Women's suffrage (magazine)

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Women's Suffrage (1912-14), The Citizen (from 1914)

description Subtitle initially "Monthly of the German Association for Women's Suffrage", from 1916 "Monthly of the German Reich Association for Women's Suffrage"
Area of ​​Expertise Politics, women's suffrage
language German
publishing company Loewenthal (Berlin) (until 1914), Hermann (Berlin), Leipzig (Teubner) (from 1914)
First edition 1.4. 1912
attitude 8.1919 / 20
Frequency of publication quarterly
Sold edition more than 9000 copies
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Widespread edition 15,000 copies
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Editor Anita Augspurg (until 1913)
Adele Schreiber (since 1914)
ZDB 539018-7

The magazine Frauenstimmrecht , later called Die Staatsbürgerin , was published from 1912 to 1919. It was the organ of the German Association for Women's Suffrage and, from 1916, that of its successor organization, the German Reich Association for Women's Suffrage .

history

First edition of the magazine Frauenstimmrecht from April / May 1912 with the song "Weckruf zum Frauenstimmrecht", which was to be sung to the melody of the Marsellaise .

Until 1911, the organ of the association founded in 1902 was the magazine for women's suffrage , which appeared both as an independent magazine and a monthly supplement to the magazine Die Frauenbewegung and was edited by the chairwoman of the association, Anita Augspurg . In 1912 the journal Frauenstimmrecht was launched as an association organ, the editor of which was Augspurg. According to the recollections of Lida Gustava Heymann , no rules or restrictions were imposed on the editor.

At the Eisenach general assembly of the association in 1913, it was decided that the content and form of editing should be carried out in agreement with the association's executive committee. This reflected a dispute over the direction that had raged in the association since 1907. Augspurg then gave up the editorial team, which was now (from issue 3) Adele Schreiber .

There were resignations from the association and the establishment of another voting rights association. Minna Cauer commented on this in the magazine for Frauenstimmrecht : "There is now enough choice so that everyone can choose their field; the conservative, the moderate and the democratic." At that time, the Women's Suffrage Association and its organ stood for the moderate direction, which, however, shifted in the conservative direction under the influence of the First World War and after the merger with the conservative German Association for Women's Suffrage to the German Reich Association for Women's Suffrage in 1916.

Content and structure

The editors of the magazine refused to restrict the content to women’s issues and politics and called for engagement with and interference in all political areas. Accordingly, they reported on the status of the suffrage movement as well as on war and peace, women's work, alcoholism, and much more, but always linked this to the argument for women's suffrage . The representation often formed a counterpoint to the ruling press.

additional

The issue price was 1 mark. The magazine was financed through the sales proceeds and an extensive advertising section.

  • Selection of some issues of the journal Frauenstimmrecht / Die Staatsbürgerin

  • Die Staatsbürgerin Vol. 7 Issue 8 (1918)

  • The Citizen Vol. 7 Issue 10/11 (1919)

literature

  • Ulla Wischermann : The press of the radical women's movement . In: Feminist Studies . tape 3 , no. 1 , 1984, p. 39–62, here 48–50 .
  • Ulla Wischermann: Women's movements and publics around 1900. Networks - counter-publics - protest stagings (=  Frankfurt Feminist Texts / Social Sciences . Volume 4 ). Helmer, Königstein 2003, ISBN 3-89741-121-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Wischermann 1984, p. 48.
  2. ↑ Bärbel Clemens: The struggle for women's suffrage in Germany . In: Christl Wickert (Ed.): Out with women's suffrage. The struggles of women in Germany and England for political equality (=  women in history and society . No. 17 ). Centaurus, Pfaffenweiler 1990, ISBN 3-89085-389-7 , p. 51–131, here 77 .
  3. ↑ Lida Gustava Heymann: Experienced - Seen. German women fight for freedom, justice and peace. 1850-1940 . In collaboration with Anita Augspurg. Ed .: Margrit Twellmann. Helmer, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-927164-43-7 , p. 123 (first edition: 1972).
  4. ↑ Wischermann 2003, p. 114.
  5. ↑ Zeitschrift für Frauenstimmrecht 8 (1914) 4, p. 11, quoted from Clemens 1990, p. 102-103.
  6. ^ Richard J. Evans: The feminist movement in Germany 1894-1933 (=  Sage studies in 20th century history . Volume 6 ). Sage Publications, London 1976, ISBN 0-8039-9951-8 , pp. 106-107 .
  7. ↑ Barbara Greven-Aschoff: The bourgeois women's movement in Germany 1894-1933 (=  critical studies on historical science . Volume 46 ). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1981, ISBN 3-525-35704-4 , pp. 137–140 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb00052495-9 .