1998
TITANIC – The final satire magazine

It has been rumored that Germans have no sense of humor. Of course, this is not true. There is a great and strong tradition of political cabaret and satire that stand even the test of darkest times in German history.

Three months after the opening of the Goethe-Institut, the editorial staff of Titanic, the most important German satirical magazine of the reunified Germany, visited Hanoi.

The magazine is still published monthly by Titanic-Verlag in Berlin, and the editorial team is based in Frankfurt am Main. An essential part of Titanic is caricatures, humorous drawings, and comics. An essential part of Titanic is caricatures, humorous drawings, and comics. Authors were Robert Gernhardt, F.K. Waechter, Hans Traxler, Chlodwig Poth, and F.W. Bernstein, i.e. the representatives of the “Neue Frankfurter Schule”, but also artists such as Wolfgang Herrndorf, Manfred Deix, Gary Larson, John Callahan, Ernst Kahl, and Rattelschneck. The Goethe-Institut exhibited this side of German humor and German art of drawing for the first time in Hanoi.