Draisena

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Draisena - First and oldest sports paper for women cycling, title page, Dresden-Vienna on April 24, 1899, No. 8, 5th year

The magazine Draisena - Blätter für Damen-Cycling: Organ for the care and promotion of women's cycling was founded in 1895 and was published twice a month in Dresden from 1897 by Ernst Heinrich Meyer. Previously the place of publication was Augsburg . The sheet was discontinued around 1901. Draisena is known as the first and oldest sports paper for women cycling .

Draisena described itself in advertisements in 1899 as the "Official Organ of the Ladies of the General Cyclists Union, German Touring Club , the Association of Christian Cyclists Oesterreichs , the Protection Association of German Cyclists , the Federation of German Cyclists Austria , the Protection Association of Cyclists in Cologne and the Surrounding Area , des Lower Austrian Cyclists Association, Ostmark , the Cyclists Protection Association Hanover , as well as 120 individual associations. "

The women's rights activist Minna Wettstein-Adelt was editor-in-chief of Draisena from 1895 to 1897; her function was designated in 1899 as "Redaktion für Deutschland". In 1899 Arnold Berg in Vienna acted as publisher and responsible editor for Austria-Hungary.

In 1897 Draisena presented at the “I. Bicycle tourism exhibition ”from July 15 to 25, 1897 in Munich. In the yearbook of the German cycling clubs 1897/98 only one club mentions "Draisena" as an organ of the association: the Velocia women RV in Dresden- Blasewitz .

Anne-Katrin Ebert discussed the clothing issue of cycling women in articles in the Draisena in the study Cycling Nations .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Address book for Dresden and its suburbs , 1901: III. Part, Section 5, Newspapers, p. 148
  2. ^ GVK - Common union catalog: Draisena: Leaves for ladies cycling; Organ for care u. Promotion d. Cycling d. Ladies
  3. cycling4fans.de: Women's cycling in the 19th century, part 2 .
  4. Austrian National Library: Draisena. First and oldest sports journal for women cycling. Founded in 1895 ... Ed .: Ernst Heinrich Meyer. For Austria-Hungary: Arnold Berg, Dresden: Ernst Heinrich Meyer; 1898-
  5. Rad-Rundfahrten in Deutschland, No. 4 Saxon-Bohemian Switzerland, E. Wegener and Joh. Grüss, Berlin 1899, advertisements ( Draisena ), digitized, SLUB Dresden .
  6. Rad-Rundfahrten in Deutschland, No. 3 Harz, E. Wegener and Joh. Grüss, Berlin 1899, advertisements (p. 110 - Draisena ).
  7. ^ BSB Munich, digitized: catalog, I. Cycle tourism exhibition from July 15 to 25, 1897. Organized for the XII. Congress of the German Touring Club (ARU) in Munich in the Städtische Schrannenhalle, Munich, 1897, p. 5.
  8. Bike traffic Nations The history of the bicycle in Germany and the Netherlands to 1940, z. B. on page 128 .