Journaille

The term journaille is a derogatory term for journalists in the German-speaking world . It is a new word from the beginning of the 20th century based on the French word Kanaille and means something like "press rabble" or "press pack". The word uses a vague definition of journalists as a whole or as individuals who spread disparaging and scandalous untruths or half-truths, especially in the tabloid media . They are interpreted as irresponsible, hungry for sensations or acting unfairly . In individual cases they are also assigned demagogic or political motives.

The expression was made famous by Karl Kraus . In Die Fackel he wrote in 1902 in an article with the headline Die Journaille about "the devastation of the state by the press maffia", which is why he "handed over this term to linguistic usage". He added that a “witty man” had recommended this “valuable term for my purposes”; this man was Alfred von Berger , as Kraus explained in another Torch article in 1910. The word was also used by leading representatives of the Nazi regime against the press of the Weimar Republic (“ system press ”), but it can still be found (unlike other terms from the language of National Socialism ) in the political discourse of the Federal Republic to this day. After the Second World War, the word established itself in the political parlance of the Netherlands with less of a burden.

literature

• Adolf Josef Storfer : Kanaille. In: ders .: words and their fates. Atlantis, Berlin / Zurich 1935, p. 204 f., Here p. 205. Reprinted by Vorwerk 8, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-930916-37-1 .
• Cornelia Schmitz-Berning: Journaille. In: dies .: Vocabulary of National Socialism. 2nd, revised and revised edition (first 1998). De Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019549-1 , p. 326 f.
• Johanna Bertsch: Against the journaille. Aspects of the connection between language and press criticism in German-language literature since the middle of the 19th century , Lang, Frankfurt 2000, ISBN 3-631-36500-4 (also dissertation at the University of Siegen 2000).
• Christian Göbel: The familiar enemy. Press criticism in the literature of the 19th and early 20th centuries , Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8260-4641-4 (also dissertation at the University of Saarbrücken ).

Web links

Wiktionary: Journaille  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl Kraus: The Journaille. In: Die Fackel 3 (1902), No. 99, pp. 1–9, here p. 1 (also for the quotation in the following sentence).
2. ^ Karl Kraus: The Baron . In: Die Fackel 12 (1910), No. 311, pp. 1–13, here p. 13 ( online at textlog.de ). Reprinted in: Literatur und Läge , Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M. 1987, pp. 149–160. This resolution is confirmed by Adolf Josef Storfer: Kanaille. In: ders .: words and their fates. Atlantis, Berlin / Zurich 1935, p. 204 f., Here p. 205 .
3. ^ Cornelia Schmitz-Berning: Journaille. In: dies .: Vocabulary of National Socialism , p. 326 f.
4. ↑ So writes Volker Zastrow the establishment of the Word 2013 incorrectly Helmut Schmidt to; Volker Zastrow: Peer Steinbrück. Tears do not lie. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (online edition), June 23, 2013.
5. ^ Journaille. In: General Nederlands Woordenboek , ed. by Carole Tiberus; Marc De Coster: Het Journaille. ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF, 46 kB) In: Fryske Akademy- .nl (on his blog and on 14 November 2005 published , at which literary scholars the VIAF - standard data ).