Because of this article, "Die Schaubühne" was initially banned from publication. However, Jacobsohn managed to keep the newspaper in print by agreeing to a pre-censorship. Under his new pseudonym "Germanicus", Breuer worked again for the newspaper since January 1916. Despite the patriotic and nationalistic meaning of his new pseudonym, his comments in the paper always criticized the annexion demands of the Alldeutscher Verband. After his younger brother died in the war in 1915, Jacobsohn fiercely affirmed to being a pacifist. In 1916, the newspaper printed ads for signing war bonds. It has not been confirmed if these ads supported the newspaper financially and therefore had an influence on securing the survival of the newspaper. Overall, the image of the newspaper was not clearly pacifistic. This caused later negative criticism by, for example, Franz Pfemfert and Karl Kraus.