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24-513: The first issue appeared as a sample issue on 12 September 1868, while regular distribution began in October 1868. The daily issue appeared in the late afternoon, matching the trading hours on the stock exchange. On Sunday evening, the newspaper appeared under the name Station and was primarily a feuilleton . The daily paper had one page of political news and three pages of news and reports from trade and industry. In addition, there were four supplements:

48-524: A pejorative sense to denote that someone or something is weak or childish. For example, one of the last Western Roman emperors was Romulus Augustus , but his name was diminutivized to "Romulus Augustulus" to express his powerlessness. In many languages, diminutives are word forms that are formed from the root word by affixation . In most languages, diminutives can also be formed as multi-word constructions such as " Tiny Tim ", or "Little Dorrit". In most languages that form diminutives by affixation, this

72-437: A new tone, a new melody, a new vision. [...] It is a language you can feel on your tongue, in your gums, your ear, your spinal column." On 20 April 1924, the paper published an essay by Franz Kafka , "Adalbert Stifter". In the two editions of 11 January 1927, Herbert Ihering reviewed the premiere of the film Metropolis . In the 1920s all Berlin papers were changed to a new format, the " Berliner ". Beginning on 24 August 1924,

96-562: A newspaper. The feuilleton was the literary consequence of the Coup of 18 Brumaire (Dix-huit-Brumaire). A consular edict of January 17, 1800, made a clean sweep of the revolutionary press, and cut down the number of Paris newspapers to 13. Under the Consulate , and later on, the Empire , Le Moniteur Universel , which served as a propaganda mouthpiece for Napoleon Bonaparte , basically controlled what

120-502: Is a productive part of the language. For example, in Spanish gordo can be a nickname for someone who is overweight, and by adding an -ito suffix, it becomes gordito which is more affectionate. Examples for a double diminutive having two diminutive suffixes are in Polish dzwon → dzwonek → dzwoneczek or Italian casa → casetta → casettina ). In English,

144-424: Is a word-formation device used to express such meanings. A double diminutive is a diminutive form with two diminutive suffixes rather than one. Diminutives are often employed as nicknames and pet names when speaking to small children and when expressing extreme tenderness and intimacy to an adult. The opposite of the diminutive form is the augmentative . In some contexts, diminutives are also employed in

168-561: The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung in 1944. Feuilleton A feuilleton ( French pronunciation: [fœjtɔ̃] ; a diminutive of French : feuillet , the leaf of a book) was originally a kind of supplement attached to the political portion of French newspapers , consisting chiefly of non-political news and gossip, literature and art criticism , a chronicle of the latest fashions, and epigrams , charades and other literary trifles. The term feuilleton

192-461: The Neue Freie Presse ' s feuilleton , "in the lower half of the front page, separated sharply from the ephemera of politics and the day by an unbroken line that extended from margin to margin", had become the leading arbiter of literary culture in fin de siècle Vienna, such that a feuilleton writer's "yes or no... decided the success of a work, a play, or a book, and with it that of

216-525: The Börsen-Courier was subtitled Moderne Tageszeitung (Modern daily paper). In 1914 it had a circulation of 11,000, in 1923 between 50,000 and 60,000. From 1925 to 1927 the circulation was about 40,000. On 24 December 1932 the Berliner Börsen-Zeitung announced that it had bought out the shares of the Börsen-Courier . On 31 December 1933 the last issue was printed, #609. The BBZ was merged with

240-602: The feuilleton would become a phenomenon only with the appearance of serialised novels. For instance, Alexandre Dumas ' The Count of Monte Cristo , The Three Musketeers and Vingt Ans Apres all filled the "ground floors" of the Siècle . Eugène Sue 's Mystères de Paris ran in the Débate , and his Juif Errant ( The Wandering Jew ) appeared in the Constitutionnel . In The World of Yesterday , Stefan Zweig wrote of how

264-452: The feuilleton , Alfred Schütze and Paul Bormann for commerce, Benno Jacobsen for theater and Oskar Bie , writing on art. Joseph Roth worked for the paper from 1921. In 1922 critic Herbert Ihering made Bertolt Brecht known by a review of his first performed play Drums in the Night : "At 24 the writer Bert Brecht has changed Germany's literary complexion overnight [... he] has given our time

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288-504: The Courszettel (stock list), advertising, the Station and a weekly supplement of real estate news. Beginning on 1 January 1869, the paper came with a morning and an evening edition. The evening edition consisted mainly of the stock data, while the morning edition had mainly news and reports from the fields of politics, entertainment and culture. In the following years, the evening edition also

