The woman's way
The Way of the Woman was a feminist and communist women's magazine in the Weimar Republic . It appeared from July 1931 until the National Socialist seizure of power in 1933 in Berlin in the publishing company of Willi Munzenberg , the head of the agitation department of the KPD . The editor-in-chief was Marianne Gundermann.
The contents of the magazine were the subjects of science, medicine, politics, economy, but also subjects of bourgeois women's magazines such as clothing, (proletarian) housekeeping and children. The magazine was also cheaper than its bourgeois competition.
Despite its founding in the middle of a time of rapidly rising unemployment (see global economic crisis #Labor market situation ), the magazine quickly achieved a sold circulation of over 100,000 copies. This makes it one of the most important women's magazines of the Weimar Republic.
At the end of the 1920s, Münzenberg transferred the general agency for advertising for the magazine to John Jahr senior , who later became the co-founder of the Gruner + Jahr magazine group .
The magazine initiated the sensational international exhibition " Women in Need " against the German Abortion Paragraph 218 , which opened on October 9, 1931 (shown in Berlin in the "House of Jury Free "), for which numerous politically active artists provided thematically appropriate works. including Käthe Kollwitz , Hannah Höch , Alice Lex-Nerlinger , Katharina Heise , Pablo Picasso , Ernst Barlach , Otto Dix and Marc Chagall .
From March 1932 to February 1933, the magazine was produced in the Berlin printing company Carl Sabo, which had also printed Munzenberg's Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung (AIZ) and other communist publications from 1927 until the ban in 1933 , but whose owner was not a communist.
The authors of the magazine included Gertrud Ring , Hedda Zinner and Käte Duncker .
Individual evidence
- ↑ The title should not be confused with a women's magazine of the same name that appeared in Reichenberg from 1931 to 1938 .
- ↑ According to Die Frauendelegierte , ed. from the Reich Committee of Working Women, March 1931. Foundation Archive of Workers' Parties and Mass Organizations in the Federal Archives in Berlin.
- ^ Willi Munzenberg. Tabular curriculum vitae in the LeMO ( DHM and HdG )
- ↑ whoswho.de
- ↑ The motto referred to the play § 218. Women in Need by Carl Credé, which was performed in Berlin a year earlier . ( PDF ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. )
- ^ Gisela Schirmer: Paragraph 218 and the international exhibition "Women in Need" from 1931 in Berlin . Dissertation, Berlin, University of the Arts. Monika Jagfeld: The international exhibition "Women in Need" Berlin 1931 - a reconstruction . Master's thesis (with Dietrich Schubert), Art History Institute of Heidelberg University. Ulrike Weingärtner: Conception and reception of the international exhibition “Women in Need” in Berlin and Frankfurt am Main 1931/32 . Master's thesis, Art History Institute of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, 2002.
- ^ Hartwig Gebhardt: National Socialist Advertising in the Workers. The magazine “ABZ - Work in Image and Time” . In: Institute for Contemporary History (Hrsg.): Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte , vol. 33, issue 2, 1985, p. 311, note 6 ( PDF ).
