Ostara.
Bucherei der Blonden und Mannesrechtler.
Other titles: Ostara Rundschau
1905-1931
Vienna, Austria. Language: German. Editor: Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels (Adolf-Josef Lanz).
Corporate author: 19311/1, 1905-1931.

Approximately 95 issues, of which about half were reprinted in Vienna 1926-1931. It was an Ariosophical journal (i.e., a journal devoted to the science of the Aryans) based on the Bible-based ideas (Lanz von Liebenfehls,1874-1954, was a former Cistercian monk) that dark-haired people were the progeny of Eve and a demon and that the purpose of life was to segregate, sterilize and kill these half-demons. Blonds, on the other hand, were "divine men," creative and natural leaders. The journal described itself as "the only illustrated Aryan-Aristocratic and Aryan-Christian journal," and also strongly promoted the idea (as the subtitle indicates) that the correct state of affairs was the rule of men rather of women. Sexual fantasy played a principal place in von Liebenfels ideas (e.g., no. 43: "Sexual Physics, or Love as Odic Energie") but there is no indication that sexual energy had any practical application in his work. The swastika was a recurring symbol in the journal and it had a strong undercurrent of eroticism in both the text and the illustrations. It also carried a substantial amount of general occult material, especially regular reviews of the works of P. Braun, Franz Hartmann, E.C.H. Peithmann, Karl Brandler-Pracht, "Peryt Shou" (Albert Christian Georg Schultz, 1873-1953), and Dion Fortune, and of a wide spectrum of contemporary works on astrology, auras, Mazdaznan, the Grail, the Templars, etc. Utrecht University; Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag; University of Groninbgen.

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