Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures xi
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Note on Translations xiv
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I New Beginnings: Journalistic Programs
8. 1: J. F. Cotta recruits Jean Paul to contribute to the inaugural issue of a new belletristic journal and Jean Paul offers readers a vision of its end (1807) 31
9. 2: The Berlin Evening Pages takes to the stage of Berlin publishing (1810) 42
10. 3: Joseph von Görres exhorts the German press to cultivate an independent spirit (1814) 53
11. 4: Lorenz Oken evaluates the current situation of scientific review journals in Isis or Encyclopedic Journal (1818) 62
12. 5: Ludwig Börne elaborates his vision for a public sphere where nothing is off limits (1818) 72
13. 6: Johann Peter Hebel returns to editing his yearly calendar after a four-year absence (1819) 86
14. Part II Editing, Criticism, and the Business of Journal Literature
15. 7: Helmine von Chézy reports from Napoleonic France and highlights the achievements of women writers (1803, 1805, 1820) 95
16. 8: F. A. Brockhaus surveys the market for yearly anthologies in his Conversations-Lexicon and advertises his own print products in the process (1820) 104
17. 9: The Polytechnic Journal advertises new high-speed printing technology for the uneven German print market (1826) 120
18. 10: Wilhelm Hauff picks apart contemporary belletristic journals (1827) 128
19. 11: Willibald Alexis offers readers topics for conversation about present-day Berlin (1831, 1838) 142
20. 12: In his satirical entertainment journal Berliner Don Quixote, Adolf Glaßbrenner digs graves for journals and anticipates the burial of his own (1832–1833) 155
21. 13: The publishers Carl Joseph Meyer and Philipp Jakob Siebenpfeiffer attempt different journal projects in the face of censorship 173
22. 14: Ernst Keil founds the revolutionary journal The Lighthouse before turning to the less political format of the domestic journal The Garden Arbor (1846, 1853) 184
23. 15: Karl Gutzkow skeptically evaluates contemporary illustrated journal literature (1834) 195
24. 16: Heinrich von Kleist’s Berlin Evening Pages anticipates the journalistic applications of telegraphy almost forty years before the technology is introduced for the first time in German newspaper publishing (1810) 207
25. Part III Journalism as Cross-Cultural Communication
26. 17: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe insists on journals’ role in the development of world literature (1828) 223
27. 18: Therese Huber leaves her mark on the Morning Pages for the Educated Classes as editor and contributor (1817) 230
28. 19: August Lewald and Gustav Kühne introduce European society to Germany in Europe, Chronicle of the Educated World (1838–1846) 242
29. 20: From Parisian exile, Arnold Ruge sees the future of political discourse in journals rather than books (1844) 254
30. 21: Heinrich Börnstein publishes a new journal in Paris for German émigrés (1843) 264
31. Part IV Journalism Under Censorship and Political Emancipation
32. 22: The German Confederation, and then the Grand Duchy of Baden, pass press laws of differing liberality (1819 and 1831) 281
33. 23: From beyond the grave, August von Kotzebue writes letters to the editor of the Literary Weekly critiquing censorship (1820) 294
34. 24: Karl Gutzkow, banned from publishing in Prussia, considers a practical approach to censorship (1837) 304
35. 25: Ludwig Philippson introduces his new newspaper as an impartial organ for all Jewish interests (1837) 316
36. 26: Louise Aston asserts her “free personality” against the Berlin press (1846) 331
37. Part V Journalism as History and the History of Journalism
38. 27: Heinrich Heine begins, and abruptly abandons, a historical writing project on the origin of the French Revolution (1832) 345
39. 28: A new works edition presents Friedrich von Gentz, a figurehead of the Restoration establishment, as a classic German journalist-author (1832) 360
40. 29: Heinrich Heine eulogizes the German- Jewish writer Ludwig Marcus and the Society for Jewish Culture and Jewish Studies (1844) 373
41. 30: Robert Prutz begins his history of German journalism in search of “the most obscured veins of our times” (1845) 384
42. 31: Heinrich Börnstein looks back on a journalistic career in Europe and North America (1881) 400
43. Notes on Contributors 407
44. Index 409