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==History and profile==
==History and profile==
''Neue Berliner Illustrierte'' was first published in Berlin in October 1945.<ref name=ddrmus/> It was modeled on ''[[Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung]]''.<ref name=isabelle/> Shortly after its start it began to enjoy higher levels of circulation in East Germany.<ref name=ricm/> The magazine came out weekly and covered various topics, including politics, health-related issues, movies, novels and picture stories designed for children.<ref name=ddrmus/> Another topic covered was the reasons of divorce in East Germany.<ref>{{cite journal|author1=Christel Sudau
''Neue Berliner Illustrierte'' was first published in Berlin in October 1945.<ref name=ddrmus/> It was modeled on ''[[Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung]]''.<ref name=isabelle/> Shortly after its start it began to enjoy higher levels of circulation in East Germany.<ref name=ricm/> The magazine came out weekly and covered various topics, including politics, health-related issues, movies, novels and picture stories designed for children.<ref name=ddrmus/> Another topic covered was the reasons of divorce in East Germany,<ref>{{cite journal|author1=Christel Sudau
|author2=Biddy Martin|author2-link=Biddy Martin|title=Women in the GDR|journal=[[New German Critique]]|date=Winter 1978|issue=13|page=76
|author2=Biddy Martin|author2-link=Biddy Martin|title=Women in the GDR|journal=[[New German Critique]]|date=Winter 1978|issue=13|page=76
|doi=10.2307/3115188|jstor=3115188}}</ref> All these topics were featured to influence the perspectives of the East Germans in line with the official ideology of the state.<ref name=ricm>{{cite journal|author=Richard Millington|title=“Crime Has No Chance”: The Discourse of Everyday Criminality in the East German Press, 1961–1989|journal=[[Central European History]]|year=2017|volume=50|issue=1|doi=10.1017/S0008938917000036
|doi=10.2307/3115188|jstor=3115188}}</ref> technological advances in the communist countries and socialist heroes.<ref name=lente>{{cite book| editor=Dick van Lente|title=The Nuclear Age in Popular Media: A Transnational History, 1945–1965|publisher=Palgrave Macmilla|year=2012|isbn=978-1-137-08618-1|chapter-url=https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=hV4hAQAAQBAJ&pg=PT94|page=94|chapter=Learning from War: Media Coverage of the Nuclear Age in the Two Germanies|author=Dolores L. Augustine|location=New York}}</ref> All these topics were accompanied by photographs<ref name=isabelle/> and featured to influence the perspectives of the East Germans in line with the official ideology of the state.<ref name=ricm>{{cite journal|author=Richard Millington|title=“Crime Has No Chance”: The Discourse of Everyday Criminality in the East German Press, 1961–1989|journal=[[Central European History]]|year=2017|volume=50|issue=1|doi=10.1017/S0008938917000036|pages=59-85}}</ref>
|pages=59-85}}</ref>


It was printed in grey papers until 1957 when it was redesigned as a color publication.<ref name=ddrmus/> The magazine was renamed as ''NBI Neue Berliner Illustrierte'' in 1960.<ref name=ddrmus/> Another magazine entitled ''Zeit im Bild'' was merged into the ''NBI'' in 1969.<ref name=ddrmus/> The magazine had a circulation of 800,000 copies for three decades from the 1960s to the 1980s.<ref name=ddrmus/><ref name=ricm/> Following the German reunification it was acquired by the [[Gruner + Jahr]] publishing house and folded in October 1991.<ref name=ddrmus>{{cite web|title=Eine Zeitschrift für jeden Geschmack – die "Neue Berliner Illustrierte"|url=https://www.ddr-museum.de/de/blog/archive/neue-berliner-illustrierte|publisher=DDR Museum |access-date=15 October 2022|language=de}}</ref>
It was printed in grey papers until 1957 when it was redesigned as a color publication.<ref name=ddrmus/> The magazine was renamed as ''NBI Neue Berliner Illustrierte'' in 1960.<ref name=ddrmus/> Another magazine entitled ''Zeit im Bild'' was merged into the ''NBI'' in 1969.<ref name=ddrmus/> The magazine had a circulation of 800,000 copies for three decades from the 1960s to the 1980s.<ref name=ddrmus/><ref name=ricm/> Following the German reunification it was acquired by the [[Gruner + Jahr]] publishing house and folded in October 1991.<ref name=ddrmus>{{cite web|title=Eine Zeitschrift für jeden Geschmack – die "Neue Berliner Illustrierte"|url=https://www.ddr-museum.de/de/blog/archive/neue-berliner-illustrierte|publisher=DDR Museum|access-date=15 October 2022|language=de}}</ref>


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 14:07, 15 October 2022

Neue Berliner Illustrierte
Cover page dated March 1947
CategoriesNews magazine
FrequencyWeekly
FoundedOctober 1945
Final issueOctober 1991
Country
Based inBerlin
LanguageGerman

Neue Berliner Illustrierte (German: New Berlin Illustrated; abbreviated as NBI) was a weekly illustrated magazine which existed between 1945 and 1991. It was published in East Germany and also, in Germany following the German reunification. Its title was a reference to Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung which was an influential German publication at the beginning of the 20th century.[1]

History and profile

Neue Berliner Illustrierte was first published in Berlin in October 1945.[2] It was modeled on Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung.[1] Shortly after its start it began to enjoy higher levels of circulation in East Germany.[3] The magazine came out weekly and covered various topics, including politics, health-related issues, movies, novels and picture stories designed for children.[2] Another topic covered was the reasons of divorce in East Germany,[4] technological advances in the communist countries and socialist heroes.[5] All these topics were accompanied by photographs[1] and featured to influence the perspectives of the East Germans in line with the official ideology of the state.[3]

It was printed in grey papers until 1957 when it was redesigned as a color publication.[2] The magazine was renamed as NBI Neue Berliner Illustrierte in 1960.[2] Another magazine entitled Zeit im Bild was merged into the NBI in 1969.[2] The magazine had a circulation of 800,000 copies for three decades from the 1960s to the 1980s.[2][3] Following the German reunification it was acquired by the Gruner + Jahr publishing house and folded in October 1991.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c Isabella de Keghel (2010). "Western in Style, Socialist in Content? Visual Representations of GDR Consumer Culture in the Neue Berliner Illustrierte (1953–64)" (PDF). In Sari Autio-Sarasmo; Brendan Humphreys (eds.). Winter kept us warm: Cold war interactions reconsidered. Helsinki: Kikimora Publications. pp. 76–106. ISBN 978-952-10-6564-4.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "Eine Zeitschrift für jeden Geschmack – die "Neue Berliner Illustrierte"" (in German). DDR Museum. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
  3. ^ a b c Richard Millington (2017). ""Crime Has No Chance": The Discourse of Everyday Criminality in the East German Press, 1961–1989". Central European History. 50 (1): 59–85. doi:10.1017/S0008938917000036.
  4. ^ Christel Sudau; Biddy Martin (Winter 1978). "Women in the GDR". New German Critique (13): 76. doi:10.2307/3115188. JSTOR 3115188.
  5. ^ Dolores L. Augustine (2012). "Learning from War: Media Coverage of the Nuclear Age in the Two Germanies". In Dick van Lente (ed.). The Nuclear Age in Popular Media: A Transnational History, 1945–1965. New York: Palgrave Macmilla. p. 94. ISBN 978-1-137-08618-1.

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