Light and shadow (magazine)
Licht und Schatten was the headline of an illustrated literary-artistic magazine with partly expressionistic features, which from 1910 to 1916 in Munich and Berlin appeared initially weekly, then monthly. The sheet with the subtitle “Wochenschrift ...”, later “Monthly for black and white art and poetry”, was created on the initiative of the Hanover- based printer Josef Molling , who competed with the black and white printed sheet for the purpose of making a profit Simplicissimus wanted to produce.
The publisher and editor-in-chief of the nationally published magazine was the writer, theater critic and satirist Hanns von Gumppenberg , who was also noticed as a notorious troublemaker under the pseudonym Jodok or Immanuel Tiefbohrer . Even before the first edition, Molling had his editor-in-chief hold a competition with various main prizes between 1,000 and 1,500 marks in 1909 in order to find “young talents”. The jury, which included Thomas Mann , soon received more than 1,000 letters. From the beginning, Licht und Schatten was able to fall back on a number of the biggest names that the literary business of the German Empire had to offer at the time, in addition to Thomas Mann, his brother Heinrich Mann , Hermann Hesse and Christian Morgenstern , Stefan Zweig and Vicky Baum or von At the beginning, Alexander Moritz Frey was one of the regular crew .
The excellent reputation of the magazine Licht und Schatten, which accorded the same importance to art and literature, was also fed by illustrations by artists such as Alfred Kubin , Käthe Kollwitz , Carl Spitzweg , Max Liebermann and Lyonel Feininger .
At the time of the First World War , the sheet appeared in issue 5 1914/1915 with the main title Die Front ; before it was discontinued in 1916.
Web links
- Light and shadow ... in the magazine database
- Advertising sheet from 1910 by Emile Preetorius in the Museum of Modern Art
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Stefan Ernsting: The fantastic rebel Alexander Moritz Frey or Hitler shoots dramatically in the air , Zurich: Atrium-Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-85535-120-6 and ISBN 3-85535-120-1 ; Reading sample on the page perlentaucher.de
- ↑ a b Compare the information in the catalog of the German National Library