Rascals (magazine)

Die Rasselbande was a youth magazine that was published by Heinrich Bauer Verlag in Hamburg from July 1953 and was incorporated into the short-lived magazine Wir in 1966 . The highest circulation was 300,000 copies.

Content

Most of the time, the magazine appeared fortnightly (1960–1961 weekly in large format) and initially cost 50 pfennigs. The rascals brought informative country reports, articles about sport, modern technology, handicraft pages with construction plans for ships and other models (“Schibob”, four-man bobsleigh and the like), puzzles and competitions. It also contained stories suitable for young people, serial novels (sometimes four in one booklet). These included preprints of later well-known children's and young people's books, such as 1958 Parole: Kraxelmax by Cili Wethekam and 1959 the science fiction novel by Jak Lang My Friend from Another Star , who also attracted attention because of the naming of the main extraterrestrial characters. So the extraterrestrial visitor was called “Red Etug”, read backwards “The Good”. Other series reported famous criminal cases. 1955 was reprinted as a serial novel The ransom of the red chief by Werner Hörnemann . In 1958 the magazine published a Christmas story by Gerd Holm . 1959 was reprinted as a serial novel Sitting Bull - The Chief of all Sioux by Shannon Garst.

The rascals initiated and supervised the trip to America for a youth group, made up of young people who had distinguished themselves in society, e. B. Mathieu Carriere due to his role in the film Tonio Kröger , Volker Lechtenbrink (film: Die Brücke ) or Jak Lang.

Since the early 1960s, she has not been able to escape the trend towards reporting on celebrities and consumer topics.

Authors and collaborators

Among the authors of travelogues for the gang were among Hildesuse Gaertner and Günter Hauser . Hans Silvester published his report On tuna fishing in the Mediterranean in the magazine . Egon Larsen wrote an article about the brothers Auguste and Jean Piccard for the magazine . Even Carl-Albrecht von Treuenfels wrote articles for the gang . Since 1959 the magazine published picture stories by Tove Jansson . The draftsmen for the joke page included Sepp Arnemann , Arne Leihberg and Hans Jürgen Press .

Young reporter

The Rasselbande also published edited manuscripts of their readers, such as B. 1955 a report by Jürgen Schlumbohm about his uncle Adolf Winter living in Swakopmund . In 1958, Ulrich Wickert published a report about sardine fishermen from the Spanish port of Laredo who had taken him to night fishing while on vacation, a report by his brother Wolfram Wickert about a visit to the Spanish caves Altamira and Puente Viesgo, a report by Peter Ehlers about a tent camp on Amrum and a report by Georg Schwedt about the construction of a herbarium .

literature

• Konrad Friesicke: Rasselbande, a youth magazine . In: Youth Literature . Munich, 1st year 1955, issue 2, pp. 78-80.
• Martin Hussong: Youth magazines from 1945 to 1960. Phases, types, tendencies . In: Klaus Doderer , Martin Hussong (ed.): Between rubble and prosperity. Literature of the Young 1954–1960 . Beltz , Weinheim 1988, pp. 521–585 (pp. 568–572: New impulses from commercial magazines in the fifties. Perfect design and new program: the “Rasselbande” .) ISBN 3-407-56515-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jürgen Wilke: Media history of the Federal Republic of Germany , Cologne: Böhlau Verlag 1999, p. 325
2. ^ Rasselbande, December 17, 1958, p. 592.
3. ↑ See Rasselbande, November 23, 1955, pp. 646f .; Rasselbande, December 7, 1955, pp. 690f.
4. ↑ See Günter Hauser: Profession: Gipfelstürmer, in: Rasselbande, December 7, 1955, pp. 708–710; G. Hauser: We conquered the most beautiful mountain in the world, in: Rasselbande, December 3, 1958, pp. 532–534.
5. ^ Rasselbande, December 19, 1956, pp. 796–798.
6. ^ Rasselbande, February 1, 1956, pp. 128-136.
7. ↑ See e.g. B. Carl-Albrecht von Treuenfels : Morning cleaning at the mute swan . Animals can also be vain, in: Rasselbande, August 13, 1958, p. 175.
8. ↑ See Rasselbande, February 29, 1956, p. 279.
9. ^ Rasselbande, September 24, 1958, p. 335.
10. ^ Rasselbande, December 21, 1955, p. 779.
11. ↑ Erwin Wickert : The happy eyes - stories from my life , Stuttgart 2002, p. 179f.
12. ↑ Ulrich Wickert: Sardinenfischer in Spanien, in: Rasselbande, December 30, 1958, p. 42f.
13. ^ Rasselbande, September 24, 1958, p. 330.
14. ↑ Rasselbande issue 16, July 30, 1958, p. 141.
15. ↑ Blown leaves ... How to create a herbarium, in: Rasselbande, October 8, 1958, pp. 340–342. Cf. Georg Schwedt : Chemistry for all seasons , 2007, introduction - a personal review ( memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

• Some front pages of the rascals