Gırgır

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Gırgır was from 1972 to 1989 with its drastic comics and sharp political satires the most famous satirical magazine in Turkey .

history

Gırgır first appeared on August 13, 1972 as a free supplement to the daily Gün . At the request of the publisher Haldun Simavi, the son of the Hürriyet founder Sedat Simavi , Gırgır became an independent weekly magazine after a year. Editor-in-chief was the draftsman Oğuz Aral (1936-2004) from the start.

Gırgır achieved its greatest influence in the 1980s when it became the world's third largest satirical magazine, selling half a million copies a week.

In 1985 a group of younger cartoonists and satirists separated from Gırgır and began to publish the magazine Limon , which continues to appear today under the name LeMan and from which the current magazines Penguen and Uykusuz later developed.

In early 1989, another group split up and founded the magazine Hıbır (closed in 1995). In November of the same year, the Simavi family of publishers, who had always given Aral and the editorial team great autonomy, sold the paper to the then major publisher Ertuğrul Akbay. Thereupon Oğuz Aral and all remaining employees left the paper. The magazine published under the new owner had nothing in common with the old magazine apart from the name, lost its importance and was discontinued in 1993. Oğuz Aral's group founded a magazine called Avni , which was published until 1996.

Since May 2015, a free satirical supplement entitled Gırgır has been published in the daily Sözcü on Saturdays . There is no direct connection to the historical Gırgır .

meaning

Gırgır was not Turkey's first satirical magazine. But, as journalist and exhibition curator Sabine Küper-Büsch writes, it distinguished itself from the “dry and stiff salon joke and the artistic concerns of the urban elite cartoonists” that were characteristic of older magazines such as Akbaba . Aral, on the other hand, felt attracted by the "simple people, the vulgar Gossen language, the everyday life of the lower and middle classes" and tried "in his drawings to create a line that was generally understandable in its simplicity". The magazine focused on caricatures and comics, but there were always glosses and columnist texts.

Gırgır thus became the “mother” of all Turkish satirical magazines ( Çiğdem Akyol , Die Zeit ) or the “blueprint” ( Deniz Yücel , taz ) . “Many of the draftsmen working for the leading magazines LeMan and Penguen today come from the so-called Gırgır- Ecole” (Sabine Küper-Büsch, Jungle World ) .

Trivia

The onomatopoeic word Gırgır was the name of a Turkish vacuum cleaner company in the 1960s . This became a deonym in Turkish , a general word for vacuum cleaner. Then the magazine was named. The magazine in turn created a new deonym. In contemporary Turkish, “Gırgır geçmek” means something like “make fun of something or someone” or “make fun of someone”.

literature

  • Sabine Küper-Büsch, Nigar Rona (ed.): The Sultan's nose. Caricatures from Turkey (exhibition catalog). Dagyeli, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-935597-68-5

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus Kreiser : Gırgır . In: Ders .: Small Turkey Lexicon. Interesting facts about the country and its people . Beck, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-406-33184-X .
  2. ^ Frank Nordhausen: "Erdogan's utterances are the best real satire" ( Memento from February 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), Frankfurter Rundschau, April 19, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b Sabine Küper-Büsch / Nigar Rona (ed.): The Sultan's Nose: Caricatures from Turkey - Caricatures from Turkey , Dagyeli, Berlin 2008, ISBN 3-935-597681 .
  4. ↑ a b Sabine Küper-Büsch: Laugh like the Danes , Jungle World, October 2, 2008.
  5. ↑ Çiğdem Akyol: With the pen against Erdoğan , Die Zeit, April 1, 2016.
  6. ↑ Deniz Yücel: Sauer makes fun , the daily newspaper, October 13, 2008.