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Grönköpings Veckoblad

Satirical magazine in Sweden

*Grönköpings Veckoblad*
Editor Seth Bremberg reading the magazine
Categories	Satirical magazine
Frequency	Monthly
Founder	Hasse Zetterström
Founded	1902
Country	Sweden
Based in	Stockholm
Language	Swedish
ISSN	0017-4548
OCLC	497440061

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. As of 2008 the editor in chief of the magazine was 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."

References

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