The Cuckoo

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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 .

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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

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