Kultur im Heim

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.

Kultur im Heim
June 1978 cover
CategoriesLifestyle magazine
Women's magazine
PublisherVerlag die Wirtschaft
Year founded1956
Final issue1989
CountryGerman Democratic Republic
Based inEast Berlin
LanguageGerman
ISSN0323-4967
OCLC9366612

History and profile

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

References
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. "Kultur im Heim. Catalog". University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
  4. "DDR-Zeitschriften zum Themenfeld Gestaltung". Stiftung Industrie (in German). Retrieved 29 January 2017.
  5. Eli Rubin (Spring 2006). "Plastics and Dictatorship in the German Democratic Republic: Toward an Economic, Consumer, Design, and Cultural History" (PDF). GHI Bulletin (38).
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. "Exhibiting East Germany: Doing Public History at the Wende Museum" (PDF). Loyola Marymount University. May 2013. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
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