Fashionable mesh

Modische Maschen was a knitting magazine published in the GDR .

The magazine was published by the publishing house for women . The first edition was published in 1963. There were four issues in one year, the spring issue, the summer issue, the autumn issue and the winter issue.

The "fashionable meshes" cost 2.60 marks and were sold in the GDR and the Eastern Bloc.

The magazine only showed photos of the “fashionable stitches” and the associated knitting instructions. Since fashionable clothes were not so easy to get in the GDR, the magazine was very popular.

The magazine's photographer was Günter Rössler , who had also designed the magazine's layout for many years. The models mainly worked part-time for “Modische Maschen”. Models for the "fashionable meshes" were u. a. Eva Mahn, Kirsten Schlegel and Anja Kossiwakis. In 1989 the magazine had a circulation of 624,000 copies.

The Gong publishing house in 1991 took over the publishing house for women and thus also the “Modischen Maschen”. The magazine was relaunched , got a smaller format and was expanded to include sections with beauty tips, recipes, health topics and advice pages on financial, legal and professional issues. The magazine was now published monthly. Initially, the distribution area was limited to the new federal states ; only later was the magazine sold in the western federal states.

The circulation sank to 110,000 copies in 1991. In 1992 the “Modische Maschen” and the magazine “Handarbeit”, which was also published by the publishing house for women, were merged; The new name was from September 1993 "Die Kreative". This magazine has also been discontinued.

literature

Jasmin Wiedemann: Captured, sold: on the situation of East German women's magazines . Pp. 137-139 digital copy