Magazines of romance
The magazines of the Romantic period were mostly short-lived journalistic projects by the literary representatives of the Romantic movement, through which they tried to disseminate their ideas in a way that differentiated them from and dealt with the Enlightenment and the Classical period .
Dealing with the Enlightenment and the classical period: the beginning of a romantic journalism
Since journalism around 1790 was largely dominated by the Enlightenment and Classical journals , the early Romantics found themselves dependent on these media despite their sometimes divergent ideas and interests. So worked August Wilhelm Schlegel - more like the classicists oriented - for the Gottingen scholar ads for Gottfried August Bürger's Academy of Fine Arts speech and Friedrich Schiller's Horen and the Musenalmanach with. His brother Friedrich Schlegel chose the Leipzig monthly for women , Biester's monthly and Johann Friedrich Reichardt's Germany rather the organs of the Enlightenment.
Above all, the dispute over reviews of new stage poems in the Berlin archive of the time and their tastes by the romantic August Ferdinand Bernhardi and the quickly escalating rift between Friedrich Schiller and Friedrich Schlegel made it clear that the establishment of their own romantic journals for a journalistic dispute against the Enlightenment and Classicists and spreading their own new ideas was overdue. Correspondingly, the Schlegel brothers created the Athenaeum (1798–1800) and Europe (1803–1805), Ludwig Tiecks Politisches Journal (1800) and Prometheus (1808) by Leo von Seckendorf and Ludwig Stoll .
Subject areas and characteristics of romantic magazines
Characteristic of this first phase of romantic magazines is not only
- their ephemerality, but also the
- Intensive examination of literary aesthetic issues from a European perspective.
One is also clear
- beginning to turn to the old German poetry, which is clearly strengthened and through in the second phase of the romantic magazines
- the emphasis on the nationality , the popular culture ( Volkspoesie ) and a
- emotional popular piety is still supplemented.
The romantic magazines are also called by their editors
- didactic medium intended to educate the people. Add to that further
- political discourses and one
- Examination of the idea of a fatherland and a German nation .
The second generation
Representatives of the mentioned second generation of romantic organs are the Phöbus (1808) Heinrich von Kleist and Adam Heinrich Müller , Kleist's Germania and Berliner Abendblätter (1810–1811), Joseph Görres ' Rheinischer Merkur (1814–1816), the Old German Forests of the brothers Jakob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm and especially the newspaper for hermits Achim von Arnims and Clemens Brentanos . Friedrich Schlegel's Deutsches Museum (1812–1813) and his Concordia (1820; 1823) are more politically celibate . Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué's periodicals Die Jahreszeiten (1811–1814), The Muses (1812–1814) and the Berlinische Blätter for German women (1829–1830) have a special position .
literature
- J. Bobeth: The Magazines of Romanticism. Hildesheim / New York 1970. (Reprint of the Leipzig 1911 edition).
- Helmut Schanze (ed.): Romantic manual. Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-83101-5 .
- Monika Schmitz-Emans : Introduction to Romantic Literature. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2004.
- Oskar F. Walzel , Heinrich H. Houben (Hrsg.): Magazines of the romantic. in the Google book search USA Berlin 1904.
Web links
(List of links to digitized magazines, including Romanticism.)