Kultur im Heim
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Categories | Lifestyle magazine Women's magazine |
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Publisher | Verlag die Wirtschaft |
Year founded | 1956 |
Final issue | 1989 |
Country | German Democratic Republic |
Based in | East Berlin |
Language | German |
ISSN | 0323-4967 |
OCLC | 9366612 |
Kultur im Heim (German: Culture at Home) was an East German women's magazine specializing on home decoration and home design. The magazine was published between 1956 and 1989.
History and profile[edit]
Kultur im Heim was started in 1956.[1][2] The magazine was published by Verlag die Wirtschaft in East Berlin.[3][4] Target audience of the magazine was women.[5] The magazine functioned as a mediator between the professional design community and East German consumers.[6]
Kultur im Heim provided its readers with several suggestions about home design and leisure activities.[2][7] It advised them to prefer a simple and functional design at their home.[8] The magazine also featured articles on the new designs of the East German furniture industry and on the modern and functional prefabricated furniture.[9] All articles published in the magazine were based on the findings of the studies by social scientists, philosophers and designers about the relationship between socialism, aesthetics and taste.[6]
The magazine folded in 1989.[9]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Greg Castillo (April 2005). "Domesticating the Cold War: Household Consumption as Propaganda in Marshall Plan Germany". Journal of Contemporary History. 40 (2). doi:10.1177/0022009405051553.
- ^ a b Greg Castillo (2010). Cold War on the Home Front: The Soft Power of Midcentury Design. Minneapolis, MI; London: U of Minnesota Press. p. 180. ISBN 978-0-8166-4691-3.
- ^ "Kultur im Heim. Catalog". University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
- ^ "DDR-Zeitschriften zum Themenfeld Gestaltung". Stiftung Industrie (in German). Retrieved 29 January 2017.
- ^ Eli Rubin (Spring 2006). "Plastics and Dictatorship in the German Democratic Republic: Toward an Economic, Consumer, Design, and Cultural History" (PDF). GHI Bulletin (38).
- ^ a b Natalie Scholz; Milena Veenis (2012). "Cold War Modernism and Post-War German Homes. An East-West Comparison". In Peter Romijn; et al. (eds.). Divided Dreamworlds?. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. ISBN 9789048516704.
- ^ Eli Rubin (2009). Synthetic Socialism: Plastics and Dictatorship in the German Democratic Republic. Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press. p. 365. ISBN 978-1-4696-0677-4.
- ^ Milena Veelis (March 1999). "Consumption in East Germany. The Seduction and Betrayal of Things". Journal of Material Culture. 4 (1): 92. doi:10.1177/135918359900400105.
- ^ a b "Exhibiting East Germany: Doing Public History at the Wende Museum" (PDF). Loyola Marymount University. May 2013. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
External links[edit]
Media related to Kultur im Heim at Wikimedia Commons
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