Form und Zweck
Editor-in-chief | Günter Höhne |
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Former editors | Hein Köste |
Categories | Design magazine Lifestyle magazine |
Publisher | Institute for Applied Art |
Year founded | 1956 |
Final issue | 2008 |
Country | German Democratic Republic |
Based in | East Berlin |
Language | German |
Form und Zweck (meaning Form and Purpose in English) was an East German magazine which featured articles on design. The magazine was official journal of the German Democratic Republic.[1] It existed between 1956 and 2008.
History and profile[]
Started in 1956, [2] Form und Zweck was published by the Institute for Applied Art.[3] The headquarters of the magazine was in East Berlin.[3] Its target audience was professional designers and those who were interested in design.[2]
Form und Zweck covered articles on design-related topics.[1] It reflected official preference of the state over the development of form and design in the country.[2] For instance, the magazine reinforced the use of plastic goods in line with the policies of the state.[4]
One of the editors-in-chief of Form und Zweck was Hein Köster, who was fired from the post in 1983 following his article about a fictitious museum in Prenzlauerberg.[5] Günter Höhne was the last editor-in-chief of the magazine.[6][7]
Form und Zweck ceased publication in 2008.[8]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ a b Michèle-Anne Dauppe (Winter 1991). "After the wall". Eye Magazine.
- ^ a b c Peter Romijn; Giles Scott-Smith; Joes Segal (2012). Divided Dreamworlds?: The Cultural Cold War in East and West. Amsterdam University Press. p. 166. ISBN 978-90-8964-436-7.
- ^ a b Karin Zachmann (January 2002). "A Socialist Consumption Junction: Debating the Mechanization of Housework in East Germany, 1956-1957". Technology and Culture. 43 (1). doi:10.1353/tech.2002.0047. JSTOR 25147855.
- ^ Aniruddha Gupte (2019). "Synthesizing Solutions: An Exploration of the Modern Relevance of Socialist Design Principles through the Medium of Plastics" (PDF). Popular Inquiry. 1. ISSN 2489-6748.
- ^ Andreas Ong; et al. (January 2000). "Meetingplace: Kulturbrauerei" (PDF). Kulturverkstan.
- ^ Jana Scholze (2011). "Shifting Narratives of Things: The East/West German Garden Egg Chair". Socialist Architecture. ISSN 1048-9134.
- ^ "Art Calendar". Goethe Institut. June 2014. Retrieved 30 May 2015.
- ^ "Gesamtinhaltsverzeichnis" (PDF). Form und Zweck Archive. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
- 1956 establishments in East Germany
- 2008 disestablishments in Germany
- Defunct magazines published in Germany
- Design magazines
- East German mass media
- German-language magazines
- Lifestyle magazines
- Magazines established in 1956
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- Magazines published in Berlin
- Socialist magazines