Frankfurt lantern

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The Frankfurter Latern was a political satirical magazine, which was published under different titles between 1860 and 1893 by Friedrich Stoltze until his death in 1891 in Frankfurt am Main .

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A picture of German unity - patrol of the federal garrison in Frankfurt a. M.
Caricature in the Frankfurter Latern on November 22, 1860

Frankfurt Lantern (1860-1865)

In 1860, Stoltze and his long-time friend, the illustrator and caricaturist Ernst Schalck , founded the Frankfurter Latern as a political satirical magazine based on the model of the Berlin Kladderadatsch . Stoltze wrote the texts himself and illustrated them mainly by Schalck, but also by Albert Hendschel and at times by Wilhelm Busch . After a sample number in August 1860, the paper appeared every ten days from November 1860 as an illustrated-satyrical, humorous-lyrical, critical-rational, aesthetic-advertising weekly paper, where the week has ten days . Each issue contained poems, epigrams and commentaries on current events on four pages. Above all in the dialect pieces and the drawings, the paper criticized German particularism and mocked the policies of the great powers France and Prussia.

In each issue, Stoltze had the petty bourgeois jumping jacks argue in Frankfurt dialect about a current political issue. In addition, every lantern should contain a dialogue between Millerche and the Berjerkapitän , also in dialect. All three characters came from comedies by the dialect poet Carl Malß, who was popular in Frankfurt .

As early as 1862, the Latern was targeted by the Prussian judiciary because of its critical stance on Prussian politics. However, the fines and prison sentences imposed on Schalck by the courts could not be carried out in the Free City of Frankfurt .

On August 23, 1865, Schalck died of a lung disease. In number 32 on September 6, 1865, which is also otherwise serious, Stoltze published a mourning poem for his friend. On September 30, 1865, the lantern with the double number 35 & 36 appeared for the last time in its previous form.

Friedrich Stoltze's Frankfurter Latern (1865–1866)

On October 16, 1865, No. 1 of Friedrich Stoltze's Frankfurter Latern appeared , with which Stoltze began a new count as the editor and publisher who was now solely responsible. With No. 2 of October 23, the subtitle also changed to gasometric-lyrical, electric-satyrical, galvanic-raisonnirical original lighting, published and lit every two hundred and forty hours .

In the meantime, the lantern had a large number of copies, but outside of Frankfurt it was increasingly subjected to censorship because of its anti-Prussian stance. The editions of the two years 1865 and 1866 are shaped by the increasing internal political conflicts that led to the German war . On July 14, 1866, two days before the Free City was occupied by Prussian troops, the last edition of the Latern for a long time appeared . On July 21, 1866, the Prussians occupied the editorial office in Grosse Eschenheimer Gasse . Stoltze had to flee to Switzerland and was only able to return after the annexation of Frankfurt by Prussia due to an amnesty.

Individual editions under Prussian censorship (1867–1871)

In the following years Stoltze tried again and again with the support of Frankfurt citizens critical of Prussia to keep his paper published. In 1867 and 1868, individual numbers appeared under the title The True Jacob , partly with the subtitle Ridentem dicere verum ("Smiling to tell the truth"), partly New Frankfurter Latern and New Frankfurter Lamp , a confiscated-lyrical, arrested-satyrical, galvanic-raisonnical Original lighting, issued and lit every 768 hours . 1870 it may go Stoltze, four numbers of the lantern to let the censors, in 1871 there were three. In November 1871 he published the self-deprecating poem Another number , but at the same time announced that the Latern would appear regularly from January 1, 1872.

Frankfurt Lantern (1872-1893)

In fact, the first edition of the new Frankfurter Latern did not appear until February 17, 1872, from then on, however, regularly every week until Stoltze's death in 1891 as a satyrical, humorous-lyrical, critical-rational, aesthetic-announcing weekly paper . Number 13 of the 27th volume of March 28, 1891 was the last edition for which Stoltze was responsible. On April 4, number 14 was published, which the editorial staff dedicated to Stoltze and at the same time announced that they would continue the paper in his name. It was published for just under two years, initially under the responsibility of Stoltze's eldest daughter Lyda , and from 1892 under the editor Max Hirschfeld who was commissioned by her . Most recently, Die Latern was a humorous weekly paper without being able to tie in with Stoltze's literary and journalistic quality. It was finally discontinued with No. 13 on March 25, 1893.

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