Beer newspaper

Cover of a beer newspaper of the K.St.V. Laetitia Karlsruhe (1884)

A beer newspaper (or pub newspaper ) is a humorous or satirical newspaper created for a specific reason for a closed group of people .

The term comes from the student language and originally referred to a festival newspaper produced for a pub and read out during this. Many student songs were written as part of a beer newspaper. The custom and term were later also adopted for other occasions, for example parties of civil associations or school graduation parties .

Examples

From 1912 to 1916 the Gambrinusbund in Bozen published its own paper, the beer newspaper of the Gambrinusbund Bozen ; it was designed by Georg Innerebner.

Wilhelm Busch published in a pub newspaper during his studies in Antwerp (November 1852) .

See also

• Beer Comment
• Graduation newspaper
• Wedding newspaper

literature

• Hans-Jürgen Winkler: Wedding and beer newspapers . Falken-Verlag , 1982, p. 83 ff.
• Jörg Müller, Sabine Weiden: The funny festival newspaper. Wedding, anniversary, high school graduation, family day, beer newspaper. Augsburg 1995.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stations of his life in pictures and occasional poems. In: Rolf Hochhuth (Ed.): Wilhelm Busch, Complete Works and a selection of the sketches and paintings in two volumes. Volume 2 Whatever is popular is also allowed. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1959, pp. 886-1045, here: pp. 899 f. ( The song of the finch and the hunter's man )

Web links

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