School Magazines in the Context of Grammar School Cultures in the 1950s and 1960s in West Germany

根据最初的建议，研究项目的扩展目标是对20世纪50年代和60年代的西德学生期刊进行文化历史分析。因此，对尚未建立的联邦共和国德国学生期刊的历史作出了重大贡献。该项目基于这样一种假设，即大部分在学术轨道中学（体育馆）发行的学生期刊的制作和接收，使学生也能够体验到自己是在学校生活中发挥积极作用的（自我）有效主体。作为学校文化的载体，学生学报在学校文化的变迁和学校文化的演进过程中发挥着重要作用。在该项目的过程中，一个全面的学生期刊集合被描述为它的结构特征;大约7，000个单独的期刊被合并，其中大多数是以数字格式和书目索引访问。以前，这种材料没有从科学的角度进行研究。由于索引比我们预期的要耗时，我们才刚刚能够开始下一步的工作。例如，我们尚未完成对杂志内容、主题范围和作者所持（政治）立场的评估。如果这一假设是正确的，即在制作以及接收和传播校刊内容的过程中，学生们体验到自己是能够影响学校公共生活的有效主体，那么（政治）立场的变化在不同层面上可能是显而易见的，特别是在学生与教师、机构本身以及学校当局的关系方面，在校刊上是显而易见的。关于拟议的项目阶段，设想在个别文章一级进行详细分析，重点是关于（教育）政治专题、美国-美国、民主德国和个别学校发生的事情的报告中使用的语言和布局模式。考虑到目前正在进行的两个地区（北莱茵-威斯特伐利亚和西柏林）的案例研究，现有的资料来源将由我们评估的定性数据（例如证人访谈）补充。在此基础上，我们试图重构学生期刊在各个学校是如何建立的，它们是如何变化的，以及日常学校生活现象和青年文化是如何在学生期刊中和通过学生期刊进行处理的。在拟议的项目供资期内，将继续开展相关工作。

Pursuant to the original proposal, the research project extension targets a cultural historical analysis of West German student journals dating from the 1950s and 1960s. A substantial contribution is thus made to a history of student journals in the Federal Republic of Germany that is yet to be established. The project is based on the hypothesis that the production and reception of student journals, which to a large part were issued at academic-track secondary schools (Gymnasium), enabled students too experience themselves as (self) effective subjects playing an active role in school life. As artefacts of school culture, student journals have held significant shares in school cultural change and the gradual development of school cultures, marked by participation. In the course of the project, a comprehensive collection of student journals was described as to its structural characteristics; roughly 7,000 individual journals were incorporated, most of which are accessible in digitised format and bibliographically indexed. Previously, the material had not been researched from a scientific perspective. Because indexing was more time-consuming than we had anticipated, we have only just been able to begin working on the next steps. For instance, we have not yet concluded the assessment of magazines regarding their content, thematic scope and (political) positions held by the authors. If the assumption is correct that in the act of production but also reception and communication of school journal contents, the students experienced themselves to be effective subjects able to influence public life at their schools, changes in (political) positions are presumably evident at different levels, particularly regarding the students' relationship to teachers, the institution as such and thus school authorities, apparent in school journals. Regarding the proposed project phase, a detailed analysis is envisaged at the level of individual articles, focusing on linguistic and layout patterns used in reports on (educational) political topics, US-America, the GDR and what happened at the individual schools. Considering the case studies for two regions that are currently work in progress (North-Rhine Westphalia and West Berlin), the existing corpus of sources will be complemented by qualitative data assessed by ourselves (e.g. witness interviews). On this basis, we intend to reconstruct how student journals were established at individual schools, how they changed and how daily school life phenomena and youth culture were processed in and by means of student journals. Respective work will be continued in the proposed period of project funding.