GERMAN THEMES IN THE CARICATURES OF POLISH SATIRICAL JOURNALS OF THE SECOND REPUBLIC OF POLAND (A STATISTICAL ANALYSIS) (Problematyka niemiecka w karykaturach polskich czasopism satyrycznych Drugiej Rzeczypospolitej (analiza statystyczna))

• Authors: Bergmann Olaf
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article deals with the presence of a broadly understood German theme in Polish iconographic satire in the years 1918-1939. The topic is discussed not according to the criterion of pictorial content but in a statistical quantitative perspective comparing the interest of caricaturists in other prominent issues and persons of those times that could be considered as personified 'heroes' of the caricatural messages. The German theme recurred in all the analyzed satirical journals regardless of the period of their publication and the political sympathies of their editors and satirists. For nearly the whole of the two interwar decades the leading journal was the Warsaw 'Mucha', at the beginning of the analyzed period it was the Lwów 'Szczutek', in the years 1926-1934 the most popular journal was 'Cyrulik Warszawski', in the years 1930-1939 the Kraków 'Wróble na dachu' and in the second half on the 1930s the Warsaw 'Szpilki' and the Wielkopolska 'Pokrzywy'. In the last pre-war years interest in broadly understood German issues dominated over Polish foreign policy and international issues in the coverage of iconographic satire.

Keywords

EN

CARICATURE; GERMAN THEME; POLISH PRESS; SATIRICAL JOURNALS; YEARS 1918-1939

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Instytut Zachodni. Instytut Naukowo-Badawczy im. Zygmunta Wojciechowskiego w Poznaniu
• Journal: Przegląd Zachodni
• Year: 2011
• Issue: 2(339)
• Pages: 181-200
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Bergmann Olaf

• Olaf Bergmann, Instytut Zachodni, Instytut Naukowo-Badawczy, 61-854 Poznan, ul. Mostowa 27, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11PLAAAA100420