Kultur im Heim

Kultur im Heim
Categories Lifestyle magazine
Women's magazine
Publisher Verlag die Wirtschaft
Year founded 1956
Final issue 1989
Country German Democratic Republic
Based in East Berlin
Language German
ISSN 0323-4967
OCLC number 9366612

Kultur im Heim (meaning Culture at Home in English) was a East German women's magazine specializing on home decoration and home design. The magazine was published between 1956 and 1989.

History and profile

Kultur im Heim was started in 1956.[1][2] The magazine was published by Verlag die Wirtschaft in East Berlin.[3] Target audience of the magazine was women.[4] The magazine functioned as a mediator between the professional design community and East German consumers.[5]

Kultur im Heim provided its readers with several suggestions about home design and leisure activities.[2][6] It also featured articles on the new designs of the East German furniture industry and on the modern and functional prefabricated furniture.[7] 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.[5]

The magazine folded in 1989.[7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Greg Castillo (April 2005). "Domesticating the Cold War: Household Consumption as Propaganda in Marshall Plan Germany" (PDF). Journal of Contemporary History. 40 (2). Retrieved 19 May 2015.
  2. 1 2 Greg Castillo (2010). Cold War on the Home Front: The Soft Power of Midcentury Design. U of Minnesota Press. p. 180. ISBN 978-0-8166-4691-3. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
  3. ↑ "Kultur im Heim. Catalog". University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
  4. ↑ Eli Rubin (Spring 2006). "Plastics and Dictatorship in the German Democratic Republic: Toward an Economic, Consumer, Design, and Cultural History" (PDF). GHI Bulletin (38). Retrieved 19 May 2015.
  5. 1 2 Natalie Scholz; Milena Veenis (2012). "Cold War Modernism and Post-War German Homes. An East-West Comparison". In Peter Romijn et. al. Divided Dreamworlds?. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. ISBN 978 90 4851 670 4. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
  6. ↑ Eli Rubin (1 January 2009). Synthetic Socialism: Plastics and Dictatorship in the German Democratic Republic. UNC Press Books. p. 365. ISBN 978-1-4696-0677-4. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
  7. 1 2 "Exhibiting East Germany: Doing Public History at the Wende Museum" (PDF). Loyola Marymount University. May 2013. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
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