Political picture sheet

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The Politische Bilderbogen were an anti-Semitic series of caricatures that appeared between 1892 and 1901 in loose succession at 30 pfennigs each. Each of the 33 numbers was printed as a large-format leaflet (40 × 60 cm), which, when opened, revealed an anti-Semitic caricature or picture story in poster form. On the back there was an explanatory text, which in part also made further considerations on the “ Jewish question ”. Author and draftsman (signature S. Horn) remained anonymous. The author could easily be identified by contemporaries as the folk poet and writer Max Bewer .

Title page Politischer Bilderbogen No. 8, 1893.
Excerpt from political picture sheet no. 12: The Jewish SPD politician Paul Singer offers Germania a “socialist marriage”.

Stereotypes and enemy images

The images and texts use all anti-Jewish stereotypes and enemy images that were common at the end of the 19th century. They can be classified as follows:

  1. socio-economic area
  2. religious area
  3. nationalist-racist area

Dissemination and reception

The picture sheets were published in Dresden by the Glöß printing company and were sold throughout Germany through bookstores specializing in anti-Semitic literature. The circulation is likely to have been between 5,000 and 10,000 copies - there is no reliable information on this. Although some of the picture sheets uncovered calls for violence against Jews, Jewish organizations did not succeed in having the distribution of the picture sheets legally prohibited.

List of political picture sheets

No. title year
1 Bismarck is coming! 1892
2 Jews in Germany 1892
3 Liberal images of the future 1893
4th Caprivi's exploits 1893
5 Börsen-Kirmeß 1892
6th The fairy tale of Christ 1892
7th Ahlwardt's exploits 1893
8th Jews ABC 1893
9 Bismarck in Berlin 1893
10 The Jews in Friedrichsruh 1893
11 In the future state 1893
12 German death dance 1894
13 The blood secret 1894
14th In the 20th century 1894
15th The buck 1894
16 The Jews in the Reichstag 1895
17th Exodus of the Jews from Germany 1895
18th Jews in their summer vacation 1895
19th The craftsmen at Bismarck 1896
20th The devil in Germany 1897
21st Bismarck in court 1897
22nd The peasant enemy 1897
23 The henchman 1897
24 False friends 1897
25th Bees and drones 1898
26th The naval enemy 1898
27 His only enemy 1898
28 A vision of the future 1898
29 The Dairy Cow or Germany 1900 AD 1898
30th The Pied Piper 1899
31 Bismarck's spirit 1899
32 The people spider 1900
33 The world boxer 1901

Library record

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Siegfried Horn also illustrated Eduard Schwechten's anti-Semitic children's book in 1895: Das Lied vom Levi . It is unclear whether a pseudonym was used.