Bernd Polster

Bernd Polster ( born June 22, 1952 in Celle ) is a German journalist.

Life and work

During his studies he worked on the " critique of bourgeois science." In his thesis knowledge as a prerequisite of advanced learning using the example of a psychological seminar he examined shortcomings of academic psychology. Parallel to his studies, he turned to art and photography. This was followed by exhibitions with collages, drawings and photos of punk musicians and disused stations. Since 1980 he works as a freelance writer. In the 1990s, he founded the " office for book culture 'and developed websites such as " form guide " and" bonnweh ".

Bernd Polster lives in Bonn.

Publications

Cushion first book, filling stations. The petrol story is an exemplary billing with capitalism. Where he - like all his later books - was also responsible for the image retrieval and selection. In the 1980s and 1990s, he traveled through Europe as reportage journalist, including for the magazine GEO. He is the author of television and radio documentaries and has done hundreds of interviews. In 1995 he initiated west wind, a theme week of WDR on the Americanization of our lives. For the opening day feature Made in USA, he was awarded the RIAS - TV Award.

In his radio documentaries for the WDR, NDR, Radio Bremen and the Germany radio to Bernd Polster has been dealing with artists' biographies and phenomena of the multi-cultural society, in its London - portraits Calypso in cold country - Nottighill Carnival and Dance on the Volcano - London ethnic mix. In Requiem for Theresienstadt - The Bohemian artist Peter Kien fall both issues together.

From upholstery published guide to Great Britain, southern England and the Caribbean and to the cities of London, Prague and Vienna. Here he also took the photograph. In addition, he wrote city portraits, including Baghdad and Bradford. Finally, he wrote historical essays city for picture books about Bonn and Cologne and - together with RWLE Möller - an illustrated history of his native city of Celle.

For GEO- season designed, researched and wrote from 1990 for six years, the cultural calendar, were introduced in the European cultural events in short essays, a text form later frequently used by him. This project as well as other books and guides he realized with the Englishwoman Mandy Howard, his present wife.

In 2001, he was for several years responsible for the " design side" of the Financial Times Germany, where he developed sections such dispute objects, a dialogue between opposing design solutions, entrepreneurs, a series of entrepreneur - portraits and the legendarium, a critical column about design classics.

The he - along with Mandy Howard and the graphic artist Olaf Meyer - developed series design lexicons, is presented in five volumes in each case the design culture of a country ( Germany, UK, Italy, Scandinavia and the USA), has been translated into four languages. 2009 appeared the Chinese edition.

Learn His brochures school on stilts and WI'R are portraits of educational reform projects. The volumes bauhaus design and car design are internationally recognized as standard works. In Can you sit on it also? , A satirical design history, he attacked the certainties of the industry.

