Fight (magazine)

This article is about the anarchist magazine Kampf . For more meanings to distinguish multiple terms with the same word, see Combat (disambiguation) .

Title of the 1904 edition

The fight was an anarchist magazine and was considered one of the outstanding publications of the German-speaking bohemian anarchism. It was published weekly in Berlin from 1902/1904 to 1905 with 26 issues, a print run of up to 10,000 copies and a total of 788 pages.

history

The predecessor of the Kampf was a magazine of the same name from 1902, also published by Johannes Holzmann (pseudonym: Senna Hoy ), temporarily together with A. Bernstein. Published in Berlin from 1902 to 1903 with the subtitle “Sheets to combat public and secret grievances”. According to the information provided by the author Walter Fähnders, there are no longer any surviving editions, so that the publication has not yet been clearly proven.

On February 6, 1904, the fight appeared with the note “New Series” and the subtitle: “Journal for Common Sense”. The editors were Johannes Holzmann and Werner Karfunkelstein (pseudonym: Werner Daya). The paper received financial support from the banker Benedict Friedländer , who was close to anarchism. The first issues of the fight were “radically free” oriented without any direct reference to anarchism. In No. 1 of February 6, 1904, Johannes Holzmann wrote that the content and participation in the magazine was open to everyone who campaigned for liberal movements, be it in cultural, economic, political or artistic terms.

Page about the confiscation of a booklet because of lese majesty in issue 19, February 24, 1905

Articles were published on the revolutionary movement in Russia, the rights of homosexuals , critical articles on art, for example the 7-part essay series “Pastel Images of Art” as well as prose and poetry. Great attention was paid to women's literature. Article by Gisela Bogenhardt , Fedosia Steininger , Else Lasker-Schüler , Marie Eichorn and Maria Holma, among others . In addition, Paul Eckhard , Rudolf Kurtz , Erich Mühsam , Franz Pfemfert , Theodor Etzel (who also published in Der arme Teufel ), Paul Scheerbart and others published. With reference to the subtitle, Holzmann wrote in No. 11 (p. 305), "that common sense today means the most revolutionary ...". Of the 25 published issues, 11 were banned or confiscated. In 1905 the publisher Holzmann had to flee to Switzerland, whereupon the magazine was discontinued.

criticism

In 1905 Johannes Holzmann was described by the newspaper "Dresdner Nachrichten" as the "spiritual leader of Berlin anarchism". Thereupon two Berlin anarchist groups replied from the magazines “Der Freie Arbeiter” and Der Anarchist that he and the struggle had no connection to their movement. Even Gustav Landauer was the struggle skeptical and should, according to the historian Max Nettlau the magazine have cast upon receipt in the trash.

Anarchist magazines of the same name

• Der Kampf , published in Berlin with an edition (No. 1) in 1879. A magazine that was distributed illegally, published by Emil Werner with a circulation of 1000 copies. The number 1 was already confiscated by the police.
• Struggle! Organ for anarchism and syndicalism . Edited by A. Fricke, Paul Schreyer and others. Published from 1912 to 1914 with an edition of between 2000 and 4000 copies with a total of 24 issues. The fight is said to have appeared out of dissatisfaction with the magazine “Der Freie Arbeiter”.

Bibliographical information

• Struggle. Common sense journal . Holzmann, Berlin, No. 1, 1904 (February 6) - 26, 1905 (April 14) ( DNB 551462906 ).
• Struggle. Common sense journal . Reprint of the Berlin edition 1904–1905. Topos Verlag, Vaduz 1988, ISBN 3-289-00386-8 ( DNB 881152706 ).

Web links

• Kampf (Berlin 1904) . Brief information in the database of German-speaking anarchism .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See: Walter Fahnders : Kampf. Common sense journal . In the introduction to the reprint. Topos Verlag, Vaduz 1988.
2. ↑ See: Ulrich Linse , Organized Anarchismus im Deutschen Kaiserreich from 1871 . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, p. 84.
3. ↑ See on this: Der free worker , No. 9 (1905), p. 36 and Der Anarchist , No. 4 (1905).
4. ↑ See on this: Max Nettlau: History of Anarchy . Verlag Der Syndikalist, Berlin 1927, Volume 5, p. 218.
5. ↑ See on this: Max Nettlau: History of Anarchy . Verlag Der Syndikalist, Berlin 1927 Volume 3, p. 157 and Ulrich Linse: Organized Anarchism in the German Empire from 1871 . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, p. 159; The fight (Berlin 1879) . Brief information in the database of German-speaking anarchism.
6. ↑ See on this: Max Nettlau: History of Anarchy . Verlag Der Syndikalist, Berlin 1927, Volume 3, p. 236 and Ulrich Linse: Organized Anarchism in the German Empire from 1871 . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, p. 235; The fight (Hamburg 1912) . Brief information in the database of German-speaking anarchism.