"Munich Man" by Karl Arnold (1883-1953) published Dec 3, 1923.
In the aftermath of Hitler's failed Beer Hall Putsch, the "Munich man" gets drunk on Fascism and monarchism on the cover of satirical German magazine Simplicissimus.
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Simplicissimus was a satirical German weekly magazine, headquartered in Munich, and founded by Albert Langen in April 1896. Due to its subject matter the magazine was officially viewed as immoral, revolutionary and socialistic. It continued publishing until 1967, interrupted by a hiatus from 1944–1954, and became a biweekly in 1964.
It took its name from the character in the 1668 novel Simplicius Simplicissimus (German: Der Abenteuerliche Simplicissimus Teutsch) by German author Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (1621/22 – 17 August 1676). Inspired by the events and horrors of the Thirty Years' War in Holy Roman Empire which devastated Germany from 1618 to 1648, it is regarded as the first adventure novel in the German language and the first German novel masterpiece. Grimmelshausen at the age of ten, was kidnapped by Hessian soldiers, and in their midst experienced military life in the Thirty Years' War.
The novel is told from the perspective of its protagonist Simplicius, a rogue typical of the picaresque novel, as he traverses the tumultuous world of the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War and comes to symbolize sanity in a depraved, degenerate Europe torn apart by the War.
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Simplicius Simplicissimus Wiki
English translations:
Project Gutenberg copy (The first English Edition of Simplicissimus is limited to 1000 copies of which this is No. 11.)
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Later edition with new intro published in 1912
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Although the magazine's satirical nature was largely indulged by the German government, an 1898 cover mocking Kaiser Wilhelm's pilgrimage to Palestine resulted in the issue being confiscated. Langen, the publisher, spent five years in exile to Switzerland and was fined 30,000 German gold marks. A six-month prison sentence was given to the cartoonist Thomas Theodor Heine, and seven months to the writer Frank Wedekind. All the defendants were charged with "insulting a royal majesty".
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Cover: Emperor in the firing line: the cover of the "Palestine issue" shows a caricature by Thomas Theodor Heine, with Kaiser Friedrich Barbarossa doubled over in laughter, clutching a Prussian military helmet, while the crusader Gottfried von Boullion rebukes him with the words "Don′t laugh like that, Barbarossa! There was no point to our crusades either."
″Simplicissimus″ and the Palestine issue - contrary to the 2016 article, with the abdication of the German emperor and the German princes following World War I, the law became invalid. It did not penalize the insult of the German head of state, but the defamation of organs and representatives of foreign states; it was abolished in 2017.
You can view the many Simplicissimus covers here or Digital archive of back issues from 1896–1944 (in German) at Simplicissimus.info
The May 28, 1923 issue from the digital archive has a satirical gallery mugshot poster titled, "What Does Hitler Look Like?" when there were no publicly available photographs, very possibly the first satire of the then Nazi politician.
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Simplicissimus (magazine) (Wiki)
Simplicissimus 1898 April-June 3 months Art Nouveau magazine color Jugendstil lithographs:
THE SATIRICAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF SIMPLICISSIMUS (14 min history covers the early illustrators, satire shift once WWI started, postwar Germany, mocking Hitler to turning to Nazi propaganda, The aftermath)
Nelson, O. M. (1978). “Simplicissimus” and the Rise of National Socialism. The Historian, 40(3), 441–462. Excerpt:
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Simplicissimus and the Rise of National Socialism
In the aftermath of Hitler's failed Beer Hall Putsch, the "Munich man" gets drunk on Fascism and monarchism on the cover of satirical German magazine Simplicissimus.
Simplicissimus was a satirical German weekly magazine, headquartered in Munich, and founded by Albert Langen in April 1896. Due to its subject matter the magazine was officially viewed as immoral, revolutionary and socialistic. It continued publishing until 1967, interrupted by a hiatus from 1944–1954, and became a biweekly in 1964.
It took its name from the character in the 1668 novel Simplicius Simplicissimus (German: Der Abenteuerliche Simplicissimus Teutsch) by German author Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (1621/22 – 17 August 1676). Inspired by the events and horrors of the Thirty Years' War in Holy Roman Empire which devastated Germany from 1618 to 1648, it is regarded as the first adventure novel in the German language and the first German novel masterpiece. Grimmelshausen at the age of ten, was kidnapped by Hessian soldiers, and in their midst experienced military life in the Thirty Years' War.
The novel is told from the perspective of its protagonist Simplicius, a rogue typical of the picaresque novel, as he traverses the tumultuous world of the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War and comes to symbolize sanity in a depraved, degenerate Europe torn apart by the War.
Simplicius Simplicissimus Wiki
English translations:
Project Gutenberg copy (The first English Edition of Simplicissimus is limited to 1000 copies of which this is No. 11.)
Later edition with new intro published in 1912
Although the magazine's satirical nature was largely indulged by the German government, an 1898 cover mocking Kaiser Wilhelm's pilgrimage to Palestine resulted in the issue being confiscated. Langen, the publisher, spent five years in exile to Switzerland and was fined 30,000 German gold marks. A six-month prison sentence was given to the cartoonist Thomas Theodor Heine, and seven months to the writer Frank Wedekind. All the defendants were charged with "insulting a royal majesty".
Cover: Emperor in the firing line: the cover of the "Palestine issue" shows a caricature by Thomas Theodor Heine, with Kaiser Friedrich Barbarossa doubled over in laughter, clutching a Prussian military helmet, while the crusader Gottfried von Boullion rebukes him with the words "Don′t laugh like that, Barbarossa! There was no point to our crusades either."
″Simplicissimus″ and the Palestine issue - contrary to the 2016 article, with the abdication of the German emperor and the German princes following World War I, the law became invalid. It did not penalize the insult of the German head of state, but the defamation of organs and representatives of foreign states; it was abolished in 2017.
You can view the many Simplicissimus covers here or Digital archive of back issues from 1896–1944 (in German) at Simplicissimus.info
The May 28, 1923 issue from the digital archive has a satirical gallery mugshot poster titled, "What Does Hitler Look Like?" when there were no publicly available photographs, very possibly the first satire of the then Nazi politician.
Simplicissimus (magazine) (Wiki)
Simplicissimus 1898 April-June 3 months Art Nouveau magazine color Jugendstil lithographs:
Quote:Simplicissimus Album: Neuntes Heft (April-June 1898).
Published 1898, Munich by Langen.
105 pages. Text in German as always (and only). Profusely illustrated throughout with color lithographs.
12 complete issues from April - June, 1898.
THE SATIRICAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF SIMPLICISSIMUS (14 min history covers the early illustrators, satire shift once WWI started, postwar Germany, mocking Hitler to turning to Nazi propaganda, The aftermath)
Nelson, O. M. (1978). “Simplicissimus” and the Rise of National Socialism. The Historian, 40(3), 441–462. Excerpt:
Simplicissimus and the Rise of National Socialism
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