Süddeutsche Monatshefte, vol. 27, issue 11, “Ungarn”
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Cover for the August 1930 issue of the Süddeutsche Monatshefte, which at the time was not published monthly, but quarterly. The bold high-contrast sans at the top and bottom is Jakob Erbar’s Koloss. The focus of the issue, “Ungarn” (“Hungary”), is presented in lively lettering, rendered as if it was following a TypeCooker recipe for “construction: roman / weight: bold /contrast amount: a lot / stroke endings: serifs / width: condensed / contrast type: expansion”. Below, contents are listed in italic and roman styles of Normande.
From Paul Hoser’s entry in nsdoku.lexikon, published January 16, 2025, by NS-Dokumentationszentrum München (translated):
The Süddeutsche Monatshefte was founded in Munich in 1904. The editor was Paul Nikolaus Cossmann, who moved more and more in a nationalist direction, and during the First World War he succeeded in forcing the democratic shareholders out of the publishing house and replacing them with extreme nationalists. After the collapse, he also had Weimar democracy disparaged. Above all, he fought against the Treaty of Versailles and the “war guilt lie”, i.e. the Versailles Treaty's stipulation that Germany alone was to blame for the outbreak of war. […] Despite its nationalist tendencies, the magazine was critical of the National Socialists. It hoped for the restoration of the Wittelsbach monarchy: Significantly, the January 1933 issue was entitled “König Rupprecht”. The magazine was discontinued in 1936. Cossmann died in the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1942.
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