The cheerful Fridolin (Ullstein)

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The cheerful Fridolin , a bi-monthly publication for sport, games, fun and adventure, was published by Ullstein Verlag Berlin from 1921 to 1928 and was the best-known of all children's magazines sold at the time. It was published every six months and had a length of 16 pages.

Ullstein & Co. published the magazine in Austria and Czechoslovakia.

history

Between October 1921 and December 1928 the Ullstein Verlag in Berlin published a 16-page magazine in the 15 × 22 cm format under the name Der cheerful Fridolin every 14 days . It originally cost one mark (during the inflation the price rose to 500,000 marks) and later only 15 pfennigs. In addition to stories and a few picture stories, the booklet also contained puzzles, jokes and handicraft instructions. The magazine was numbered by year, so that the first issue of each year appeared in October of each year. The hiring of The Merry Fridolin took place without giving reasons. The initial success inspired the publishing house to produce a general-interest magazine on a higher literary level, the Uhu , which appeared monthly from 1924 .

A special feature of the magazine, whose logo was a motor-driven dolphin, were the recurring characters in the picture stories.

Authors and illustrators

Well-known authors included Paul Simmel with Laatsch and Bommel , Albert Schäfer-Ast with Benjamin Pampe , Ferdinand Barlog with Professor Pechmann , Fritz Bernhard Eichenberg and Moritz Pathé .

Serial stories

  • Film Prince Hal by Karl Escher
  • Heaven, my shoes from Leberecht Kümmel
  • Kai out of the box by Wolf Durian
  • The Dusendal Air Factory (anonymous author / Doctor Ix)

Printing technology

The newspaper was two columns with a few exceptions in the Walbaum fracture in justification , the title often with drawn fonts in the central axis set , often in cursive . The printing process was letterpress , cover pages, pages 4 and 5 and center overlay in multi-color printing, the remaining inside pages in black and white. The newspaper was distributed untrimmed and unbound.

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