Pressa

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The Pressa was a five-month international press exhibition in Cologne in 1928.

meaning

The preparations had been under the direction of a Reich Commissioner , the liberal politician and former Reich Interior Minister Wilhelm Külz since March 1927 . The Pressa was opened on May 12, 1928 and was intended to take account of the growing cultural and economic importance of the newspaper industry and communication technology . The inconsistent exhibition buildings, which had only existed for four years at that time, were framed by a perimeter development with a tower according to the drafts of the architect Adolf Abel and expanded with the so-called "State House" in which the 450 foreign exhibitors presented their exhibits. The painter and sculptor Burga von Wecus took over the management of the Pressa's model design department. A total of 1,500 exhibitors from 43 countries took part in the Pressa. Following the grand opening event, attended by members of the government and 200 foreign diplomats, the fair attracted five million visitors from all over the world. In addition to around 300 specialist events, the first international newspaper science congress took place in August 1928. The ADAC organized a destination trip to Cologne and issued a badge. The presentation of the Kösener Seniors Convents Association by Carl Manfred Frommel was extremely successful .

The Pressa revitalized Cologne's economy and was thus also a success for the mayor at the time, Konrad Adenauer , who played a key role in driving Cologne's development into an exhibition and trade fair location.

literature

  • Peter Fuchs : Pressa Cologne. Thirty years in retrospect at the 1st International Press Exhibition in Cologne in 1928 . Cologne-Merheim: Self-published 1958 DNB
  • Hans-Georg Klose: Press exhibition and newspaper studies. The Kölner Pressa 1928 in the field of tension between political representation and academic institutionalization . In: Rüdiger vom Bruch and Otto B. Roegele (eds.): From newspaper studies to journalism. Biographical and institutional stages in German newspaper studies in the first half of the 20th century. Frankfurt am Main: Haag + Herchen Verlag 1986, pp. 197-233. ISBN 3-89228-039-8 .
  • Eckart Roloff : The press - a large medium does not have a trade fair. Looking back on the Cologne Press of 1928 , in: Die Schwarze und die Weiße Kunst, No. 181, December 2013, pp. 15–20.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The numerous artists who worked here together were surprisingly led by a woman: Burga von Wecus, the head of the Pressa's model-making department. In the article "The decorative yield of the Pressa", German Art and Decoration, 1928 , p. 350 ( ub.uni-heidelberg.de )
  2. ^ Robert Paschke: Carl Manfred Frommel . Once and Now, Yearbook of the Association for Corporate Student History Research, Vol. 1 (1956), pp. 109–112.