Rowing (GDR magazine)

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Rowing

description Trade journal
Area of ​​Expertise rowing
language German
First edition 1954
attitude 1990
Frequency of publication per month
editor German Rowing Sports Association

Rowing was the association magazine of the German Rowing Sports Association (DRSV) in the "German Gymnastics and Sports Association" of the GDR.

description

Your first issue appeared in January 1954. The paper is rooted in the magazine “Wassersport. Journal for Watersports of the German Democratic Republic ”, which was published jointly by the rowing, canoeing, sailing and FDJ sections, was published monthly in Berlin between January 1952 and April 1953 and wrote for all three branches of sport. In 1954 this magazine split up into the three specialty magazines "Der Segelsport" , "Der Kanusport" and the rowing magazine called "Skull und Riemen". In January 1962 the magazine was renamed “Der deutsche Rudersport”, in May 1974 it was renamed “Rowersport der DDR”. From April 1984 until it was discontinued in September 1990 it was only called "rowing".

The subtitle of "Rowing Sports" changed over the years: until December 1961, "Organ of the German Rowing Sports Association in the DTSB", from January 1962 to around December 1967 "Bulletin of the German Rowing Sports Association in the DTSB", from approx January 1968 to around December 1971 "Bulletin of the German Rowing Sports Association of the GDR", from around January 1972 to the last issue of September 1990 "Organ of the German Rowing Sports Association of the GDR".

The counting of the years also shows breaks: if the years were correctly recorded up to 1968 (1968 = 15th year), the year 1969 is numbered “10. Year ", 1970" 11. Year ", 1971 even" 12. (17th) year ", which would incorrectly indicate a first appearance in 1955 or 1960. This counting method continues until the 19th (24th) year 1978 to become the 25th year in 1979. In the following years the changeover at the turn of the year seems to have been neglected: the January issue 1980 also bears the number “25. Vintage ", the error was only corrected in the February edition. From then on, the rest of 1980 and all of 1981 will be the 26th year. 1982 was the 27th year, 1983 and 1984 as the 28th year. In 1985 (29th year) and 1986 (30th year) the year number was changed correctly from January. In the last years of publication, the year count has become more and more unreliable: In 1987, January and February issues are still the 30th year, from March the 31st year. In 1988 the January issue was still the 31st year, the February issue was the 32nd year. In 1989 the January issue was the 33rd volume, the February issue the 31st volume, the March and April issue as the 32nd volume, and May to December again as the 33rd volume. The last year 1990 is called the 34th year (although the magazine has been around for 37 years).

The careless way of counting makes research in libraries more difficult: the year 1987 z. B. is often referred to as “30. [muchm. 31st year ”. Only the years up to 1979 are clear.

The place of publication was Berlin (East). The issues between January 1963 and February 1968 were A5 format, otherwise the magazine stayed with A4 with varying numbers of pages. The number of subscribers never exceeded 2500. Apparently, the response from rowers was not very great, as indicated by multiple complaints from the editors about the lack of mailing of manuscripts.

The responsible editors changed more often. In 1960/61 Adalbert Krüger was the editor in charge, from the end of the 1960s to April 1984 it was Werner Gast, Jürgen Kapsch took over the post between April 1984 and August 1986, and Volkmar Russek held the post from September 1986 until he was hired in September 1990.

In addition to political appeals, the focus of the “Rowersport” reporting was on competition reports and tables. On a small scale there were also reports from touring rowers, primarily from the Elbe, Unstrut and Saale, as well as from the Mecklenburg Lake District and the Brandenburg waterways. In the 1970s and 1980s, cruise reports from the Danube and Tisza (Slovakia / Hungary) as well as from Polish waters were published. The descriptions by G. Blasberg and Manfred Wolff, Dr. Heinz Kinzelmann, Dr. Hans-Peter Kozerski, Wolfgang Kussatz and Heinz Ulbricht formed the basis for many hiking trips by subsequent rowers. A list of important driving reports printed between 1970 and 1984 can be found in “Rudersport” 10/1985, p. 8 f. A comparable bibliography for the trip reports published between 1985 and 1990 was no longer created.

The magazine was last published in September 1990, before the self-dissolution of the DRSV on December 8, 1990 and the accession of the East German rowing clubs and departments to the German Rowing Association on January 1, 1991. The successor was the association magazine of the German Rowing Association "Rowing Sport".

literature

  • Born 1958–1990 at the Berlin City Library and the Sports Science Library at the University of Leipzig
  • A sick child striving for records - touring rowing in the GDR (2011)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Russek, Volkmar: Last thoughts on the bank. In: "Rowing, organ of the German Rowing Sports Association of the GDR", 34th year, issue 9/1990, p. 2
  2. ↑ One answer. In: "Rowing of the GDR, organ of the German Rowing Sports Association of the GDR", 15th (20th) year, issue 8/1974, p. 11
  3. ↑ Russek, Volkmar: Comments on the controversy. In: "Rowing, organ of the German Rowing Sports Association of the GDR", 32nd year, issue 6/1988, p. 10
  4. ↑ Russek, Volkmar: Thoughts on the Bank. In: "Rowing, organ of the German Rowing Sports Association of the GDR", 34th year, issue 5/1990, p. 2
  5. ↑ Ahlgrimm, Horst: thoughts on the bank. In: "Rowing, organ of the German Rowing Sports Association of the GDR", 34th year, issue 8/1990, p. 2
  6. ↑ Russek, Volkmar: Last thoughts on the bank. In: "Rowing, organ of the German Rowing Sports Association of the GDR", 34th year, issue 9/1990, p. 2