Ulk
Josh is the title of a satirical magazine, published from 1872 to 1933 at the Berlin publisher Rudolf Mosse.
History
" ULK " stands for the three departments " nonsense, frivolity and Kneip sense " founded in hasp 1857 Society ULK, a then well-known satirical association with its participation as evidenced by the title page on April 3, 1872 Rudolf Mosse and Siegmund Haber the illustrated weekly paper for Humor and Satire " The ULK " in Berlin founded. It should be a North German counterpart to the southern German flying leaves.
Siegmund Haber specific to 1895 the style of the sheet. He "invented" the figures in the corner upstand Nunne, the Confektionsmamsell Paula Erbswurst from Hausvogteiplatz left and the woman reindeer Schladeberg from Manteuffelstraße that, often struggling with spelling and grammar, regularly commented on the current political and social issues. After Haber's death of long-time employees of the leaf, Richard Schmidt Cabanis, editor in chief, the figures of the " Jeheimrats - Jette ", the " blind seer " and the " Dr. was Josh " introduced.
From 1913, the joke appeared as a regular weekly supplement to the Berliner Tageblatt and at the same time the Berlin Volks -Zeitung, two other sheets of Mosse Group.
On November 22, 1907 appeared in the spoof titled fairy tale anonymously, the first journalistic work of satirist and political critic Kurt Tucholsky, in which the 17 -year-old had made about the artistic taste of Kaiser Wilhelm II's funny. From December 1918 to April 1920 Tucholsky worked as chief editor of the joke and wrote there often under the pseudonym Theobald Tiger. He offered by a large audience, since the two newspapers in which the joke appeared as a side dish a quarter million readers. Tucholsky wanted to do with the war jokes and staying Humor circuit and restore the reputation of the Jewish- democratic joke.
After Tucholsky's resignation in April 1920 Ulk under editor in chief Josef Wiener- brown mountain returned to its former line.
The authors of the hoax included, among others Victor Auburtin, Hans Brennert, Sigmar Mehring, Hans Reimann, Richard Riess, Ewald Gerhard Seeliger and Hans Heinrich von Twardowski.
As illustrators worked for the joke: Hermann Abeking, AM Cay, Lyonel Feininger, Joseph Fenneker, August Hajduk, Willy Helwig, Walter Herzberg, Karl Holtz, Harry Jaeger, Lisbet Juel, Jesekiel David Kirszenbaum, Willibald Krain, Edmund Kuntze, Hans Leu, Ernst Luebbert, Jeanne Mammen, Rolf Niczky, Käthe Olshausen - Schönberger, Carl O. Petersen, Max Richter, Hermann Scherenberg, Erwin W. silver, Paul Simmel, Ottomar Strong, Ernst Stern, Oskar Theuermann, Walter Trier, Theo pastures Beat, Kurt Werth, Jupp Wiertz, Hermann Wilke, Fritz Wolff, Heinrich Zille, inter alia,
After leaving Vienna - Braunenberg the editorial was from January 1926 in the hands of Hans Flemming; Was the editor of Otto Schneider.
As of November 1929, Josh appeared under the editorship of Hermann Sinsheimer. This was not just a new layout and the waiver of the previously colored printed pages accompanied ( in the wake of the Great Depression of the two-color printing had become too expensive ), but also a stronger politicization. Among the under Sinsheimer newly added illustrators of the joke were George Grosz, Alfred Kubin, Frans Masereel, Albert Schaefer- Ast and Rudolf Schlichter; as an author was added, among other things Erich difficulty. In July 1931 Sinsheimer was replaced by Hans Flemming.