Pioneer Calendar

Pioneer Calendar 1986, in the background a calendar for young pioneers

The pioneer calendar was an annual pocket- size calendar in the German Democratic Republic . The editors were the Central Council of the FDJ , Young Pioneers Department and the central management of the pioneer organization Ernst Thälmann ; the calendar was printed by children's book publisher Berlin . The pioneer calendar was produced from 1959 (1960 edition) to 1989 (1990 edition); the target group were the Thälmann pioneers in the 4th to 7th grade.

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Part of the 235 to 250 page pioneer calendar was the calendar of the respective year, which offered space for your own entries for each day, but also contained the important socialist social and political events. The calendar also contained a great deal of additional information. If they had a political content, these were mostly strongly propagandistic . In addition to the political content, numerous articles on scientific and technical topics were also published in the pioneer calendar, along with historical biographies as well as games, songs and poems.

Calendar for young pioneers

The Calendar for Young Pioneers, which was aimed at the young pioneers in grades 1 to 3, was also published by Kinderbuchverlag Berlin . The calendar for young pioneers comprised around 125 pages and appeared from 1965 (1966 edition) to 1989 (1990 edition).

Web links

Pioneer calendar in the catalog of the German National Library
Calendar for young pioneers in the catalog of the German National Library
Various pioneer calendars in the GDR Museum Berlin
Calendar for Young Pioneers 1985 in the GDR Museum Berlin

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Walter Völkel: Systematic bibliography of newspapers, magazines and books on the political and social development of the SBZ / GDR since 1945 . tape 1 . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1986, ISBN 978-3-322-94336-1 , p. 313 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
^ ^A ^b Klaus-Dieter Stamm: Key words from A to Z on education, youth and society in the GDR 1949-1990 . Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2010, ISBN 978-3-8391-6533-1 , pp. 117 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
↑ (N) ostalgie - pioneer calendar. May 18, 2014, accessed November 4, 2019 .

[bibliographie-1] A ^b Walter Völkel: Systematic bibliography of newspapers, magazines and books on the political and social development of the SBZ / GDR since 1945 . tape 1 . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1986, ISBN 978-3-322-94336-1 , p. 313 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[stichworte-2] A ^b Klaus-Dieter Stamm: Key words from A to Z on education, youth and society in the GDR 1949-1990 . Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2010, ISBN 978-3-8391-6533-1 , pp. 117 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[nostalgie-3] (N) ostalgie - pioneer calendar. May 18, 2014, accessed November 4, 2019 .