{{Short description|Defunct German political magazine}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2015}} {{More footnotes|date=June 2015}} '''''Die Tat''''' (''The Deed'' or ''The Action'') was a German monthly publication of politics and culture. It was founded in April 1909 and its publisher (from 1912 on) was Eugen Diederichs from Jena.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nDJnAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA82 |title=Between Occultism and Nazism: Anthroposophy and the Politics of Race in the Fascist Era |page=82 |last=Staudenmaier |first=Peter |year=2014 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-9004270152}}</ref> From 1939 until 1944 ''Die Tat'' was continued as ''Das XX. Jahrhundert''.

==1909–1912== The magazine was founded by the freemason Ernst Horneffer. It had the subtitle ''Wege zu freiem Menschentum'', which in this case would be that of a Nietzsche-man.

==1912–1928== In October 1912 Eugen Diederichs took control of the magazine, which at that point had only a distribution of about 1,000. The content would change, and from now on it would sport the subtitle ''Eine sozial-religiöse Monatsschrift'', later changed to ''Sozial-religiöse Monatsschrift für deutsche Kultur''. Again, in 1921 Diederichs would change the title of ''Die Tat'', implying another change of viewership and ideology: ''Die Tat. Monatsschrift für die Zukunft deutscher Kultur''.

==1928–1929== In 1928 Diederichs transferred editorial control of ''Die Tat'' to the writer Adam Kuckhoff (who was later executed by the Nazis). This would only last shortly. The magazine would be restyled however, getting the subtitle ''Monatsschrift zur Gestaltung neuer Wirklichkeit''.

==1929–1933== thumb|''Tat Schriften'' (1931)

Hans Zehrer would become (unofficial) chief editor of ''Die Tat'' in September 1929 (now subtitled as ''Unabhängig Monatsschrift zur Gestaltung neuer Wirklichkeit''), and would together with Ernst Wilhelm Eschmann, Ferdinand Fried and Giselher Wirsing make ''Die Tat'' into an influential promoter of the Tatkreis and the Conservative Revolutionary movement. In a short time the circulation of the magazine would rise to 30,000, attracting mostly a middle-class populace, and becoming a front-runner of the Nazi propaganda machine with the magazine's stress on autarky, nationalism, and anti-capitalistic tendencies. It also provided a front for Kurt von Schleicher, when ''Die Tat'' took control of the Berlin paper ''Tägliche Rundschau'' in 1932.

==1933–1939== In 1933 the Nazis took control of the publication and Giselher Wirsing would become its main editor, changing the subtitle of the magazine to ''Unabhängige Monatsschrift'' in 1934. The last subtitle change of the magazine occurred in 1936, fittingly it was now to be named the ''Deutsche Monatsschrift''.

==See also== * Tatkreis

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Further reading== * Hans Brunzel: ''Die „Tat“ 1918–1933'', Diss. phil., Bonn 1952 * Irmgard Heidler, ''Der Verleger Eugen Diederichs und seine Welt. (1896–1930)'' (= Mainzer Studien zur Buchwissenschaft, Bd. 8), Wiesbaden 1998. * Hans Henneke: ''„Ulrich Unfried" und der Tat-Kreis'' in: Criticón 182/183, 2004, S. 43–46 * Edith Hanke & Gangolf Hübinger: ''Von der "Tat"-Gemeinde zum "Tat"-Kreis''. Die Entwicklung einer Kulturzeitschrift, in: Gangolf Hübinger (ed.): ''Versammlungsort moderner Geister''. Der Eugen Diederichs Verlag – Aufbruch ins Jahrhundert der Extreme, München 1996, S. 299–334 * Klaus Fritzsche: Politische Romantik und Gegenrevolution. Fluchtwege in der Krise der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft: Das Beispiel des Tat-Kreises. Frankfurt a.&nbsp;M. 1976 * Kurt Sontheimer: Der Tatkreis, in: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 7, Heft 3, 1959, S. 229–260 [http://www.ifz-muenchen.de/heftarchiv/1959_3.pdf PDF] * Siegfried Kracauer: ''Aufruhr der Mittelschichten''. Eine Auseinandersetzung mit dem "Tat"-Kreis (1931), in: Derselbe: ''Schriften'', Bd. 5.2, Frankfurt/Main 1990, S. 405–424 * Stefan Breuer: ''Anatomie der Konservativen Revolution'' Darmstadt 1993 * Alfred Weber: Ausgewählte Briefwechsel, (Alfred Weber Gesamtausgabe), ed. Eberhard Demm und Hartmut Soell. Marburg, 2003. * Eugen Diederichs: Leben und Werk. Ausgewählte Briefe und Aufzeichnungen, ed. Lulu von Strauß und Torney. Jena: Diederichs, 1936. * Marino Pulliero: Une modernité explosive. La revue ''Die Tat'' dans les renouveaux religieux, culturels et politiques de l’Allemagne d’avant 1914–1918. Genf 2008 Zum Lebensgefühl der Zwischenkriegsjugend: * Klaus Mann, ''Der Wendepunkt.'' Frankfurt a.M. 1956. * Areti Georgiadou: ''Das Leben zerfetzt sich mir in tausend Stücke.'' Frankfurt a.M. 1996.

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