The Balkan war in caricature and verse

Abstract

From 1912-1914, the Slovene public showed great interest in and followed closely the wartime events in the Balkans. Extensive reports on the First and Second Balkan Wars and on the founding of the independent state of Albania were published by all of the Slovenian newspapers and magazines in circulation at the time. The radical daily Dan (1912-1914) was the only daily in Slovenia which, similar to several other European satirical papers and daily newspapers, published a series of caricatures on the theme of the Balkan wars. These caricatures made up a large percentage of all the caricatures published in the Dan during this time and were published along with a number of satirical poems by the editorial board of the Dan in April 1913 in a special issue entitled: »The Balkan War in Caricature and Versen. In 1914, the same newspaper also devoted a great deal of attention to the changes taking place in Albania in its satirical supplement entitled Bodeča neža (The Thistle). The caricatures in the Dan and the Bodeča nexa were drawn by Maksim Gaspari, France Podrekar, Janko Omahen, Vladimir Gärtner, Lojze Dolinar and others.