Women's newspaper
Frauen-Zeitung - An organ for the higher female interests was a weekly newspaper for women founded in 1849 by the writer and women's rights activist Louise Otto , which is considered to be the mouthpiece at that time and today an important historical source base for the early phase of the German women's movement . The first edition was published on April 21, 1849 in Großenhain / Saxony , the 104th and last in Gera in 1852 . The number of copies is not recorded.
history
With the Frauen-Zeitung Otto took up an idea of the women's rights activist Mathilde Anneke , who in 1848 after the censorship of her Neue Kölnische Zeitung had tried to establish a daily, educational paper entitled “Frauenzeitung”. After the third edition had been confiscated and Anneke and her husband emigrated to the USA, she published her German women's newspaper from Milwaukee for around two years .
After the printer Theodor Haffner (1826–1890) from Großenhain had submitted a concept for a women's newspaper, written by Louise Otto, under the motto Dem Reich der Freiheit werb 'ich Bürgerinnen to the Saxon Ministry of the Interior and received printing permission, it was published on April 21 1849 in his publishing house in Grossenhain the first edition. Nevertheless, the tenor of the newspaper was radical:
“Well then, my sisters, unite with me so that we do not stay behind, where everyone and everything around us and next to us pushes and fights. We also want to demand our share and earn money from the great world salvation, which must finally become for all of humanity, of which we are one half. "
The women's newspaper was accepted on commission from the Heinrich Matthes bookstore in Leipzig . In her leading article Otto denounces the exclusion of women from the new bourgeois public as a contradiction to the democratic demands and liberal ideals of the German Revolution of 1848/49 . Otherwise, the newspaper was divided into the sections “Comments”, “Entertainment” and “Information”, dealt with current, predominantly social and educational issues and reported on the lives and activities of women at home and abroad. One series of articles dealt with the historical history of women and their protagonists, another with the life and social position of contemporary employed women, especially women workers.
The women's newspaper cost 15 new penny a quarter .
On July 14, 1849, the 13th edition of the paper was confiscated because of a report about captured participants in the revolutionary struggles in Saxony and Baden for violating the Criminal Code. On July 17, 1850, the house of Louise Otto in Meißen was searched , and letters from like-minded people were found.
At the end of 1850, a new press law came into force in Saxony, Article 12 of which only permitted male persons living in the Kingdom of Saxony to take responsibility for editing a magazine. Women were not even allowed to be named as co-editors. This ordinance, which went down in history as Lex Otto , gave Louise Otto, the only female editor in the country, a professional ban ; the women's newspaper had to officially cease its publication.
From 5 February 1851, the Women's newspaper appeared in Reuss Gera further edited "on the responsibility of the Hofmeister newspaper expedition in Gera" and with the addition provided: organ for higher female interests. Founded and continued by Louise Otto . The delivery was carried out by the bookstore GF Illgens Erben. The price was now 15 silver groschen a quarter. After a press law was passed in Prussia in 1853 that forbade women to publish a newspaper, the women's newspaper was finally discontinued.
Louise Otto later wrote about this project:
“In 1849 I then founded a women's newspaper in Leipzig, which paid homage to every progress made by women for three years. Many women’s associations had also been founded during this time, but when the situation changed and all progressive efforts were suppressed, only those women's newspapers that were fashionable and those that served goodwill survived. "
literature
- Louise Otto-Peters: The women newspaper: an organ for the higher female interests. ZDB -ID 225313-6 , IDN 011336757.
- Louise Otto: The first quarter of a century of the General German Women's Association: Founded on October 18, 1865 in Leipzig. Verlag Schäfer, 1890.
- Johanna Ludwig, Rita Jorek (ed.): Louise Peters, your literary and journalistic work. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 1995, ISBN 3-929031-61-2 .
Web links
- Louise Otto Peters Society V.
- Editorial of the 1st edition
- Federal Agency for Civic Education: Louise Otto-Peters
Individual evidence
- ↑ Title reference of the Berlin State Library
- ^ Editorial of the 1st edition
- ^ Johanna Ludwig, Rita Jorek (ed.): Louise Peters, your literary and journalistic work. P. 61 f.
- ^ Jürgen Wilke: Fundamentals of the media and communication history. UTB 2008, ISBN 3-8252-316-66 , p. 239.
- ^ Louise Otto Peters Society V .: Data on the women's newspaper
- ^ Otto: The first quarter of a century of the General German Women's Association: Founded on October 18, 1865 in Leipzig. P. 1