Nature and home
Natur und Heimat was a monthly popular science magazine in the GDR.
Nature and Homeland was founded in April 1952 by Karl Kneschke on behalf of the Kulturbund of the GDR and in October 1962 it was combined with the magazine " Wissen und Leben ".
Editor in chief was Reimar Gilsenbach , the editorial board included, among others Heinrich Dathe , Paul Grimm , Hans Nadler , Hans Schlüter , Liesel Noack , Heinz Knorr , Rudolph Strauss , Gerhard Creutz , Erwin Stresemann , Hugo Weinitschke , Fritz Wernicke , Kurt Gentz , and Hans Havemann at . The editorial office was in Berlin, the printing took place in the printing house of the Sächsische Zeitung in Dresden.
The contents of the magazine were local history, prehistory and early history, history, economic and cultural history, monument preservation, museums, folklore, poetry, literature and art, landscape, settlement and industry, national culture and nature conservation, geology, mineralogy, zoology, ornithology, botany as well Meteorology, Climatology and Ethnology. The magazine also contained book reviews and prints of poems and excerpts from prose works.