Pomeranian shopkeeper

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A magazine was published in Stralsund in 1775 under the title Pommersches Krämerdütchen .

Appear

The magazine was published from January 5 to September 28, 1775 weekly on Thursdays in Stralsund in what was then Swedish Pomerania . The booklets each comprised 16 pages in small octave format .

The magazine was published by the Stralsund-based book printer Christian Lorenz Struck (1741–1791). The editor responsible for the content remained anonymous at the time. According to later research, it was Theophilus Coelestinus Piper , then rector of the Greifswald city school and later professor of theology at the University of Greifswald . According to later research, Johann Carl Dähnert , professor at the University of Greifswald and head of the university library, was also involved.

The discontinuation of the magazine after only three quarters is likely to have been the result of low subscriber numbers and poor profitability. The magazine was therefore no more successful than the two other magazine projects of the same publishing house. Already from April 2, 1763 to March 23, 1765 attempts to use and please had appeared in Stralsund , later followed from January 1 to June 24, 1780 the Stralsund weekly paper .

Surname

The name Pommersches Krämerdütchen was meant humorously. He alluded to the fact that retailers ("shopkeepers") used newsprint to make small paper bags ("Dütchen") for their customers.

content

The magazine was designed as a so-called moral weekly . It brought moral and critical considerations as well as didactic and educational contributions. The colorful mix also included poems, fictitious humorous advertisements and articles on the history of the Hanseatic city of Stralsund and the history of Pomerania .

Friedrich Nicolai , a main representative of the Berlin Enlightenment, wrote a devastating criticism of the Pomeranian shopkeeper in his General German Library . He described it as "a brochure that is written without diligence, care, one might almost say, without intention or thought."

literature

Footnotes

  1. ↑ General German Library, Appendix to Volume 25 to 36, Dept. IV, p. 2399. Quoted from: Ernst Zunker: Das “Pommersche Krämerdütchen”. In: Baltic Studies . Volume 50 NF, 1964, ISSN  0067-3099 , pp. 47-52, footnote 10.