Vorwärts!

The journal was sponsored by the composer Giacomo Meyerbeer and edited by Karl Ludwig Bernays.

[1] The journal published many polemicists, such as Heinrich Heine, Georg Herwegh, Mikhail Bakunin and Arnold Ruge, many of them German political emigres to France,.

One of those who wrote for it was Karl Marx; he would have an increasingly important role in editing the journal, particularly from the summer of 1844.

[4] Many of the activists associated with the paper were also related to the German revolutionary socialist group known as the Communist League.

[2][5] Marx was expelled from France as part of the resulting commotion, Bernays was imprisoned for two months, and Boernstein made a deal with the authorities.