Prager Oberpostamts-Zeitung

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The kk Prager Oberpostamts-Zeitung was a German-language Prague newspaper.

History and profile

The Imperial and Royal Prager Oberpostamts-Zeitung was the successor to the Prager Post-Zeitung . It was published from January 2, 1781 to 1814 in the publishing house of Johann Ferdinand von Schönfeld , the most important Bohemian printer, publisher, bookseller and paper manufacturer of his time, who had been an art collector and patron in Vienna since the mid-1790s .

The newspaper appeared three times a week, Monday, Wednesday and Friday. It was the official gazette for Bohemia .

In addition to political news from all over the world and Austria, it also contained a rich feature section . One focus was on news about concerts , operas and theater performances . That was also due to the fact that Schönfeld himself was very interested in music. Together with his wife Johanna geb. Löhnert was one of the subscribers to Beethoven's Piano Trios op. 1 in 1795 , and the following year he published a yearbook of musical art from Vienna and Prague in which he described Beethoven - although he was only 25 years old - as “a musical genius”.

In this respect, the newspaper is an important source for Mozart research, as well as for Beethoven research. The daily published lists of foreigners, which were printed under the heading “Arrived in Prague”, also make it possible to document the stay of important personalities in the city in retrospect. In this way it was possible, for example, to document Beethoven's trip to Prague in connection with his famous Letter to the Immortal Beloved (1812), as well as to research the stay of the unknown addressee there.

Today only a few copies have survived. The Czech National Library has the most extensive holdings, with all the years 1802 to 1814 available.

The successor to the kk Prager Oberpostamts-Zeitung was from 1814 the kk privileged Prager Zeitung .

literature

  • Aladar Guido Przedak, History of the German magazine industry in Bohemia , Heidelberg: Winter 1904
  • Mozart . The documents of his life , ed. by Otto Erich Deutsch , 2nd edition, Kassel: Bärenreiter 1961
  • Klaus Martin Kopitz , Antonie Brentano in Vienna (1809–1812). New sources on the problem of “ Immortal Beloved ” , in: Bonner Beethoven Studies , Volume 2 (2001), pp. 115–146 (PDF)
  • Anton Tantner, The Frag and Kunschaftsämter in Prague and Brno. Providing information in early modern Bohemia and Moravia , in: Folia Historica Bohemica , vol. 26, no. 2, Prague 2011, pp. 479–506

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Beethoven from the point of view of his contemporaries , ed. by Klaus Martin Kopitz and Rainer Cadenbach , Munich 2009, Volume 2, pp. 848f.

Web links

  • Kaiserl. Royal Prager Oberpostamts-Zeitung , vol. 1, Prague 1781 ( digitized version )