312-960: The alteration of meaning is often conveyed through clipping , making the words shorter and more colloquial . Diminutives formed by adding affixes in other languages are often longer and (as colloquial) not necessarily understood. While many languages apply a grammatical diminutive to nouns , a few – including Slovak, Dutch , Spanish , Romanian , Latin , Polish , Bulgarian , Czech , Russian and Estonian – also use it for adjectives (in Polish: słodki → słodziutki → słodziuteńki ) and even other parts of speech (Ukrainian спати → спатки → спатоньки — to sleep or Slovak spať → spinkať → spinuškať — to sleep, bežať → bežkať — to run). Diminutives in isolating languages may grammaticalize strategies other than suffixes or prefixes. In Mandarin Chinese , for example, other than

336-540: The author". The feuilleton was a common genre in Russia, especially during the Government reforms of Alexander II of Russia . Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote feuilletons . The feuilletonistic tendency of his work has been explored by Zhernokleyev. By 1870 Dostoevsky parodied the feuilleton for its celebration of ephemeral culture. In the novel The Glass Bead Game (1943) by Nobel Prize -winning novelist Hermann Hesse ,

360-482: The bar in newspaper quality when it came to the speed of publication and the level of reporting. He was connected to Berlin's artistic scene and made the paper "an influential force in Berlin culture". The Börsen-Courier was "freisinnig", leftist-liberal, and stood against anti-Semitism. When the economic crisis reached the Börsen-Courier in the years 1875 to 1877, Davidsohn's brother Robert Davidsohn (1853-1937) took over

384-526: The business of the newspaper and converted it into a public company in 1884. The increased demands for timely news led to the introduction of flexible working hours and the installment of a night editor. From the 1880s, reports of foreign exchanges were published and reports were accompanied by statistics and forecasts. The paper incorporated as a supplement the Berliner Wespen , a paper Julius Stettenheim had created for humor and satire. The Börsen-Courier

408-489: The current era is characterised and described as "The Age of the Feuilleton". Diminutive A diminutive is a word obtained by modifying a root word to convey a slighter degree of its root meaning, either to convey the smallness of the object or quality named, or to convey a sense of intimacy or endearment , and sometimes to derogatorily belittle something or someone. A diminutive form ( abbreviated DIM )

432-468: The drama and other harmless topics, but which, nevertheless, could make political capital out of the failure of a book or a play, became quite powerful under the Napoleonic nose. The original feuilletons were not usually printed on a separate sheet, but merely separated from the political part of the newspaper by a line, and printed in smaller type. Geoffroy's own feuilleton dealt with the theatre as he

456-415: The nominal prefix 小- xiǎo- and nominal suffixes -儿/-兒 -r and -子 -zi , reduplication is a productive strategy, e.g., 舅 → 舅舅 and 看 → 看看 . In formal Mandarin usage, the use of diminutives is relatively infrequent, as they tend to be considered to be rather colloquial than formal. Some Wu Chinese dialects use a tonal affix for nominal diminutives; that is, diminutives are formed by changing

480-449: The other twelve Parisian publications could run. Julien Louis Geoffroy found that what might not be written in an editorial column might appear with perfect impunity on a lower level on the rez-de-chaussée , the "ground floor" of a journal. Geoffroy started the first feuilleton in the Journal des Débats . The idea caught on at once. The feuilleton , which dealt ostensibly with literature,

504-722: Was a trenchant drama critic. By the time of his death in 1814, several other feuilletonists had made their mark, with Janin taking over from him. Feuilletonists featured in other papers included Théophile Gautier , Paul de St. Victor, Edmond de Biéville , Louis Ulbach and Francisque Sarcey , who occupied the "ground floor" of the Temps . Adolphe Adam , Hector Berlioz , and Coutil-Blaze wrote music-laden feuilletons . Babinet, Louis Figuier and Meunier focused on science. Bibliographical feuilletons were done by Armand de Pontmartin , Gustave Planche, and Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve . However,

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528-505: Was expanded with news and reports, also reports from the local area. Between 1887 and 1891 the satirical magazine Lustige Blätter was published as a supplement of the paper. The founder of the paper, George Davidsohn (1835–1897), was trained as a banker and was a journalist at the Berliner Börsen-Zeitung (BBZ, Berlin stock exchange newspaper). He thus managed to make the Börsen-Courier economically stable. He also raised

552-565: Was invented by the editors of the French Journal des débats ; Julien Louis Geoffroy and Bertin the Elder , in 1800. The feuilleton has been described as a "talk of the town", and a contemporary English-language example of the form is the "Talk of the Town" section of The New Yorker . In English newspapers, the term instead came to refer to an installment of a serial story printed in one part of

576-547: Was the first newspaper in Berlin reporting from the Reichstag . It was also the first newspaper that had a reporter for sport, from 1885, who developed a sports section. Reports on culture were of prime importance in the Börsen-Courier . It was said in Germany that no theater office could do without its information. Journalists included Paul Lindau responsible for theater, Ernst von Wildenbruch for literature, Eugen Richter heading

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