Das Innere Reich (magazine)
The Inner Realm (German: Das Innere Reich) was a literary magazine published in Munich from April 1934 to the fall of 1944. Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn called it "the best conservative cultural review of Germany."[1]
History
The Journal of Poetry, Art and German Life as the magazine was subtitled, was edited by Paul Alverdes and Karl Benno von Mechow and reached a circulation of 5,000 to 6,000 copies per month. The plan to create a conservative counterweight to the Neue Rundschau, the literary journal of S. Fischer Verlag, had existed since 1932,[2] but the first issue did not appear until April 1934. Mechow edited from 1934 until his resignation in 1938.[3]
Even though the journal offered a broad literary spectrum and politically uncommitted or unencumbered authors, the editors acknowledged the "new conditions" in Germany. In the programmatic essay at the beginning of the first issue, Mechow criticized literary exiles and explained the name of the magazine:
Contrary to the opinion of a desperate, so-called "spirituality", which has long since inwardly, and outwardly now also through emigration, detached itself from the soul of the people, we confidently speak here of the "Inner Reich", and name a new journal, which wants to serve German poetry and German art, after this word.
In October 1936, the magazine was briefly banned for three essays in the August issue (two on the birthday of Frederick the Great) that did not conform to the State ideology.[4] The SS journal Das Schwarze Korps attacked an article on the Prussian king under the title "Und das nennt sich Inneres Reich" (And that is called the Inner Realm) as a "grotesque impertinence"; the party journal Völkischer Beobachter called the cultural journal a "product of that evil literati which, in its arrogant intellectualism, consciously kept itself aloof from the community of the new state and saw in an equally silly and sought-after intellectual athleticism the epitome of literary work."
Joseph Goebbels noted in his diary on October 13, 1936:
Yesterday: read, worked. Two magazines "Inner Realm" and "Querschnitt" banned for brazen impertinence. That did good. They were as cheeky as dirt again.
After interventions by the publisher Gustav Pezold and the writer Ernst von Salomon with several NSDAP notabilities, the ban was lifted again on October 23, 1936. The journal could then continue to appear until the fall of 1944.
Notable contributors
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- Ludwig Friedrich Barthel
- Walter Bauer
- Ernst Bertram
- Richard Billinger
- Rudolf G. Binding
- Friedrich Bischoff
- Hans Friedrich Blunck
- Johannes Bobrowski
- Antun Bonifačić
- Bruno Brehm
- Georg Britting
- Ernst von Dombrowski
- Günter Eich
- Gertrud Fussenegger
- Gerd Gaiser
- Albrecht Goes
- Hans Grimm
- Martin Heidegger
- Curt Hohoff
- Ernst Rudolf Huber
- Peter Huchel
- Paul Anton Keller
- Jochen Klepper
- Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer
- Max Kommerell
- Ivan Goran Kovačić
- Karl Krolow
- Erwin Laaths
- Max Mell
- Otto Nebelthau
- Wolf von Niebelschütz
- Rudolf Riester
- Herbert Sailer
- Oda Schaefer
- Wilhelm Schäfer
- Adolf Schinnerer
- Friedrich Schnack
- Reinhold Schneider
- Rudolf Alexander Schröder
- Gerhard Schumann
- Amand Simoens
- Emil Strauß
- Kurt Lothar Tank
- Rudolf Thiel
- Ludwig Tügel
- Franz Tumler
- Georg von der Vring
- Josef Weinheber
- Ernst Wiechert
- Heinrich Zillich
Notes
- ↑ Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Erik von (2007). The Menace of the Herd, or, Procrustes at Large. Auburn, Ala.: Ludwig von Mises Institute, p. 267.
- ↑ Fischer, Ernst; Reinhard Wittmann, eds. (2015). Geschichte des deutschen Buchhandels im 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts. Drittes Reich, Teil I. Berlin: De Gruyter Verlag, p. 320.
- ↑ Schneider, Thomas F.; Hans Wagener, eds. (2003). Von Richthofen bis Remarque: Deutschsprachige Prosa zum I. Weltkrieg. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, p. 346.
- ↑ Nickel, Gunther; Johanna Schrön, eds. (2007). Carl Zuckmayer – Geheimreport. München: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, p. 359.
References
- Horst Denkler, "Janusköpfig. Zur ideologischen Physiognomie der Zeitschrift 'Das Innere Reich' (1934–1944)." In: Horst Denkler & Karl Prümm, eds., Die deutsche Literatur im Dritten Reich. Stuttgart: Philipp Reclam (1976).
- Marion Mallmann „Das innere Reich“. Analyse einer konservativen Kulturzeitschrift im Dritten Reich. Bonn: Bouvier (1978).
- Werner Volke, "Das Innere Reich" 1934–1944. Eine "Zeitschrift für Dichtung, Kunst und deutsches Leben". Literaturarchiv Marbach. Marbacher Magazin, 26 (1983).
- Günther Penzoldt, "Das Innere Reich im Dritten Reich. Curt Hohoffs „intelligente Literaturzeitschrift“ war ein Naziblatt," Die Zeit, No. 14 (2. April 1965).