Description
Illustrierter Beobachter
Donnerstag, 18. Januar 1940 • 15. Jahrgang • Folge 3
Verlag Franz Eher Nachf. GmbH, München 22
24 pages scanned
Cover Page
Caption: “Thekla Wunsch tanzt in der ‘Fledermaus’.” (“Thekla Wunsch dances in ‘Die Fledermaus’.”)
Subject: Portrait of Thekla Wunsch, dancer in the Munich restaging of Johann Strauss’s operetta Die Fledermaus at the Staatsoperettenbühne, Theater am Gärtnerplatz, München.
Photo credit: Merkens-Brantenberg (special report for the IB)
Major Headlines & Content
Die Unruhstifter in aller Welt: — immer wieder Juden! / Alles für die Juden! Englands Blutterror über wehrlose Araber (The Troublemakers of the World: Always Jews! / Everything for the Jews! England’s Blood Terror against Defenceless Arabs) — Two-page antisemitic photo spread. The first page shows demonstrations outside the New York harbour at the sailing of the Bremen, depicting Jewish protesters with placards, Chaim Weizmann (Zionist leader), and a Jewish Platform speaker at a Hyde Park meeting identified as David Cahn. Photo credits: Heinrichs, Dr. Unger, AP. The second page shows British military action against Arabs in Palestine: the demolition of Arab houses in Nablus near Haifa, a rapid-fire cannon on a Jewish lorry in Jerusalem, an Arab sheikh searched at the Jaffa Gate, body searches near the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, and a dead Arab fighter. Photo credit: D. Dyck.
On les aura! Wir werden sie schon kriegen! / …les pieds gelés — Die Eisbeine (“On les aura! We’ll get them! / …les pieds gelés — Frozen feet”) — Photo feature mocking French troops on the western front in winter. Shows French field watch relief marching through frozen woodland south of the Narew river; French officers receiving food rations; Senegalese, Creole, and Annamite soldiers brought to Europe to reinforce French strength; British soldiers shovelling snow behind the front in France. Photo credits: Schwerdtfeger, Associated Press.
Fenstersturz um Oppenheim (Window-Fall Affair Oppenheim) — Photo feature on the death of Lola László (21-year-old Hungarian film actress), who fell from the tenth floor of the Gladstone Hotel, New York, from the apartment of Baron Friedrich von Oppenheim. Named individuals: Lola László (actress); Aladar László (Hungarian composer and playwright, her father); Baron Friedrich v. Oppenheim (described as a Jewish financier). Photo credit: Associated Press.
Drei Jahre Imperium: V. Die Bewohner (Three Years of Empire: V. The Inhabitants) — Two-page illustrated feature (fifth instalment of a series) on Italian East Africa. Shows the guard of honour at the Governor’s palace in Mogadiscio; F. S. Caroselli (Governor of Somaliland); a camel rider; an AOI-registered vehicle; the former tsarist hunting lodge Bialowiecza; Apothecary Zahn (described as the oldest German resident in Addis Abeba). Second page focuses on the population of Abyssinia, showing Danakil women, Gallafrauen, Amhara and Harar peoples. Photo report by K. K. Walter.
Besuch in Cinecittà — Italiens Filmstadt bei Rom (Visit to Cinecittà — Italy’s Film City near Rome) — Two-page photo feature on the Cinecittà studios near Rome. Named actresses featured: Laura Solari (discovered by Vittorio Mussolini, lead in his film Der Flieger Luciano Serra); Alida Ralli (alias Alida Ralli, playing the title role in Manon); Maria Denis (lead in Die Belagerung des Alcazar); Doris Duranti; Elsa de Giorgi (20 films); Bisi Gioia. Photo credit: Ilse Steinhoff.
Ein Urwald unter Naturschutz (A Primeval Forest under Nature Protection) — Photo feature on the Bialowiecza forest (Białowieża, formerly Polish state forest, 129,000 hectares, now Soviet-administered then German-controlled), south of the Narew upper course. Shows the former tsarist hunting lodge (now a zoological museum), bison skeleton, raptors, wolves, and Bialowiecza heath. Photo credit: Helmuth Kurth.
Dr. Wilhelm Grau: Rothschild — eine Geißel Europas (Rothschild — A Scourge of Europe) — Two-page antisemitic ideological article (conclusion of a serialised essay) by Dr. Wilhelm Grau. Discusses the Rothschild banking house’s political interventions in Austria, Prussia, Belgium, Russia, France, and England through the 19th century, including references to Metternich, Bismarck, Cavour, Disraeli, Karl Rothschild, Lionel Rothschild, Nathan Rothschild, and Salomon Rothschild. Cites Corti I and II as sources.
“Fledermaus” — immer wieder neu (“Die Fledermaus” — Forever New) — Photo feature on the Munich restaging of Johann Strauss’s operetta Die Fledermaus at the Staatsoperettenbühne, Theater am Gärtnerplatz, München, directed by Fritz Fischer (Intendant). Named performers: Johannes Heesters (as Johann Strauss), Karl Valentin (as Frosch, prison guard), Marion and Irma (contortionist act). The overture is staged in a ballet tableau. Photo credits: Merkens, Henkel.
Other Content
Fiction serial — “Drei Mörder treten ein” by Frank Heller (6th instalment). Crime novel set in Mentone (Menton) and a Scandinavian gathering. Characters include Ebb, Trepfa, Arthur Banloo, Martin Banloo, Lütjens, and the Norwegian criminologist Genevièe. The fourth chapter opens; Arthur Banloo is found dead.
Science article — “Vorsicht vor dem ‘Arbeitsknick’!” — Article by the Deutsche Arbeitsfront on the decline of workers’ productivity from age 40–45, attributed primarily to poor dental health, linked to Chlorodont toothpaste.
Ideological article — “Speichwörter aus aller Welt” (Proverbs from All the World) — Collection of Chinese, Turkish, Persian, and German proverbs, compiled by Felix v. Lepel.
Humor column
Cartoon spread
Puzzles
Book advertisement — “Emporung in Thorn” by Arnold Krieger — novel advertised by Zentralverlag der NSDAP, Franz Eher Nachf., München 22. Previously serialised in the IB.
Advertisements — H. Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken (Sorte R6M), Atikah (5 Pf cigarettes), Kosmos Khedive (Kyriazi), Milde Sorte (Österreichische Tabak-Regie; also Dames, Memphis, III. Sorte, Nil), Chlorodont, Nivea Zahnpasta, Rotbart Rasierklingen, Vasenol Wund- u. Brandbinde, Kupferberg Gold (Chr. Adt. Kupferberg & Co., Mainz-Rh.), Tornedo Fahrräder (Fichtel & Sachs A.G., Schweinfurt-M), Peri Fixateur (Dr. Korthaus, Frankfurt a. M.), Darmol, Siemens Elektrizität, Togal (gegen Nerven-Schmerzen), Kosmos Khedive, Rheila, Die Post (Familiensonntagezeitung), Tückmar Weltruf, Das Schwarze Korps (NSDAP political weekly), Heumanns Brajan-Tabletten II, Exakt Füllhalter (L. Lorenz, Dresden), Hess Harmonika (Hohner/Lindberg), Quick mit Lezithin, Sonnal (Nicplata), Volksbeobachter.