''Lustige Blätter'' (German: ''Comic Pages'') was a satirical magazine published between 1885 and 1944 in

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. Its subtitle was ''schönstes buntes Witzblatt Deutschlands'' (German: ''Germany's most beautiful colorful humor paper'').

History and profile

''Lustige Blätter'' was established by the writer

Alexander Moszkowski Alexander Moszkowski (15 January 1851 – 26 September 1934) was a German satirist, writer and philosopher also of Polish-Jewish descent. He was the brother of the composer and pianist Moritz Moszkowski. He was a friend of many celebrities in ...

in Berlin in 1885. From 1887 to 1891 it was a supplement to ''

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''. Moszkowski and Paul von Schönthan were the founding

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of the magazine. The former held the post until his retirement in 1927. The magazine was published on a weekly basis and featured satirical articles and cartoons about social and cultural events. Heinrich Zille,

Lyonel Feininger Lyonel Charles Adrian Feininger (; July 17, 1871January 13, 1956) was a German-American painter, and a leading exponent of Expressionism. He also worked as a caricaturist and comic strip artist. He was born and grew up in New York City. In 1887 h ...

Walter Trier Walter Trier (25 June 1890 in Prague – 8 July 1951 in Craigleith, near Collingwood) was an illustrator, best known for his work for the children's books of Erich Kästner and the covers of the magazine '' Lilliput''. He was born in Bohem ...

and Julius Klinger were among its leading caricaturists and illustrators. Other major contributors of the magazine were Bruno Balz, Betty Korytowska, Max Brinkmann, Rudolf Presber, Gustav Hochstetter, and Georg Mühlen-Schulte. Finnish cartoonist

Sigurd Wettenhovi-Aspa Georg Sigurd Wettenhovi-Aspa (born. Wetterhoff-Asp, 7 May 1870 – 18 February 1946) was a Finnish multiartist: painter, sculptor, writer, and a pseudo-linguist. He is best known for his fantastical theories about the past of the Finnish people, ...

also published his caricatures in the magazine which were mostly about the

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and

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. He was in exile in Paris during this period so that his caricatures were published anonymously. The magazine held a liberal political stance. However, during the Nazi period it contained

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material. ''Lustige Blätter'' folded in 1944.

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