Categories | Satirical magazine |
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Frequency | Weekly |
Founder | Wolfgang Bechtle |
Founded | 1946 |
Final issue | 1949 |
Country | Germany |
Based in | Stuttgart |
Language | German |
ISSN | 2626-0409 |
OCLC | 11025805 |
Das Wespennest (German: The Wasp's Nest) was a weekly satirical magazine published in Stuttgart, Germany, in the period 1946–1949. Its subtitle was Politisch-satirische Wochen-Zeitschrift. It was one of the first magazines which were launched shortly after World War II.
Das Wespennest was established by the German writer Wolfgang Bechtle in Stuttgart in 1946.[1] It was published in Stuttgart on a weekly basis.[1][2] Das Wespennest adopted a moderate political stance.[1] Its contributors included Thaddäus Troll and Hans-Frieder Willmann.[3] The circulation of magazine was nearly 35,000 copies per week.[1] It folded in 1949.[1][3]