Flora (magazine)
The magazine Flora with the subtitle " Teutschland's daughters consecrated by friends of the fair sex " was published by Friedrich Cotta between 1793 and 1803 and was one of the first women's magazines in the German language.
History of origin
After Friedrich Cotta discontinued the Amaliens Erholungsstunden magazine in his publishing bookstore, which had been published by Marianne Ehrmann since 1790 after a dispute with the editor, he published Flora as the successor title in 1793, which, unlike Amaliens Erholungsstunden, was not written by a woman but by Christian Jakob Zahn was edited in the spirit of a commercial journal.
Employee
The employees published largely anonymously. It is known, however, that the “ladies' poet” Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel and Ludwig Ferdinand Huber contributed to the magazine. Huber contributed in particular to translations of contemporary women's literature , including works by Isabelle de Charrière . However , it has not been proven that his wife Therese Huber published the magazine, as is sometimes indicated in biographical descriptions.
content
Like Amalia's recovery hours, the magazine offered its readers music supplements, novels , anecdotes , letters, essays and poems . There were also “ fashion news ”, but unlike the previous magazine , there were no longer any politically or scientifically educational articles. Current feminist research therefore sees the flora as a step backwards compared to its predecessors, Sophie von La Roches Pomona and Amaliens hours of relaxation , especially since individual articles clearly show misogynistic approaches.
literature
- Britt-Angela Kirstein: Marianne Ehrmann. Publicist and editor in the late 18th century . DUV, Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 3-8244-4251-5 (also dissertation, Univ. Oldenburg, 1994)
