''Über Land und Meer'' (

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: ''Over Land and Sea'') was a German illustrated news and political magazine published in Stuttgart, Germany, between 1858 and 1923. Its subtitle was ''Allgemeine illustrierte Zeitung''.

History and profile

''Über Land und Meer'' was founded by Eduard Hallberger in Stuttgart in 1858. Its publisher was Eduard Hallberger Verlag. The founding editor was the successful and high-circulation German novelist

Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer, in later life von Hackländer (1 November 1816 – 6 July 1877), was a successful German author. Life Hackländer was born in Burtscheid, now part of the city of Aachen, Germany. He was orphaned at the age of 1 ...

. It became a popular illustrated news magazine among the

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. ''Über Land und Meer'' mostly published articles reflecting an inclusive

patriotism Patriotism is the feeling of love, devotion, and sense of attachment to one's country. This attachment can be a combination of many different feelings, language relating to one's own homeland, including ethnic, cultural, political or histor ...

and a view of

German colonialism The German colonial empire (german: Deutsches Kolonialreich) constituted the overseas colonies, dependencies and territories of the German Empire. Unified in the early 1870s, the chancellor of this time period was Otto von Bismarck. Short-live ...

that was intended to be an apolitical

scientific approach The scientific method is an empirical method for acquiring knowledge that has characterized the development of science since at least the 17th century (with notable practitioners in previous centuries; see the article history of scientific me ...

. Such a journalistic attitude was also shared by other significant

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outlets of the period, including the ''

Westermanns Monatshefte Westermann Verlag (English: "Westermann Publishing") is a German publishing firm, founded in the 19th century in Braunschweig, Duchy of Brunswick by George Westermann (23 February 1810 in Leipzig; 7 September 1879 in Wiesbaden). Several other gen ...

'' and ''

Die Gartenlaube ''Die Gartenlaube – Illustriertes Familienblatt'' (; ) was the first successful mass-circulation German newspaper and a forerunner of all modern magazines.Sylvia Palatschek: ''Popular Historiographies in the 19th and 20th Centuries'' (Oxford: ...

''. However, during the 1880s and 1890s ''Über Land und Meer'' also praised

colonialism Colonialism is a practice or policy of control by one people or power over other people or areas, often by establishing colonies and generally with the aim of economic dominance. In the process of colonisation, colonisers may impose their rel ...

through

racist Racism is the belief that groups of humans possess different behavioral traits corresponding to inherited attributes and can be divided based on the superiority of one race over another. It may also mean prejudice, discrimination, or antagonis ...

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and news about Germany's colonial activities. The contributors included

Berthold Auerbach Berthold Auerbach (28 February 1812 – 8 February 1882) was a German- Jewish poet and author. He was the founder of the German "tendency novel", in which fiction is used as a means of influencing public opinion on social, political, moral, and ...

Theodor Fontane Theodor Fontane (; 30 December 1819 – 20 September 1898) was a German novelist and poet, regarded by many as the most important 19th-century German-language realist author. He published the first of his novels, for which he is best known tod ...

Karl May Karl Friedrich May ( , ; 25 February 1842 – 30 March 1912) was a German author. He is best known for his 19th century novels of fictitious travels and adventures, set in the American Old West with Winnetou and Old Shatterhand as main pro ...

and

Paul Heyse Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse (; 15 March 1830 – 2 April 1914) was a distinguished German writer and translator. A member of two important literary societies, the '' Tunnel über der Spree'' in Berlin and '' Die Krokodile'' in Munich, he wrote ...

. ''Über Land und Meer'' ceased publication in 1923, largely due to the high inflation then prevailing in Germany.

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