Jochen Ziska

Jochen Ziska (born October 24, 1941 in Stettin ) is a German designer , university professor and former rector of the University of Industrial Design Halle, Burg Giebichenstein (HiF) .

Life

Jochen Ziska studied after high school in Eisenach and apprenticeship as offset printer in Gotha from 1963 to 1968 product design at the college for industrial design in Halle, Burg Giebichenstein (HiF) . From 1968 he designed, often together with Klaus Ebermann , for the VEB Rundfunk- u. Television technology (RFT) numerous well-known electronic products of the GDR. In 1970 Ziska became head of the central design office of RFT in Leipzig . He started teaching in 1978 with an honorary professorship at HiF Halle - Burg Giebichenstein. After senior assistant and head of the product design department, he headed HiF as rector from 1987 to 1989. The products designed by Jochen Ziska follow a minimalist, production-oriented design in the tradition of the Ulm University of Design (e.g. Dieter Rams for BRAUN ).

In the 1980s Jochen Ziska was a member of the editorial board of the trade journal for industrial design form + Zweck , since 1983 a member of the central board of the VBK and an unofficial employee of the Ministry for State Security of the GDR . - Code name "Jan" (MfS AIM 2314/91)

Jochen Ziska lives and works in Bennewitz near Leipzig.

Products (selection)

• Hedge trimmer, student thesis, 1966
• Hi-fi system, with Ernst Merker and Günter Mönicke, for VEB Funkwerk Zwickau, 1974
• Portable television Combi-Vision 310, with Klaus Ebermann, for VEB Robotron-Elektronik Radeberg, 1975
• Headphones, for VEB Funktechnik Leipzig, 1977
• Disabled vehicle, with Eberhardt Scharnowski , own order / VBK DDR, 1986/1987

Exhibitions (selection)

• Industrial design, product design, graphic design Professor Jochen Ziska. Location initiative Wurzen e. V., Wurzen , November 17 to December 10, 2015.

Publications

• with Paul Jung : Industrial design 2. H. Lohmann, Egeln 1983.
• Comments on the requirements and future development of the University for Industrial Design Halle - Burg Giebichenstein. In: HiF-Design: Announcements from the University for Industrial Design Halle Burg Giebichenstein. HiF, Halle 1989.
• Screen and keyboard. form + Zweck , Volume 17, No. 4, AiF, Berlin (East) 1985.

literature

• Beatrice Vierneisel:  Ziska, Jochen . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

• Haig Latchinian : Only real with holes in the wood: The secret father of the Stern Recorder - What do the poems by Joachim Ringelnatz, the seat covers of the Sydney buses and the good old Stern Recorder have in common? In all three cases, Professor Jochen Ziska from Bennewitz is involved. As an industrial designer, he designed a number of televisions and radios during the GDR era. In retirement, the 78-year-old lives out his artistic streak. Leipziger Volkszeitung , online portal, accessed on June 14, 2020
• Dresden, GDR art exhibition, guests of honor. Photo Jochen Ziskas with Erich Honecker and Clauss Dietel . German Federal Archives , ADN-ZB, Mittelstädt, October 3, 1987, accessed May 27, 2020
• History of the Burg Giebichenstein Art College in Halle , accessed on their website on May 27, 2020.
• Homepage "Ziskadesign"
• Jochen Ziska co-signed Declaration of VBK , from: Saxon newspaper ., No. 247, October 20, 1989, accessed on May 27, 2020.
• Jochen Ziska in contributions to Neues Deutschland , 1977–1988

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kultur-hoch3, short biography of Prof. Jochen Ziska , accessed on October 28, 2015.
2. ↑ DISPLAY. TELEVISION DEVICES, DIE NEUE SAMMLUNG, Munich , accessed on October 27, 2015.
3. ↑ form + Zweck: Imprint: Redaktionskollegium , 1980/1, p. 3, Aif, Berlin (GDR), accessed October 31, 2015.
4. ↑ Freedom: Pronunciation showed that our artists were in agreement with politics and the party . Ed .: SED district management in Halle. Halle / Saale November 18, 1983, p. 3 .
5. ↑ Hannelore Offner, Klaus Schroeder: Restricted - excluded. Fine arts and party rule in the GDR 1961 - 1989 . Ed .: Hannelore Offner, Klaus Schroeder. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2000.
6. ↑ Udo Scheer: On the Path of “Socialist Realism” - Fine Arts in the SED Corset: An anthology on the cultural policy of the GDR 1961–1989 . Ed .: Frankfurter Rundschau . Frankfurter Rundschau, Frankfurt / Main January 18, 2001, p. 22 .
7. ^ Hannelore Offner: Research inventory Hannelore Offner. In: Excerpt from the finding aid for the holdings of personal archive holdings (3). Robert Havemann Society Berlin 2013, 2013, accessed on February 17, 2018 . 
8. ^ Exhibition on product design in the GDR. In: Der Tagesspiegel from May 13, 2011.
9. ↑ 1976: The portable radio and b / w television receiver "Combi-Vision 310", designed by Klaus Ebermann and Jochen Ziska, goes on sale. form gestaltung in the gdr , accessed on May 27, 2020.
10. ↑ Saxony-Anhalt research portal . Retrieved February 18, 2018 . 
11. ↑ Disabled vehicle : products at the Xth art exhibition of the GDR
12. ↑ Great response from the Jochen Ziska exhibition ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 5, 2015.