Musik und Gesellschaft

Musik und Gesellschaft was a music magazine in the German Democratic Republic. It was published monthly from 1951 to 1990 in East Berlin by .

History

The journal was published from the first issue in March 1951 onwards by Ernst Hermann Meyer and the . In 1954 the editorship changed to the , of which it simultaneously became the official organ of communication. The music magazine regularly awarded a recording prize.

Chief editors

• 1951–1952 Karl Laux
• 1952–1959 Eberhard Rebling.
• 1959–1960 Horst Seeger.
• 1960–1973 Hansjürgen Schaefer
• 1973–1990 Liesel Markowski

Literature

• Bettina Hinterthür: Noten nach Plan. Die Musikverlage in der SBZ, DDR – Zensursystem, zentrale Planwirtschaft und deutsch-deutsche Beziehungen bis Anfang der 1960er Jahre. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, .

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