The Cuckoo
Der Kuckuck was a magazine of the Austrian Social Democrats that appeared from April 1929 to February 1934 .
history
The journalists Siegfried Weyr and Julius Braunthal have been working on the conception of a modern workers' magazine since 1927. On April 6, the social democratic “ Vorwärts-Verlag ” published the first issue of “Kuckuck” in a modern, mass-market presentation but with a clear political positioning. Essays, serial novels, photo reports and collages should inform, entertain and win over the readership for the concerns of the SDAP . World events and politics, art and culture, science, technology and sport were dealt with weekly on 16 pages. The articles of the "Kuckuck" were short, the style almost "sensational", the "line" militantly anti-fascist. In the second year of its existence, the magazine had around 200,000 readers.
The “cuckoo” was primarily oriented towards the workforce of the “ Red Vienna ”, but shortly before it was banned by the Nazi regime in 1933, it also achieved sales successes in Germany. The formal focus was on the medium of photography. The editorial team also organized competitions for amateur photographers. The ominous photographic lead story of the last “Kuckuck” published on February 11, 1934 was a picture of a large funeral procession through the Karl-Marx-Hof to the funeral of a social democratic party official. The next day the civil war began .
Employee
- Hans Casparius (1900–?), German photographer and film director
- Lucca Chmel (1911–1999), Austrian photographer
- Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898–1995), German photographer
- Peter Eng (1892–?), Austrian graphic artist and animator
- Max Ermers (1881–1950), Austrian art historian
- Eduard Gaertner (1890–1966), Austrian graphic artist
- Erich Grisar (1898–1955), German author and photographer
- Albert Hahn (1894–1953), Dutch graphic artist
- Albert Hilscher (1892–1964), Austrian photographer
- Josef Hofbauer (1886–1948), Austrian journalist
- Martin Imboden (1893–1935), Swiss photographer
- Alfred Käseberg (1900–?), German sports photographer
- Wilhelm Lichtenberg (1892–1960), Austrian writer and actor
- Hermynia zur Mühlen (1883–1951), Austrian writer
- Willy Riethof (real Peter W. Riethof, 1905–1994), Austrian photographer and film director
- Jura Soyfer (1912–1939), Austrian poet
- Arthur Stadler (1892–1937), Austrian graphic artist
- Alexander Stern (1894–1970), Austrian photographer and journalist
- Edith Suschitzky (1908–1973), Austrian photographer
- Wolfgang Suschitzky (1912–2016), Austrian photographer and cameraman
- Walther Victor (1895–1971), German publicist
- Paul Wolff (1887–1951), German photographer
literature
- Lisl Glück: The Interesting Leaf and The Cuckoo. A contribution to Viennese magazine history . Dissertation. University of Vienna, Vienna 1953.
- Stefan Riesenfellner, Josef Seiter (ed.): The cuckoo. The modern illustrated illustrated book of Red Vienna . With a contribution by Murray G. Hall. Studies on social and cultural history, volume 5, publication by the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for social and cultural history, Vienna 1995
Web links
- Anton Holzer : "The Cuckoo", mouthpiece of the "Red Vienna". In: wienerzeitung.at of March 16, 2019.
- Overview of Stefan Riesenfellner's research project ( Memento from March 24, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
- Editions digitized by the Austrian National Library : Der Kuckuck (online at ANNO ).