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Title page from May 30, 1788, No. 65

A newspaper dedicated to the Enlightenment , published by the canon and Bible translator Dominikus von Brentano , was first published in Kempten (Allgäu) in 1784 under the name Latest World Events . The approximately 17.5 by 10 centimeter printed work was initially published twice a week, and from 1788 four times a week. From the edition of 800 pieces, around half went to the widespread customer base in today's Germany.

history

The newspaper was initially published by the imperial city print shop of the Typographische Gesellschaft (today Tobias Dannheimer publishing house ). In 1788 a dispute arose between Brentano and Joseph Kösel from Kösel-Verlag over copyright. Brentano took up printing in the Abiftkemptischen printing house. In the competition between two editions published at the same time, tolerated by the imperial city ​​magistrate , the Kösel edition prevailed in the imperial city. The suspension of the Brentano edition also ended the pen's influence on the publication.

meaning

The newspaper had a cosmopolitan claim. According to its own statements, the "real and important events in the state, church, scholarship, arts, action and nature" should be reported. With the latest world events, Brentano created a mouthpiece for the Enlightenment, in which he campaigned, among other things, for a German national church dissolved from Rome . The latest world events with its successor "Kemptner Zeitung" (from 1840) were the most important newspaper in the Allgäu, especially since it was the only Allgäu newspaper to reach a national readership.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Wolfgang Petz, Josef Kirmeier, Wolfgang Jahn and Evamaria Brockhoff (eds.): "Citizen diligence and prince-luster." Imperial city and prince abbey Kempten. House of Bavarian History , Augsburg 1998, ISBN 3-927233-60-9 , p. 229f.

literature

  • Franz-Rasso Böck : Notes on the Kempten newspaper history. The "big" newspapers in Kempten, focus on Kempten newspaper history and censorship. In: Frank Edele (Ed.): Latest world events. 225 years of publishing and bookstore Tobias Dannheimer. Dannheimer, Kempten 2008, ISBN 978-3-88881-058-9 .

Web links

Commons : Latest World Events  - Collection of Images
  • Latest world events in 1822 . Dannheimer, Kempten 1822 ( full text in the Google book search).