London & Paris

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London & Paris was an entertainment magazine that appeared in 24 volumes from 1798 to 1810. The editor was initially Friedrich Justin Bertuch , who later passed it on to his son Carl Bertuch . It consisted of travel , political and curiosity reports from Great Britain and France , most of which had their two capitals as their starting point. She was valued in her time for the numerous reprints of English and French caricatures. In addition, from time to time texts and scores of current mostly joking songs ( couplets ) were added to the magazine . Over the years it was moved to various printing houses, such as the “Societäts-Buch-Handlung” in Halle and the “Hof-Buch-und-Kunst-Handlung” in Rudolstadt .

The often brilliant and witty written comments as well as the thoroughly researched reports place London and Paris in the history of the feature pages and reportage and at the same time make the magazine an informative source of cultural history. ²⁰⁴ The largest European cities at the time were in focus because, according to Bertuch, they were the "two focal points ... of all world trade". Their big city character is the focus and u. a. the associated rapid pace: "In general, the division of time in Paris is of the greatest importance and necessity, because in almost no city one loses so much time as it is here".

The articles in the journal were only marked with the initials of the authors. Weimar editor was Carl August Böttiger , the "foreign correspondents" Johann Christian Hüttner (London) and Friedrich Theophil Winckler (Paris). Later in Paris, Helmina von Chézy and Georg Bernhard Depping joined them. The reduced copies of the caricatures in London and Paris are mostly unsigned. Apart from the Englishman James Gillray , the authors of the often originally English and French original sheets are usually not named. There were detailed comments on the caricatures (mostly from CA Böttiger), as Georg Christoph Lichtenberg had introduced years earlier for the copper engravings by William Hogarth .

The magazine was with the parallel published by the same publisher Journal des Luxus und der Moden the most economically successful magazine in Bertuch's publishing house. It reached a circulation of 1300 copies around 1805 (from 750 copies it threw a profit). A volume (2 volumes with 4 booklets each with one hundred pages) cost 6 Reichsthaler and 8 Groschen. It was delivered every six weeks. In 1811 the magazine was published under the title Paris, Vienna and London , from 1812 under the title Paris and Vienna and from 1814 under the title London, Paris and Vienna . It was finally discontinued in 1815.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Iris Lauterbach: "London and Paris" in Weimar. A magazine and its caricatures as a source of art and cultural history from around 1800. In: Christoph Andreas, Maraike Bückling, Roland Dorn (eds.): Festschrift Hartmut Biermann . VCH, Weinheim 1990, p. 203-218 .
2. ^ Friedrich Justin Bertuch: Foreword . tape 1 , 1798, pp. 3-10 .
3. ^ London & Paris . tape XVIII , 6th piece, 1806, p. 150 .
4. ^ Karl Riha: Großstadt-Korrespondenz. Notes on London and Paris magazine . In: Conrad Wiedemann (Ed.): Rome Paris London. Experience and self-awareness of German writers and artists in foreign metropolises . JB Metzler, Stuttgart 1988, p. 107-122 .
5. ↑ Katharina Middell: A "magazine that should intervene". Bertuch's journals . In: Wolfgang Cilleßen, Rolf Reichardt, Christian Deuling (eds.): Napoleon's new clothes. Parisian and London caricatures in classic Weimar . G + H Verlag, Berlin 2006, p. 67-77 .
6. ↑ Werner Greiling: Culture from the "two main sources" of Europe . In: Klassik Stiftung Weimar (Ed.): Handbuch 2008: Europa in Weimar. Visions of a continent . Wallstein, Göttingen, p. 147 .