Fliegende Blätter

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title: "Fliegende Blätter" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1845-establishments-in-the-german-confederation", "1944-disestablishments-in-germany", "defunct-magazines-published-in-germany", "german-language-magazines", "satirical-magazines-published-in-germany", "magazines-established-in-1845", "magazines-disestablished-in-1944", "magazines-published-in-munich", "weekly-magazines-published-in-germany", "bourgeoisie"] topic_path: "geography/germany" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fliegende_Blätter" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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The Fliegende Blätter ("Flying Leaves"; also translated as "Flying Pages" or "Loose Sheets") was a German weekly humor and satire magazine appearing between 1845 and 1944 in Munich. Many of the illustrations were by well-known artists such as Wilhelm Busch, Count Franz Pocci, Hermann Vogel, Carl Spitzweg, Julius Klinger, Edmund Harburger, Adolf Oberländer and others. It was published by , a company belonging to the wood engraver Kaspar Braun and illustrator Friedrich Schneider. Aimed at the German bourgeoisie, it reached a maximum circulation of c.95,000 copies by 1895. It merged in 1928 with a competitor, the Meggendorfer-Blätter

Sample illustrations

File:Kaninchen und Ente.png|The first known instance of the rabbit–duck illusion, anonymous illustration from the 23 October 1892 issue File:Mahler conducting caricature.jpg|Mahler conducting by , 1901 File:Fliegende Blätter 1903 00250447.jpg|Illustration by , 1903 File:Fliegende Blätter 1903 00250444 (OR).jpg|Illustration by Alexander Otrey (1877–1939), 1903

Notes

References

  1. [[Thierry Smolderen]], ''The Origins of Comics: From William Hogarth to Winsor McCay'', University Press of Mississippi, 2014, p. 114.
  2. Levy, Richard S.. (2005). "Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution". [[ABC-CLIO]].
  3. "Fliegende Blätter". Harald Fischer Verlag.
  4. Koch, Ursula E.. (2013). "Handbuch des Antisemitismus". [[Walter de Gruyter]].

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