Wasmuth's monthly magazine for architecture
Wasmuth's monthly magazine for architecture , common short titles WMB or WMB ; also WMH , is a German trade journal for architecture, which was published from 1914 by the Berlin publishing house Ernst Wasmuth . The magazine was founded by the publishing director Günther Wasmuth . The magazine Städtebau ( ZDB -ID 217568-x ), founded in 1908, was a supplement to Wasmuth's monthly magazine from 1930, which changed the title of Wasmuth's monthly magazine for architecture and urban development . In 1932, the Berlin Bauwelt Verlag took over the magazine and renamed itMonthly booklets for architecture and town planning . In 1942 the magazine was discontinued.
Usually eight issues appeared per year. For its time, the magazine was generously equipped with illustrations, and essays were often followed by longer sections with full-page plates. Typical for a monthly issue was a length of almost 40 pages, divided into a long article with around 15 to 20 pages, several shorter articles with about five pages each, a chronicle with brief reports and a book show with reviews.
During the Weimar Republic , modern architecture flourished in its various currents in Germany outside of the Bauhaus . Even if the number of realized designs in the period immediately after the First World War and during the subsequent hyperinflation as well as later in the global economic crisis remained manageable, theoreticians and architects were particularly active in magazines and other publications, for example in the series of Bauhaus books or in the magazine ABC - Articles on Building by El Lissitzky . Compared to these avant-garde publications, Wasmuth's monthly magazine offered a mixture of traditional and modernist architecture. The focus was on buildings and architects in German-speaking countries, but international developments were also presented. In addition to the architects who presented their own designs there, the regular authors included a. Karl Heinrich Brunner and Hans Josef Zechlin , but above all Werner Hegemann , who had been the magazine's publisher and editor-in-chief since 1924. In 1927/1928, alongside Hegemann, who continued to act as editor, Leo Adler was editor-in-chief, and in 1929 Adler succeeded Hans Josef Zechlin in this position.
In 1933 Hegemann resigned as editor of the magazine after he went into exile in Switzerland in February of that year and thus avoided a likely arrest by the National Socialists , which he had repeatedly tackled polemically in numerous articles in the daily press . In the monthly issues, Hegemann recently had a politically motivated controversy with the architect Paul Schmitthenner . He was replaced by the architecture critic and journalist Friedrich Paulsen, who aligned the magazine with National Socialism and remained its editor until the monthly magazine was discontinued in 1942.
Web links
- Digitized edition of Wasmuth's monthly notebooks at the Central and State Library in Berlin (years 1914/1915 to 1931)
- Wasmuth's monthly books for architecture (1914–1932) in the catalog of the German National Library
- Monthly booklets for architecture and urban development (1932–1942) in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Letter from Paul Schmitthenner to Werner Hegemann, in: Wasmuths MONTHS for Baukunst , XXVIII year, 1933, pp. 137-138.