- Bertuch's name stood for the publication of periodicals such as: Magazin der spanischen und portugiesischen Literatur, Journal des Luxus und der Moden, Pandora oder Kalender des Luxus und der Moden, Ratgeber, Allgemeine geographische Ephemeriden, Gartenmagazin, Nemesis, or Oppositionblatt, and he was of course involved in Wieland's (Neuen) Teutschen Merkur and in the publication of the (Hallische) Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung.
- See Gotthard Brandler, ‘Friedrich Justin Bertuch und sein Journal “London und Paris” ', in Greizer Studien, I, edited by Harald Olbrich et al., Berlin, 1989, pp. 128–45, here p. 137.
- Published in full in the 'Intelligenzblatt des Journals des Luxus und der Moden’, No. 6, Junius 1798, and at the very front of the first volume of London und Paris itself. All quotations from it in this study will refer to the latter (hereafter referred to as Plan & Ank.). Shortened versions appeared in other journals.
- See Walter Horace Bruford, Deutsche Kultur der Goethezeit, Konstanz, 1965, pp. 17–19 and Hans Eberhard, Goethes Umwelt. Forschungen zur gesellschaftlichen Struktur Thüringens, Weimar, 1951.
- Stephan Schütze, Johanna Schopenhauer in Weimar, in j. W. Gubitz, Berühmte Schriftsteller der Deutschen, Berlin, 1855, vol. 2, pp. 175–84, here p. 176.
- See Ellen Riggert, ‘Die Zeitschrift ‘London und Paris’ als Quelle englischer Zeitverhältnisse um die Wende des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts’, Diss., Göttingen, 1934, pp. 7–8: ‘In Deutschland waren um die Jahrhundertwende Titel und Inhalte wie “Magazin des neuesten französischen und englischen Geschmacks in Kleidung”, “Frankreich”, “London und Paris” durchaus geläufig […] sie bildeten einen wesendichen Teil der damaligen Zeitschriftenliteratur überhaupt.’ See also Maria Kleffner, ‘Beiträge zur Geschichte der kosmopolitisch-gerichteten Zeitschriften um die Wende des 18 und 19ten Jahrhunderts von 1790–1810’, Diss. Münster, 1923, list of tides pp. V–XI.
- And indeed, the editors had to face political censorship of their journal which made them change the place of publication twice. Yet this was due to particular caricatures they had included, which are not the subject of this study. However, some considerable work is being done on this topic at Friedrich-Schiller Universität in Jena as part of a large research project called ‘Ereignis Jena-Weimar um 1800’.
- See Peter J. Brenner, Der Reisebericht in der deutschen Literatur, IASL, 2. Sonderheft, Tübingen, 1990, esp. pp. 19–24. See Riggert, p. 14: ‘Im 10. Band wird das Incognito des Londoner Berichterstatters gelüftet und in einer Anmerkung […] ein Herr Hüttner als Korrespondent bezeichnet.’
- The abbreviation ‘L&P’ here and hereafter stands for London und Paris.
- The content of the above-mentioned ‘Gesetz’ is actually added in a footnote signed by the editors back in Weimar. This is common practice throughout the journal, and these footnotes can sometimes take on quite substantial dimensions.
- At another point he refers to a similar pictoral arrangement (horses and coach) saying that the bodies of the horses indicate that they are just about to move.
- Where the London correspondent gives this kind of information, he does it for a totally different purpose. Thus when Hüttner writes: ‘Astley's Comödienzettel sind gemeiniglich drey Schuh lang und werden auf grellfarbige Papiere, meistens von hohem Orangegelb, gedruckt, und müssen den immer nach London zuströmenden Landleuten in die Augen fallen. Daher ist Asdey's Haus nie ledig’ (L&P, 1/4/1798, p. 328), the effect is to add a touch or two to the characterization of the spectatorship; to illuminate the interaction between the theatre and its audience; and perhaps also to suggest to one or the other reader that this place is worth visiting.
- With regard to German perceptions of these two models (including historic writing, travel literature and others), Jörn Garber writes: ‘Die vor dem Leser ausgebreitete “Landeskunde” ist zumeist geschaute und geschilderte Zivilisationstheorie. […] Ohne solche theoretischen Vorstrukturierungen von Nationalgeschichten wären diese nicht eindeutig interpretierbar, da die Binnendifferenz der Praxis keine aussagefähigen Verallgemeinerungen erlaubt.’ Jörn Garber, ‘Peripherie oder Zentrum? Die “europäische Triarchie” (Deutschland, Frankreich, England) als transnationales Deutungssystem der Nationalgeschichte’, in Michel Espagne, Michael Werner (eds.), Transferts. Les Relations Interculturelles Dans L'Espace Franco-Allemand (XVIIIe et XIXe siècle), Paris, 1988.
- As a term this dated back to the early eighteenth century. Around the turn of the centuries it did not seem to have been widely used. In the first instance it might thus have carried resemblances to other, more fashionable, ‘tableaux’. A resemblance to the contemporary fashion of ‘tableau vivant’ might have suggested itself. That could of course only be an associative one, since ‘tableaux vivant’ were speech- and motionless and life was frozen. Publications such as Mercier's Tableaux de Paris did much more prove to be a model for ‘our’ journal.
- The use of language by the London correspondent in particular is strikingly similar to the descriptions by, say, Franz Hessel or Walter Benjamin, of modern city life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as seen from the perspective of a flaneur.
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