Kobold (magazine)
The puck (in the logo puck was written) a 1947-1950 published in Berlin satirical monthly magazine , founded by the actor and cabaret artist Wolfgang Müller and writer Fritz Martin Rintelen.
intention
In the first issue (July 1947), the eponymous "licensed goblin" introduced himself as the " conférencier of a new magazine", with many allusions to the post-war period. He was born naked, then swapped "a borrowed sofa for old flannel trousers and a worn bush jacket", but lost them again, lured into a ruin and knocked down. Alluding to Grabbe's comedy , he continued: “Now I've got used to my nudity again, and since it has nothing to do with jokes, satire and irony , I try to explain it to myself and others as a deeper meaning. But one thing I have saved, saved over everything: my humor and my mouth. "The goblin asked to cry with only one eye, but laugh with the other:" Read me where you are, go or change trains. Because everything is still there in Berlin - after cigarettes, after ration cards , on the trains; Everything is going in Berlin - only so far nobody knows exactly in which direction; and in Berlin everything changes, not only politically, but also on the S-Bahn, U-Bahn and tram. In any case you have to be careful that you get on the right train, otherwise everyone will later complain about the leader of the train. But back then it was up front where the train was going. That wasn't a train anymore, that was a storm. It started with the striker and ended with the Volkssturm . The goblin didn't exist yet, because all good spirits left you. "
style
The style of the magazine was critically entertaining. For example, “the good Lord” looked in a “Hallelujah! Said the Devil "entitled 1947 contribution to the people and said:" No, the brothers - despite Sodom , Braunau and Hiroshima - have still not become sensible. Apart from the flood , isms and atomic bombs , what else do we have for their conversion? ”The people“ talked to pocket TVs wherever they were walking or standing, over any distance, ate vitamin pills and calorie drops and reproduced with synthetic babies. ”Also the mostly drawn illustrations were often time-critical (e.g. when representatives of the four victorious allied powers play billiards around a pin marked as Deutscher Michel , with the following caption: "Difficult game, when the pin falls, nobody has won").
Employee
In addition to many unknown today, the contributions a. Erich Kästner , Jo Hanns Rösler , Wolfdietrich Schnurre , Robert T. Odeman , Paul Gurk , Paul Rosié , Hubert von Meyerinck , Tatjana Sais , Günter Neumann or the painter Mia Lederer .
From June 1948 Wolfgang Müller only acted as license holder and Fritz Martin Rintelen as sole editor-in-chief.
Meaning, rarity
The significance of this satirical magazine, which was discontinued in the middle of the fourth volume (1950), in post-war Germany has apparently not yet been examined in more detail from today's perspective. Since the Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog (KVK) only records a complete collection (and three incomplete sets) in a single German library, it can now be regarded as very rare.
Web links
- Literature on the Kobold magazine in the catalog of the German National Library