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Jugend und Technik

Jugend und Technik
An issue of the magazine exhibited at the DDR Museum
Categories
  • Popular science magazine
  • Technology magazine
FrequencyMonthly
PublisherJunge Welt Verlag
Founded1953
First issueFebruary 1953
Final issue1991
CountryEast Germany
Based inEast Berlin
LanguageGerman
ISSN0022-5878
OCLC634760906

Jugend und Technik (German: Youth and Technology), also stylized as Jugend + Technik, was an East German popular science and technology magazine targeting youth. Its subtitle was das faszinierende Technikmagazin (German: the fascinating technology magazine).[1] The magazine appeared between 1953 and 1991 and was headquartered in East Berlin.

History and profile

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Jugend und Technik was started in 1951, and its first issue was published in February that year.[2] It was based in East Berlin[3] and came out monthly.[4] Its publisher was the Junge Welt Verlag.[5]

From its start in 1953 Jugend und Technik published science fiction material one of which was the German translation of Ivan Yefremov's Tumannost’ Andromedy (Russian: Andromeda).[6] This work was originally published in the Soviet Union in 1957, and its censored German version was serialized in Jugend und Technik in 1958.[6] The magazine featured articles in German and Russian during the 1960s.[5] A conference on science fiction was organized by the editors of Jugend und Technik in 1966.[7] It carried out a survey to identify the gender of the readers of science fiction in 1969 and found that they were male high school and university students and older intellectuals working in science- and technology-related fields.[6]

Earliest articles on computer technology were published in Jugend und Technik which continued to feature them until the 1980s when computer magazines began to appear in East Germany.[8] The magazine offered ways to construct home computers through the DIY practices in 1987.[8] Another frequent theme covered by the magazine was space-related topics.[9]

Jugend und Technik folded in 1991.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Detailnachweis: Jugend und Technik". ZDB-Katalog (in German). Retrieved 9 August 2023.
  2. ^ "Zeitschrift "Jugend und Technik" 1950er". DDR Museum (in German). 18 February 2017. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
  3. ^ "Zeitschriften". Stiftung Industrie- und Alltagskultur (in German). 25 September 2020. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
  4. ^ Franziska Klemstein (2022). "Rechentechnische Reparaturkompetenz". Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft (in German). 27 (14): 80. doi:10.14361/zfmw-2022-140208. S2CID 252091351.
  5. ^ a b "Zeitschrift "Jugend und Technik" 1960er". DDR Museum (in German). 18 February 2017. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
  6. ^ a b c Sonja Fritzsche (2006). Science Fiction Literature in East Germany. Oxford; Bern: Peter Lang. pp. 75, 77, 110. doi:10.3726/b14377. ISBN 978-1-78874-564-2.
  7. ^ Sonja Fritzsche (2004). "Reconceptualizing East German Popular Literature via the Science Fiction Niche". The German Quarterly. 77 (4): 450. JSTOR 4488704.
  8. ^ a b Julia Gül Erdoğan (2020). "West and East German Hackers from a Comparative Perspective". WiderScreen 2. 23 (2–3).
  9. ^ Colleen Anderson (2020). "Youth Space Education and the Future of the GDR". Central European History. 53 (1): 161. doi:10.1017/s0008938919000980.