Kultur im Heim
 June 1978 cover | |
| Categories |
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|---|---|
| Publisher | Verlag die Wirtschaft |
| 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] It was first appeared as a supplement to an interior design magazine Möbel und Wohnraum, but then became an independent publication.[3] Its foundation was an indicator of the change in the East Germany's cultural policy.[4] Because in the early days of the state housing architecture and city planning were emphasized as the preferred sites of socialist cultural identity.[4] However, from the mid-1950s its cultural policy became focused on commodities and domestic spaces.[4]
Kultur im Heim was published by Verlag die Wirtschaft in East Berlin.[5][6] Target audience of the magazine was women.[7] The magazine functioned as a mediator between the professional design community and East German consumers.[8]
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.[9] The magazine also featured articles on the new designs of the East German furniture industry and on the modern and functional prefabricated furniture.[10] 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.[8]
The magazine folded in 1989.[10]
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): 261–288. doi:10.1177/0022009405051553. S2CID 159585852.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Curtis Swope (2017). Building Socialism: Architecture and Urbanism in East German Literature, 1955-1973. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 112. ISBN 978-1-5013-2813-8.
- ^ a b c Paul Betts (2000). "The Twilight of the Idols: East German Memory and Material Culture". The Journal of Modern History. 72 (3): 758. doi:10.1086/316046. S2CID 144800205.
- ^ "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.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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. S2CID 145425303.
- ^ a b "Exhibiting East Germany: Doing Public History at the Wende Museum" (PDF). Loyola Marymount University. May 2013. Retrieved 19 May 2015.