Twen (magazine)

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twen
(1st generation)
(Masthead)
description Youth magazine
language German
publishing company Kindler & Schiermeyer ( Federal Republic of Germany )
First edition 1959
attitude May 1971
Frequency of publication initially bi-monthly / from May 1961 monthly
ZDB 43179-5
twen: for everyone who is not too old
(Masthead)
description Youth magazine
language German
First edition 1980
attitude 1981
Frequency of publication per month
editor Karl-Rudolf Engelke, Beat Nägeli and Hartmut Schulze
ZDB 290498-6

twen was a youth magazine that appeared from 1959 to 1971 in the Federal Republic of Germany .

history

The magazine was founded by Adolf Theobald and Stefan Wolf and initially published; printing and delivery was carried out by M. DuMont Schauberg , Cologne. From 1960 the magazine appeared bimonthly, from May 1961 then monthly.

From October 1960 twen was published by the publishing house Theodor Martens & Co., Munich, which also published the illustrated magazine Quick . In mid-1966 the company was sold to Heinrich Bauer Verlag , who immediately resold the magazine to Kindler & Schiermeyer ( Axel Springer publishing group ). In June 1968 the sheet went to the Stuttgart printer and publisher Hans Weitpert and in April 1969 to Gruner + Jahr . With the main issue in 1971, the magazine was discontinued, the June issue, which had already been printed, was no longer delivered.

Later attempts to breathe new life into the discontinued magazine and to build on the earlier successes with a changed, smaller team (Rainer B. Jogschies, Michael OR Kröher , Helge Timmerberg ) and new concepts failed. 1980–1981 published ten issues, published by Karl-Rudolf Engelke, Hartmut Schulze and Beat Nägeli. A second relaunch attempt by Georg Fuss, Thomas Teves and the FDP politician Jürgen Möllemann in 1982 was also unsuccessful.

description

Visually, the magazine was characterized by elaborate photo series and the memorable, ambitious layout by Willy Fleckhaus , which contributed significantly to the success of the magazine and which still enjoys a legendary reputation today. The magazine had the "great ambition to create a style similar to that of the Munich magazine Jugend at the end of the 19th century in terms of image, typography and layout ."

In terms of content, the main focus was on lifestyle topics such as fashion, music and holidays, and on sexuality and relationships, but also on cultural issues. Film, book and record reviews had a permanent place in the magazine from the start. In twen , as early as the early 1960s, articles appeared in favor of removing taboos from premarital sex and homosexuality . The magazine played something of a pioneering role for the " sexual revolution " in what was then the Federal Republic of Germany .

Twen authors also dealt regularly with political issues such as the Nazi past, which was suppressed by the majority of West Germans, or the student movement . There was a basic left-wing liberal tendency and also overlaps with the authoring milieu of concrete and pardon . twen can therefore also be counted as part of the journalistic environment of the APO ( extra-parliamentary opposition ) and later of the “ 68 movement ” in the broader sense.

According to the title, the magazine was designed for the generation of twenty, and like the student movement, it was considered “upbeat and provocative.” The photos of the American Will McBride , who lived near Munich, were formative for the image of women at the time . He did not create glamor pictures, his women looked like the students in the classroom or he portrayed them as outsiders. He used extreme perspectives and created many imitated iconographies. Uschi Obermaier became the most famous twentieth model of that time .

Twen traded with “ideals”, “not with idols”, said Theobald, looking back on his paper.

Record edition

The record series that twen released together with Philips , Liberty Records , Electrola , Teldec and others is remarkable and memorable . Renowned graphic designers such as Max Bill , Günther Kieser and Heinz Edelmann were able to be won over for the eye-catching, avant-garde and still convincing cover design . Not least because of the cover, many issues of the series have become coveted (and often expensive) collector's items.

