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Über Land und Meer

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Über Land und Meer
Title page; October 1877
EditorFriedrich Wilhelm Hackländer
CategoriesIllustrated news magazine
PublisherEduard Hallberger Verlag
FounderEduard Hallberger
Founded1858
Final issue1923
CompanyEduard Hallberger Verlag
CountryGerman Empire
Weimar Republic
Based inStuttgart
LanguageGerman
OCLC1496365

Über Land und Meer (German: Over Land and Sea) was a German illustrated news and political magazine published in Stuttgart, Germany, between 1858 and 1923.[1][2] Its subtitle was Allgemeine illustrierte Zeitung.[2][3]

History and profile

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Über Land und Meer was founded by Eduard Hallberger in Stuttgart in 1858.[4] Its publisher was Eduard Hallberger Verlag.[3] The founding editor was the successful and high-circulation German novelist Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer.[2][5] It became a popular illustrated news magazine among the bourgeois middle classes.[6]

Über Land und Meer mostly published articles reflecting an inclusive patriotism and a view of German colonialism that was intended to be an apolitical scientific approach.[7] Such a journalistic attitude was also shared by other significant German media outlets of the period, including the Westermanns Monatshefte and Die Gartenlaube.[7] However, during the 1880s and 1890s Über Land und Meer also praised colonialism through racist cartoons and news about Germany's colonial activities.[7] The contributors included Berthold Auerbach, Theodor Fontane, Karl May and Paul Heyse.[8] Über Land und Meer ceased publication in 1923, largely due to the high inflation then prevailing in Germany.[2][4]

References

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  1. ^ "Zeitung / Beilage". Badische - Landes Bibliothek (in German). Retrieved 29 March 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d "Über Land und Meer". Harald Fischer Verlag (in German). Retrieved 29 March 2020.
  3. ^ a b "Ueber Land und Meer. Allgemeine illustrierte Zeitung". ZVAB (in German). Retrieved 29 March 2020.
  4. ^ a b Thomas Smits (2019). The European Illustrated Press and the Emergence of a Transnational Visual Culture of the News, 1842-1870. Abingdon; New York: Routledge. p. 117. ISBN 978-1-00-076722-3.
  5. ^ Lynn K. Nyhart (2009). Modern Nature: The Rise of the Biological Perspective in Germany. Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press. p. 94. ISBN 978-0-226-61092-4.
  6. ^ Patrick Roessler (2007). "Global Players, Émigres, and Zeitgeist". Journalism Studies. 8 (4): 566–593. doi:10.1080/14616700701411995. S2CID 147011901.
  7. ^ a b c John Phillip Short (2012). Magic Lantern Empire: Colonialism and Society in Germany. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. p. 112. ISBN 978-0-8014-5094-5.
  8. ^ Daniela Richter (2016). "Wilhelmine Culture in the Shadow of the Pyramids: The Historical Novels of Georg Ebers". In Daniela Richter (ed.). The German Historical Novel since the Eighteenth Century: More than a Bestseller. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 49. ISBN 978-1-4438-5727-7.
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