Der Stern (magazine, 1938/39)

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STERN logo in issue no.16 from April 1939

Der Stern was a magazine published in National Socialist Germany in 1938 and 1939 . The weekly magazine published by Deutscher Verlag , Berlin, dealt primarily with film, women and glamor and operated ostensibly non-political Nazi propaganda . According to its own information, it had a circulation of 750,000 copies in 1939.

history

The magazine edited by Kurt Zentner appeared from September 1938 to December 1939 by Deutsches Verlag, Berlin. The German publishing house emerged from the Ullstein publishing house in 1934 after its owner, the Ullstein family, had been expropriated. Significant on the publishing side was the director of the magazine department and authorized signatory of the company Carl Jödicke , who appointed the previous picture editor and head of the service of the Berliner Illustrierte Kurt Zentner as editor-in-chief. In the April 1939 edition, “ Hauptschriftleiter Dr. Kurt Zentner (out of town); Representative: Dr. Hans Karbe ”as responsible.

The notebooks were ostensibly apolitical. Only issue No. 16 from April 1939 showed Adolf Hitler on the front page on the occasion of his 50th birthday, surrounded by three women in evening dresses, with the caption: "The leader among artists."

The letter to the editor was called “post restante” and provided more information about the interests of the readership and the sentiments of the editorial team.

The topics of the issues are the film genre, its stars and beautiful women. Regardless of its commercial success, the magazine was replaced at the end of 1939 under pressure from Nazi press chief Max Amann , who wanted direct war propaganda instead of predominantly integration propaganda through pure identification with the supposedly beautiful sides of National Socialism. He got into conflict with Jödicke and Zentner and was able to get the star replaced by the soldiers' magazine Erika .

Relationship to the post-war "star"

There are connections between the star from 1938/39 and the magazine with a similar name founded in 1948, although the new star nowhere goes into this part of its own history. The logo of the old magazine shows a seven-pointed star in colors that change from issue to issue, while the logo of the post-war magazine stern has a six-pointed white star on a red background. The themes of both publications are similar, right down to the design of the front pages with high-quality photographs of female models.

The publisher and founder of the post-war star Henri Nannen did not want to know anything about the pre-war publication of the same name. According to an article by the historian Nils Minkmar in Die Zeit , however, Nannen's biographer Hermann Schreiber thinks it is “highly probable” that Nannen knew the publication that was published ten years earlier, especially since the editor of the old star, Kurt Zentner, spent six months Long in the new star Henri Nannens was deputy. This relationship is further elaborated in Tim Tolsdorff's recent relevant study. When the new Stern was founded, the former manager of the German publishing house, Carl Jödicke, was at Nannen's side with expertise in trademark law, which was supposed to protect Nannen from claims for damages by the Ullstein family.

The two editors-in-chief of the old and new Stern - Zentner and Nannen - belonged to the propaganda company as war correspondents during the Second World War . Nannen belonged to the Südstern unit of the SS standard Kurt Eggers . Minkmar emphasizes that the entire presentation of Zentner's star is “that of the post-war star , at least in its phase from the end of the war to the mid-sixties”. For the historian Habbo Knoch , “this first star already demonstrated the mix of style and culture, stars and sex”.

literature

  • Nils Minkmar : The double lucky bag. How Henri Nannen invented the "star" . In: Lutz Hachmeister / Friedemann Siering: The gentlemen journalists. The elite of the German press after 1945 . CH Beck, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-406-47597-3 , pp. 185-195.
  • Tim Tolsdorff: From the shooting star to the fixed star. Two German magazines and their common history before and after 1945 . Herbert von Halem Verlag, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-86962-097-8 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tim Tolsdorff: From the shooting star to the fixed star. Two German magazines and their common history before and after 1945 . Herbert von Halem Verlag, Cologne 2014, pp. 210–213.
  2. ↑ In issue no. 29 from mid-July 1939, Der Stern u. a. submitted this reader question about marrying foreigners - and gave a National Socialist-compliant answer: “LD, Braunschweig: I would be very grateful to the 'Stern' if I could ever find out whether it is possible for a German to marry an Italian. I recently heard that marriage to foreigners is prohibited in Italy. In this case, we Germans are also considered foreigners. ”The editorial team replied:“ Italy has similar racial protection laws to Germany. A marriage between Italians and Germans is by no means made impossible, since the mutual legislation primarily pursues the goal of preventing a mixture of Aryan and Jewish blood. After completing certain formalities, it is possible for nationals of the two states to marry each other if one of the two partners is not a non-Aryan within the meaning of the statutory provisions. "
  3. ↑ Details from some magazines from 1939
  4. ↑ Tim Tolsdorff: From the shooting star to the fixed star. Two German magazines and their common history before and after 1945 . Herbert von Halem Verlag, Cologne 2014, p. 213f. u. P. 518.
  5. ↑ The article was the core of a scientific book by Minkmar published in 2002. See: literature
  6. ↑ Die Zeit, Star in the Star's Shadow , 17/2000; Nils Minkmar: The double lucky bag. How Henri Nannen invented the "star" . In: Lutz Hachmeister / Friedemann Siering: The gentlemen journalists. The elite of the German press after 1945 . CH Beck, Munich 2002, pp. 185–195, here p. 192 ff.
  7. ↑ Minkmar p. 194f; Karl Ude: a historian of the moment. Dr. Kurt Zentner turns 65. Our century in documentary illustrated books . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , January 26, 1968
  8. ↑ Tim Tolsdorff: From the shooting star to the fixed star. Two German magazines and their common history before and after 1945 . Herbert von Halem Verlag, Cologne 2014, pp. 242–245 u. P. 254; furthermore Tim Tolsdorff: The brown roots of the "Stern" . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , December 19, 2013.
  9. ↑ Minkmar, p. 187
  10. ↑ Habbo Knoch: The Long Duration of Propaganda. Popular war representation in the early Federal Republic . In: Wolfgang Hardtwig and Erhard Schütz (Hrsg.): History for readers. Popular historiography in Germany in the 20th century . Steiner, Stuttgart 2005, pp. 205-226, here p. 213. ISBN 978-3-515-08755-1 .