Sinn und Form: Anatomy of a literary journal

尽管是民主德国的产物，但《新与形式》在20世纪50年代的冷战背景下作为东柏林艺术学院的著名文学期刊获得了独特的国际声誉。不仅在东德四十年的历史中，面对SED试图将杂志工具化的企图，以及不同的编辑具有非常不同的政治和美学背景，Sinn und Form仍然保持着这种地位，而且Sinn und Form是少数几个成功谈判过渡到统一后德国的前东德机构之一。该项目旨在撰写该杂志的第一部全面历史，试图解释该杂志的“传奇”是如何构建的，最重要的是，该杂志在五十多年来保持这种声誉的非凡能力。与此同时，该项目还将阐明使文学期刊成为文化领域机构的构成要素，以及这些期刊作为该领域代理人所发挥的作用。

Despite being a product of the GDR, Sinn und Form achieved a unique international reputation within the Cold War context of the 1950s as the prestigious literary journal of the East Berlin Academy of Arts. Not only was that status maintained throughout the forty-year history of the GDR in the face of SED attempts to instrumentalise the journal and by different editors with very different political and aesthetic backgrounds, but Sinn und Form is one of the few former East German institutions to have successfully negotiated the transition to post-unification Germany. This project sets out to write the first comprehensive history of the journal, seeking to explain how the 'legend' of the journal was constructed and, above all, the remarkable capacity of the journal to maintain that reputation over more than fifty years. At the same time, the project will shed light on the constituent elements which shape literary journals as institutions within the cultural field and on the role played by such journals as agents in that field.