Omnibus (calendar)

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Omnibus. Illustrated folk calendar.
Omnibus Illustrirter Volkskalender to the year 1882
description Workers' calendar, party calendar
publishing company Leipzig: Fink (Germany)
First edition 1880
attitude 1882
Frequency of publication yearly
ZDB 1420133-1

The Omnibus : Illustrated People's Calendar, was a workers' calendar that was published by the Leipzig Fink Verlag from 1880 to 1882.

history

The omnibus was the continuation of " Poor Conrad's ", which was only possible through rigid adaptation to the political situation. The workers' calendars were camouflaged with innocuous names, the content of which was kept in such a way that it did not give the censorship of the Socialist Law any reason to intervene. The successor was the Illustrated New World Calendar from 1883 - 1951.

The contributions consisted of reality or episodes from life, like an everyday story: "Homecoming from the market", this story tells how an old farmer, after selling a calf at the market, does not come home with all the proceeds and then has to explain it to his wife. There were also poems published every year. B. from Rudolf Lavant , “As we wish our readers” (1880), or Gustav Reinhart with “Return to Home” (1880). The calendar contains a lot of non-profit, diverse things, proverbs, solar-lunar eclipses, moon phases, postage taxes, interest tables, different types of money, dispatch tariffs, time comparison table, pregnancy and breeding calendar, currencies. The worker should also learn to read numbers. Tables convey knowledge in a concentrated, clear form.

In the calendar of the labor movement, interest shifts decisively to the current situation. The calendar wanted to educate, the worker was supposed to learn something, instruction seemed just as important as entertainment e.g. B. like "A deserter story in peace", told by a Palatinate. It is about three deserted comrades who wanted to join the French Foreign Legion in Algeria, but changed their minds, deserted again and returned to their old homeland. Or “Mind or instinct?”, The conclusion of this story “All animals are in humans, but not all humans are in animals”. The omnibus calendar was designed to be very uniform and well thought out. The topics were selected and assigned according to the determining socialist direction. They concern the worker, his family, his colleagues at work.

literature

  • Calendar stories Text editions on early socialist literature in Germany, Akademie-Verlag, 1975.
  • The German calendar history by Jan Knopf, Verlag Suhrkamp 1983.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Calendar history and calendar, by Ludwig Rohner, Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Athenaion, 1978.

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