The 5 Schrecksteiner
The 5 Schreckensteiner was the best known and most successful comic by the German comic artist Ferdinand Barlog . The textless picture stories of the, according to Eckart Sackmann, " artistically staid, but in terms of the idea quite amusing strip " usually consisted of five individual images.
Plot and appearance
Every night at the witching hour, five deceased ancestors of the lord of the castle of Schreckenstein emerge from their picture frames in the ancestral gallery and do all sorts of mischief. The ghosts, consisting of three brothers, a damsel and a boy, mainly annoy the servant of the house, but reference was also made to current events. In 1940, the year of the war, the descendants of the Schreckensteiner were asked by their ancestors not to hoard .
The 5 Schrecksteiner were the successors of eoplauen's father and son and appeared from issue number 23 of 1939 to issue number 31 of 1940 in the Berliner Illustrirten Zeitung . A book edition published in 1940 reached a total circulation of 3.5 million copies.
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. 40-42
- Eckart Sackmann : Ferdinand Barlog . In: RRAAH! News from the comic scene . No. 57, December 2001, ISSN 0933-601X , pp. 36-37