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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Steinroetter, Vanessa |
| Title, Analytic | The Politics of Humor: Max Cohnheim's Columbia (1863-1873), A German Newspaper in the Nation's Capital |
| Journal Title | American Periodicals: A Journal of History, Criticism, and Bibliography |
| Date of Publication | 2009 |
| Volume ID | 19 |
| Issue ID | 1 |
| Location in Work | 21-48, ill. |
| URL | https://mki.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1100/2022/03/The_Politics_of_Humor_Max_Cohnheims_Colu-1.pdf |
| MKI Annotation | Max (Marcus) Cohnheim (born November 8, 1826 in Fraustadt, Posen province; died September 25, 1896 in Newark, New Jersey), was a German revolutionary, a German-American writer and publicist and an activist of the democratic movement, of republicanism, and the labor movement. Because of state persecution in the German Confederation, he emigrated to Switzerland, then via London to the United States of America. In the American Civil War he served as an officer on the side of the northern states, then for several years as an employee of the US Treasury Department. He was an editor and publisher of German-language newspapers and satiricals in Berlin, Geneva, New York City, Washington, DC, and San Francisco as well as an actor and author of popular plays for German-language theaters in New York's immigrant milieu. |
| Abstract | "[For those] who possessed the political and cultural literacy to understand the points made in the sketches, spoof proceedings, mock encyclopedia entries, and satirical poems, this German paper from Washington presented political commentary in a refreshingly unconventional and clever way. Satire and humor as veiled political commentary enabled the Columbia to entertain its readers while engaging with current events and issues from both American and European politics. By adopting journalistic models from a popular German satirical magazine and adapting the content to the interests of Germans living in America, Cohnheim’s paper succeeded in appealing to experiences and a cultural heritage shared not only by the Washington Germans but by German-speaking Americans beyond the local community." |
| Call Number | P2022-9 and digital file |
| MKI Terms | Newspapers, German-American/ Forty-eighters |