Aufstieg und Fall #1 / June 2009

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For the beginning of our Aufstieg und Fall adventure we’ve decided to use its name as a main theme, the exciting and often tragic rise and fall of life, as we know it. …

Facts & Figures
Mission Statement: Looking around these days it is not difficult to affirm that the world has become a wild roller-coaster which is accelerating unstoppable and the triple-loop is awaiting around every corner. The information age, as we’ve been baptized, has become a mad tombola where almost everybody can get their high tech-satellite controlled-fiber optic-computerized piece of the cake. Where did all those analog experiences of our childhood go? No matter what happens, how many trillions of Petabytes we’re able to file, or how many iRelationships we have – the absurdity and beauty of life perseveres. And those moments; awesome, perverse, and fascinating fill the pages of this magazine. Aufstieg und Fall investigates the curious human behavior and extravagant details that lie under the headlines dominating the media and the conversations in the cue of the supermarket. As the old saying goes: what goes up must come down. True, but boring. Long before the information age, Flannery O‘Connor took it a step further and wrote ‘everything that rises must converge’. Life is and will be a journey and all what we see, hear and feel along the way come together and form who we are. People come and go, trends rise and fall, ideas heave and ho and the best we can do is hold on and enjoy the ride. The world has always been a complex, scary, dazzling place and Aufsteig und Fall is a new prism through which we filter life on Earth.
Founded: 2008 by Berliner KommunikationsFORUM e.V
Based in: Berlin, Germany
Editors / Designers: Ivan Aranega (Chief Editor); Susann Kramer & Christian Schneider (Art Direction)
Periodicity: Quarterly
Language: German/English
Format: 4c, 112 pages
Circulation: 10 000
Price: 5,80 €
Web: aufstiegundfall.com
Contact: sandra.broschat (at) aufstiegundfall.com