
The Romanist Patricia Oster examined the magazine's year 1946 and stated: The change is marked by the discourse of a radical break with the past, while “Lancelot” emphasizes the continuity of the French cultural heritage, but also of a certain humanistic tradition in Germany. This friction between two opposing magazine concepts creates a potential for Franco-German understanding.
literature
- Monika Waldmüller: “The change. A monthly magazine. ”Edited by Dolf Sternberger with the assistance of Karl Jaspers, Werner Krauss and Alfred Weber. German Schiller Society , Marbach 1988
- Dolf Sternberger, Gerhard Storz, Wilhelm E. Süskind: From the dictionary des Unmenschen , Claassen, Hamburg 1957
- Patricia Oster: The magazine as a place of constitution of a “transnational” cultural field: “Lancelot, The Messenger from France” and “The Change”, in this. & Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink (eds.), At the turning point. Germany and France around 1945. On the dynamics of a 'transnational' cultural field - Dynamiques d'un champ culturel 'transnational', L'Allemagne et la France vers 1945. Yearbook of the France Center. Transcript, Bielefeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-89942-668-7 , pp. 231-248
Web links
- Science Review of the book by Oster a. a.
- Oster on their subject of investigation
- Bibliogr. Proof as microfiche at the German Central Library for Economics , Leibniz Information Center for Economics, Kiel. Complete edition 1.1945-46 to 4.1949. Compiled by the German Literature Archive , Marbach 1997
Remarks
- ^ Verlag Lambert Schneider, (in addition, a series of "Writings of Change" appeared there)
- ^ Foreword: Issue 1, Nov 1945, pp. 1–6
- ^ UT: "The messenger from France." A cultural project of the French occupying power in their area
- ↑ Oster 2008, pp. 231–248. Available online on the publisher's website and on google books