Dideldum

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Dideldum was a children's comic magazine published between 1929 and 1941. The author and editor of the magazine, which was designed for boys and girls, was Otto Waffenschmied , who was supported by his wife Eva. Dideldum was one of the most widespread comic magazines in the 1930s.

content

In addition to the poems written by Waffenschmied as Uncle Dideldum , the content consisted of stories and picture stories with recurring characters, some of which were conceived as sequel stories, some of which were completed. Later, printed letters to the editor and exchange offers from readers were added.

Appear

The first edition of Dideldum appeared in the autumn of 1929, the sequence was every fortnight. Dideldum was published by Belog Verlag in Hamburg until July 1933, then by Gerhard Stalling in Oldenburg ; The booklets were printed by a Hamburg printer until 1931, then by Stalling. In 1934 the font Antiqua was replaced by Fraktur . Parallel to Dideldum , the children's magazine Dideldum B, also published by Waffenschmied, was published from 1936 to 1938 . Dideldum initially had 16 pages, in 1939 the number was reduced to 12, then, before the war began , to 8. The conversion to black and white printing went hand in hand with the first reduction in the number of pages. The booklets could be obtained by subscription, but were also distributed free of charge as advertising brochures by various department stores, including Karstadt , Kaufhof and DeFaKa . The department stores were given the opportunity to place their own lettering and possibly other short advertising texts on the front page of the magazine. Dideldum was hired when the armorer was drafted in 1941.

The gunsmith's attempt to bring Dideldum back onto the market in 1950 failed.

literature

  • Andreas C. Knigge : To be continued. Comic culture in Germany , Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-548-36523-X , pp. 54, 56.
  • Andreas C. Knigge: Comic-Lexikon , Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , p. 447.

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