Second issue of the SPK magazine, which has won international awards, has been published
Press release from 06/30/2010
The SPK magazine, first published in autumn 2009, is now in its second issue. second issue. The current issue focusses on the topic "Future". The first magazine won prizes in two of the most important international competitions in the public relations and corporate communications sector. At the "International Mercury Awards 2009/2010" in the "Public Relations" category, it received the Honours Award in the "Magazines: Special Audience" category. This was followed by a Silver Award at the "2010 Astrid Awards" for outstanding achievements in the field of "Design" in the "Magazines: Non-Profit Organisation" category.
"The fact that our still young magazine has already received two awards is confirmation that we have conveyed the topics and content that are close to our hearts in an appropriate form. This was also our benchmark for the second issue, which we are now able to present," emphasised Hermann Parzinger, President of the Foundation.
Under the title "Zukunftswerkstatt SPK. The future is digital", he describes the challenges facing cultural institutions in the digitisation of their cultural assets in the current issue of the SPK magazine. In an interview, the Chairman of the SPK Foundation Board, Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann, explains why culture is indispensable for the future of our society and what he sees as the SPK's tasks. SPK scholarship holders talk about what they will take with them into their future from their stay in Berlin, and Henning Schulte-Noelle reports on entrepreneurial commitment to art and culture and the success story of the Museum Island, which he has closely followed as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Museum Island for ten years. As in the first issue, a photo reportage, again produced in cooperation with the Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie und Gestaltung, shows impressions of the foundation's cosmos, this time under the title "Gedächtnisspeicher. A visit to the SPK's stacks and depots".
One article is dedicated to the Tell Halaf restoration project, which will be presented to the public in an exhibition in 2011, another to the current exhibition "Who knows tomorrow". Finally, twenty years after reunification, the former general directors Wolf-Dieter Dube (West) and Günter Schade (East) meet with the current general director of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Michael Eissenhauer, and summarise the events that ultimately led to the merging of their institutions.
"SPK. Magazine of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. Magazine of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation" aims to present the diversity of the Foundation's activities and its five institutions to a wider public. The bilingual magazine is aimed at decision-makers in politics, business, culture and science as well as friends, sponsors and partners of the Foundation. This issue of the magazine was printed and dispatched in a climate-neutral manner. This is another way in which the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation wants to make a contribution to the future.
The current magazine is available to download from the Foundation's website from today.
The printed edition can be ordered from the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin online shop.
Free press copies are available at magazin(at)hv.spk-berlin(dot)de. If you have any questions, suggestions or criticism, please do not hesitate to contact us at this address.