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The humourist journal "Der Satyr: lose Blätter aus dem Deutschen Reiche" was published weekly from 1848 until 1849 by the publishing house of Eduard Gustav May (1818–1907) in Frankfurt. Issues 1 to 7 were published in 1848, issues 8 to 12 in 1849; thus one can assume that the journal was published between November 1848 and February 1849. The reasons for terminating the periodical after such a short period of time are unknown.
The title vignette of all issues depicts four figures intertwined with the initial letter "S". According to Estermann the figures are Pan with the flute, a democrat with a so-called "Hecker-hat" (named after the revolutionary Friedrich Karl Franz Hecker) and two reactionary characters, one with a long plait, the other with a jelly bag cap.
Each issue had four mostly illustrated text pages and one or two lithographed caricatures as supplements. For the omnibus edition of the 1848/49 volume an individual title page was designed, depicting the double-headed eagle with the grinning face of a jester visible between its two heads. The jester is holding a quill and a pen in one hand, the eagle's claw is holding a book out of which images tumble.  
Some lithographs are by the engraver Alexander Stix (1819-1893); these are signed "Stix SC". The signatures "W.V." which are found on several illustrations, are attributed by Estermann to Wilhelm Völker (1812-1873); the painter and carricaturist was supposedly based in Frankfurt at the time around 1848/49.
As regards content "Satyr" mainly addressed political events of its time, frequently the national assembly in Paulskirche.