Music in war
Music in War was the title of a magazine that was only published briefly from 1943 to 1944 by the publisher of the same name. It shows the co-ordination of the musicological press during National Socialism in an exemplary way: the merger of once large and independent magazines (which had, however, been nationalist-conservative ideologized since the 1920s) resulted in a thin sheet of bad paper due to the hardships of the war - written by Authors who “stood in the field”. Overall, the authors can be seen as perpetrators of conviction ; in many cases they still played an important role in musicology and journalism in post-war Germany, in some cases well into the 1970s. For music in war wrote u. a. Josef Beaujean , Hermann Blume , Christian Döbereiner , Karl Gustav Fellerer , Johannes Haller , Siegfried Kallenberg , Egon von Komorzynski , Hans Joachim Moser , Carl Niessen , Erich Schenk , Eugen Schmitz , Hans Schnoor , Hermann Stephani , Max Ernst Unger and Anton Würz .
The editor Herbert Gerigk was an exemplary National Socialist as the author of the Lexicon of Jews in Music and as a high officer in the task force of Reichsleiter Rosenberg for raids on music in the occupied territories. The texts, however, only rarely contain open anti-Semitism , racial theory or the ostracism of aesthetic modernity, but often resort to ethnic motifs or 'non-political', classical themes. They are typical of the musical literature during National Socialism.
The official designation of the publisher was: Organ of the Office of Music at the Fuhrer's commissioner for the supervision of the entire intellectual and ideological training and education of the NSDAP . At the same time the official music magazine of the offices of Feierabend and the German Volksbildungswerk in the Nazi community "Strength through Joy" - community magazine for the duration of the war combined from :
- Die Musik , 35th year, Berlin, Max Hesse
- Zeitschrift für Musik , 110th year, Regensburg, Gustav Bosse Verlag
- Allgemeine Musikzeitung , 70th year, Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel
- Neues Musikblatt , 22nd year, Mainz, Schott
There were 20 issues in two volumes, every two months in double issues. The first issue was the 1st year April – May issue 1943, first issue 1, later referred to retrospectively as issue 1/2, the last issue was the 2nd year October – November issue 7/8 1944.
