Expanding transnational networks : the impact of internal conflict on the feminist press in Dokumente der Frauen (1899–1902) and Neues Frauenleben (1902–17)

This article examines the interpersonal tensions between co-editors Auguste Fickert (1855–1910) and Marie Lang (1858–1934) to show how internal editorial conflict can stimulate transnational editorial relations. By placing the disagreement within the larger context of the international women’s movement at the turn of the century, I argue that Fickert’s vision on women’s organizations differed from Lang’s: Fickert fostered the transnational role of the periodical press, whereas Lang invested in a local approach. Although conflict has been considered a constitutive aspect of the periodical press, it has not been examined before in light of German feminist periodicals, such as Dokumente der Frauen (1899–1902), which Fickert co-edited for some time with Lang and Rosa Mayreder (1858–1938) and Neues Frauenleben (1902–17), of which she was the sole editor from 1902 to 1910. This article traces Fickert’s transnational collaborations. More specifically, it takes her connection to Finnish-born female editor Maikki Friberg (1861–1927) as a case in point to demonstrate how her personal and professional relationship with Friberg resonates through the pages of Dokumente and increasingly so, Neues Frauenleben. I will show how Fickert’s new periodical, Neues Frauenleben, benefited from her collaboration with Friberg especially, and resulted in a myriad of transnational connections that were mainly — but not only — Nordic. By taking the periodical as a locus of personal and professional conflict and collaboration, this article thus shed light on an under-researched link between female editorship and transnationality

Öffentlicher Wandel und Bruno Latours Actor-Network Theory:

Die aktuelle Netzwerktheorie des französischen Soziologen Bruno Latour legt eine neue Forschungsmethode dar, welche das Verhältnis zwischen privater und öffentlicher Sphäre hinterfragt und darum die Möglichkeit bietet, eine feministische Debatte auszulösen.  In dem Vortrag soll dargestellt werden wie das transnationale Netzwerk von Frauenzeitschriften und deren Herausgeberinnen eine neue Konzeption, einen neuen Zusammenhang oder eine Grenzverschiebung von Privatheit und Öffentlichkeit entlarven. Ich werde exemplarisch das Journal Dokumente der Frauen (1899-1902) vorstellen, welches von Auguste Fickert (1855-1910) zusammen mit Marie Lang (1858-1934) und Rosa Mayreder (1858-1938) gegründet wurde

Review of Matthias Karmasin and Christian Oggolder (eds), <i>Eine österreichische Mediengeschichte Band 1: Von den frühen Drucken bis zur Ausdifferenzierung des Mediensystems (1500–1918)</i> (2016)

Matthias Karmasin and Christian Oggolder, eds, Eine österreichische Mediengeschichte Band 1: Von den frühen Drucken bis zur Ausdifferenzierung des Mediensystems (1500–1918) (Berlin: Springer, 2016), vi + 253 pp. ISBN 978-3-658-11008-6

Women editors in Europe

This special issue of the Journal of European Periodical Studies contains a selection of eleven papers presented at the 2019 Women Editors in Europe conference at Ghent University. It explores women’s editorship in a wide range of national and transnational contexts in five full-length articles by Judit Acsády, Lola Alvarez-Morales and Amelia Sanz-Cabrerizo, Aisha Bazlamit, Andrea Penso, and Joanne Shattock, and five shorter pieces by Petra Bozsoki, Zsolt Mészáros, Marie Nedregotten Sørbø, Zsuzsa Török, and Alicja Walczyna, headed by a provocative essay by the conference keynote speaker, Fionnuala Dillane. Spanning three centuries and seven European languages, the special issue not only offers insight into the breadth and diversity of women’s editorial work for the press; it also draws together different national and language traditions in periodical scholarship and makes them accessible to an international audience

Women editors in Europe

This special issue of the Journal of European Periodical Studies contains a selection of eleven papers presented at the 2019 Women Editors in Europe conference at Ghent University. It explores women’s editorship in a wide range of national and transnational contexts in five full-length articles by Judit Acsády, Lola Alvarez-Morales and Amelia Sanz-Cabrerizo, Aisha Bazlamit, Andrea Penso, and Joanne Shattock, and five shorter pieces by Petra Bozsoki, Zsolt Mészáros, Marie Nedregotten Sørbø, Zsuzsa Török, and Alicja Walczyna, headed by a provocative essay by the conference keynote speaker, Fionnuala Dillane. Spanning three centuries and seven European languages, the special issue not only offers insight into the breadth and diversity of women’s editorial work for the press; it also draws together different national and language traditions in periodical scholarship and makes them accessible to an international audience