Neues Leben

Neues Leben
CategoriesYouth magazine
FrequencyMonthly
Founded1953
Final issue1992
Country
Based inBerlin
LanguageGerman
ISSN0323-5815
OCLC924765429

Neues Leben (German: New Living; abbreviated as NL) was a monthly youth magazine which existed between 1953 and 1992. It was started in East Germany and survived the German unification. It was briefly published in Germany until 1992.

History and profile

NL was launched in 1953 and came out monthly in East Berlin.[1][2] The magazine was modeled on the West German magazine Bravo.[1] The target audience of NL was East German youth.[1] Its publisher was the Free German Youth which was the official youth organization of the ruling party, Socialist Unity Party.[1] The goal of NL was to reinforce the official views of the state among young people through articles about sex, relationships, pop stars and young workers.[1] During the early 1980s it featured a regular column for the readers who asked questions about sexuality.[3]

Ingeborg Dittmann was the editor of NL from 1973 to its closure in 1992.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Josephine Hüetlin (28 July 2020). "Pop stars, sex and communism: the story behind an East German youth magazine". Coda. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
  2. ^ "DDR-Zeitschriften zum Themenfeld Gestaltung" (in German). Stiftung Industrie und Alltagskultur. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
  3. ^ Ingrid Sharp (July 2004). "The Sexual Unification of Germany". Journal of the History of Sexuality. 13 (3): 355. doi:10.1353/sex.2005.0017. JSTOR 3704838. S2CID 142792121.