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Der Türmer. Monatsschrift für Gemüt und Geist was the name of anational conservative, Protestant cultural journal, which appeared first inStuttgart and then inBerlin from 1898 to 1943 and was published for a long time by the Baltic German writerJeannot Emil von Grotthuß [de], who lived inBad Oeynhausen. The name was intended to refer to the tower keeper fromFaust, Part Two: "Zum Sehen geboren, zum Schauen bestellt." (Born to see, ordered to look.)
The journal sought to give a view of the entire intellectual and social culture of the present day; since 1902 the "Türmer-Jahrbuch" (Türmer Yearbook) had been published alongside. Grotthuß madeder Türmer a central cultural and political medium of the Wilhelminian period. From 3000 (in 1899), the number of copies printed per month climbed to 17,500. In the section "Türmers Tagebuch" Grotthuß attacked thesocial democracy, court nobility, money aristocracy and industry, which he accused of "Byzantinism",Klassenjustiz [de] and "political eunuchy". In 1918, he sided with the old order against the republic and became a fierce advocate of theStab-in-the-back myth. When he died in 1920,der Türmer was "well on his way to becoming one of the strongest and most dangerous opponents of the Weimar system". Grotthuß oriented himself towards theHeimatkunst [de] movement. His successor was the Alsatian HeimatkünstlerFriedrich Lienhard, who steered the magazine intovölkische waters. In 1929, the early National SocialistFriedrich Castelle took over the publication and brought in the two völkisch magazinesDeutsche Monatshefte andDie Bergstadt. In 1943, the magazine was integrated into theWestermanns Monatshefte. The printing and publishing of the magazine was done by Greiner and Pfeifer in Stuttgart until 1930, then by the national socialist Beenken-Verlag.[1]
Walter Ehrenstein,Hedwig Forstreuter,Stephan Ley,Otto Rennefeld,Otto von Taube,Karl August Walther andReinhold Zimmermann were among the authors writing for derTürmer.
