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Seat editor is a slang term for the imprint of a newspaper or magazine named editor in charge in terms of copyright law .

history

Such a name was required by the censors with the advent of the first press products . The Reichspreßgesetz of 1874, which abolished censorship, also provided for this provision as a means of press control. In the event of violations of the law within a publication, especially in the case of anonymous contributions, the named person was held responsible and, if necessary, imprisoned.

This happened more often during the Empire , for example because of lese majesty . All media were affected by this, for example Catholic-conservative newspapers during the Kulturkampf , socialist-revolutionary papers after the socialist laws were passed , but also the monarchist-conservative press during the so-called Gründerkrach . Because the editors did not want to take the risk of losing their editor-in-chief or other editors for a long period of time, the responsible editors were named people whom the editors could more easily do without. These people were therefore given the name “seat editor” because they had to serve the sentences on behalf of other editors and journalists.

For example, B. Traven's novel The White Rose says:

The socialist and communist newspapers sometimes have so-called seat editors who have to humiliate all the penalties that are imposed on the newspapers in some form so that the newspaper's more valuable workforce is retained.

In the social democratic satirical magazine Derchte Jacob , which was re- founded in Stuttgart in 1884, R. Seiffert was named as the editor in charge, the actual editor was Wilhelm Blos . At the Frankfurter Zeitung in 1892, the junior editor Kurt Eisner acted as the “seat editor” for three months and was twice prosecuted and sentenced to fines, he was thus considered a criminal record . The conviction of the actually leading editor Bernhard Heymann of the "Wahren Jakob" in 1901 for 200 marks shows that the agency went out of fashion. Even Eduard Fuchs from Süddeutsche Postillon had no representatives but had his punishment in 1897 because of the poem revelations (six months imprisonment) and in 1898 for treason (ten months imprisonment) serve themselves. Thomas Theodor Heine from Simplicissimus was founded in December 1898 to six months imprisonment sentenced while Albert Langen and Frank Wedekind fled to Switzerland and were prosecuted only on their return to Germany, they had no representatives.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dagmar Bussiek: With God for King and Fatherland! The Neue Preussische Zeitung (Kreuzzeitung) 1848-1892 . LIT Verlag Münster, 2002. p. 126.
  2. ^ B. Traven: The white rose , Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag 1962, p. 143. In the first edition it was called "Brumm-Redakteur", about which Kurt Tucholsky mocked in a review : "He speaks of what still sounds funny a 'Brumm-Redakteur' and means a Sitz-Editor. ", (from:" B. Traven ", in: Die Weltbühne , November 25, 1930, p. 800)
  3. ↑ a b c Oliver Stenzel: The seat editor . In: Context: weekly newspaper . April 23, 2016, p. 3