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The Schnell publishing house , based in Quickborn near Hamburg , published works on cybernetics , architecture and organizational development from 1960 to 1970 .

history

Eberhard Schnelle and his brother Wolfgang Schnelle founded the Schnelle publishing house as part of their consulting activities in order to be able to publish about office building plans for the purpose of acquisition. The legal form and company name was: Limited partnership Eberhard and Wolfgang Schnelle GmbH & Co., Quickborn near Hamburg. The publisher was a member of the German Book Trade Association .

An important impulse to expand the publishing house to include cybernetics came from Helmar Frank around 1959 . Issue 1 of Basic Studies in Cybernetics and the Humanities was published as early as 1960. The periodical was edited by Max Bense , Felix von Cube, Gerhard Eichhorn, Helmar Frank, Gotthard Günther , Abraham Moles and Elisabeth Walther. In 2008 the 49th volume was published by Helmar G. Frank and Manfred Wettler.

In parallel with cybernetics and arrested at the same time, topics related to information theory and information aesthetics were dealt with. The latter specialist area was mainly looked after by Kurd Alsleben within the publishing house .

As can be seen from the bibliography, the high phase of the publishing house is concentrated in the years between 1964 and 1967, during which two lexicons on cybernetics were published alongside other fundamental works.

In retrospect, the mathematician Hermann Stever, professor at the University of Koblenz-Landau and head of the educational informatics working group, describes the publishing house as a temporary center of cybernetics in the Federal Republic. In the group of experts whose knowledge of moderation goes back to their early years, the prevailing judgment is that the basis for this method was created within the short but extraordinary publishing activity. Three criteria are given for this judgment:

1. Due to the intensive influence of information aesthetics, techniques of visualization and optical rhetoric have been developed that are still in use today.

2. Information theory has revealed and extensively described the understanding of group dynamic processes.

3. The essential paradigms of moderation and thus of communicative action are derived from cybernetics, namely

bibliography

Books

1961
  • Kurd Alsleben , Erhard Büttner, Claus W. Hess, Wolfgang Schnelle, Curt Siegel, Rudolf Wonneberg: Office building as a large area. New office building for CF Boehringer & Soehne GmbH, Mannheim. Goal setting, planning and experience.
  • Hermann Schmidt: Memorandum for the establishment of an institute for control engineering. 2nd Edition. For the first time in Berlin in 1941.
1962
  • Kurd Alsleben: Aesthetic Redundancy. Treatises on the artistic means of the fine arts.
  • Rul Gunzenhäuser : Aesthetic measure and aesthetic information. Introduction to the theory of G. (eorg) D. (avid) Birkhoff and the redundancy theory of aesthetic processes.
1963
  • Kurd Alsleben, Helmar Frank u. a .: Cybernetics and organization. Collected lectures from the Quickborn Symposium.
  • Kurd Alsleben u. a .: Language and writing in the age of cybernetics.
  • C. Passow and Eberhard Schnelle : Introduction to cybernetics for business and industry.
1964
  • Andrea Müller (Ed.): Lexicon of Cybernetics.
  • Eberhard Schnelle, Alfons Wankum : architect and organizer.
1965
  • Claus W. Hess, M. von Eynern: office construction with a view to the future. Report on Connecticut Life Insurance Co. Bloomfield, Conn. UNITED STATES.
  • M. Hitz (Hrsg.): Practice and perspectives of programmed teaching.
  • Harald Riedel: Empirical studies on cybernetic pedagogy. Experiments on the age dependence of information psychological parameters as a contribution to cybernetic pedagogy.
  • Hermann Schmidt: The anthropological significance of cybernetics.
1966
  • Kurd Alsleben, Wolfgang Wehrstedt: Praxeology. Eight articles introducing the science of efficient action from the Research Center for General Problems of Work Organization in Warsaw.
  • Ludwig Englert, Helmar Frank, Hans Schiefele, Herbert Stachowiak (eds.): Lexicon of cybernetic pedagogy and programmed instruction.
  • Cord Passow: Introduction to cybernetics for business and industry.
  • Eberhard Schnelle: Ways to solve complex tasks in large organizations.
1967
  • Practice and perspectives of programmed teaching. Vol. II. Papers of the 5th Symposium on Teaching Machines.
  • K. Ackermann: Overall economic stability with individual freedom of choice.
  • Felix von Cube, Rul Gunzenhäuser: About the entropy of groups. An information-theoretical measure for the investigation of social group structures.
  • Manfred Kiemle: Aesthetic problems of architecture under the aspect of information aesthetics.
  • Harald Riedel: Psychostructure.
  • Curt Siegel, Carl Solf: Office building costs. Investigation of the profitability of office and administrative costs.
1968
  • P. Bendixen, E. Schnelle, WH Staehle : The evolution of management. New ways of method and behavior training for decision-makers in specific problems and conflicts.
  • Ottomar Gottschalk: Flexible administrative buildings. Planning, functions, areas, expansion, furnishings, costs, examples.
1969
  • Johannes Holschneider: Key terms in architecture and urban architecture. A meaning analysis.
1970
  • Klaus Weltner: Information theory and educational science.
1971
  • Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Pflüger: The teleological mechanics of nature. Reprint Cohen & Sohn, Bonn 1877.

Periodicals

  • Journal of basic studies in cybernetics and humanities. ( ISSN  0723-4899 ) Editors: Max Bense , Felix von Cube, Gerhard Eichhorn, Helmar Frank , Gotthard Günther , Abraham Moles , Elisabeth Walther. Frequency: Four books form a bound volume, plus a booklet, the first time in 1960. The journal is published with 2007 levels in Volume 48 in the Paderborn Institute of Cybernetics, subtitled Human Cybernetics and the specification of International Journal of Modeling and mathematization in the human sciences .
  • Communication. Journal for planning and organization (in complex systems) . Editing: Nikolaus Piontek, Michael K. Nathan and Eckhard Miketta. Design and typography: Alfons Wankum. Frequency of publication: four issues a year, first in 1968, probably only until 1970.