Typographic Society Munich
| Typographic Society Munich | |
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| legal form | registered association |
| founding | May 14, 1890 |
| Seat | Munich , Germany |
| purpose | professional association |
| Chair | Christina Sofie John |
| Members | over 1300 (February 2018) |
| Website | www.tgm-online.de |
The Typographische Gesellschaft München e. V. (tgm) is the largest and oldest active interest group in Europe to promote typography .
The association promotes quality and education in the communications industry with a wide range of advanced training courses from evening, day and weekend seminars to the “annual typography course”. This is accompanied by an annual series of lectures, conferences such as the Munich Typotag, exhibitions and competitions . In addition, tgm offers a variety of other activities, from study trips and excursions to company and factory visits to typographical site visits.
organization
The number of members is over 1300 (February 2018). This makes tgm the largest European organization for those interested in typography. Members include a. Designers , media designers , printers and students .
The annual editions produced for the members of tgm have been included several times in “The 50 most beautiful books of the year”.
history
The association was founded on May 14, 1890 in the rococo hall of the Hackerbräuhaus in Munich . After Cologne (1873), Leipzig (1877), Berlin (1879), Stuttgart (1881) and Brieg (1882), Munich was the sixth merger of this type in what was then Reich territory .
They met regularly on Sunday mornings in the Schützenlust restaurant in Munich. A tgm library was soon established there: In addition to individual book foundations, all technical journals and individual relevant new publications were in stock. In 1911 the library moved to the house of the Chamber of Crafts . Social events were also held, including a. Bowling evenings or technical carnival men's evenings .
In addition to the obligatory lectures with discussion, the first factory tours ( paint factory Michael Huber and paper factory Max Bullinger ) and the first factory tour ( machine factory Augsburg ) took place as early as 1891 . In 1892 the first two courses on Gabelsberger stenography and typographic drawing were held. In 1893 the first guest lecturer (from Nuremberg, name unknown) spoke about "the development of the accident material and the accident rate ". The first competition in 1894 dealt with the creation of a new tgm membership card. In 1902, tgm organized a book printing evening for the Bavarian Arts and Crafts Association and an exhibition of printing work on the occasion of the general assembly of the German Book Printers Association.
In 1903 the Association of German Typographical Societies was founded, which tgm joined with other typographic associations. In the first few years, the speakers for the lectures mostly came from within their own ranks - they were often even given by the 1st chairman - but the mutual exchange of speakers was now increasingly used.
The number of members fluctuated considerably in the first decades between 120 (1923) and almost 700. This was partly due to inflation (1923), strikes and lockouts in the printing industry (1891/1892), the two world wars, but also to the relatively high death rate at the time in typesetting and printing. From 1913 onwards, only members of the trade union association of German book printers were allowed to be admitted, in 1923 the Typographische Gesellschaft München had to be renamed "Ortsgruppe München im Bildungsverband Deutscher Buchdrucker". On May 2, 1933, this association was also broken up and, at the instigation of the National Socialists, became part of the “ German Labor Front , Gauwaltung Munich-Upper Bavaria, Department of Printing and Paper”. The Munich Typographical Society began again in 1949.
Many well-known personalities in the industry were active in the association in terms of organization and / or content. a. Otto Hupp , Anna Simons , Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke , Paul Renner , Emil Preetorius , Georg Trump , Jan Tschichold , Herbert Post , Josef Buyer, Konrad Driendl, Günter Gerhard Lange , Philipp Luidl , Hans Rudolf Bosshard , Olaf Leu , Eckehart Schumacher-Gebler, Rolf Müller (Logo), Kurt Weidemann , Rudolf Paulus Gorbach .
In 2002 tgm supported the Typographische Gesellschaft Austria (tga) with its establishment. In addition, tgm has been a founding member of the international typography working group in knowledge transfer since May 2015 and a founding member of the German Design Day since April 2016 , where it represents the areas it represents in the German Cultural Council .
Chairperson
- 1890–1904: Ernst Leven
- 1904–1907: Franz Fleischmann
- 1907–1912: Paul Gunkel
- 1910–1912: Friedrich Sommer
- 1912–1914: Hans Welsch
- 1914–1919: Hans Bauriedl
- 1919–1920: Fritz Bauer
- 1920–1921: Richard Frosch
- 1921–1923: Hanns Karl Scholl
- 1923–1925: Karl Kollar
- 1925–1929: Josef Lehnacker
- 1929–1930: Karl Kollar
- 1930–1933: Ernst Grundermann
- 1949–1955: Hans Lehnacker
- 1955–1958: Josef Bornheim
- 1958–1979: Konrad Driendl
- 1979–1985: Philipp Luidl
- 1985–1992: Arnold Ihlenfeldt
- 1992–1996: Karin Büchner
- 1996–2007: Rudolf Paulus Gorbach
- 2007–2014: Boris Kochan
- 2014–2015: Kilian Stauss
- 2015–2016: Oliver Linke
- 2016–2017: Rafael Bernardo Dietzel
- from 2017: Christina Sofie John
Annual themes
- 2020: Typography in good company
- 2019: Type is changing faces. Tyme is on my side.