  • 01 - Ellington - Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite, Philips B 47048 l - 04.1961
  • 02 - Brecht - Weill: Mahagonny (with Lotte Lenya , among others ), G 03579 L - 09.1962, cover text: Hans Magnus Enzensberger
  • 03 - Ray Bryant : Madison, B 47139 L - 06.1961
  • 04 - Leonard Bernstein: Fun with music, G 03 580 L - 07.1961
  • 05 - Max Roach : We Insist! Freedom Now Suite , P 08636 - 01.1962
  • 06 - Jacques Brel: Chansons, P 77380 - 02.1962
  • 07 - Miles personally, B 47164 L - 03.1962
  • 08 - Benny Goodman and Woody Herman play Mozart, Milhaud and Stravinsky, G 03621 L - 04.1962
  • 09 - Swing: Big Bands of the 30s (with Goodman / Henderson / Ellington / Basie / Krupa, among others), B 47163 - 05.1962
  • 10 - Poetry and jazz: Hallelujah in no man's land (speaker: Gert Westphal, music by Max Roach, Donald Byrd, Art Blakey, Miles Davis, Horace Silver, poems by Hans Magnus Enzensberger ), B 47161 L - 06.1962
  • 11 - American Folk Blues Festival , B 681555 L - 10.1962, Cover: Max Bill
  • 12 - Alfred Andersch : The Death of James Dean, B 47172 L; Music: Miles Davis - 11.1962
  • 13 - The Staple Singers : Spirituals, B 503513 L - 12.1962, Cover: Josef Albers
  • 14 - Maurice André u. Jean-Pierre Rampal : With flutes and trumpets, G 03495 L - 01.1963
  • 15 - Klaus Doldinger : Jazz - Made in Germany, P 48024 L - 03.1963
  • 16 - Carlos Montoya : flamenco guitar, B 632078 L - 04.1963
  • 17 - Brazil - jazz and poetry. This is how Bossa Nova, B 08489 L - 05.1963 began
  • 18 - rarities - antiques, B 08489 L - 06.1963, cover: Max Bill
  • 19 - Poetry and Jazz (Speaker: Gert Westphal, poems by Peter Rühmkorf , music by Johnny Griffin), B 681556 L - 08.1963
  • 20 - Yves Montand : Chansons, B 77912 L - 09.1963
  • 21 - In Memoriam Oscar Pettiford , B 08657 L - 10.1963
  • 22 - Songs of the World: Esther and Abraham Ofarim , B 48051 L - 11.1963, two cover versions
  • 23 - Antonio Vivaldi. Old master - new sound (Chamber Orchestra d'Antoine Duhamel), G 03491 L - 12.1963
  • 24 - Juliette Gréco : Chansons, B 77981 L - 01.1964
  • 25 - The Thelonious Monk story, P 14701 L - 02.1964
  • 26 - Two classic guitars apart (pieces by Scarlatti, Bach, Marella, Debussy, Petit, Granados, Poulenc, Albeniz), B 00570 L - 03.1964
  • 27 - New Orleans new, B 14702 L - 04.1964, cover: Günther Kieser
  • 28 - Viva Mexico (Miguel Dias and his Mariachis), 145061 BL - 05.1964, cover: Heinz Edelmann
  • 29 - Folkblues: Jimmy Reed , P 14710 L - 06.1964, cover: John Gundelfinger
  • 30 - Heinrich Heine - Lyrik und Jazz (speaker: Gert Westphal, music: Attila Zoller , gt; Emil Mangelsdorff , as, cl, fl; Peter Trunk , b; Klaus Weiss , dr), 840479 PY - 08.1964, two cover versions
  • 31 - New York Sweet (Phil Moore and his orchestra), P 48110 L - 09.1964
  • 32 - Georges Brassens : Chansons, B 77815 L - 10.1964
  • 33 - Henze - harpsichord modern + jazz ( Hans Werner Henze and George Gruntz ), P 48111 L - 11.1964
  • 34 - Igor Stravinsky : The Tale of the Soldier (Igor Markevich Septet), 837 040 GY - 12.1964
  • 35 - The Jazz Scene 65 (with Mingus, Dolphy, Scott, Tyner, Coltrane, Webster, Terry, Gibbs, Hawkins, Basie, Manne, Ellington, among others), 843 503 BY - 01.1965
  • 36 - Trumpets from three centuries (pieces by Clarke, Purcell, Albinoni, Corelli), 836 801 BY - 2.1965
