Nebelspalter

The Nebelspalter is a Swiss satirical magazine. It was founded in 1875 by Jean Nötzli in Zurich as " Illustrated humorous and political weekly paper " and continues to this day, since the end of 1996 as a monthly magazine. The Nebelspalter has been the setting of the English Punch (1841-2002), the oldest satirical magazine in the world.

Rise to the national institution

His best time was the Nebelspalter in the 1930s, during and after the Second World War, when he denounced the violence and the ideology of the Nazis and their fellow travelers in Switzerland, the Frontists. 1933 Nebelspalter in the German Reich was banned. Meanwhile soared in Switzerland, the circulation to the Sky 1922, when was the Rorschach publisher Ernst Löpfe -Benz acquired the Nebelspalter, it amounted to only 364 copies. In 1945 it amounted to 30,000. The Nebelspalter had against the Nazis developed a self-image as " the spearhead of the intellectual defense " that he maintained during the Cold War against communism until the 1960s.

Their popularity is owed ​​the " Nebi " said magazine to a large extent the former editor in chief Carl Böckli ( born September 23, 1889, † December 4, 1970 ), which is to settle with his double talent as a draftsman and writer in the tradition of Wilhelm Busch. The abbreviation " squall " he produced until 1962 thousands cartoons, drawings and texts. Until the 1970s, the circulation rose to 70,000 copies. For decades figured the Nebelspalter as satirical leading medium and as a talent factory in Switzerland, are linked to the artist biographies, as those of well-known artists like René Gilsi, Jacob Nef, Fritz Behrendt, Nico Cadsky, Horst Haitzinger and of satirists such as César Keiser, Franz Hohler Lorenz Keiser, Peter Stamm or Linard Bardill. Even the famous Uri painter Heinrich Danioth worked for 15 years as a cartoonist and illustrator for the Nebelspalter. The poet Albert Ehrismann was over three decades of permanent staff and over 1,600 poems published here.

Crisis of the 1990s

With the rapid development of the Swiss media landscape in the last third of the 20th century Nebelspalter could not keep up. Cartoons, columns and other satirical forms migrated more and more into the daily press and in the audiovisual media. The increasingly conservative like leaf steadily lost subscribers and readers. In the 1990s, struck under Chief Editor Ivan Raschle lack the radical realignment of the " Nebelspalter " in the style of the Frankfurt Titanic. The circulation of 34,000 copies plummeted to 17,000, by the shrinking advertising volume the crisis deepened further. There were several changes in the editorial and 1996, the sale of title to the Basel Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag. At end of April 1998 his attitude was announced with a press run of 8,000.

Signs of sustainable recovery

In 1998, the Thurgau publisher Thomas Engeli at the last minute the ailing sheet. He succeeded in halting the subscribers and readers shrinkage and initiate an opposite trend. Meanwhile, the magazine is once again one 200 regular text and image authors. To the 130th anniversary of the title in 2005, the Nebelspalter obviously has ventured with some success the gentle relaunch. Under the Marco Ratschiller newly appointed editorial board of the title took a face-lift with a simple and feuilletonistischem paint and managed to well-known exponents of the current Swiss authors and satire scene as Andreas Thiel, Simon Enzler, Pedro Lenz, Gion Mathias Cavelty and Hans Suter for to bind the booklet. Early 2012 appeared the Nebelspalter with a print run of 21,000 copies and counted according to the market research study MACH Basic 229,000 readers per issue. The Nebelspalter main issues are published ten times a year on the first Friday of each month (except August and January).

Publisher of Nebelspalter

  • Jean Nötzli, Zurich, 1875-1902
  • Johann Friedrich Boscovits, Zurich, 1902-1914
  • Jean Frey AG, Zurich, 1914-1921
  • Löpfe Ernst Benz AG, Rorschach, 1921-1996
  • Friedrich Reinhardt AG, Basel, 1996-1998
  • Engeli & Partner Publishing, horn, since 1998

Editors in chief of Nebelspalter

  • Jean Nötzli, 1875-1900
  • Paul Altheer, 1914-1927
  • Carl Böckli, 1927-1952 (Picture Editor to 1967)
  • Franz Maechler, 1952-1984
  • Werner Meyer- Léchot, 1984-1993
  • Ivan Raschle, 1993-1996
  • Jürg Vollmer, 1996
  • Hans Suter, 2000-2004 not to be confused with the current writer Hans Suter
  • Marco Council Chiller, since 2005
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