The publisher of Der Eigene had to fight against government
censorship. For example, in 1903 a published poem "Die Freundschaft" (Friendship) provoked a
lawsuit against the magazine. The magazine won because the poem was written by
Friedrich Schiller.[1]
In 1933, when
Adolf Hitler rose to power, Adolf Brand's house was searched and all the materials needed to produce the magazine were seized and given to
Ernst Röhm.[2]
In a major effort in 2020,
Humboldt University of Berlin made available the complete set of the magazine on its website,[3] with censorship in form of pixellation applied to several pages containing artistic photographs and paintings.
Gallery
Der Eigene, vol. 1 (1896), no. 1 - ten issues in this format - an anarchist journal with no gay content in this volume
Der Eigene, vol. 2 (1898), no. 1 - two issues in this format - here, the opening page of a gay short story, the journal's first gay text
Der Eigene, "New Series" vol. 1 (= vol. 3, the first entirely gay volume) (1898), no. 1 - ten issues in this format
Der Eigene, vol. 4 (or "New Series" vol. 2) (1903), no. 1 - six issues in this format
Der Eigene, vol. 5 (or "New Series" vol. 3) (1905), no. 1 - six issues in this format
Der Eigene, vol. 6 (1906) - the only hardback issue, an annual
Der Eigene, vol. 7 (1919–20), no. 3 - eleven issues in this format
Der Eigene, vol. 8 (1920), no. 9 - fourteen issues in this format
Der Eigene, vol. 9 (1921-22-23), no. 3 - seven issues in this format
Der Eigene, vol. 10 (1924-25), no. 4 - twelve issues in this format
Der Eigene, vol. 11 (1926), no. 1 - ten issues in this format
Der Eigene, vol. 12 (1929), no. 5 - five issues in this format
Der Eigene, vol. 13 (1930–32), no. 1 - nine issues in this format
Original uncensored page 158 from DER EIGENE 6 (1906)
Example of a censored page containing a painting by Léonard Sarluis, from "DER EIGENE" magazine scan hosted on Humboldt University of Berlin website
Reprint: Der Eigene. Ein Blatt für männliche Kultur. Ein Querschnitt durch die erste Homosexuellenzeitschrift der Welt. With an article by Friedrich Kröhnke. Published and afterwords by Joachim S. Hohmann, Foerster Verlag, Frankfurt/Main and Berlin 1981.
Tamagne, Florence (2004). History Of Homosexuality In Europe. Algora Publishing. pp. 69–70.
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