Illustrated New World Calendar
| Illustrated New World Calendar | |
|---|---|
| description | Workers' calendar, party calendar |
| publishing company | Auer / Hamburg and JHW Dietz / Stuttgart (on commission) (Germany) |
| First edition | 1883 |
| attitude | 1951 |
| Frequency of publication | yearly |
| Sold edition | 130,000 copies |
| ZDB | 43700-1 |
The illustrated New World calendar was a worker 's calendar that was published annually from 1883 to 1951 by the Hamburger Buchdruckerei and Verlagsanstalt Auer & Co. and in Stuttgart by JHW Dietz.
history
The New World Calendar was produced in 1895 in an edition of 130,000 copies. The price fluctuated between 40 and 50 pfennigs from 1883 to 1918, from 1919 60 pfennigs were charged.
Its predecessors were the party calendar " Der arme Conrad " Illustrated Calendar for the Working People, which was published from 1876 to 1879 by the publishing house of the Genossenschaftsbuchdruckerei in Leipzig and the " Omnibus " Illustrated People's Calendar was published by Leipzig Fink Verlag from 1880 to 1881. The successor was the "Deutsche Volkskalender ”which appeared from 1953 to 1954.
The calendar was not only addressed to workers and peasants, but also to artisans, that is, to petty bourgeoisie and low-ranking officials. They sought to attract those who were normally counted among the “little people”, primarily those who earned little and usually had to work very long.
In the New World Calendar of 1895, Robert Schweichel published the short story “Besiegt not overcome” . This peasant war pamphlet is based on historical material studies and a trip through southwest German peasant war areas. In the New World Calendar of 1900, Wilhelm Liebknecht wrote “From his youth” or Emil Rosenow “The ten red thalers”, Rosenow's dramas repeatedly deal with the “lifeworld of the poor and the declassified” and their exploitation, and openly incorporates social democratic motives. Social democratic speeches are given and there is even an election meeting of the SPD . Many social democratic topics were dealt with in the New World Calendar, plus the portraits of Social Democrats, so the New World Calendar could also be called a party calendar.
The “Illustrated New World Calendar” also contained contributions to the women's movement such as B. von Klara Zetkin “On the history of the proletarian women's movement in Germany” 1905 and “The beginnings of the proletarian women's movement in Germany” 1906.
But there were also scientific and technical contributions. "The interior of the earth", by Dr. H. Lux 1895, "The phenomena on the sun and their physical condition", by Franz Heymann 1895, "The North Pole and its exploration", by Dr. Bruno Borchardt 1897, “What Uses Electricity”, by Maximilian Dittrich 1883, “An electrical engineering review”, by W. Hauber jr. 1893 or "The Light of the Future" by Dr. H. Lux 1896.
There were also poems published every year. E.g. by Ernst Preczang , Rudolf Lavant , Heinrich Kämpchen , Julius Zerfaß , Ludwig Lessen to name a few, unfortunately at this time, as in many other magazines, poems are without a sign. Portraits of social democrats such as B. Wilhelm Hasenclever 1889, Jacob Audorf 1893, August Bebel 1915 have been published.
Later topics were mainly the First World War , Weimar Republic , Third Reich , Second World War , post-war period and reconstruction .
literature
- Calendar history and calendar, by Ludwig Rohner, Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Athenaion, 1978.
- Calendar stories Text editions on early socialist literature in Germany, Akademie-Verlag, 1975.
Individual evidence
- ^ The German calendar history by Jan Knopf, Verlag Suhrkamp 1983.