Special Issue

Soldier Communities in Transition: A Case Study of the Zeitung der 10. Armee (1915–18)

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Abstract

Trench journals constitute one of the most characteristic media formats of the First World War. They mediated negotiations of soldiers’ experiences and shaped the national military community of which they imagined themselves a part. In Germany, some of these journals were later appropriated by revolutionary councils, changing their apparent purpose drastically. Taking Die Zeitung der 10. Armee, the most widely circulated periodical on the Eastern Front, as an example and drawing on concepts from social theory, this article examines how reader addresses and explicit reflections of the medium-reader relationship facilitate the formation and transformation of the reading community.

Keywords: collective identities, First World War, imagined communities, periodicals, reading publics, soldier newspapers

How to Cite:

Parpart, S., (2025) “Soldier Communities in Transition: A Case Study of the Zeitung der 10. Armee (1915–18)”, Journal of European Periodical Studies 10(1), 88–96. doi: https://doi.org/10.21825/jeps.92051