- 2018: You're my type
- 2017: connect - disconnect
- 2015/2016: Landscape with flutter replacement
- 2014/2015: Curiosity and fertilization
- 2013/2014: grid and revolt
- 2012/2013: Upheaval with a view - on the value of change
- 2011/2012: Respect and high spirits - responsibility in design
- 2010/2011: ascender and subsurface - from the surface to the room and back
- 2009/2010: Form Reform
- 2008/2009: thirst for experience. Active ingredient Bauhaus
- 2007/2008: Roots & Shoots
- 2006/2007: Systematics in Typography
- 2005/2006: Font, the basis of typography
- 2004/2005: Failed
- 2003/2004: packed
- 2002/2003: Insalata mista
- 2001/2002: Typography and Everyday Life
- 2000/2001: text and image
- 1999/2000: Encounters - European Perspectives
- 1998/1999: memories
- 1997/1998: drafts, concepts, visions
- 1995/1996: Identity and Interaction
- 1994/1995: Quality as a chance for survival
- 1993/1994: Public writing
- 1991/1992: creativity and technology
- 1990/1991: writing, typography and communication
- 1989/1990: writing and electronics
Board
- Chair: Christina Sofie John
- Board member: Christian Hoffmeister (Treasurer)
- Board member: Monika Obermeier
- Board member: Dieter Wagner
- Board member: Alain Wohlfarth
- tgm office: Regina Jeanson
Active team and working groups
The Typographic Society lives from the commitment of its members. A team, organized in various working groups, so-called "active teams", is constantly developing tgm: Catherine Avak (trips and excursions, publications, self-portrayal), Albrecht Basse (revision), Michael Bundscherer (photography, Webfontday, social media, self-portrayal, Newsletter), Klaus Dietsch (press, text and editing), Marina Dietweger (travel), Anne Dreesbach (publications), Wolf Eigner (advanced training), Christiane Gerstung (advanced training, publications, self-portrayal), Rudolf Paulus Gorbach (intensive typography, publications, Self-presentation), Martina Grabovszky (website, webfontday, social media), Annette Häfelinger (self-presentation), Judith Häusler (trips and excursions, art Tuesdays), Matthias Hauer (special events, factory visits, printing and prepress topics, advanced training), Catherine Hersberger ( Reisen), Regina Jeanson (office), Boris Kochan (tgm academy, website, QVED, social media, self-presentation, travel, Granshan-We competition and conference), Katja Knahn (advanced training, prepress, factory visits), Peer Koop (photography, social media, website), Anja Kurz (Granshan competition and conference), Michael Lang (publications), Herbert Lechner (text and editing ), Sebastian Lehnert (editing), Oliver Linke (tgm-Akademie, TypeWalks, font design, Webfontday), Monika Lokau (press), Petra Marth (organization, training, newsletter), Horst Moser (qved), Regina Moths (revision), Andreas S. Müller (brand management), Simone Naumann (photography), Gertrud Nolte (special events), Dominik Parzinger (photography, special events), Thomas Pruss (publications, self-portrayal, TypeWalks), Victoria Sarapina (Cyrillic script, A-type conference) , Thomas Schlierbach (travel and excursions, art Tuesdays), Sabine Schindler (prepress), Tomek Wieczór (travel), Petra Wöhrmann (communication, publications, A-type conference, website), Alain Wohlfahrt (film documentation, special events), T ine Wolf (film documentation), Katherina Zöllner (organization, self-portrayal, advanced training, publications)
Literature / annual editions
- Hans Lehnacker [ed.]: The school of pleasure , tgm, Munich 1961
- Die Bremer Presse , tgm, Munich 1964
- Lehnacker, Hans [Ed.] Vita Activa. Georg Trump Pictures, Fonts & Typefaces. tgm, Munich 1967
- Exhibition Franz Hottenroth the Typograph , tgm, Munich 1976
- Hanns Karl Scholl , tgm, Munich 1976
- Philipp Luidl [Ed.]: JT , tgm, Munich 1976
- georg trump , tgm and Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich 1981
- Philipp Luidl and Günter Gerhard Lange [eds.]: Homage for Georg Trump , tgm, Munich 1981
- Hanns Karl Scholl on his 90th birthday. Festschrift. , tgm, Munich 1982
- Stefan Heym, Manfred Klein, Hermann Zapf, a. a .: GGL, Günter Gerhard Lange , tgm, Munich 1983
- Wolfgang Bächler and Hans-Georg Rauch: Im Zwischenreich , tgm, Munich 1985
- Gustav Stresow: style and book. A presentation. , tgm, Munich 1989
- Hermann Lenz: Stories, Peter Stein: Kupferstiche , tgm, Munich 1990
- Dr. hc Heinz Friedrich: Lecture , tgm, Munich 1990
