Eulenspiegel (satirical magazine 1848-1853)

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Eulenspiegel
The first edition from January 1848
description German satirical magazine
language German
publishing company E. Greiner (Germany)
First edition 1848
attitude 1853
Frequency of publication per month
editor Ludwig Pfau

The Eulenspiegel with the subtitle "Ein Volks-, Witz- und Carricaturen-Blatt" was a German satirical magazine that appeared between January 1848 and June 1853 .

“Michel and his cap in the year 48” is a caricature that is frequently printed today and shows the increasingly passive attitude of the German bourgeoisie during the revolution of 1848/49 from Eulenspiegel

The democratically oriented magazine was published by Ludwig Pfau . The sheet was published by E. Greiner Verlag in Stuttgart. The magazine was published monthly and cost 13 Kreuzer per issue between 1849 and 1851 . Pfau was completely successful with this, because at the right time he took up the spirit of optimism towards unity and freedom , which the people had been pushing through as a demand of the students and the liberal bourgeoisie since 1815.

The paper was based on the English Punch (first 1841) and the Munich Flying Papers (first 1844). In retrospect, Pfau said that the magazine was the first political cartoon paper in Germany. In fact, it seems to have been the first sheet to contain only political caricatures and texts. Pfau deliberately designed it with a rather coarse sense of humor in order to also reach the simple layers.

The magazine first appeared a few weeks before the start of the March Revolution and proved to be a sales success. During the revolution it became an effective propaganda tool for the goals of the South German Democrats. It was radical democratic, republican and federalist. Conservative circles, the church, the property and the educated bourgeoisie were caricatured.

The Prussian government filed censorship proceedings against the first edition. Censorship marks were to be found in almost every issue, but these were also used by the journalists to advertise their image. With the growth of the anti-revolutionary forces, the severity of the censorship increased again from 1849.

Pfau was published as the editor until 1850, but fled to Switzerland after the Baden Revolution was crushed and was no longer able to influence the magazine. The editorial responsibility passed to the democratically minded Ludwig Weisser . The draftsman J. Nisle followed in July 1850 and Heinrich Schmidt in October 1850. In the end, F. Binder was responsible for the content. After the end of the revolution, the authorities tried in vain to ban the newspaper for a long time. This did not succeed until 1853. The attempt in the years 1862 to 1864 to revive the sheet failed.

See also

Web links

Commons : Eulenspiegel  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elke Brünle: Libraries of Workers' Education Associations in the Kingdom of Württemberg 1848-1918 Wiesbaden, 2010 p 84
  2. ↑ Ulrich Maier: From now on censorship prevails ... Press trial against Ludwig Pfau's satirical weekly newspaper Der Eulenspiegel from the revolutionary time of 1848/49. Ed .: Landesarchivdirektion Baden-Württemberg. No. 13 . Archive news, Stuttgart 1996, p. 1 ff . ( online as PDF ).
  3. ↑ Published as issue 2 of the Ludwig Pfau Blätter.