Sibylle (magazine)

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Sibylle

Area of ​​Expertise Women's magazine in the GDR
language German
publishing company Publishing house for women
First edition 1956
attitude 1995
Frequency of publication bi-monthly
Sold edition 200,000 copies
Editor-in-chief Susanne Stein (1993–1995)
Editor Sibylle Gerstner

Sibylle , "magazine for fashion and culture", was a women's magazine in the GDR , published by the Berlin Fashion Institute. The founder and namesake was Sibylle Gerstner . The editors-in-chief were Margot Pfannstiel from 1958 to 1968 and Yvonne-Ruth Freyer from 1968 to 1983 . From 1956 onwards it appeared six times a year with a print run of only 200,000 copies in the publishing house for Frau Leipzig, was regularly out of print and was considered to be East Vogue . In addition to sophisticated fashion photos by Arno Fischer , Roger Melis , Günter Rössler , Ute Mahler , Sibylle Bergemann , Sven Marquardt , Elisabeth Meinke and others. a. Appealing editorial contributions were also her trademark. The advice sections typical for women’s magazines were deliberately omitted. Long-time fashion editor was Dorothea Bertram (later married to the photographer Roger Melis). The fashion shown had little in common with real socialist reality.

In 1962 the Café Sibylle in Berlin's Karl-Marx-Allee was named after the magazine. The café existed until the end of March 2018 and then had to be temporarily closed. In August 2018, the non-profit puk a malta gGmbH signed the lease for the Café Sibylle, so that it reopened in November 2018.

The other high-circulation GDR women's magazine was the more down-to-earth weekly illustrated Für Dich (previous title: Die Frau von heute , 1946–1962) from the Berlin publishing house from 1963 onwards .

In 1994 the Sibylle editors Susanne Stein, Regina Conradt and Erika Büttner tried to save the magazine, which had been battered by reunification. For a short time after 1990 the magazine belonged to Gong-Verlag . At the beginning of 1995 their self-publishing had to be finally stopped for financial reasons. Yvonne Killmer was editor-in-chief for many years . The last editor-in-chief was Susanne Stein , the last art director André Rival . In retrospect, Stein regretted that it had not been possible to maintain the Sibylle with its sophisticated aesthetics, if not as a general-interest magazine, then at least as a niche product.

literature

  • Sibylle. The magazine for fashion and culture . 1995,2, Berlin: Sibylle-Verlag, ISSN  0037-4482 . Formerly in the publishing house Die Wirtschaft, Berlin, then in the publishing house for the woman, Leipzig. With the number 2/1995 the publication was stopped.
  • Dorothea Melis (Ed.): Sibylle. Fashion photography from three decades of the GDR. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag , Berlin 1998.
  • Dorothea Melis (Ed.): Sibylle. Fashion photographs 1962–1994. Lehmstedt, Leipzig 2010.
  • Ute Mathler (Ed.): Sibylle. Magazine for fashion and culture. 1956-1995. Hartmann Projects Verlag, Stuttgart 2017.

documentary

  • Don't dream, Sibylle . Germany 2001.

Exhibitions

  • The Kunsthalle Rostock showed an exhibition about the magazine from December 18, 2016 to April 17, 2017.
  • The exhibition SIBYLLE - The Photographers was on view at the Art and Culture Foundation Opelvillen Rüsselsheim from August 30 to November 26, 2016 . The importance of the magazine Sibylle for the development of photography and an artistic visual language in East Germany was examined for the first time .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A review of 2010 - "Sibylle over Sibylle" . Website of the journalist Alfred Eichhorn . Retrieved April 30, 2012.
  2. ↑ Swedish ice cream sundae and Stalin's mustache ( memento of the original from October 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.friedrichshainer-chronik.de
  3. ^ GDR past in Berlin: Danger for Café Sibylle on Karl-Marx-Allee , Der Tagesspiegel, March 23, 2018
  4. ↑ Christian Gehrke: Cult meeting of the East: Café Sibylle has reopened. In: berliner-zeitung.de. November 18, 2018, accessed July 30, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Thomas Winkler: "The Sibyl was ahead of its time". A conversation with the last editor-in-chief Susanne Walsleben. In: Ute Mahler, Uwe Neumann (eds.), Exhibition catalog Kunsthalle Rostock: Sibylle - magazine for fashion and culture, 1956–1995. Hartmann books, Stuttgart 1997 (interview and short biography, pp. 328–329) ISBN 978-3-96070-007-4 .
  6. ↑ Don't dream, Sibylle on Filmportal.de
  7. ↑ SIBYLLE - The exhibition
  8. ↑ SIBYLLE - The Photographers. Kunst- und Kulturstiftung Opelvillen Rüsselsheim, July 2017, accessed on July 19, 2017 .