form + purpose
form + Zweck was the only "trade magazine for industrial design " in the GDR . First published in 1956 as a sample book in the tradition of the Deutscher Werkbund by the Ministry of Culture of the GDR, in the early 1970s the editor changed to the Office for Industrial Design (AiF) in East Berlin under State Secretary Martin Kelm . In terms of content, the magazine published and reflected on articles on industrial design, research and design projects at the design colleges, work on design and architecture theory, and articles on the development of design abroad, supported by an editorial team. The magazine appeared six times a year at the end of the 1980s with a print run of 3,000 copies (500 per issue); more were not possible due to limited printing capacities. With the dissolution of the AiF in 1990, Angelika and Jörg Petruschat continued form + Zweck until 2008 at form + Zweck-Verlag, Berlin.
Editors-in-chief
- Hanna Schönherr (1956–1973)
- Heinz Hirdina (1973–1979)
- Hein Köster (1979–1984) deposed, previously specialist editor
- Günter Höhne (1984–1989)
- Annette Musiolek (September 1, 1989-)
Editorial Board
Fred Staufenbiel, Clauss Dietel , Bruno Flierl , Dietrich Mühlberg , Gerhart Müller, Horst Oehlke, Günter Reissmann, Wolfgang Schmidt, Manfred Queißer , Joachim Reichow, Jochen Ziska
literature
- Jörg Petruschat: QUER, in: Between mosaic and unity. Magazines in the GDR , Christoph Links Verlag, Berlin, 1999
- Authority data of the journal in the DNB
Web links
- Complete table of contents 1956–2008
- Years 1956–1990 Saxon State Library - State and University Library Dresden
Individual evidence
- ↑ Digital Archive 1956-90 accessed Jörg Peter Chat on formundzweck.de, October 10, 2015