  • 37 - Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs: Western according to notes, P 14 727 L - 03.1965
  • 38 - Hedwig-Courths-Mahler-Report (speakers: Ida Ehre , Gudrun Thielemann , Günther Schramm , Christian Ferber ), 843 722 PY - 04.1965
  • 39 - Vier Celli + Jazz ( Bill Le Sage et al.), 840 643 BY - 05.1965
  • 40 - Los Incas, 842 101 PY - 06.1965
  • 41 - Doldinger in South America, 843 728 PY - 07.1965
  • 42 - Wolf Biermann (East) visits Wolfgang Neuss (West), 843 742 PY - 09.1965
  • 43 - Greek guitars with Nana Mouskouri , 843 552 BY - 10.1965
  • 44 - Joan Baez : Songs, 843 759 PY - 11.1965
  • 45 - Romeo and Juliet by Serge Prokofieff, 837 874 GY - 12.1965
  • 46 - Festival Flamenco Gitano (La Singla, Toni El Pelao), 843 770 PY - 01.1966
  • 47 - Rafael Puyana: Harpsichord Baroque (pieces by Telemann and Scarlatti), G 837 880 - 02.1966
  • 48 - From twen with Love: Ingfried Hoffmann (with Volker Kriegel , Pierre Cavalli , Peter Trunk and Rafi Lüderitz ), 843 779 PY - 04.1966
  • 49 - Bartók : The Wonderful Mandarin and Divertimento (BBC Symphony Orchestra), 837 882 GY - 05.1966
  • 50 - Swing, Waltz, Swing: Carl Drewo and the Clark-Boland Big Band , 840 246 PY (Cover: Heinz Edelmann) - 06.1966
  • 5l - George Hamilton sings, 843 516 BY - 07.1966
  • 52 - Ian & Sylvia, 845 907 PY - 08.1966
  • 53 - Carl Orff : Catulli Carmina (Sonja Hocevar, soprano; Dusan Cvejic, tenor; choir and percussion group from Radio Belgrad, etc.), 837 085 GY - 09.1966
  • 54 - Sarah Vaughan sings, 134 020 PY (cover text: Siegfried Schmidt-Joos) - 10.1966
  • 55 - Don Paulin : Songs of this World (arrangements and musical direction: Klaus Doldinger ), 843 922 PY - 11.1966
  • 56 - Beat and prose: Hubert Fichte in the Star-Club (Hamburg, October 2, 1966), 843 933 PY - 12.1966
  • 57 - Chopin (played by Adam Harasiewicz), 837 088 PY - 01.1967
  • 58 - Dusko Goykovich : Swinging Macedonia, 843 942 PY - 02.1967
  • 59 - Classics à la Pop by Peter Thomas, 843 951 PY - 03.1967
  • 60 - Me, Hana Hegerová : Chansons, 843 955 PY - 04.1967
  • 61 - Doldinger goes on, 843 966 PY - 05.1967
  • 62 - Jack's Angels Songs, 843 956 PY - 06.1967
  • 63 - Barbara sings Barbara (For the first time in German), 842 151 PY - 08.1967
  • 64 - BB King : Blues is King, 843 521 BY (Cover-Text: Siegfried Schmidt-Joos) - 09.1967
  • 65 - Cathy Berberian : Beatles Arias for Special Fans, 885 524 PY (cover text: Siegfried Schmidt-Joos) - 10.1967
  • 66 - We ski with Toni Sailer , 843 999 PY - 11.1967
  • 67 - Judy Garland : Live at the Palace (New York), 843 522 BY - 02.1968
  • 68 - Larry Coryell : Free Spirits, 843 526 BY (cover text: Siegfried Schmidt-Joos) - 05.1968
  • 69 - Peter Covent : Happening in Music, H 72 CU 203 a - 07.1968
  • 70 - twen presents, H 72 CU 203 b; Sampler from 14 Philips twen LPs; with text “From twen with Love” by Werner Burkhardt and cover images; "7 years of the Philips twen series: 500,000 records" - 07.1968
  • 71 - The best from the far west: Bonanza and other country & western hits, Merc. 134 089 BY (cover text: Werner Burkhardt ) - 11.1968
  • 72 - News from Bach junior: Jean Guillou discovers lost organ works by Bach's son Carl Philipp Emanuel, Philips 837482 GY (cover text: Manfred Sack) - 12.1968

