Cain (magazine)
Cain was an anarchist magazine, subtitled the Magazine for Humanity . It was edited by Erich Mühsam and appeared from 1911 to 1919, with interruptions due to the World War 1914–1918.
| Cain. | |
|---|---|
| description | Magazine for humanity |
| Area of Expertise | anarchism |
| language | German |
| publishing company | Kain-Verlag, Munich |
| First edition | April 1911 |
| attitude | 1918 |
| Frequency of publication | Monthly, later irregularly |
| Sold edition | 3000 copies |
| editor | Erich Mühsam |
| ZDB | 716759-3 |
history
The first edition of Kain appeared in April 1911 and the last issue for the time being due to the First World War in July 1914. In November 1918, Mühsam continued to publish the magazine. Before the war, Cain appeared monthly, then weekly and finally only irregularly.
The title Cain was chosen by Erich Mühsam after the biblical figure of Cain , not because he murdered his brother, but because Mühsam saw in him the "first rebel of mankind" (H.-Georg Lützenkirchen). In his literary work, including in Cain , Mühsam wrote with polemics, humor and criticism about his ideas, among other things, about the existence of the bohemian , which he associated with anarchism. He was against the "idiot convention drill" (E. Mühsam) of authoritarian civil society. In Cain he called for the fraternization of the sub-proletariat: “Criminals, tramps, whores and artists - this is the bohemian that shows the way to a new culture”. In No. 10 (1912) by Cain there was an article by Mühsam on the "humbug of the elections" and in the March 1913 issue a critical article on the suffragette movement.
In this he took a positive stance on the women's movement . In his opinion, the oppression of women was a "crime of the world economy staged by men" (Elisa Zenck). Labor's diaries and the journals he edited represent an important documentation of contemporary criticism. In “Kain” he published articles in which he called for solidarity with the sub-proletariat and “wanted to give the bohemian culture a politically oppositional content”.
The successor to the magazine “Kain” was Fanal , also published by E. Mühsam from 1926 to 1931.
Anarchist magazine of the same name
- Cain - magazine for humanity and a free society . Published 1975/1976 by self-published (Neulußheim) with 2 issues. Editing: Reinhard Sick and Klaus Haag. From the editorial of No. 1, page 3: “We only know one ideology: MAN and his possible liberation and emancipation from every form of authority, domination and selflessness”.
Cain calendar
- In 1912 and 1913 Erich Mühsam published two calendars under the title Cain Calendar . Kain Verlag, Munich. 1912 = 74 pages, 1913 = 62 pages.
- KALENDA . Anarchist pocket calendar [1983 to 1989 as "Schwarzroter Kain-KALENDA]. Published from 1983 to 2000 in Berlin under the editing of Ralf G. Landmesser, who was also the publisher. The title referred to Mühsam's Kain calendar and through the monthly poems in Geiste Mühsams. With historical and current articles from the libertarian movement. Published in Italian 1989 ff under the title “Nera Agenda” ( Black Calendar ).
literature
- Ulrich Linse : Organized anarchism in the German Empire from 1871 . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969. pp. 92 and 313-316. (Zugl .: University of Munich, dissertation, 1969).
- Heiner Becker, Max Nettlau (ed.), History of Anarchy . Volume 5, p. 249. Library Thélèm, Münster 1993. Reprint, with a new introduction by Heiner Becker, in collaboration with the IISG (Amsterdam).
- Cain - magazine for humanity . Emphasis. Topos Verlag, Vaduz (Liechtenstein), 1978.
- Available online . In the catalog of the German National Library.
Web links
- Erich Mühsam: “The humbug of the elections” . In Cain No. 10, 1912
- Illustration by Cain, No. 2 (1918)
- Brief information in the database of German-speaking anarchism (DadA) about: Kain, Munich. Ed .: E. Mühsam . Kain, Neulußheim (1975/1976) . Kalenda, Berlin 1982 to 2000 . Cain Calendar, Ed. E. Mühsam (1912/1913) .
- Kain - Zeitschrift für Menschlichkeit im Textarchiv - Internet Archive
Individual evidence
- ↑ H.-Georg Lützenkirchen: "To submit means to lie" . Retrieved April 8, 2018
- ↑ BR-Online from July 6, 2009. On the 75th anniversary of E. Mühsam's death ( Memento from July 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Elisa Zenck: Mühsam, Erich . ( Memento of the original from August 20, 2011 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. Oranienburg Concentration Camp Foundation. Retrieved April 8, 2018
- ↑ www.erich-muehsam.de Literary work. E. Mühsam Retrieved June 26, 2010
