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German typeface in nazi era
Posted by venticaratteruzzi in
16 Jan 2011 — 1:51am
16 Jan 2011 — 1:51am
Anyone help me with the typeface usad in the main title of this page?
Thanks
carlo
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16 Jan 2011 — 2:54am
«Rundpost» and «Deutsches Gemeinschaftsblatt» are most likely custom lettering.
The official term for this abstract blackletter style is «Schlichte Gotisch» or «Gebrochene Grotesk».
The other Schlichte Gotisch looks like Tannenberg («Folge 34 / 26. August 1939»).
16 Jan 2011 — 3:02am
Der Bertrag... Schmale deutsche Anzeigenschrift by Rudolf Koch, Gebr. Klingspor, Offenbach/M [source: Hoffmanns Schriftatlas, 1930, Stuttgart]
Unfamous Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact.... That's how II World War started.
16 Jan 2011 — 8:38am
Wow, great find. I'm writing a research paper about Hitler as the 'art director' of the Third Reich, so this kind of thing is of interest.
Looks like an interesting, "modern" interpretation of the traditional German blackletter.
16 Jan 2011 — 9:16am
thanks to aarhaus and janekz, I was able to find a Tannenberg via the Dieter Steffman's page.
Unfortunately no digital version for the Rudolf Koch type.
16 Jan 2011 — 10:12am
Might want to look here for more Rudolf Kock fonts:
http://moorstation.org/koch_memorial/dl/index.htm
16 Jan 2011 — 1:51pm
http://www.dafont.com/tannenberg-fett.font?text=16
16 Jan 2011 — 2:10pm
Quite similar: National /1933-38/ Walter Höhnisch
Impressive collection is here: http://www.romana-hamburg.de/Schriftmappe.pdf
16 Jan 2011 — 2:29pm
Trevor: If you can get hold of Baseline 53 11/2007 there's an article in it that might interest you on Heinrich Hoffmann.
16 Jan 2011 — 4:57pm
I remember reading here a topic about the nazis culture department –don't remember the name in german– had claimed one or two typefaces as exclusive, apart from the blackletters, anyone remember which ones? I've tried looking without success
16 Jan 2011 — 7:05pm
You might also contact the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC. They have quite a collection of Nazi propaganda material.
17 Jan 2011 — 1:30am
@ Santiago: here are two threads which deal with nazi typography:
http://www.typophile.com/node/63986
http://www.typophile.com/node/64037
(there are several others, I will not go to the one about the nazi inventing Helvetica)
17 Jan 2011 — 2:15am
The bold text under "Der Vertrag ..." is likely Deutsche Anzeigenschrift in normal width. The body text might be Neue Fraktur (which you can pick up on typOasis' Blackletter Revival page).
19 Jan 2011 — 7:51am
@Trevor:
> Wow, great find. I'm writing a research paper
> about Hitler as the 'art director'
...in which case you might be interested in a book called »NSCI« by Andreas Koop (just in case you haven't heard about it yet). It seems to be out of print, but I just discovered this great site which says the NY public library has a copy.
19 Jan 2011 — 9:03am
aarhaus: There’s also an inofficial (negative) term for this style – »Schaftstiefelgrotesk«, derived from military boots. »Schaftstiefel« translates to »Jackboot«.
19 Jan 2011 — 10:28am
There’s also an inofficial (negative) term for this style – »Schaftstiefelgrotesk«
http://www.typophile.com/node/12130
19 Jan 2011 — 3:32pm
Well, since it was no less a figure than the post-WW2 German typographers’ Sacred Cow – Jan Tschichold – who coined the term «Schaftstiefelgrotesk», it’s hardly surprising that it is used so frequently and unquestioned today.
20 Jan 2011 — 2:44am
Another source for blackletter fonts is http://www.delbanco-frakturschriften.de/
20 Jan 2011 — 3:47am
Can anyone look at the letterforms in Tannenberg Fett and not see knee-high boots?
20 Jan 2011 — 9:35am
Can anyone look at this picture and not see that it is a vase?
The Schlichte Gotisch was the attempt to abstract broken letter forms – not the attempt to depict jackboots.
21 Jan 2011 — 1:46am
Can anyone look at Rorschach tests and not see something perverted?
I know already that Tannenberg et al are, one might say, blackletter sans, like one can call News Gothic an antiqua sans -- a plain, simplified typeface.
Our brains, I once read, are pattern-matching/-seeking devices. A look at the thick lines of Tannenberg Fett, specifically the T's stem, yields a match with a cavalry boot. Or the bottom end of a gutter drainpipe. Or a broken mallet.