Daheim
Leipzig / Bielefeld 1865 – 1943
edited by Alfred Estermann
(Illustrated Periodicals ; 3)
approx. 85,000 pages on 1,323 microfiches
2001, ISBN 3-89131-348-9
Diazo (negative): EUR 5,100.– / Silver (positive): EUR 6,500.–
«Our paper knocks at all German doors asking for entrance. It hopes to become a friend of the house and to retain the honor of a guest of the family whom every home may willingly open its door. Party contests are not to be argued out in the family; Daheim will not carry their disputes across the threshold. The German family is based on religious and traditional foundations, our Daheim therefore will keep everything away that might undermine this foundation either directly or indirectly. To interfere in state and church matters is not our paper´s profession, but fostering the noble German family life through a cheerful and earnest word, that is our task.»
Daheim belongs to one of the most successful German magazines meant for families during the 19th and 20th century. One of several competitors of Die Gartenlaube, it started in 1865 and soon gained its share of a steadily growing middle-class readership. It distinguished itself by determined endurance and a flexible adaptability and thus managed to survive all political and social changes until almost after the Third Reich when it ended up being a victim of the war-determined demise of newspapers and magazines in 1944.
«The noble and serious task of Daheim we endeavor to bring to bear more and more», are the words at some other programmatic point. «It is no conventional popular magazine, it is a paper for the German people. It is meant to cultivate discipline and tradition in German homes, it is meant to build and not to tear down, it is meant to also respect and nurture the undestroyable religious needs of our people, following the freedom of mind, the merry growth and development.»