First Disney comics in Germany

[Erik Rastetter]

Hello to you all!

Frank wrote:

> do you really want to tell us there haven't been any
> MM newspaper strips in Germany in the 30s? If that's true it is quite
> surprising...
>

Then be surprised. Beside of the Swiss "Micky Maus Zeitung" there were
no MM newspaper strips in German in the 30s. You may think, that in the
country where once Wilhelm Busch drew "Max und Moritz" (the spirital
ancestors of "The Katzenjammer Kids" and other early U.S. newspaper
strips) there should have been a tradtion in original German strips. But
under the rule of Hitler and Goebbels Nazi Germany had very few comic
strips by German artists. The most famous of those few was E.O. Plauen's
"Vater und Sohn" ("Father and Son").

In their "Comic-Handbuch" (published in West-Germany in 1978,  now out
of print) Wolfgang J. Fuchs and Reinhold Reitberger give a hint, that
there was a limited publication of Disney comics in the so called Third
Reich. They write (p. 24/25), that in some Austrian comic books
(giveaways), which were especially published by some stores and shops
for the children of their customers, sometimes one could find Disney
comic strips. Unfortunately Fuchs/Reitberger don't tell details about
the kind of Disney strips that were printed in titles like "Kiebitz",
"Schmetterling", "Papagei" and "Teddy Bär". These Austrian giveaways
were also wide-spread in Germany until the publishing came to an end in
1941 because of shortness of printing paper during the war. Maybe
someone else of the DCML can tell us more about these things.

Greetings
Erik
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