Bremer Beiträge

Bremer Beiträge, the usual designation of the weekly Neue Beiträge zum Vergnügen des Verstandes und Witzes, published at Bremen from 1745 to 1748. The editors were K. C. Gärtner, G. W. Rabener, and J. A. Cramer, who seceded from Gottsched's periodical Belustigungen des Verstandes und Witzes and founded the Bremer Beiträge in opposition to it. Among the contributors were J. A. Ebert, J. A. Schlegel, J. F. W. Zachariä, and, less frequently, Gellert, Giseke, E. von Kleist, and Ramler. The founders and chief contributors are sometimes referred to as ‘Bremer Beiträger’. In their last year the Beiträge achieved their greatest fame by the publication of the first three cantos of Klopstock's Der Messias.