Works

Writings

  • Gas stations. The gasoline history. Transit, Berlin 1982.
  • With RWLE Möller: The solid house. Story of a criminal factory. Transit, Berlin 1984.
  • Astrid Eichstedt: How the savages. Dances at the height of her time. Red Book, Berlin 1985.
  • Cologne. Vista Point, Cologne 1986.
  • Bonn. Vista Point, Cologne 1988.
  • Swing Heil. Jazz in National Socialism. Transit, Berlin 1989.
  • Vienna. Vista Point, Cologne 1990.
  • London. Vista Point, Cologne 1991.
  • Southern England. Vista Point, Cologne 1992.
  • Caribbean. Lesser Antilles - The South. Vista Point, Cologne 1995.
  • Caribbean. Lesser Antilles - The North. Vista Point, Cologne 1995.
  • England and Wales. HB- Atlas, Hamburg 1995.
  • West Wind - The Americanization of Europe. Dumont, Cologne in 1995.
  • Super or Normal - gas stations. Making of a Modern Myth. Dumont, Cologne in 1996.
  • Phil Patton: Hwy. America's endless dream. Dumont, Cologne 1996 ( am edition 1996).
  • Prague. Dumont, Cologne in 1997.
  • Design Encyclopedia Scandinavia. Dumont, Cologne 1999 ( en., am, Fr., And it. Edition 2000, Chinese edition 2009).
  • Design lexicon Italy. (Ed.) Dumont, Cologne 1999 ( en., am, Fr., And it. Edition 2000, Chinese edition 2009).
  • Bonn. Bouvier, Bonn 1998.
  • The design book. Munich 1999 (am. 1999 edition ).
  • Design lexicon Germany. Dumont, Cologne 2000 ( en., am, Fr., And it. Edition 2001, Chinese edition 2009).
  • Design lexicon UK. (Ed.) Dumont, Cologne 2000 ( en., am, Fr., And it. Edition 2001, Chinese edition 2009).
  • With Björn Spring Feldt: Björm Dahlström. Shaper. Swedish Embassy, Berlin, 2000.
  • Design Encyclopedia United States. Dumont, Cologne 2002 ( Chinese Edition 2009).
  • With RWLE Möller: Celle. The city book. City Edition book, Bonn 2003.
  • Manual Design International. Cologne 2004.
  • Furniture Design Germany. Dumont, Cologne 2005.
  • Brown. 50 years product innovation. Dumont, Cologne 2005 ( en. 2009 edition ).
  • Peter Maly Hamburg. Designografie. Dumont, Cologne 2007.
  • Wohndesign Germany. The classic. Dumont, Cologne 2008 ( en. 2008 edition).
  • Ulrike Jaeschke: School on stilts. From 1958 to 2008. The history and prehistory of the Till Eulenspiegel school. Bonn 2008.
  • Volker Fischer and Katja Simon: bauhaus design. Products of the New Objectivity. Dumont, Cologne 2009.
  • Peter Ghyczy - The Evolutionary / The Evolutioner. Dumont, Cologne 2010.
  • International car design: with Phil Patton. DuMont, Cologne 2010.
  • WI'R learn. Winterhuder reform school. Hamburg 2010.
  • And you can also sit on it? As design works. DuMont, Cologne 2011.
  • Kronberg Meets Cupertino. What Apple and Brown really have in common. in: Apple Design (catalog ), Hamburg 2011 ( en. 2011 edition ).
  • Murano. Classic of Italian glass designs. (Ed.) Dumont, Cologne, 2012.
  • Tango mania. The first dance wave. in: APuZ, Bonn 2013.

Broadcasting

  • I was such a Storming. The term dancer Jean Weidt. WDR 1986.
  • Green is the Heath. A landscape is changing. Radio Bremen in 1986.
  • Celler fame. A German city from A to Z. Radio Bremen in 1987.
  • Calypso in the cold country. London's Notting Hill Carnival. WDR 1987.
  • Since shaking the wall. As the Allies were victorious and musically. WDR 1988.
  • Little Red Brick. The Vienna courtyards. WDR 1987.
  • Requiem for Theresienstadt. The Bohemian artist Peter Kien. WDR 1990.
  • Bohemian Blues. The musical prelude to the revolution. WDR 1991.
  • Dance on the Volcano. London's ethnic mix. WDR 1992.
  • Bollywood. British -Indian pop music. DLF 1993.
  • Trinidad tiger. The Calypso King. WDR 1993.
  • Swing Heil! Youth protest in National Socialism. WDR 1994.
  • Rabatz in Biedermann country. The rock and roll rebellion. WDR 1994.
  • West Side Story 1: Protest Culture Factory America. WDR 1995.
  • West Side Story 2: Lifestyle factory America. WDR 1995.
  • The Kanakenkartel. Turkish Rap from Germany. WDR 1996.
  • Stint in Baghdad. A journey into the realm of evil. NDR 2002.
  • Generation ghetto. South Asians in the UK. WDR and DLF 2003.
  • The invention of the gas station. Radio Germany, 2012.
  • The architect of his fame. Walter Gropius and modernity. WDR 2013.

TV

  • The German forest. Cultural histories. WDR 1994.
  • The gas station. Cultural histories. WDR 1993.
  • The whitening agent. 75 years detergent. WDR 1986.
  • 50 years German occupation of Czechoslovakia. WDR 1989.
  • 25 years of accident research. WDR 1989.
  • Green was the heath. Hermann Lons. WDR 1986.
  • Little Red Brick building the big world. Red Vienna. WDR 1987.
  • West wind. Everyday life made ​​in the USA. WDR 1995.
  • As the savages. A history of dance in 4 episodes. WDR 1989.
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