Word: simplicissimus
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Died. Olaf Gulbransson, 85, snub-nosed, sybaritic cartoonist for Germany's satirical weekly Simplicissimus since 1902 ; of a stroke; at his home overlooking Te-gernsee, West Germany. Eccentric (at work he often wore only a loincloth), Norwegian-born Gulbransson gained world repute for his boldly contoured caricatures. He continued to work for Simplicissimus even after (in 1933) it became a Nazi-run organ, once gave the political artist's classic explanation: "I hate them as much as you do, but what's the use fighting them...
Back in 1931, the satirical little German magazine Simplicissimus published a prophetic bit of verse. It went...
Died. Thomas Theodor Heine,*80, cofounder, cartoonist and guiding genius of Germany's late great humor magazine Simplicissimus; in Stockholm. Sharp-penned Heine was jailed for making fun of the Kaiser, exiled in 1933 for making fun of Hitler. In his old age he ruefully remarked that "ridicule does not kill, it popularizes...
Editor Schoenberner's task was to keep Jugend youthful-a job he did so well that soon he was offered the editorship of Jugend's chief competitor, Simplicissimus. While Jugend hunted feverishly for a new editor, Schoenberner performed, the hilarious, exhausting feat of editing both weeklies at the same time. After reading and rejecting hundreds of manuscripts in the Jugend offices, he would speed over to Simplicissimus-only to find that the manuscripts he had just rejected had been sent out again to Simplicissimus...
...Funny Nazis. Much of Editor Schoenberner's book reads like the life story of a character invented by Ludwig Bemelmans. But its humor and gaiety paradoxically give place to sadness when Schoenberner describes his career with Germany's most humorous weekly. Simplicissimus had once numbered Thomas Mann among its staff and George Grosz among its cartoonists; it had published the maiden work of Heinrich Mann and Poet Rainer Maria Rilke, as well as stories by De Maupassant, Chekhov, Strindberg and Hamsun. Under the Kaiser, its Cartoonist-Editor Heine had been imprisoned in a fortress...