''Bremer Beiträge'' was the designation for the weekly magazine ''Neue Beyträge zum Vergnügen des Verstandes und Witzes'' ("New contributions to the pleasure of the mind and wit"). It was published from 1744 to 1759 during the
Age of Enlightenment
The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was a Europe, European Intellect, intellectual and Philosophy, philosophical movement active from the late 17th to early 19th century. Chiefly valuing knowledge gained th ...
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History
The magazine was founded in
Bremen
Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (, ), is the capital of the States of Germany, German state of the Bremen (state), Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (), a two-city-state consisting of the c ...
in 1744 by the writer
Karl Christian Gärtner. It was published by Nathanael Saurmann
[Werner Kloos. "Bremer Beiträge." ''Encyclopedia''. Bremen: Hauschild, 1980.] and was considered a mouthpiece of the Saxon school of poetry. Together with Gärtner,
Johann Andreas Cramer,
Johann Arnold Ebert,
Gottlieb Wilhelm Rabener,
Johann Adolf Schlegel, and
Konrad Arnold Schmid worked since the founding of the magazine.
Later contributors included
Christian Fürchtegott Gellert,
Nikolaus Dietrich Giseke,
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (; 2 July 1724 – 14 March 1803) was a German poet. His best known works are the epic poem ''Der Messias'' ("The Messiah") and the poem ''Die Auferstehung'' ("The Resurrection"), with the latter set to text in the ...
,
Christlob Mylius, and
Justus Friedrich Wilhelm Zachariae. It was here that Klopstock published the first cantos of his epic poem ''
Der Messias
''Der Messias'', K. 572, is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 1789 German-language version of ''Messiah'', George Frideric Handel's 1741 oratorio. On the initiative of Gottfried van Swieten, Mozart adapted Handel's work for performances in Vie ...
''.
See also
*
Johann Christoph Gottsched
Edition
* ''Neue Beyträge zum Vergnügen des Verstandes und Witzes''. Hildesheim: Olms, 1978. (Microfiche edition, reprint of Bremen, 1744−1759.
Notes
References
* Christel Matthias Schröder. ''Die „Bremer Beiträge“: Vorgeschichte und Geschichte einer deutschen Zeitschrift des 18. Jahrhunderts''. Bremen: Schünemann Verlag, 1956.
* Fritz Meyen. ''Bremer Beiträge am Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig: K. Chr. Gärtner, J. A. Ebert, F. W. Zachariä, K. A. Schmid''. Braunschweig: Waisenhaus-Buchdruckerei und Verlag, 1962. (Braunschweiger Werkstücke 26)
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1744 establishments in the Holy Roman Empire
1759 disestablishments in the Holy Roman Empire
Defunct literary magazines published in Germany
German-language magazines
History of Bremen (city)
Magazines established in 1744
Magazines disestablished in 1759
Mass media in Bremen (city)
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