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The Kleine Blatt was a very successful Austrian daily and later a weekly newspaper.

On March 1, 1927, the popular small format appeared for the first time in the Wiener Druck- und Verlagsanstalt Vorwärts, which belongs to the SDAP . The purpose was to disseminate the political ideas of Austrian social democracy not only in the intellectually more sophisticated Arbeiter-Zeitung , but also in a form that corresponded to the reading needs of less educated classes and was comparable to the writing style of the Kronen Zeitung . The newspaper, headed by Julius Braunthal , proved to be successful (other editors included the economic specialist Karl Ausch , Siegfried Weyr and Marianne Pollak ). In 1930 the circulation was 165,000 copies. The successful caricatures by Ladislaus Kmoch , which targeted the petty bourgeois Tobias Seicherl, were decisive for this .

The newspaper was not discontinued in the wake of the February uprising in 1934, but "repurposed" by the authoritarian regime of Engelbert Dollfuss and Kurt von Schuschnigg, as it was by the Nazi regime after March 1938 . On August 31, 1944 it was discontinued or replaced with the Kronen-Zeitung and two other small formats ( Kleine Volkszeitung and Kleines Volksblatt ) by the Kleine Wiener Kriegszeitung .

From June 14, 1947, the Kleine Blatt appeared again, but only as a weekly newspaper. The SPÖ no longer wanted to compete with its own official central organ AZ. A success comparable to the interwar period could no longer be achieved. On June 26, 1971, the Kleine Blatt was discontinued.

literature

  • Helmut W. Lang (Ed.): Austrian Retrospective Bibliography (ORBI). Row 2: Austrian Newspapers 1492–1945. Volume 2: Helmut W. Lang, Ladislaus Lang, Wilma Buchinger: Bibliography of the Austrian newspapers 1621–1945. AT THE. Edited at the Austrian National Library. KG Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-23384-1 , pp. 419-420.
  • Alexander Potyka : The Small Leaf. The daily newspaper of the Red Vienna. With a foreword by Bruno Kreisky . Picus-Verlag, Vienna 1989, ISBN 3-85452-202-9 .

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