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 Front page of the first issue ofNeue Freie Presse | |
| Type | Daily |
|---|---|
| Founder | Adolf Werthner |
| Editor | Max Friedländer (1864–1872) |
| Staff writers | 500 |
| Founded | September 1, 1864 |
| Ceased publication | January 31, 1939 |
| Political alignment | Liberal |
| Language | German |
| Headquarters | Vienna |
| Circulation | 90,000 (1920) |
Neue Freie Presse ("New Free Press") was aViennesenewspaper founded byAdolf Werthner together with the journalistsMax Friedländer andMichael Etienne on 1 September 1864 after the staff had split from the newspaperDie Presse. It existed until January 31, 1939. Werthner was president ofOesterreichischen Journal-Aktien-Gesellschaft, the business entity behind the newspaper.
In 1879,Eduard Bacher became the editor-in-chief of the paper. The editor from 1908 to 1920, and eventual owner, wasMoriz Benedikt.
Journalists employed by the paper included "Sil-Vara" (pseudonym of Geza Silberer) andFelix Salten.[1]
In Paris, its correspondent wasRaphael Basch,Max Nordau, and from 1891,Theodor Herzl, both founders of theZionist movement. Its music critics includedEduard Hanslick (1864–1904) andJulius Korngold (1904–1934).[2]
In his bookThe World of Yesterday,Stefan Zweig, afeuilletonist for the newspaper, called theNeue Freie Presse "the oracle of my fathers and the temple of the high priests"[3] and described its role as arbiter of literary and artistic culture infin de siècle Vienna, especially for those who "had little to do with literature, and did not presume to make literary judgments":
[T]o them, and to the entire Viennese bourgeoisie, important works were those that won praise in theNeue Freie Presse, and works ignored or condemned there didn't matter. They felt that anything published in the feuilleton was vouched for by the highest authority, and a writer who pronounced judgment there demanded respect merely by virtue of that fact.[4]
The paper was the frequent target of satiristKarl Kraus.
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