The postwar journal 'Die Wandlung':Debates about humanism and effects on democratization between 1945 and 1949.

在海德堡出版的战后杂志“Die Wandlung”是申请项目的核心。它是文化知识媒体在1945年至1949年的微观时代塑造社会的可能性和局限性的一个指标。杂志的概念和设计表达了二战结束后重塑社会的意志的简洁现象。这项研究非常适合描述社会与媒体之间的相互作用，尤其是因为该杂志在1948年货币改革和社会利益转变之后不得不停刊。长期以来，期刊研究以书目检查和文献标引为主导，这无疑是基础和必要的。然而，对所选期刊进行文学和知识历史研究是一项必要的工作。考虑到它的分布和社会影响，特别适合从它的创立到它的终结进行研究。《Wandlung》反映了当代“关于人文主义的辩论”，并记录了民主化尝试的影响——既涉及德国社会，也通过美国文学和文化政策以及跨大西洋思想交流从外国的角度来看。除了该期刊的高发行量和不同寻常的概念外，马尔巴赫德国文学档案馆完整编辑档案的档案位置以及其在1945年至1949年微观时期的有限出版时间特别有利于本研究课题的选择。该项目的目的是通过调查战后微观时期在一个限定的当地地区（美国占领区的海德堡）出现的一种选定媒介，对这一时期文学和文化期刊的条件和可能性进行示范性的洞察——关于它的出现、概念、分布、目标和社会相关性。在这样做的过程中，该项目旨在实现四个目标，其中包括a)战争结束和年轻的联邦共和国成立之间的图书贸易条件，b)“Journalpoetik”，c)跨大西洋思想交流，d)战后时期文学与社会批判过程之间的相互作用。结果在四篇文章中得到了保证。一个关于所谓的“海德堡人文主义”的会议将为这个项目画上圆满的句号。柏林洪堡大学被选为研究地点。主持研究员是期刊研究专家Claudia Stockinger教授。这种环境特别适合，不仅因为现场科学家的专业知识，还因为档案馆、图书馆和现有网络为“小形式”提供了独特的机构可能性。

The postwar journal ‘Die Wandlung‘, published in Heidelberg, is core of the project applied for. It is an indicator of the possibilities and limits of cultural-intellectual media in shaping society in the micro-epoch between 1945 and 1949. The journal’s concept and design expresses the concise phenomenon of the will to reshape society after the end of World War II. The study is extraordinarily suitable for depicting the interaction between society and media, not least because the journal had to be discontinued in the wake of the currency reform of 1948 and the shift in social interests.For a long time, journal research was dominated by the – undoubtedly fundamental and necessary – bibliographical examination and indexing of the sources. However, a literary and knowledge-historical study of the selected journal is a desideratum. The journal is particularly suited to be researched from its foundation to its end, taking into account its distribution and social influence. ‘Die Wandlung’ reflects contemporary ‘debates about humanism’ and records the effects of attempts towards democratization – both with regard to German society and from the foreign perspective through American literary and cultural policy and the transatlantic exchange of ideas. In addition to the journal’s high circulation and its unusual conception, the archival location of the complete editorial archive in the German Literature Archive in Marbach and the limited duration of its publication in the micro-epoch between 1945 and 1949 speak particularly in favor of the choice of this research subject. The aim of the proposed project is to develop exemplary insights into the conditions and possibilities of literary and cultural journals in this period via investigating a selected medium in its emergence within a delimited local area (Heidelberg in the American occupation zone) in a micro-epoch of the post-war period – with regard to its emergence, conception, distribution, goals, and societal relevance. In doing so, the project aims to achieve four goals, which include a) the conditions of the book trade between the end of the war and the founding of the young Federal Republic, b) ‘Journalpoetik’, c) the transatlantic exchange of ideas, d) the interaction between literature and socio-critical processes of the postwar period. The results are secured in four articles. A conference on the so-called ‘Heidelberg Humanism’ is planned to round off the program.The Humboldt University of Berlin has been chosen as the research location. The host researcher is Prof. Claudia Stockinger, expert in journal research. This environment is particularly suitable not only because of the expertise of the scientists on site, but also because of the unique institutional possibilities provided by archives, libraries and existing networks for ‘small forms’.