Fliegende Blätter

Flying leaves was the name of a humorous richly illustrated German weekly. The Flying leaves appeared from 1845 to 1928 in Munich by the publisher Braun & Schneider and 1929-1944 - combines with the magazine Meggendorfer leaves - the publisher JF Schreiber. Her artistic and technical printing quality was famous.

History

Kaspar Brown was particularly responsible for the illustrations, while Friedrich Schneider ( booksellers ) mainly took care of the lyrics. Besides cartoons poems and stories in the Fliegende Blatter were published about the poems of the Swabian schoolmaster Gottlieb Biedermeier and his friend Horace Faithful Heart ( 1855 ) by Adolf Kussmaul.

Each issue consisted of eight, long time undated, pages and published on a weekly basis.

General appreciation experienced the Flying Sheets for their unerring, satirical characterization of the German bourgeoisie. Popular series figures from the magazine since 1845 were the two types Biedermann and Bummelmaier ( from their names, the term Biedermeier was ). There were, for example, to read the adventures of the fictional Baron Eisele and his tutor Dr. Beisele.

The illustrations in the Fliegende Blatter came from well-known artists such as Wilhelm Busch, Ferdinand Barth, Hermann Vogel, Gustav Adolf Closs, Hans Kaufmann, Kaspar Koegler, Franz Kreuzer, Adolf Oberlander, Franz Graf von Pocci, Carl Reinhardt, Carl Spitzweg, Emil Reinicke, René Reinicke, Hermann Stockmann, Eugen croissant, Gustav Traub and many others.