Word: simplicissimus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Olaf Iversen, 57, German newspaperman and cartoonist who in 1954 revived the far-famed, grimly satiric magazine Simplicissimus, filled it with jibes at both East and West, and biting antimilitarist attacks in keeping with the anti-Prussian tradition of the original Simplicissimus (founded in 1896); in Munich...
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...