Friedrich Stephany

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Friedrich Stephany

Friedrich Stephany (born March 14, 1830 in Finkenwalde , Randow district , † January 30, 1912 in Berlin ) was a German journalist .

Stephany attended the Domgymnasium in Stettin and the Köllnische Gymnasium in Berlin and studied philology and philosophy there. During his studies in 1853 he became a member of the Berlin fraternity Arminia . From 1864 he worked as an editor for the newspaper Reform , which ceased its publication in 1867. He then worked for the magazine Zukunft published by Johann Jacoby . From 1870 he worked for the Vossische Zeitung , where he was editor-in-chief from 1880 to 1900. He later edited the Sunday supplement of the Vossische Zeitung. He was a member of the Liberal Party, the Berlin Press Association , the Society for German Literature and the German Writers' Association . Today he is best known as the correspondent of Theodor Fontane . A contemporary obituary writes about the characteristics of Stephany's journalistic work at the Vossische Zeitung :

“Above all, Stephany was anxious to keep the German language clean. Wustmann was his prophet, and with relentlessness he stamped out every "same" thing that got lost in a manuscript, he got on every foreign word that tried to sneak into the "Vossische Zeitung". With him there were no “telegrams”, there were only “wire reports”. . . . Stephany's insistence on good German, on avoiding foreign words, crooked expressions and other language carvers was not without pedantry; but one must nevertheless blame him for the fact that he worked zealously to improve the formerly notorious "newspaper German". "

literature

  • Bernhard Zand (ed.): Fontane and Friedrich Stephany. Fourteen unpublished letters from Fontane between 1883 and 1898 . In: Fontane-Blätter, (1995), Heft 59, pages 16-37
  • PM: Obituary. In: Berliner Tageblatt , January 31, 1912, morning edition, p. 2

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hugo Böttger (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1911/12. Berlin 1912, p. 198.
  2. ↑ Berliner Tageblatt, January 31, 1912, morning edition, p. 2
personal data
SURNAME Stephany, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH Finkenwalde , Randow district
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1912
Place of death Berlin