School magazines were features of particular school- and youth cultures in many urban schools in the post-war years. As artefacts produced by students themselves, they document how they dealt with the rather conservative educational goals of the Adenauer-era on the one hand and the emerging lifestyle ideals of Western youth-culture on the other. Although they were part of the scholastic socialization and thereby goal of educational intentions, school magazines were at the same time anything but mere instruments of forming of political will or didactical intention. Thus they are located within an interesting field between formal and informal education.

With respect to the genesis of school magazines - which in the beginning belonged to the re-educational program of the occupying power - it can be defined now for both, formal and youth-cultural aspects, how adolescents stationed themselves towards european topics of the post-war federal republic.

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