Flares
The magazine Leuchtkugeln with the subtitle "Marginal Drawings on the History of the Present" was a satirical magazine that appeared in Munich from December 1847 to April 1851 and a little later for a few months in Hildburghausen .
The flares were founded in the fall of 1847. The editors were Alexander Ringler and Emil Roller . The lithographer and painter Franz von Seitz , who is highly regarded in the Kingdom of Bavaria, was responsible for its artistic design .
The magazine addressed a predominantly left-wing liberal and democratically minded minority. This is also reflected in the limited edition of the second volume of 8000 copies. Nonetheless, the "Leuchtkugeln", along with the Stuttgart " Eulenspiegel ", the Berlin " Kladderadatsch ", the Frankfurt " Satyr " and the Hamburg " Mephistopheles ", were among the most important German satirical works of the revolutionary era - a genre that, in contrast to Great Britain and France, was just beginning still had to detach from its provincial organization.
The flares appeared first three weeks, then weekly, and were eight pages long. They could be bought three times a month as a number consisting of 8 pages or as a biannual volume, which then consisted of 24 numbers or 192 pages.
Well-known authors included Roderich Benedix , Ferdinand Freiligrath , Ludwig Kalisch , Theobald Kerner , Gottfried Kinkel , Rudolf Marggraff , Hermann Rollett , Ludwig Seeger , Carl Hermann Schmolze and August Silberstein .
"From the beginning the flares appeared cheeky and political" and due to its political orientation and the sharp formulations the magazine was known in German-speaking countries and was constantly under observation by state censorship. However, it was precisely this reputation that led to the magazine being banned in various states of the German Confederation in 1851 - when the monarchies had regained the upper hand . 168 numbers of the flares appeared in Munich. Since the booklets were published without any date, their exact historical dating remains unknown.
An 8th volume of the magazine was published at the end of May 1851 by the publishing house of the bibliographical institute in Hildburghausen together with its branch in New York run by Herrmann Julius Meyer . After a trial against the editor responsible, Emil Roller, in September and October 1851 and further censorship measures, the flares were no longer continued after 14 issues that had appeared in Hildburghausen.
Cartoons
see: Berliner Janus
Web links
- General information
- Flares: marginal notes on the history of the present - digital Heidelberg University Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Camilla G. Kaul: Friedrich Barbarossa in the Kyffhäuser: Pictures of a national myth in the 19th century , text volume. Böhlau publishing house. Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2007. ISBN 978-3-412-16906-0 , p. 245
- ^ Friedhelm Jürgensmeier : The Catholic Church as reflected in the caricature of the German satirical trend magazines from 1848 to 1900 . New. Trier 1969. p. 26.
- ↑ Der Bayerische Eilbote, No. 115 of June 7, 1851, p. 626. Online: [1] . The indication of July 6 in the text is a misprint