Pomona (magazine)
Pomona (full name: "Pomona for Teutschlands Töchter". ) Was a German monthly women's magazine during the Enlightenment . The first edition appeared in Speyer in 1783 , the magazine was discontinued in 1784.
In the foreword of the first issue, Sophie von La Roche wrote : “The 'Magazine for Women' and the 'Yearbook for Memories for the Fair Sex' show my readers what German men consider useful and pleasing to us, 'Pomona' will tell you what as a woman I think so ”.
While other women's journals of the time were about fashion, beauty and how women should behave, Pomona focused on philosophical texts about upbringing and education . The readers received information on the topics of health , medicine , nutrition , art and portraits of successful women as well as a letters to the editor and advice column.
La Roche gave tips for household and bedroom , which hit the female nerve of the time. The Russian Tsarina Katharina the Great , a representative of enlightened absolutism , bought 500 subscriptions to the magazine to distribute at her court. Already in the preface to the first issue, La Roche makes it clear that she wants to contrast the women's magazines published by men with a paper that is managed by a woman. With "Pomona", La Roche wanted above all to improve female education. Special issues on a specific country, which were filled with cultural-historical considerations, were also used for this purpose. Further reading recommendations were also given.
The magazine belonged to the first group of German women's magazines that mobilized a female readership from the upper middle class and rural nobility and soon made it possible for women to publish articles - mostly anonymously.
expenditure
- Pomona , 1783–1784, reprint, A. Francke 1987, 2381 pages ISBN 978-3-7720-1918-0 . Foreword by Jürgen Vorderstemann
- Pomona , 1783–1784, microfiche edition ISBN 3-598-51599-5
Digital copies
- Pomona for Teutschlands daughters by Sophie von La Roche (Speyer: Ender, 1783–1784): digital copies of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
literature
- Helga Neumann: Between emancipation and adaptation. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1999, ISBN 3-8260-1728-5 , pp. 49–82 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Juliane Ziegler: An independent woman. In: chrismon . The evangelical magazine. Edition 01.2015, p. 41.