Rappelkopf (magazine)

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Rappelkopf

description Satirical magazine
publishing company Rappelkopf Media AG
Frequency of publication bi-monthly
Sold edition 10,000 copies
Editor-in-chief Mario Herger
Web link rappelkopf.at

Rappelkopf was a German-language satirical magazine from Austria . It has appeared four times since 2009. The main focus was on political and social satire in the form of texts, cartoons and comics .

Emergence

Rappelkopf Title Page Issue No. October 01, 2009

The magazine emerged from the online project of the same name. After the first pilot issue, which was published on the occasion of the European Football Championship in June 2008, the regular issue has been published since October 2009 with 68 pages.

Compared to other German-language satirical magazines, the satirical style is based on US satirical magazines such as The Onion, with mainly fictional news, commentary contributions by fictional characters and daily independent observations. The New Yorker and The Chicagoan as well as French satire and comic magazines are used as models . Plenty of space is given to drawn elements, including a. also comics.

Regular ingredients

Mostly fictitious letters to the editor can be found under Mailbox . The editorial comic strip global melange introduces the topic of the respective issue, the characters of the comic strip guide through the magazine. Current definitions of terms can be found under Fiebiger's Resourceful Primer . With Treffen sich 2 the cabaret artists Joachim Brandl and Martin Buchgraber cultivate the resurrection of the double conference . Rupert's Humor 1 × 1 gives an introduction to satire and humor techniques using text examples from Austrian cabaret and satirical work. The Brief Illustrated Story takes on each issue of a different state in a disrespectful interpretation of the respective history. The Panoptikum brings crazy but real news from all over the world. Under the heading Pointenhalali , readers are invited to fill the empty balloon text of a cartoon with their own suggestions. The editor-in-chief's comment can be found on the penultimate page under the title Exitorial .

Authors and draughtsmen

The authors included a. Georg Bauernfeind, Susanne Pöchacker and Jörg-Martin Willnauer , Harald Fiebiger, Hannes Vogler, Alexander Lass, Alice Frick and Clemens Wittwehr. The draftsmen include a. Arthur de Pins , Markus Szyszkowitz , Rachel Gold , Nina Ruzicka , Cyril Pedrosa , Til Mette , Helmut Vogl , Bruno Haberzettl , Bernd Ertl, Marian Kamensky, Engelbert Holzer, Freimut Woessner , Thomas Hahn, Denis Metz, Thomas Kriebaum and Klaudia Wanner .

Others

The satirical magazine can be leafed through completely online. It also offers online versions of former Austrian satirical magazines such as Watzmann .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Blogging until Election Day comes . ( Memento from October 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Wiener Zeitung , September 12, 2008
  2. Report in the standard
  3. ^ Report in the daily newspaper Die Presse