Academy Announcements

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Academy Announcements

description magazine
Area of ​​Expertise art
language German
publishing company State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart (1972–1978)
First edition 1972
attitude 1978
founder Wolfgang Kermer
Frequency of publication initially every six months, annually
Editor-in-chief Wolfgang Kermer
editor Wolfgang Kermer
ISSN (print) 0342-7994

The Akademie-Mitteilungen were the official information organ of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart and were founded in 1972 by Wolfgang Kermer . A total of eight issues appeared up to 1978, covering the reporting period from 1972 to 1977.

Out of the necessity and the conviction that an art college needs contact with society, it needs lively relationships with the population, with politics, with associations, and also with former university members, the Academy-Mitteilungen came into being as part of a student movement that was triggered by the student movement and was still related to university politics virulent time. They reported from the life of the university and wanted to serve open discussion at the same time. In the editorial for the first issue, it was said that they had the task of “giving regional and supraregional reports”, as “some of the things that occasionally led to a recorded image were due to an apparently stagnant flow of information”. Elsewhere it was stated: "This newsletter should report factually and be free from polemics". Together with the contributions to the history of the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart , the Academy-Mitteilungen developed "since 1972 to a mirror of contemporary and historical art events in the country".

The founder, publisher and editor-in-chief was the art historian and then rector of the university, Wolfgang Kermer, from whom the majority of the contributions not specifically named come from.

The first published every six months, initially with financial support from the "Association of Friends of the Academy of Fine Arts e. V. Stuttgart ”, from the sixth edition onwards, covered longer periods of time. With their main sections I organs and teaching staff , II studies , III events in the academy , IV library , V administration , VI general communications , they provided a detailed picture of the personnel, factual and university legal relationships and developments of the university as well as of the exhibition and journalistic Activities of its members and alumni even when the weight of the contributions from external authors increased and the supra-regional orientation intensified. From a total of 12, the volume of the magazine had recently increased to 160 pages, and the illustrations had become more extensive and more colorful. As a document of a period of profound restructuring of the content and organization of an art college with university lecturers such as Albrecht Ade , Gunter Böhmer , Paul Uwe Dreyer , Erwin Heinle , Herbert Hirche , Rudolf Hoflehner , Alfred Hrdlicka , Erich Mansen , Heinz Mohl , Hugo Peters , Jürgen Rose , Rudolf Schoofs , KRH Sonderborg , Hans Gottfried von Stockhausen , Rolf E. Straub , Arno Votteler , Kurt Weidemann , Herta-Maria Witzemann , Leo Wollner , the academy communications are unique within the Baden-Württemberg university landscape of the 1970s and still have none to this day Found parallels more.

In addition to the informational purpose, also intended as an experimental typographic project, the Akademie-Mitteilungen changed their appearance three times, which was already evident in the change in format and in the different variants of the outside titles. The sentence design remained consistently in two columns. Initially, the typographic design was carried out by the Academy's Institute for Book Design, under the direction of Walter Brudi . Horst Wöhrle, teacher for typesetting and until they were hired, worked on the layout up to the fifth edition, whereby, in the course of redesigning all of the university's printed matter to a uniform concept using a consistently used font ( Akzidenz-Grotesk ), he created the booklet No. 4 and 5 gave a new face. From the sixth edition onwards, there was another change in the visual appearance with the design created by Manfred Kröplien as the new head of the Institute for Book Design, already based on the purely typographical cover, on functional structure and consistency of the type area, which made the booklets straightforward and open Readability in mind, received an almost timeless concept.

With reduced funding and rising production costs, the Academy-Mitteilungen with issue 8/1978 were discontinued.

History of publication

  • Academy Communications 1 : For the period from October 1, 1971 to March 31, 1972; April 1972
  • Academy Announcements 2 : For the period from April 1, 1972 to September 30, 1972; October 1972
  • Academy Announcements 3 : For the period from October 1, 1972 to March 1973; April 1973
  • Academy Announcements 4 : For the period from April 1, 1973 to October 31, 1973; November 1973
  • Academy Announcements 5 : For the period from November 1, 1973 to March 31, 1974; April 1974
  • Academy Announcements 6 : For the period from April 1, 1974 to March 31, 1975; May 1975
  • Academy Announcements 7 : For the period from April 1, 1975 to May 31, 1976; August 1976
  • Academy Announcements 8 : For the period from June 1, 1976 to October 31, 1977; March 1978

literature

  • Günther Wirth : Activists at an academy: Stuttgart's art college opens up to the outside world . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , December 1, 1972, p. 37.
  • Ders .: In order: The Stuttgart Art Academy provides information about the last two semesters . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , July 25, 1975, p. 20.
  • Ders .: Reason for optimism: an annual report from the Stuttgart Art Academy . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , November 8, 1976, p. 21.
  • k [arl] d [iemer]: Academy announcements: new phase of profound changes . In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten , November 11, 1976, p. 23.
  • Günther Wirth: Growing bureaucratization: a self-portrayal of the Stuttgart Art Academy . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , June 20, 1978, p. 12.
  • Wolfgang Kermer: Data and images on the history of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart . Edition Cantz, Stuttgart 1988 (= improved reprint from: Die Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart: a self-portrayal . Edition Cantz, Stuttgart 1988), o. P. [14–15]
  • Ders .: Series of publications of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart: Akademie-Mitteilungen 1972–1978; Contributions to the history of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart 1975–2004; Workshop series 1996–2006 . State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, Stuttgart 2008.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ swb.bsz-bw.de Library Service Center Baden-Württemberg, accessed on December 15, 2017
  2. ↑ State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart: I. [First] report of the rector for the period from December 22, 1971 to December 22, 1972: submitted to the Grand Senate by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kermer on February 14, 1973 . State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, undated [1973], p. 47.
  3. ^ The cultural tasks of the art colleges . In: Cultural offers: Contribution of art schools to cultural life in the region, ed. from the Ministry of Science and Art Baden-Württemberg, Karlsruhe 1986 (series of publications "From the World of Science and Art"; 8), p. 11.
  4. ^ Between book art and book design: book designer at the academy and former arts and crafts school in Stuttgart; Work examples and texts . Selected and ed. by Wolfgang Kermer. Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 1996, ISBN 3-89322-893-4 , pp. 165, 185-186, 199, illus. P. 145.
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Kermer: Summary report by the Rector for the period from September 1, 1976 to June 30, 1980 before the Senate of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart on July 8, 1980 . State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1980, p. 55.
  6. ↑ Ders .: Summary report by the Rector for the period from July 1, 1980 to December 31, 1982 before the Senate of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart on January 25, 1983 . State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1983, p. 13.
  7. ^ Ders .: "1968" and the reform of the academy: from the student unrest to the reorganization of the Stuttgart academy in the 1970s . Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 1998 (= contributions to the history of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart , edited by Wolfgang Kermer; 9) ISBN 3-89322-446-7 p. 193, Fig. 76.
  8. ^ Entry in the Baden-Württemberg State Bibliography , accessed on January 12, 2008.