Telegraph for Germany

The Telegraph for Germany was a magazine founded by Karl Gutzkow and published by the Hoffmann und Campe publishing house in Hamburg. The editor was Karl Gutzkow (until the end of 1843), from 1844 Georg Schirges , and most recently Feodor Wehl . The magazine appeared four times a week from January 1838 to November 1848.

On the history of the telegraph for Germany

Karl Gutzkow , who, as the representative of Junge Deutschland , was forbidden by the Bundestag resolution of December 18, 1835 , to publish books or magazines under his name, incognito edited the "Frankfurter Börsenzeitung" in 1836 and the "Frankfurter Telegraph "was launched. The daily newspaper died in the first days of January 1837, the magazine was continued - under a different title. At the end of 1837 Gutzkow managed to win over Julius Campe as a publisher for his "Telegraph" . Gutzkow moved to Hamburg and published his paper here under the title “Telegraph for Germany” from January 1838. For reasons of censorship, Campes Verlag signed as the responsible publisher. Even if August Lewald once said to Heinrich Heine that the Telegraph was just a “noble local paper, nothing else”, the magazine developed under Gutzkow's direction into one of the most prominent and influential fiction-critical journals in Vormärz . Gutzkow was only named as editor from number 164 of October 1841.

In Austria the magazine was banned in September 1838, in other federal states - for example in Bavaria - its distribution was made more difficult. The editor Gutzkow was mainly concerned with the Prussian censorship, because Prussia was the main sales area of ​​the "telegraph". On December 8, 1841, the magazine was finally banned here, not only because it had published poems by August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (second part of his “Unpolitical Songs”) and by Franz Dingelstedt (“Songs of a cosmopolitan night watchman”), but because of the Distribution of all articles published by the Hoffmann and Campe publishing house in Prussia was prohibited. After the fire in Hamburg in May 1842, the general ban on the publishing house in Prussia was lifted and the "Telegraph" was permitted here again.

The circulation of the magazine was around 500 to 600 copies.

Employee

Ottilie Assing Ludmilla Assing Therese von Bacheracht Hermann Biow Eduard Beurmann Moritz Carrière Franz Dingelstedt Friedrich Engels under the pseudonym "Friedrich Oswald" Karl Goedeke under the pseudonym "Karl Stahl" Theodor Hagen under the pseudonym "Joachim Fels" Friedrich Hebbel Georg Herwegh Alexander Jung

Karl Grün under the pseudonym "Ernst von der Haide" German Mäurer Heinrich Albert Oppermann Hermann Püttmann Friedrich Saß under the pseudonym "Alexander Soltwedel" Sebastian Seiler Levin Schücking Friedrich Wilhelm Schulz Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Max Stirner Alexander von Ungern-Sternberg Alexander Weill Ludwig Wihl

Publications (edited by Karl Gutzkow) in the journal from the estate of

• Ludwig Börne
• Georg Buechner
• Karl Immermann

expenditure

• Telegraph for Germany . Microfilm edition. Ulshöfer microfilm, Rosbach ISBN 3-598-35112-7 and ISBN 3-598-35113-5

literature

• To journalistic work. Working on the telegraph for Germany . In: Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe . Department I. Friedrich Engels. Works article drafts by August 1844 . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1985, pp. 666-672
• Georg Büchner . Collected Works. First prints and first editions in facsimiles. 7, Leonce and Lena. A comedy by Georg Büchner by Karl Gutzkow . Athenaeum, Frankfurt a. M. 1987
• Alfred Estermann: Content-analytical bibliographies of German cultural journals of the 19th century . Vol. 2: Telegraph for Germany (1837-1848) . KG Saur, Munich 1995
• Wolfgang Rasch: On the history of the 'Telegraph for Germany' 1838 - 1843 . In: Journalliteratur im Vormärz , (1996), pp. 131-160
• Norbert Trobitz: The literary critic Karl Gutzkow . (Phil. Diss. 2007, therein: 'Telegraph for Germany' (1838-1843) )
• Telegraph for Germany (1838–1842). In: Wolfgang Rasch (Ed.): Karl Gutzkow. Memories, reports and judgments of his contemporaries. A documentation . De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2011, pp. 93–168

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The predecessor was: Frankfurter Telegraph. Sheets for life, art and science red. by Eduard Beurmann . Verlag-Expedition des Telegraphen, Frankfurt am Main 1837 Reprint Athenäum Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1971 4 vols. ISBN 3-598-35112-7 .
2. ^ "Edited under the responsibility of the publisher's management".
3. ^ Lewald to Heinrich Heine, December 24, 1837 (Heinrich Heine. Secular edition, vol. 25, p. 130).
4. ↑ Cf. on the censorship of the magazine: Wolfgang Rasch: Bibliographie Karl Gutzkow. Vol. 1. Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verl. 1998, p. 560.
5. ^ Wolfgang Rasch: Bibliography Karl Gutzkow. Vol. 1. Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verl. 1998, p. 560.
6. ↑ Karl Gutzkow. Memories, reports and judgments of his contemporaries, p. 96. Google books