Kölnische Illustrierte Zeitung
| Kölnische Illustrierte Zeitung | |
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| description | magazine |
| publishing company | M. DuMont Schauberg |
| First edition | 1926 |
| attitude | 1945 |
| Frequency of publication | weekly |
| editor | M. DuMont Schauberg |
| ZDB | 531434-3 |
The Kölnische Illustrierte Zeitung (sometimes also Kölnische Illustrierte or KIZ for short ) was one of the largest national German magazines of the early 20th century . Planned for a long time in the Cologne publishing house M. DuMont Schauberg , the first edition appeared in early 1926 and thus much later than the equally richly illustrated magazines Die Woche and the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung . For a year the publication was called Illustrierte Kölnische Zeitung , presumably to maintain proximity to the Kölnische Zeitung from the same company, an internationally respected brand at the time.
1933, with the seizure of power by the Nazis , and thus also the Cologne Illustrierte Zeitung - - the press in the German Reich was brought into line . The publishing house swung to the National Socialist course earlier than some of its competitors, praising Hitler and Mussolini fascism as early as January 1933 and converting its front page into an election poster for Hitler on November 11, 1933. The National Socialists saw important propaganda instruments in the illustrated magazine and the Kölnische Zeitung, and approved foreign sales in Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, Switzerland and Greece. Some of the shipping took place by air.
Despite the fact that it was brought into line, the magazine maintained a relatively demanding level with film and theater reviews and a page on popular science in the years that followed. In 1935 the Kölnische Illustrierte Zeitung printed several editions of previously unpublished series of pictures from the First World War : Here, above all, German soldiers and positions could be seen from the perspective of the Allies. This too had a political goal, namely to denounce the supposedly unjust attitude of the war opponents towards the brave, honorable German soldier.
The Kölnische Illustrierte Zeitung was discontinued three years before the end of the Second World War , and thus much earlier than its much more famous newspaper sister, the Kölnische Zeitung.
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German first edition Mickey Mouse
The very first publications of Mickey Mouse comic strips in Germany appeared in the Kölnische Illustrierte Zeitung between No. 52/1930 and No. 14/1931 . In the US, the first strips appeared barely a year earlier in early 1930.
This German first edition was also six years before the Swiss Bollmann-Verlag published its Micky Mouse newspaper. These magazines are very rare today, as the magazine was only sold regionally and there was a shortage of paper - so they are significantly rarer than the very expensive editions of the Swiss Mickey Mouse newspaper.
Carnival editions
Special editions were always published at Carnival that document the events of this traditional Cologne festival .
Typical issue from 1935
Number 15 of April 13, 1935 is typical of the pre-war editions under the dictates of the Reich Propaganda Ministry. The booklet consisted of 30 pages in DIN A 3 large format and cost 20 pfennigs or “free house through the magazine book trade 22 pfennigs Austria 40 groschen”. The cover picture shows two actors looking intimately at each other on stage, in this case the Swedes Gösta Ekman and Tutta Berndsen-Rolf at a play about the Nobel Prize . The cover photo is large-format, black and white and subtly colored in red in order to reproduce the skin tones more vividly. The image-to-text ratio is around 9: 1. Almost all images are photographs.
Pages 2 and 3 are entitled “A Building Block for Reich Unity” and show performances by National Socialists in Cologne, Berlin, Munich, Amsterdam and Vienna. At first glance, the concise, short captions are about the administration of justice in the German Reich, but actually about further conformity, the preparation for the "Anschluss" of neighboring countries and the war:
- Amsterdam: "The Dutch National Socialist Movement (NSB) held a large parliament."
- Vienna: “The largest and best human material [...] was selected for the guard; the minimum size for officers and men is 1.74 meters. "
Photo series from this crowd almost always contained at least one photo with leading German government members, here “General Göring ” giving a speech about “One Reich - one right - one administration of justice!” And Hitler in the honor box of the Berlin State Opera. There are 13 SS symbols on this double page .
The next double page shows three large illustrations of infantry, cavalry and foot artillery (with howitzers, “a superior weapon which, with its heavy mortars and long barrels, contributed a lot to the first German successes in 1914”) and is entitled “The army, a school of People. ”In the text, the“ extinction of the best army in the world ”[...] is lamented with a“ stroke of the pen ”, namely the Germans in the First World War . The next double page continues the celebration of Prussian discipline and “military spirit” with photos of “military airships” floating over mounted soldiers during an imperial maneuver in 1912.
After this domestic political introduction, the issues are now easier. It continues with drawings from Charles Dickens' novel David Copperfield ; the drawings are juxtaposed with the actors in the 1935 film of the same name . In the middle of the magazine is the serialized novel with the first advertisement (toothpaste, spark plugs, folding boats, hair dye), followed by an article dealing with press manipulation in the USA 60 years ago. Large photos of religious ceremonies are used to depict “Old Kar customs in Oberammergau”, sweeping views from Table Mountain of Rio de Janeiro, spring fashion (“with fringes”) for women, the “Deutsche Zeppelin-Reederei”, a cowshed museum in Paris, Henry Ford dancing . The book closes with chimpanzees at London Zoo.
The following edition (April 20, 1935) also starts with the heavyweights of the National Socialists. The cover picture shows “General der Flieger Göring with his wife leaving the cathedral after the wedding”, followed on page 2 with further photos from the wedding in the Berlin cathedral , including a picture with Hitler as a witness. Page 3 celebrates Hitler's 46th birthday: He is there with small children, with the bride and groom Goering and as a bust of the Trier sculptor Annie Höfken-Hempel. The next double page shows young women in the country:
- “Easter: The country year begins. Where a state is built entirely on the idea of a leader, it is necessary to educate women to be leaders and to give them the opportunity to subordinate themselves to serve. This idea dominates the BDM's rural year work. "
The next page replicates again to the First World War. In the foreground it shows out of focus arms outstretched in the Hitler salute, in the background the "seventy-year-old general with his wife in Tutzing" ( Erich Ludendorff ) in focus . It is only on page 7 that we move on to the easy part. It shows folklore impressions from Spain: “Semana Santa. From Palm Sunday to Easter: ecclesiastical and secular Seville in 'Holy Week'. "
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Manfred Pohl: M. DuMont Schauberg: The struggle for the independence of the newspaper publisher under the Nazi dictatorship . Campus, Cologne 2009, p. 312. ISBN 3-593-38919-3 .
- ↑ The Bund Deutscher Mädel BDM was the forced organization of the National Socialists for young women.