Eagle owl (magazine)

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Uhu magazine, issue 9/1926. The logo changed from issue to issue; often it was hand-drawn, like here.

Der Uhu (written in the UHU logo ) was a monthly magazine published by Ullstein Verlag in Berlin from 1924 to 1934 . In retrospect, it is considered a pioneering publication of the Weimar period .

The eagle owl maintained a high journalistic standard. Long before other publications, the paper showed trends in culture and science that later became manifest, such as the importance of radio and television. Writing talents such as Fritz Kahn, who later became famous for his visualizations of body functions, or the futurist Ludwig Kapeller found their most important publication platform in the magazine. The articles were illustrated with great effort. In the eagle owl were u. a. Photographs printed by Erich Salomon , one of the first photographers known by name to a larger audience. In addition, the editorial staff around Peter Pfeffer (pseudonym for Kurt Szafranski ) and Friedrich Kroner (who was editor-in-chief from March 1926) employed photographers such as László Moholy-Nagy , Lili Baruch and Sasha Stone and numerous illustrators such as Ferdinand Barlog , Olaf Gulbransson and Walter Trier . The philosopher Walter Benjamin , the writer Bertolt Brecht and the physicist Albert Einstein wrote in the owl . Temporary employees included Thomas Theodor Heine , the later publisher's founder Peter Suhrkamp, and Kurt Tucholsky , mostly under his pseudonym Theobald Tiger.

From a political point of view, the magazine took a position against the National Socialists at an early stage, which is particularly evident in the form of caricatures such as "Hitler receives the Nobel Peace Prize in 1932". or put down the satirical Reichstag rummy . However, their social direction was occasionally conservative, deeply caught in the zeitgeist. In an article on women and sport , the gynecologist Hugo Sellheim comes to the conclusion that women take defeat in competition personally, which distorts their facial expressions in an unfairly way; and competitive sport affects fertility. Sellheim advised women against competitive sports.

The publishing house started the eagle owl, among other things, because of the success of the children's magazine Der hehre Fridolin . At the request of his former friend Kurt Szafranski, in 1924 Tucholsky had worked on the conception of the magazine for five weeks. The magazine survived another year under the National Socialists and was discontinued without giving any reason.

120 issues were published from issue 1.1924 / 25 to 10.1934.9. They can be read online at the illustrated press digitization portal of the Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library together with the University of Erfurt .

A much less well-known magazine with the same title was published by Johann Christoph Glücklich as the "humorous-satyrical magazine UHU" from 1872, later as a supplement to the Wiesbadener Monday newspaper and Wiesbadener Nachrichten. The Wiesbaden eagle owl was discontinued in 1889.

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literature

  • Christian Ferber (Ed.): Uhu. The magazine of the 20s . Ullstein, Berlin 1979, ISBN 3-550-06304-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ October 1931, caricature by Fritz Eichenberg
  2. ↑ Hugo Sellheim: Does sport make women happy? October 1931, p. 18 ff
  3. ↑ Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels / Historical Commission, Georg Jäger: History of the German Book Trade in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Vol . 1/1 , Das Kaiserreich 1870-1918 , 2001, pp. 103f. ISBN 978-3-7657-2351-3
  4. ^ Alfred Estermann: The German literary magazines 1850-1880 , De Gruyter Saur Berlin 1987, p. 142ff. ISBN 978-3-598-10708-5