- Hundred Years of Typographical Society Munich , tgm, Munich 1990
- Max Caflisch: The writings of Renner, Tschichold and Trump , tgm, Munich 1991
- Wolfgang Bauer: The peculiarities of Chinese writing: its influence on the society and culture of China in the past and present , tgm, Munich 1991
- Vilém Flusser: Types and Characters , tgm, Munich 1991
- Erwin Buyer: Vita Educativa - Josef Buyer , tgm, Munich 1991
- Philipp Luidl: writing the destruction of the night , tgm, Munich 1993
- Marie Marcks: Else Marcks – Penzig 1887–1950 , tgm, Munich 1995
- Bernhard E. Bürdek: Design and Quality , tgm, Munich 1996
- Rudolf Paulus Gorbach [Ed.]: Reading Recognize. A symposium of the Typographische Gesellschaft München , tgm, Munich 2000
- Rudolf Paulus Gorbach [ed.]: Reading pictures, recognizing pictures. A symposium of the Typographische Gesellschaft München , tgm, Munich 2006
- Oliver Linke and Christine Sauer: The scribe Johann. Neudörffer d.Ä. and his successors in Nuremberg. Nuremberg City Library and tgm, Nuremberg / Munich 2007, ISBN 3980847462
- Escehaeriefte. Journal for alphabets culture , tgm, Munich 2009, ISBN 9783981204001
- Escehaeriefte # 2. Journal for alphabets culture , tgm, Munich 2012, ISBN 9783981204032
- How was it? Systematically learn typography and design - from the annual Typography 8 course at tgm , Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-940061-72-0 .
- Shaping thoughts - The A to Z of the Typographische Gesellschaft München (Corporate Book), tgm, Munich 2013
- Shaping thoughts - A to Z of Typographische Gesellschaft München (Corporate Book), tgm, Munich 2013
- Granshan Design & Identity - The Non-Latin Typeface Project , tgm, Munich 2014
- Rudolf Paulus Gorbach [Hrsg.]: Books and printed matter from tgm 1949 to 2009. With a catalog of all lectures and events , Munich 2015, ISBN 9783981204025
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c tgm-Newsletter No. 10 from February 6, 2018 ( Memento from May 3, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Forming Thoughts - The A to Z of Typographische Gesellschaft München (Corporate Book), tgm, Munich 2013, pp. 45–47.
- ↑ Hundred Years of Typographical Society Munich. tgm, Munich 1990
- ↑ Hundred Years of Typographical Society Munich. tgm, Munich 1990, p. 14
- ↑ Hundred Years of Typographical Society Munich. tgm, Munich 1990, p. 16
- ↑ Hundred Years of Typographical Society Munich. tgm, Munich 1990, p. 16
- ↑ Hundred Years of Typographical Society Munich. tgm, Munich 1990, p. 16
- ↑ Hundred Years of Typographical Society Munich. tgm, Munich 1990, p. 18
- ↑ Hundred Years of Typographical Society Munich. tgm, Munich 1990, p. 38
- ↑ Associations and organizations represented in the working group "Typography in Knowledge Transfer" ( Memento from September 10, 2019 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Germany's designers organize themselves ( Memento from August 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ German Design Day: Members ; Internet site of the German Cultural Council; accessed on August 23, 2020
- ↑ Hundred Years of Typographical Society Munich. tgm, Munich 1990, p. 195. (for the years 1890–1985)
- ↑ Rudolf Paulus Gorbach [Hrsg.]: Tgm board from 1949. Chair and board members In: books and printed matter of tgm 1949 to 2009. Munich 2015, ISBN 9783981204025 , p. 267. (Karin Büchner gives the period 1991– 1996. According to an oral testimony by Ms. Karin Büchner and Christina John (currently the first chairperson), this is a misprint. The correct answer is 1992–1996, as stated here.)
- ↑ On the archival version of a website of the Typographische Gesellschaft München (with listing of the board) from May 21, 2017 Rafael Bernardo Dietzel is shown as a member of the board until April 5, 2017, at the same time Christina Sofie John is named as chairwoman ( we take care of typography ! ( Memento from May 21, 2017)); On the older archive version from March 21, 2017, Rafael Bernardo Dietzel is named as chairman ( We take care of typography! ( Memento from March 21, 2017)).
- ↑ Forming Thoughts - The A to Z of Typographische Gesellschaft München (Corporate Book), tgm, Munich 2013, p. 22.
- ↑ Active team and working groups, functions and committed people ( Memento from August 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Forming Thoughts - The A to Z of Typographische Gesellschaft München (Corporate Book), tgm, Munich 2013, pp. 45–47.