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Lustige Blätter
Weekly German satirical magazine (1885–1944) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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).
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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]
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