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Neue Berliner Illustrierte

Cover page dated March 1947
Categories	News magazine
Frequency	Weekly
Founded	October 1945
Final issue	October 1991
Country	East Germany Germany
Based in	Berlin
Language	German

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 then 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.

History and profile

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

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

References

1. ^ de Keghel, Isabella (2010). "Western in Style, Socialist in Content? Visual Representations of GDR Consumer Culture in the Neue Berliner Illustrierte (1953–64)" (PDF). In Autio-Sarasmo, Sari; Humphreys, Brendan (eds.). Winter Kept Us Warm: Cold War Interactions Reconsidered. Helsinki: Kikimora Publications. pp. 76–106. ISBN 978-952-10-6564-4.
2. ^ "Eine Zeitschrift für jeden Geschmack – die "Neue Berliner Illustrierte"" [A Magazine for Every Taste: The New Berlin Illustrated] (in German). DDR Museum. 29 September 2016. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
3. ^ Millington, Richard (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. hdl:10034/620319. S2CID 151013535.
4. Sudau, Christel; Martin, Biddy (Winter 1978). "Women in the GDR". New German Critique (13): 76. doi:10.2307/3115188. JSTOR 3115188.
5. Augustine, Dolores L. (2012). "Learning from War: Media Coverage of the Nuclear Age in the Two Germanies". In van Lente, Dick (ed.). The Nuclear Age in Popular Media: A Transnational History, 1945–1965. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 94. ISBN 978-1-137-08618-1.

External links

• Media related to Neue Berliner Illustrierte at Wikimedia Commons

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