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The workers pictorial newspaper (AIZ) was between 1921 and 1938 a weekly newspaper published in Berlin and Prague. Founder and responsible person editor was the German communist publisher Willi coin mountain (biography).
The history of the AIZ begins in the year 1921 with a hunger emergency in the still young Soviet Union and the appeal of Lenin from 2 August 1921 to the working class around solidary assistance. As support organization for the fight of the hunger disaster "the international worker assistance "(IAH) formed, that was developed and led considerably by William (Willi) coin mountain.
For the support of the work of the IAH, in Germany in the autumn 1921 the monthly magazine was created "Soviet Russia in the picture ". The special attention directed this newspaper, how from the title becomes already evident, at first toward the reporting over the recent Russian Soviet state, its achievements and problems.
The magazine was, like Lilly cup, which said later chief talking document urine of the AIZ, in the preface to wanting man AIZ book: "Â… no masterpiece. Their grey, plain sides, the technically most unsatisfactory photos"Â… corresponded to the otherwise usual standards, which were reached by the large publishing houses in this start time by far not.
In the course of the yearly 1922 the editorship already began with the first reports, which had also the German Proletariat to the topic. At this time the sheet had an edition of approx. 10,000 copies. From the need to create the German Proletariat its own revolutionary pictorial - the civil model of the citizens of Berlin pictorial newspaper - the sheet still 1922, under a further expansion of the reporting, was renamed which out-pointed over the framework of the sheet than organ of the IAH, in Sichel and hammer. Also here the clearing-up had over the Soviet Union and the work of the IAH still another important place, but continued to expand regularly coworkers such as George Grosz, Maxim Gorki, George Berne pool of broadcasting corporations Shaw, Kollwitz and other one the contentwise width, the magazine appearing now in the large size.
The increasing influence was expressed also in the edition numbers; if there was 1922 of about 100,000 copies, then one already came 1924 on 180,000 copies. At the end of the yearly 1924 the sheet grows out of finally from the status of an IAH organ.
On 30 November 1924, in the new German publishing house Willi of coin mountain, under an again changed layout, appears now in the two-weekly rhythm, the first AIZ. With this renewed change began the rapid ascent of the AIZ, which had become the socialist pictorial in Germany now. The newspaper covered now a large range at topics. Published apart from current reports and reports in the AIZ also regularly narrations and poems, for example of Anna Seghers, Erich and Maxim Gorki as well as Theobald tiger, better admits than Kurt Tucholsky. Willy coin mountain pursued a strategy of the connection of the communist movement with the most important heads of the first German republic with its newspaper. So
When 1926 the edition up to 200,000 copies had risen, the publishing house changed over in November to a weekly appearance. Up to the seizure of power of Hitler the edition of the AIZ rose to a height of over one half million. Their sphere of activity was however substantially more largely, there the AIZ, due to its poorer target group, mostly several people was together read. After the seizure of power also the AIZ had 1933 into the exile to go and could in Prague under her editor-in-chief Franz Carl pointing head still to 1938 to continue, even if under the changed circumstances of an edition from one half million no more were not to be thought.
The illustrations originated predominantly from the worker photography. Particularly is the Photocollagen of the commercial artist and photo assembly artist admits John Heartfield, which became 1930 constant coworker of the AIZ.
Starting from 1931 walter Reuter was active as a constant free coworker for the AIZ. From it the photos of the report the murder tower 33 come over the SA assault on citizens of Berlin the dance restaurant Eden, to which the attorney Hans suffered the text wrote and also the process for the left workers led. Likewise of walter Reuter come a mayor of the village poverty, in the name of the people, the Komune are hung up, at the basis arranged! 4 months rock hitting a corner process. 1933 Reuter fled two weeks after the realm tag fire to Spain, where he participated as a war correspondent in the Spanish civil war, and continued to flee 1942 in the exile to Mexico. It applies in Mexico as a founder of the modern documentary photo journalism.
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