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Neues Frauenleben

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Neues Frauenleben
CategoriesFeminist magazine
PublisherGeneral Austrian Women’s Organization
FounderAuguste Fickert
Founded1902
Final issue1917
CountryAustria
Based inVienna
LanguageGerman

Neues Frauenleben (German: New Women's Life) was a socialist feminist magazine which was published in Vienna, Austria, in the period 1902–1917. It was the official organ of the General Austrian Women’s Organization.

History and profile

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Neues Frauenleben was established by Auguste Fickert in 1902 as the successor of Dokumente der Frauen which was also a feminist magazine again founded and co-edited by Fickert.[1] The editor-in-chief of the magazine which had its headquarters in Vienna was also Fickert who held the post until 1910.[1][2] She was succeeded by Emil Fickert, and Leopoldine Kulka and Christine Touaillon also served as the editor-in-chief.[2]

Neues Frauenleben was a publication of the General Austrian Women’s Organization.[3] Austrian peace activist Rosa Mayreder published articles in the magazine.[4][5] Some international figures, including Finnish feminist Maikki Friberg, Anna Brunnemann from Sweden, Frederiksen Kristine, Anna Holst, Migerka Elsa, Kohlt Havdan and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, also contributed to Neues Frauenleben.[2] Its target audience was working class women.[3] The magazine folded in 1917.[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b Bettine Flig (7 May 2020). ""Die Frauen kommen!"". Wiener Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d Charlotte D’Eer (Winter 2019). "Expanding Transnational Networks: The Impact of Internal Conflict on the Feminist Press in Dokumente der Frauen (1899–1902) and Neues Frauenleben (1902–17)". Journal of European Periodical Studies. 4 (2): 139, 149–151. doi:10.21825/jeps.v4i2.11646. hdl:1854/LU-8641564. S2CID 212990468.
  3. ^ a b Sarah McGaughey (2017). "Kitchen Stories: Literary and Architectural Reflections on Modern Kitchens in Central Europe". In Helga Mitterbauer; Carrie Smith-Prei (eds.). Crossing Central Europe: Continuities and Transformations, 1900-2000. Toronto; Buffalo, NY; London: University of Toronto Press. p. 106. ISBN 978-1-4426-4914-9.
  4. ^ Ulrike Tanzer (2013). "Feminism and Pacifism: Rosa Mayreder's Writings against War". Austrian Studies. 21: 51. doi:10.5699/austrianstudies.21.2013.0046. S2CID 191888507.
  5. ^ Sanja Bahun (July 2017). "The Pleasures of Daldaldal: Freud, Jokes, and the Development of Intersubjective Aesthetics". Modernist Cultures. 12 (2): 272. doi:10.3366/mod.2017.0170.