The article deals with the question which stylistic and thematic continuities and ruptures can be found in the illustrated enter­tainment magazines Das Leben and Das Magazin after the handover of power to the National Socialists. For this purpose, all issues from December 1932 to December 1934 are subjected to a close reading. On the one hand, it is important to gain an overview of the develop­ment e. g. of stagings of gender and nude photos, depictions of big city and country life etc.; on the other hand, nego­tiations of Adolf Hitler are analysed. It turns out that the magazines contribute to a suggestion of normality by behaving in a largely resilient way towards National Socialist themes. Das Magazin also features apoliticising aesthetici­sations of Hitler. All in all, the pre-pop-cultural consumer aesthetics in enter­tainment magazines of the 1920s were compatible with the NS regime and fit into its propa­gandistic concept even by ignoring the political changes.

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Lickhardt, Maren (2025): „Zwischen Resilienz und Anpassung. Unter­haltungs­maga­zine im Kontext des National­sozialis­mus um 1933“, in: Anna Seidel und dies. (Hg.): Pop und Populis­mus in den Unter­haltungs­maga­zinen um 1933. Hamburg (Sonderheft Kultur­wissen­schaft­liche Zeit­schrift), S. 87–108. DOI: https://doi.org/10.28937/9783787349531_5.