Jambo (magazine)
| Jambo
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| description | Colonial magazine for the youth. Adventure, entertainment and knowledge from colonies and overseas |
| language | German |
| publishing company | Friedrich M. Hörhold, Leipzig |
| First edition | 1924 |
| attitude | 1943 |
| Frequency of publication | per month |
| Sold edition | up to 30,000 copies |
| editor | Colonial Youth Committee |
| ZDB | 985010-7 |
Jambo was a magazine of the Colonial Youth Committee that appeared monthly from 1925 onwards as the “colonial monthly magazine for young Germans”. The magazine contained reports from the former German colonies , adventure stories in the style of the colonial novel and news from the association life of the German colonial youth movement. For the publication of Jambo the Colonial Youth Committee received a grant from the Department for Colonial Affairs of the Foreign Office .
According to its own information, the magazine reached 30,000 readers in 1930, the number of which had decreased by at least 1933.
Published issues (incomplete)
- Schiff ahoy (5th year 1928, issue August 8th)
- On a demolition patrol after the Uganda Railway (5th year 1928, issue 9th September)
- Steppenwanderers' Christmas (5th year 1928, issue December 12th)
- Wild boar hunt (6th year 1929, issue February 2nd)
- Goldgräber's Christmas (6th year 1929, issue December 12th)
- Kamelopardalis (South West Africa) (7th year 1930, issue 5th May)
literature
- Susanne Heyn: Colonially Moving Youth - Relationship Stories between Germany and South West Africa during the Weimar Republic. transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2018, ISBN 978-3-8376-4265-0 , p. 77 and passim .
Web links
- Literature by and about Jambo in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heyn 2018, p. 77.