Lustige Blätter

Lustige Blätter (German: Comic Pages) was a satirical magazine published between 1885 and 1944 in Berlin. Its subtitle was schönstes buntes Witzblatt Deutschlands (German: Germany's most beautiful colorful humor paper).

Lustige Blätter
Cover page of issue 4 dated 1900
CategoriesSatirical magazine
FrequencyWeekly
PublisherVerlag Dr. Eysler & Co GmbH
FounderAlexander Moszkowski
Founded1885
Final issue1944
CountryGermany
Based inBerlin
LanguageGerman
OCLC10656989

History and profile

Lustige Blätter was established by the writer Alexander Moszkowski in Berlin in 1885.[1] From 1887 to 1891 it was a supplement to Berliner Börsen-Courier.[1][2] Moszkowski and Paul von Schönthan were the founding editors-in-chief of the magazine.[1] The former held the post until his retirement in 1927.[1] The magazine was published on a weekly basis and featured satirical articles and cartoons about social and cultural events.[1] Heinrich Zille, Lyonel Feininger, Walter Trier[3] and Julius Klinger were among its leading caricaturists and illustrators.[1] Other major contributors of the magazine were Bruno Balz, Betty Korytowska, Max Brinkmann, Rudolf Presber, Gustav Hochstetter, and Georg Mühlen-Schulte.[1] Finnish cartoonist Sigurd Wettenhovi-Aspa also published his caricatures in the magazine which were mostly about the Russian Empire and Nicholas II.[4] He was in exile in Paris during this period so that his caricatures were published anonymously.[4]

The magazine held a liberal political stance.[5] However, during the Nazi period it contained anti-semitic material.[6] Lustige Blätter folded in 1944.[1]

References
  1. "Lustige Blätter: schönstes buntes Witzblatt Deutschlands – digital" (in German). University of Heidelberg. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
  2. Betto van Waarden (2022). "The Many Faces of Performative Politics: Satires of Statesman Bernhard von Bülow in Wilhelmine Germany". Journalism History. 48 (1): 64. doi:10.1080/00947679.2022.2027158. S2CID 246897253.
  3. Mark Bryant (December 2016). "A little magazine with huge impact". British Journalism Review. 27 (4): 63. doi:10.1177/0956474816681751. S2CID 151351840.
  4. Pekka Pitkälä (2020). "Sigurd Wettenhovi-Aspa, August Strindberg and a dispute concerning the common origins of the languages of mankind 1911–1912". Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis. 29: 58. doi:10.30674/scripta.89215.
  5. Claudia Bruns (2011). "Masculinity, Sexuality and the German Nation: The Eulenburg Scandals and Kaiser Wilhelm II in Political Cartoons". In Udo J. Hebel; Christoph Wagner (eds.). Pictorial Cultures and Political Iconographies: Approaches, Perspectives, Case Studies from Europe and America. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. p. 119. ISBN 978-3-11-023785-6.
  6. "Lustige Blätter, Nr. 27/58. year July 2, 1943". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
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