magnum (magazine)

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magnum - the magazine for modern life

description Culture magazine
Area of ​​Expertise Culture , politics , photography
language German
publishing company M. DuMont Schauberg , Cologne ( A and D )
First edition 1954
attitude 1966
Frequency of publication bi-monthly
Editor-in-chief Karl Pawek
Editor Klotilde Gassner
from No. 6 to No. 17: Karl H. Pawek
from No. 29: Alfred Neven DuMont
ZDB 206332-3

magnum - the magazine for modern life (1954–1966) was one of the most important German-language cultural magazines of the post-war period.

The large-format magazine combined articles by well-known writers , political scientists and artists with reports from important photographers of the time. Reports were made from areas of politics, theater , film , photography and the culture of the 1950s and 60s. The photos had a high art and documentary value. The last issue # 59 appeared in November 1966. In 1960 the single issue cost 3.50  DM .

The editor was Klotilde Gassner ; from No. 6 Karl H. Pawek ; from No. 29: Alfred Neven DuMont . The editor-in-chief was Karel H. Pawek, the chief photographer was Franz Hubmann . Magnum No. 1 was published in Vienna , No. 2–5 in Vienna and Frankfurt am Main , No. 6–12 only in Frankfurt and from No. 13 from 1957–1966 in Cologne by M. DuMont Schauberg .

From the exhibition catalog of the Museum of Modern Art , Vienna 1986: “ In the second half of the 1950s and the early 1960s, magnum was one of the most important German-language cultural magazines. This publication, which first appeared in Vienna, then in Frankfurt am Main and Cologne, received special attention due to the way in which the photographs were used and presented, which were given the same expressiveness as the texts. This differentiated magnum from all other illustrated periodicals of the time. "

Well-known photographers included: Robert Capa , Henri Cartier-Bresson , Lucien Clergue , Andreas Feininger . Some of the most famous writers, sociologists and political scientists are named in the respective edition:

  1. 1954: why modern?
  2. 1954: The young generation
  3. 1954: what next?
  4. 1954: A human race that takes photographs
  5. 1955: The human - model 1955
  6. 1955: The world becomes serene
  7. 1955: centers
  8. 1956: The little people
  9. May 1956: The world at one point - Ernst Schnabel , Hans Zehrer , Siegfried Lenz u. a.
  10. Sep 1956: Where is the beauty today? - Heinrich Böll , Max Bill , Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt u. a.
  11. Dec 1956: The reserves - Sigismund von Radecki , Siegfried Melchinger u. a.
  12. Apr 1957: The society we live in - Jürgen Habermas , Karl Bednarik u. a.
  13. Jul 1957: The theater is on the rise
  14. Sep 1957: The era of leisure has begun - Paul Schallück , Denis de Rougemont u. a.
  15. Dec 1957: How we could live
  16. Feb 1958: The situation of women - Friedrich Heer , Rolf Becker , Alfred Andersch u. a.
  17. Apr 1958: The new look in photography
  18. Jun 1958: Analysis of a world exhibition - Rolf Schroers , Robert Jungk u. a.
  19. Aug 1958: The opposite is also true - Joachim-Ernst Berendt , Joachim Kaiser u. a.
  20. Oct 1958: A lance for the man
  21. Dec 1958: reasons to be optimistic
  22. Feb 1959: Dadaism in our time - Hans Richter , Walter Höllerer , Adolf Portmann a . a.
  23. Apr 1959: The flood of images - Martin Walser , Hans Magnus Enzensberger u. a.
  24. Jun 1959: documenta '59 / Documenta of Art - Documenta of Life
  25. Aug 1959: The adventure of living - Klaus Fischer , Siegfried Melchinger u. a.
  26. Oct 1959: Province or metropolis / Berlin
  27. Dec 1959: Human remains human
  28. Feb 1960: The ballet has to decide - Heimito von Doderer , HC Artmann , Walter Jens , Rolf Becker a. a.
  29. Apr 1960: Have the Germans changed? - Carl Zuckmayer , Erich Kuby , Golo Mann a . a.
  30. Jun 1960: What's next? (Art book)
  31. Aug 1960: taboo
  32. Oct 1960: The realism of our time - Enno Patalas u. a.
  33. Dec 1960: The present of all times - Friedrich Heer, Gerhard Szczesny , Robert Jungk u. a.
  34. Feb 1961: Fact on television - Gustav René Hocke , Peter von Zahn , Thilo Koch u. a.
  35. Apr 1961: The great twenties
  36. Jun 1961: TABU II - Ralf Dahrendorf , Dorothee Sölle , Paul Celan , Hans Arp u. a.
  37. rheft 1961: Where from where - balance sheet of the Federal Republic - Jürgen Habermas, Fabian von Schlabrendorff , Kurt Sontheimer u. a.
  38. Aug 1961: Beloved Kitsch - Harry Pross , Friedrich Luft u. a.
  39. Oct 1961: future without style? - Le Corbusier , Richard Neutra , Hans Scharoun a . a.
  40. Dec 1961: Berlin stays free! the West
  41. Feb 1962: The grandfather - Adolf Portmann, Werner Hofmann u. a.
  42. Apr 1962: Balance sheet Berlin - Sebastian Haffner , Marion Countess Dönhoff , Margret Boveri , Hans Werner Richter u. a.
  43. Jun 1962: Moral images of today
  44. Aug 1962: Vienna
  45. Oct 1962: The East - Dolf Sternberger , Iring Fetscher u. a.
  46. Dec 1962: At the end of Europe - Truman Capote , Paul Wilhelm Wenger u. a.
  47. Feb 1963: Fair - Jean Genet , Heinrich Vormweg u. a.
  48. Apr 1963: Experiments - François Bondy , Ferdinand Kriwet u. a.
  49. Jun 1963: Security is dangerous - Henry A. Kissinger , Hubert Fichte , Theo Sommer u. a.
  50. Aug 1963: eyewitnesses. Three reports - Ludwig Marcuse , Joachim Kaiser, Helmut Heissenbüttel a . a.
  51. Oct 1963: The art market issue 1-50 written for an overview - Alfred Neven DuMont , Kay Lorentz u. a.
  52. Dec 1963: The loner
  53. Feb 1964: The Courted Man
  54. Apr 1964: Authority - Ernst Bloch , Roland H. Wiegenstein , Heinz Ludwig Arnold u. a.
  55. Jun 1964: Our children's teachers - Hermann Kesten , Martin Gregor-Dellin , Hildegard Hamm-Brücher u. a.
  56. Annual magazine 1964: Germany's writers - Gottfried Benn , Helmut Heißenbüttel, Armin Mohler a . a.
  57. Special issue 1965: The Dilemma in the East
  58. Nov 1965: triumph of women
  59. Apr 1966: Catholicism in the Federal Republic
  60. Nov 1966: The lost paradises of the Germans

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  1. ↑ Timm Starl: The other side of the story. Karl Pawek: pupil of priests, founder of magazines, NSDAP candidate, war criminal, psychopath, exhibition organizer, cultural award winner , essay in photo history. Contributions to the history and aesthetics of photography , periodical, issue 87, 2003, Jonas Verlag, page 65 ff. With photo Paweks. Pawek was only able to work officially after moving from Vienna to Frankfurt am Main, as he was not allowed to work as a journalist in Austria as a suspect.

literature

  • Margarethe Szeless: The culture magazine "magnum". Photographic findings of the modern age. Marburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-89445-382-4 .

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