Structure (Jewish newspaper)

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description Jewish monthly magazine
language German
publishing company JM Jewish Media AG
First edition December 1, 1934
Frequency of publication per month
Sold edition 4500 copies
Editor-in-chief Yves Kugelmann
editor Serenada Verlag AG
executive Director Susanne Braginsky
Web link www.aufbau.eu
Article archive www.bau.eu/archiv (search 2001–2017)
archive.org. (Scans up to vol. 70 [2004], no. 5)
ISSN (print)
The "construction", issue 1 of December 1, 1934

Aufbau is the name of a German- Jewish exile newspaper that was founded in 1934 and appeared in New York until 2004 , but had to cease publication in March 2004 for financial reasons. At the end of 2004, Jüdische Medien AG in Zurich acquired the publishing rights and has been issuing the structure in a new form as a monthly magazine since February 2005 , under the title: Aufbau. The Jewish monthly magazine .

The New York construction

In 1924, "Jewish-minded immigrants [...] to cultivate spiritual aspirations and to promote friendship and sociability" founded the "German Jewish Club" in New York. "Soon after 1933", an independent "Brother Club" was founded in Los Angeles, which was called the "German Jewish Club of 1933" and was supposed to serve "as a material aid organization", but actually also proved itself as a "social working group". The first president of the club was the landscape gardener Theodor Löwenstein, who later designed the garden of the Thomas Mann House in Pacific Palisades . Thomas Mann himself was an honorary member of the club. The “German Jewish Club of 1933” helped its members to choose a career, advised newcomers and organized lecture evenings, concerts, theater performances, sports courses and art seminars. After the outbreak of World War II , the names of the two Jewish clubs were changed in 1940 for psychological reasons: The Californian club removed the word “German” from its name, and the New York club was now called “New World Club”.

On December 1, 1934, the structure appeared for the first time as an initially free journal of the "German Jewish Club" in New York. Beginning with the September 5, 1941 edition, the fortnightly supplement “The West Coast” appeared in “Aufbau” for readers in California, Oregon and Washington. In 1941 the "Jewish Club of 1933" gave up its previous club newspaper "Neue Welt" and instead published the bi-weekly column "Jewish Club of 1933" with the issue of "Aufbau" on October 17, 1941.

“Aufbau” quickly became the most important source of information and contact point for Jewish and other German-speaking refugees in the United States. The word “Aufbau”, whose English form “Reconstruction” was used as a subtitle at times, meant the renewal of German-Jewish life in the USA. The metaphor is also used in the slogan “We are building” of the Zionists in Palestine; it was widespread in the Weimar Republic as a symbol of hope.

Founded by German and Austrian emigrants as a forum , cultural platform and mouthpiece , it was the most important organ for German-speaking Jews and other refugees who fled to the USA during the Nazi era . Staff on the editorial board were at times such as Albert Einstein , Thomas Mann and Stefan Zweig . The long-time editor-in-chief from 1939 was Manfred George , who ensured that it was published weekly. During the time of the World War, the circulation reached the mark of 100,000 copies.

Well-known authors were Hannah Arendt , Max Brod , Martin Buber , Lion Feuchtwanger , Oskar Maria Graf , Heinrich Eduard Jacob , Thomas Mann, Ludwig Marcuse , Hertha Pauli , Pem , Alfred Polgar , Curt Riess , Hans Sahl , Will Schaber , Gershom Scholem , Helmut Kuhn and Carl Zuckmayer . The publicist Rainer Meyer was one of the more recent employees . The print run fell to around 2500 copies by 2003. In March 2004, the structure had to stop its publication for financial reasons.

All articles published between 1934 and 1950 were put online in digitized form by the German National Library (DNB) in June 2004 . Part of the furnishings of the New York office, the photo archive and documentation on the visiting programs of German cities and communities for former Jewish citizens are in the Jewish Museum Berlin .

The Zurich structure

At the end of 2004, the Zurich publishing house Jüdische Medien AG acquired the publishing rights to the Emigrantenzeitung and its archive. At that time, the publishing house was owned by the Swiss investor René Braginsky and his wife Susanne as well as the Hagemann publishing family . Since the beginning of February 2005, the structure appeared in Zurich under the editor-in-chief Yves Kugelmann in a completely new form as a glossy monthly magazine . Andreas Mink, who was the last editor-in-chief of the old structure , took over the New York office of the new structure . The publishing house Jüdische Medien AG also publishes the magazine Tachles . The editorial address and editing of the structure are identical to those of Tachles . Until 2015 the structure appeared in Serenada AG under the editor Susanne Braginsky, in April 2015 Braginsky handed it over to Jüdische Medien AG "as part of a long-term succession plan". As early as 2014, the publication cycle was changed to bimonthly, with six issues a year.

The move to Europe should take into account the changed situation of the Jewish community in Germany since 1989 , in which the international readership of the German language is also showing interest. The magazine represents pluralistic , humanistic and universalistic approaches.

Frequency of publication

  • Monthly organ until 1936
  • from 1936 biweekly newspaper with subscription and advertisements
  • from December 1939 weekly newspaper, editor-in-chief Manfred George
  • from 1966 editor-in-chief Hans Steinitz
  • from 1985 editors-in-chief ...
  • monthly from 2005, editor-in-chief Yves Kugelmann

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Kotowski 2011 , p. 14.
  2. Mierendorff 1966 , pp. 8–9.
  3. ^ Francis Nenik, Sebastian Stumpf: Seven Palms. The Thomas Mann House in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles . Spectormag, Leipzig 2018, ISBN 978-3-95905-180-4 , p. 120-126, 151 .
  4. Mierendorff 1966 , p. 18; Kotowski 2011 , p. 83.
  5. Seib 2014 , structure. Volume 7, No. 36, September 5, 1941, p. 13.
  6. Structure. 7th vol., No. 42, October 17, 1941, p. 17.
  7. Andreas Tzortzis: A German-Jewish Publication Adjusts to Changing Times . In: The New York Times , March 21, 2005, online .
  8. Andreas Tzortzis: A German-Jewish Publication Adjusts to Changing Times . In: The New York Times , March 21, 2005, online .
  9. See for example: The reappearance of the structure announced. In: New newsletter from the Society for Exile Research e. V. , No. 24, December 2004, p. 12, online .
  10. "Aufbau" becomes a monthly magazine . Netzeitung . September 20, 2004. Archived from the original on November 21, 2004. Retrieved June 6, 2009.
  11. Andreas Tzortzis: A German-Jewish Publication Adjusts to Changing Times . In: The New York Times , March 21, 2005, online .
  12. Imprint of the structure on the site aufbau.eu; Imprint of Tachles on the tachles.ch page.
  13. JM Jüdische Medien takes over the Jewish magazine “aufbau” . personal.com, April 2, 2015. Online .
  14. See the archive on the aufbau.eu page.
  15. ^ City of Münster ; Jewish authors from Westphalia ; Library of Congress # PN4885.G3 Z9351
  16. Jewish miniatures. Vol. 109. In: hentrichhentrich.de, accessed on August 30, 2017 (publisher information ).