Grönköpings Veckoblad

Grönköpings Veckoblad is a Swedish satirical monthly magazine. The name translates as "The Grönköping Weekly", or "The Greenville Weekly", Grönköping being a fictional Swedish town.[1] The name Grönköping predates the magazine; it was first used by Albert Engström as a headline for some of his drawings in 1895.[2]

History and profile

Founded in 1902[1] by Hasse Zetterström as a supplement to Söndags-Nisse, it became an independent magazine in 1916. The editor in chief of the magazine is Ulf Schöldström.[3] The magazine is based in Stockholm.[4]

The parody language Transpiranto, a caricature of Esperanto, was introduced in a 1929 article by Nils Hasselskog, "World language in Grönköping's school" ("Världsspråk i Grönköpings skola").[5]

Grönköping has been characterized as a Sweden in miniature. Using bombastic and anachronistic language while purporting to describe and analyse current events in a serious manner, Grönköpings Veckoblad has become a Swedish institution and a standard for what is considered good satire.[6]

The declared editorial stance is that they: "always agree with the government, especially when they are wrong."

gollark: What does the synchotron synchinate?
gollark: .
gollark: Well, not specifically *in zips*, but some don't allow redistribution
gollark: != is not equals.
gollark: Being in packs != being in zips or whatever.

References
  1. Salvatore Attardo (18 March 2014). Encyclopedia of Humor Studies. SAGE Publications. p. 473. ISBN 978-1-4833-4617-5. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
  2. Martin Kylhammar; Göran B. Nilsson (1997). Det klassiska Grönköping: Idyller och paniker (1st ed.). Stockholm: Fischer & Co. p. 9. ISBN 91-7054-835-8.
  3. TTSpektra (8 September 2008). "Ny chef för Grönköpings Veckoblad". Östgöta Correspondenten. Archived from the original on 7 August 2011. Retrieved 22 February 2009.
  4. "Grönköpings Veckoblad". Sveriges Kulturtidskrifter. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  5. Gunilla Byrman (20 October 1997). "Europanto eller svenska?". HumaNetten. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
  6. Martin Åberg (2006). Politikern i svensk satir 1950-2000:Från folkhemspamp till välfärdsmanager (1st ed.). Lund: Nordic Academic Press. pp. 57–58. ISBN 91-89116-83-6.
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