{"id":4195,"date":"2016-04-07T01:35:52","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T23:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gr-01.de\/www-whitepapers.grafik-und-redaktion.de\/?p=4195"},"modified":"2016-04-07T01:35:52","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T23:35:52","slug":"volksbuehne-berlin-poster-campaign-fonts-in-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whitepapers.grafik-und-redaktion.de\/?p=4195","title":{"rendered":"Volksb\u00fchne Berlin Poster Campaign – Fonts In Use"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>So, what to make of this? I\u2019m on the fence here. On one hand, I\u2019m a sucker for blackletter type, and I love to see it in contemporary use. On the other, I wonder whether it was necessary to include Potsdam and N\u00fcrnberg in the mix. What\u2019s in a name? Well, see above. Does the Volksb\u00fchne really want to put itself into this lineage? Why tie in with the aesthetics of the theater\u2019s darkest years? If blackletter, why not something more recent like Kaas, Moyenage, Fakir, Rostrot, Brokenscript? There are countless unsuspicious typefaces that would fulfill the conditions of being attention-grabbing and unused in the theater world.I guess I know the answers. One is: It wouldn\u2019t matter, because laymen will peg just any blackletter as \u201cNazi type\u201d, irregardless of its origin. How ironic. Make no mistake \u2014 LSD is very much aware of the status of blackletter as Nazi victim. Leonard Neumann: We have provided the theater staff with background material on the ban of Fraktur in Nazi Germany from 1941 on. This way, the intended unsettledness [of the audience] may lead to obtaining an information that actually is not one-dimensional. The true reason for banning blackletter and defaming it as \u201cJewish\u201d was the fact that it was considered illegible outside of Germany, and hence was in the way to \u200b\u200bworld domination somehow. It\u2019s a good example for how propaganda works.The other answer is: Volksb\u00fchne doesn\u2019t have to be \u201ctasteful\u201d, let alone politically correct. They want to provoke. And they come off best by choosing the most extreme option \u2014 not Bastard, but \u201cthe real thing\u201d. I find this kind of provocation a little superficial and maybe too easy, but its effectiveness is hard to deny. I\u2019ll give them that: The Volksb\u00fchne is likely the only institution that gets away with bringing Potsdam and N\u00fcrnberg back to the streets of Berlin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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