Spenersche Zeitung
The Spenersche Zeitung was a Berlin newspaper that appeared from 1740 to 1874.
history
The newspaper was published until 1872 under the title Berlinische Nachrichten von Staats- und schehrteachen . For a long time it was the largest and most important newspaper in Berlin alongside the Vossische Zeitung , which Berliners called Tante Voss , while Spener's Uncle Spener was called. It was founded in 1740 by the printer and publisher Ambrosius Haude (1690–1748); the first issue appeared on June 30th. When Frederick the Great relaxed censorship in 1740 , the newspaper was even censored at times, while censorship was not generally lifted for other newspapers. Foreign policy motives (in the course of the Austrian War of Succession), however, led to restrictions on the freedom of the press again as early as 1743.
After Haude's death in 1748, the newspaper became the property of his partner in the joint company Haude and Spener , Johann Karl Spener (1710–1756), later to his son Johann Karl Philipp Spener (1749–1827). Since 1826 it was led by Samuel Heinrich Spiker (1786-1858). Spiker's successor was Alexis Bravmann Schmidt (1818-1903) in 1858 , who was editor-in-chief and managing director of the newspaper until 1872.
In 1872 the newspaper was sold to a newly founded stock corporation. The capital for this was raised primarily by representatives of the National Liberal Party , and the newspaper was thus closely tied to the National Liberal Party. Wilhelm Wehrenpfennig took over the political editing and the feature section of the newspaper Gustav Gans zu Putlitz . Part of the overall more modern layout of the sheet was that from now on, serialized novels should also be included in its columns. However, it was precisely these innovations that accelerated the newspaper's decline. Because the first novel, which the newspaper printed successively in 1872, Paul Heyse's Children of the World , led to violent protests from readers and numerous cancellations of the newspaper. “(T) he management of the paper had made its calculation without regard to the previous readers, who were mostly composed of the most honorable circles of Brandenburg pastors' families. They were shocked when they made the closer acquaintance of the charming sinner Antoinette Marchand and the pantheistic Balders. Shouts of indignation rang out after shouts of indignation, orders for the immoral paper were canceled. And it was not just from these circles that outbursts of the greatest displeasure over the choice of this reading material came. Even Theodor Mommsen had become extremely angry and said that the newspaper could not be tolerated on the family table, because a novel like 'Children of the World' should not be read by decent young girls. One can write it down without exaggeration: Uncle Spener faded a blissful death on Paul Heyses 'Children of the World' in Berlin. "
In 1874 the end of the traditional Berliner Zeitung was sealed. The Spenersche Zeitung went into the Berliner National-Zeitung .
literature
- Erich Widdecke: History of the Haude and Spenerschen newspaper. 1734-1874. Berlin: Haude & Spener, 1925
- Peter de Mendelssohn : Aunt Voss and Uncle Spener. In: Ders .: Newspaper City Berlin. People and Powers in the History of the German Press. Revised u. exp. Ed. Frankfurt / M., Berlin, Vienna: Ullstein, 1982. pp. 36-53
Web links
- Karl Gutzkow: Uncle Spener (1874)
- Digitized 1742–1749 in the University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt
- Digital copies of individual volumes in the Bavarian State Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ [Hans Meyer:] The right Berliner in words and idioms. 3., presumably u. verb. Berlin, 1880, p. 80.
- ↑ Isidor Kastan : Berlin as it was. Berlin, 1919, pp. 219-220.