Urania (magazine)
Urania was a popular science journal founded in 1924 by the biologist and socialist Julius Schaxel . It appeared with the subtitle monthly books for natural knowledge and social theory in the Urania-Verlags-Ges. mb H. in Jena. The body culture and healthy lifestyle in terms of life reform were treated in the supplementary sheet Der Leib . In terms of content, the magazine was closely related to the freethinker movement . The editor was Ernst Mühlbach . The magazine's authors included Theodor Hartwig , Max Hodann , the sinologist Eduard Erkes and many others.
Schaxel created the publishing house and the magazine under the influence of developments in the Soviet Union, where he traveled several times. With the Urania he wanted in 1924 ...
"... to create a magazine that helps the broadest masses to learn about nature and society in the sense of the dialectical materialistic worldview."
In 1933 the National Socialists put him under pressure and banned the paper. Schaxel emigrated to the Soviet Union. From 1947 the Urania appeared again, this time with the subtitle monthly about nature and society , first in the Soviet occupation zone and later in the GDR , published by the Urania - Society for the dissemination of scientific knowledge . The hardback edition from 1947 identifies itself as the “tenth year”. This means the publication from 1924–33 (ie nine years), making the reintroduction after the Second World War the tenth year. Almost all the authors of the first editions came from the SPD and had been unemployed or persecuted during National Socialism. In his essay From the old to the new 'Urania ' Otto Jenssen wrote in 1947:
“The solution must be social biology, not race theory. A comprehensive sociological consideration also draws natural science into its field. [...] Instead of starting from scientific knowledge, broad layers of the German people gave themselves up to the political and social belief in miracles. That took terrible revenge. The 'Urania' must make its contribution to the spiritual reconstruction. "
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- ↑ See the history of the magazine Die URANIA - its development and goals. ( Memento from February 18, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ a b Georg Schneider: Obituary for Prof. Dr. Julius Schaxel. In: Urania . Urania Verlags-Gesellschaft, Jena 1947, p. 2 f .