Musik und Gesellschaft

Musik und Gesellschaft was a music magazine in the German Democratic Republic. It was published monthly from 1951 to 1990 in East Berlin by  [de].

History[]

The journal was published from the first issue in March 1951 onwards by Ernst Hermann Meyer and the  [de].^[1] In 1954 the editorship changed to the  [de], of which it simultaneously became the official organ of communication.^[2] The music magazine regularly awarded a recording prize.^[3]

Chief editors[]

• 1951–1952 Karl Laux
• 1952–1959 Eberhard Rebling.^[4]
• 1959–1960 Horst Seeger.^[5]
• 1960–1973 Hansjürgen Schaefer
• 1973–1990 Liesel Markowski

Literature[]

• Bettina Hinterthür: Noten nach Plan. Die Musikverlage in der SBZ, DDR – Zensursystem, zentrale Planwirtschaft und deutsch-deutsche Beziehungen bis Anfang der 1960er Jahre.^[6] Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-515-08837-7.

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