twen plates (out of series)

  • (73) - Canned Heat : Hallelujah, Liberty LBS 83239 I - 1969
  • (74) - José Feliciano : Light My Fire, RCA LSP 10239 - 1969
  • (75) - Katja Ebstein : Katja, Liberty LBS 83239 I - 1969
  • (76) - The Aquarius Selection: Top Hair (The Greatest Hits From America's First Tribal Love Rock Musical), maritim 47020 FU - 1969
  • (77) - Instructions for partisans - Hannes Messemer speaks Mao (poems, interviews, speeches, original music from the People's Republic of China), electrola C 051 28696 I - 1969
  • (78) - Ravi Shankar live at the Woodstock Festival , Liberty LBS 83312 l (cover text: Rüdiger Dilloo) - 1969
  • (79) - As the ancients sing. The big pop show of our star politicians (with Franz Josef Strauss, Kai-Uwe von Hassel, Ludwig Erhard, Rainer Barzel, Heinrich Lübke, Kurt Georg Kiesinger; idea and design: Volker Kühn ), bellaphon – Panoptikum BP 003 - 1969
  • (80) - Iron Butterfly : Ball, ATCO SD 33-280 - 1969
  • (81) - twen and Goethe-Institut present Doldinger The Ambassador, 2 LPs; Liberty LBS 83317/18 - 1969
  • (82) - Off Hallucinations (including MC 5, The Holy Modal Rounders , Rhinozeros, The Doors), Metronome KMLP 310 (with a large poster that can be folded out several times) - 1969
  • (83) - James Brown Live at the Apollo, 2 LPs, Polydor 184.209 / 210 (with twen insert) - 1969
  • (84) - Muddy Waters : Fathers and Sons, 2 LPs, Chess 275025/026 - 1969 (published in a reprint in 1972)
  • (85) - The Best of Creedence Clearwater Revival , bellaphon AM 3307 - 1970
  • (86) - Ilan and Ilanit, ariola 80215 IT - 1970
  • (87) - Neil Young : After the Goldrush, Teldec RS 6383 D - 1970
  • (88) - Creedence Clearwater Revival: Cosmo's Factory, bellaphon-Fantasy-Galaxy BLPS 19005 - 1970
  • (89) - Woodstock - from the original soundtrack and more (with Baez, Canned Heat, Cocker, Country Joe, Guthrie, Hendrix, Santana, Ten Years After), 3 LPs, Atlantic / Cotillion SD 3-500 - 1970
  • (90) - Michel Polnareff: Million Sellers, Metronome MLP 15357 - 1970
  • (91) - The Doors : Morrison Hotel , Elektra EKS 75007 - 1970
  • (92) - Franz-Josef Degenhardt . Portrait, 2 LPs in cassette, Polydor 2638009 - 1971
  • (93) - Ike & Tina Turner : Workin 'Together, Liberty LBS 834551 - 1971
  • (94) - The Faces : Long Player, Warner Brothers WS 3011 - 03.1971
  • (95) - Star portrait Hank Williams , 2 LPs, MGM 2619003 (booklet) - 04.1971
  • (96) - The First Family of New Rock (with Buckley, Sebastian, Guthrie, Mitchel, White, Morrison, Taylor, Young, Collins, Crosby, Paxton), 2 LPs, Atlantic 69 200 - 05.1971
  • (97) - Star portrait Jimi Hendrix - Jimi Hendrix Experience, 2 LPs, Polydor 2672 (large-format 8-page booklet, text: Werner Burkhardt) - 1971
  • (98) - The Everly Brothers : Original Greatest Hits, 2 LPs, CBS S 66255 (twen sticker) - 1971
  • (99) - Electric Blues (with Hooker, Walter, Williamson, Mabon, Waters, Slim, Howlin 'Wolf, among others), 3 LPs in a film can, Chess Records 109 597, 109 598 and 109 599 (text, German and English: Hans Herder) - 1971
  • (100) - twen presents The German All Stars Live at the domicile Munich, 2 LPs, CBS S 66217 - 1971
  • (101) - The Doors : The Soft Parade, Elektra 42079 (hidden twen imprint) - 1969 (1971)
  • (102) - The Rolling Stones : Sticky Fingers, COC 59100 (photo / text supplement with the twen logo; cover with zip) - 1971

Books

  • Steep tooth and goat wire. The dictionary of teenage and twentieth languages. Schmiden 1960.
  • Wolfram Huncke (Ed.): Twen-Witze, 1st Ullstein 1969.
  • Pictures - How twen readers take pictures. Art Director: Willy Fleckhaus. Kodak 1970.
  • Wolfram Huncke (Ed.): Twen-Witze, 2. Ullstein 1971.

Secondary literature

  • Rolv Heuer: twen or make me happy. ("Germany your press" series). In: Concrete. 4/1967, pp. 25-29.
  • Klaus Schulz: twen - amazingly human-like. ("Time and Newspaper" series). In: The month. 247/1969, pp. 100-105.
  • Michael Koetzle (ed.): The magazine twen - revision of a legend. Klinkhardt 1995.
  • Detlef Siegfried : This time is on my side. Consumption and Politics in West German Youth Culture of the 1960s. Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0073-3 , pp. 281-318 and pp. 521-540.
  • Jens Müller: A5 / 02: Philips-Twen - The leading realism / Realism is the Score. Lars Müller Publishers, Baden 2009.
  • Michael Koetzle, Carsten Wolff : Fleckhaus - Design, Revolte, Rainbow . (German / English) Hartmann Books, Stuttgart, 2017, ISBN 978-3-96070-012-8

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Koetzle: The magazine twen - revision of a legend. P. 23ff
  2. ^ A b c Karl Stankiewitz: The Liberated Muse - Munich cultural scenes from 1945 . Volk Verlag 2013, ISBN 978-3-86222-011-3 , pp. 118f.
  3. ↑ Quoted in: Hans Leyendecker : Guardians and Streiter . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 3, 2014, p. 27

Movie

  • Twen - photos, fashion, jazz and sex, 45 min., Documentary by Hans-Jörg Weyhmüller, SDR 1993

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