Forward (weekly paper)
Forward! was the title of a German-language newspaper that was published in Paris from 1844 to 1845 , initially as a theater brochure by the Bureau Central pour l'Allemagne , and later, from July 1844, Karl Marx had a major influence on the editorial team.
It was published with the subtitle Paris Signals from Art, Science, Theater, Music, Literature and Social Life and was aimed on the one hand at German political emigrants in France and on the other hand at democratic oppositionists in Germany. It was founded by Heinrich Börnstein , financed by the composer Giacomo Meyerbeer and edited by Karl Ludwig Bernays . The forward! which appeared twice a week in an edition of about 1000 copies campaigned for democracy and attacked absolutism in the states of the German Confederation , especially Prussia . From July 3, 1844, the magazine was called " Vorwärts. Pariser Deutsche Zeitschrift ".
Marx and the Forward
The forward! was for Marx and Arnold Ruge the follow-up project to the Franco-German yearbooks that they had previously published together. Marx gave the new publication a clearly socialist tendency, which led to a break with Ruge after just a few months. The paper's attacks on its policy prompted the Prussian government to intervene in France in 1845 and - ultimately successfully - to pursue the expulsion of Marx.
Other employees
To the temporary employees of the Forward! belonged to Marx and Ruge u. a. Georg Weber , Karl Ludwig Bernays , Wilhelm Marr , Friedrich Engels , Georg Herwegh , Georg Weerth and Heinrich Heine . His weaver's song, for example, was published there on July 10, 1844 (No. 55) under the title “The poor weavers”; and between October 23 and November 30, 1844 Heine's verse satire became Germany. A winter fairy tale printed there.
literature
- Forward. Parisian signals from art, science, theater, music and social life . Paris 1844–1845 (Reprint: Zentralantiquariat der DDR, Leipzig 1975 (with an introduction by Walter Schmidt )).
- Heinrich Börnstein : Seventy-five Years in the Old and New World. Memoirs of an Insignificant . 2 vols. Leipzig: Otto Wigand, 1881 (2nd ed. 1884), esp. Pp. 337–338.
- Jacques Grandjonc : "Forward!" 1844. Marx and the German Communists in Paris. Contribution to the emergence of Marxism . 2nd ext. u. verb. Edition JHW Dietz Nachf., Berlin / Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1974. ISBN 3-8012-1071-5 .
- Werner Bellmann : Heine and the Parisian "Forward!" . In: Heine-Jahrbuch 22 (1983), pp. 70-82.
- Werner Bellmann: Heine and the Parisian "Forward!". Notes on a new volume of the historical-critical Heine edition . In: Wirkendes Wort 34 (1984), H. 3. P. 228-230.
- Wolfgang Büttner: The feature section of the Parisian “Forward” . In: Jahrbuch für Geschichte 32 (1985), pp. 171-202.