The world stage was a German weekly newspaper for politics, art and economics. It was created of Siegfried Jacobsohn in Berlin under the name the looking stage as pure theatre magazine and appeared on 7 September 1905 for the first time. On 4 April 1918 the looking stage, which had opened since 1913 for economic and political topics, was renamed into the world stage. After death Jacobsohns in December 1926 transferred Kurt Tucholsky the line of the sheet, which he passed on in May 1927 at Carl von Ossietzky. The national socialists forbade after the realm tag fire the world stage, to 7. March 1933 for the last time to appear could. In the exile the magazine was continued until 1939 under the title the new world stage. After the end of the Second World War the world stage under its original name appeared again in east Berlin, where it had existence until 1993. 1997 placed themselves the magazines Ossietzky and the lamella into the tradition of the famous model.

the world stage in the Weimar Republic was considered to their small red booklets as the forum radical-democratic civil linking. Approximately 2500 authors wrote from 1905 to 1933 for the magazine. In addition also prominent journalists and writer belonged such as Lion Feuchtwanger, Moritz Heimann, Kurt Hiller, Erich laborious, Else Lasker pupil, Erich Alfred, to Carl Zuckmayer and Arnold branch beside Jacobsohn, Tucholsky and Ossietzky. Also a little in oblivion journalist such as Rudolf Arnheim, Julius Bab, Erich Dombrowski, Axel, turned out, harrow-broken, belonged to light courage of Gerlach, Richard Lewinsohn, Fritz star mountain and Heinrich to the important coworkers of the sheet.

Even in their high phase the world stage had only a small edition of approximately 15,000 copies. Journalistic one penetrated it nevertheless. Examples of it are uncovering the Fememorde within the black realm resistance as well as reports over the secret armament of the realm resistance, which later to so-called '' world stage '' - process led. Also the set of soldiers coined/shaped by Tucholsky is murderers led to an accusation of the publisher at that time Ossietzky.

Emergence and development

The establishment of the looking stage was the result of a plagiarism affair, into which the 23 years old theatre critics Siegfried Jacobsohn was complicated. On 12 November 1904 citizen of Berlin had made the day sheet on parallels between criticisms of Jacobsohn and Alfred gold attentive. Jacobsohn was at this time a theatre critic of the world on Monday, which, and in pressing and theatre circles therefore partially coworkers did not hate their contentious due to the public indignation any more to hold did not want. For the first failed Jacobsohn a mehrmonatige journey began vocationally by Europe and decided to bring its own theatre magazine into being. , He described this life phase, of beginning of the plagiarism affair up to the establishment of the looking stage in the 1913 writing the case Jacobsohn appeared. In the review it described its affair as "piece of sensation of first rank, for which it was worthwhile itself, those to Berlin advertising pillars with giant posters - Jacobsohns exposing; Plagiator Jacobsohn; Siegfrieds death - lasting for weeks to full-seal "(P. 50). According to newer investigations the case in the capital press found however only a small echo. Jacobsohns brochure contains also a letter passage, which shows its conceptions of the future work as publisher and an editor (P. 47):

To work wonderful denk' ichs me to build after my taste each week to a certain extent a house which will always have a andre and nevertheless always the same Physiognomie, in always new, always valuable people material - director of a printed stage.

Theatre phase: 1905 to 1913

Magazine went through several development phases during its existence from 1905 to 1933. Until 1913 it concentrated on "the entire interests of the theatre ", as it meant up to then in its sub-title. Jacobsohn was convinced that "the spirit of a people and a certain time comes more urgently than in the remaining literature in the drama to the expression "- in such a way it means in its contribution to the escort, with which it opened the first booklet of the looking stage.

The first four numbers was a quotation from Friedrich Schillers essay the looking stage as moral institute regarded as slogan placed in front: "So certainly visible representation more powerfully works than dead letter and cold narration, so certainly works the looking stage more deeply and more continuously than moral and laws ". That was a reference to how Jacobsohn wanted to know its enterprise understood: as clearing-up in the spirit of the classical period. The great importance, which came to artistic debates in the time at that time, lay however also in the fact justified that the art was exposed in the German Reich among emperors Wilhelm to IITH less Repressionen than politics and journalism.

Among the most important coworkers in the initial phase of the looking stage the theatre critics Julius Bab, Willi Handl and Alfred ranked, in the subsequent years stepped also writers such as Lion Feuchtwanger and Harry punt as well as the theatre critic Herbert Ihering in addition. In November 1908 Feuchtwangers magazine of the mirrors was combined after only 15 expenditures with the looking stage.

As a theatre critic Jacobsohn was an antipode Alfred Kerr. Different as this he was a decided critic of the naturalism and estimated contrary to Kerr also the achievements of max of Reinhardt as a theatre leader and - director far more highly than from Otto the Brahm. Reinhardts 1910 turn beginning to the mass theatre in circus arenas, which finally flowed into Berlin in the building of the large Schauspielhauses, was however disapproved by Jacobsohn.

Opening to the policy: 1913 to 1918

On 9 January 1913 for the first time a contribution on this day 23 years old of the law student become appeared Kurt Tucholsky in the looking stage. Already in the first year of its co-operation with Jacobsohn Tucholsky to its most important coworker, which was promoted. the sheet too ""appear to let Tucholsky lastig, he did not add himself already 1913 three aliases, which he maintained up to the end of his journalistic working: Ignaz Wrobel, Theobald tiger and Peter Panter. Under the influence of Tucholskys cooperation should change itself also the character of the looking stage rapidly. Already in March 1913 the first "answers appeared ", a column, in which the magazine should take position in the future on genuine or fictitious reader letters. More importantly however the decision was Jacobsohns to open its sheet for topics from politics and economics. On 25 September the corporate lawyer Martin Friedlaender under the alias reported "Vindex "on monopoly structures in the American tobacco industry. Jacobsohn took position in a fictitious "answer "in addition: "(...) if here nine years the theatre and only the theatre regarded is, then I did not incurr the loss thereby yet the right to let and regard once andre things regard. A field seperately from all different to to till, has its attractions, its advantages, in addition, its dangers. (...) "

During the war it succeeded to Jacobsohn that its magazine could appear regular despite difficult conditions. By August 1914 to opened it each booklet with a political editorial, in which "more patriotically a "point of view became to represent. In November 1915 the journalist Robert Breuer under the alias Cunctator started a series of articles, which argued critically with the policy of the realm government and the political condition of the realm. The row culminated on 23 December in the contribution "the crisis of the capitalism ", which ended with the statement: "Only the international one of the Proletariats can overcome the crisis of national capitalism. "

Due to this article the looking stage was first forbidden. Jacobsohn could guarantee however a further appearance of the sheet, by consenting to a Vorzensur. Changed to the Germanicus Breuer turned in January 1916 as commentator back into the sheet and led there despite its name a permanent fight against the demands for annex ion of the allGerman federation. From 1916 Jacobsohn, which had delivered 1915 after the death of its youngest brother at the front a passionate pazifistisches confession, printed regularly advertisements for the design of war loans. Unsettled it is so far whether these announcements were recompensed and so that possibly crucially to the existence safety device of the magazine contributed. Altogether by any means the pazifistische, politically at best as lavierend appearance of the sheet which can be designated did not register to Jacobsohn later not unauthorized criticism among other things from Franz Pfemfert and Karl Kraus.

Economics for the change from the pure theatre sheet to "the magazine for politics, "Jacobsohn finally carried art, on 4 April 1918 with renaming the looking stage in world stage calculation.

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