Bernd Polster

Since the late Nineties Bernd Polster has been running normalbuch as chief editor and art director, an office for the conceptual design and production of illustrated books (book packaging), with Eduard Rühmann (founder of normal records, one of the early German independent labels), as well as formguide.de, an internet platform for German furniture and home accessory design.

In the 1980s and 1990s he traveled through Europe in order to write articles for high quality magazines such as GEO, for which he wrote portraits of universities.

He was awarded with the RIAS prize for the opening feature Alltag Made in USA In his radio documentaries Bernd Polster took on topics related to a multicultural society, subcultural movements and biographies of artists, dancers and musicians.

In Requiem für Theresienstadt – Der böhmische Künstler Peter Kien (on an artist and writer killed in Auschwitz), again the two topics came together in one documentary.

Bernd Polster published guidebooks for Great Britain, South of England and the Caribbean, as well as city guides for London, Prague and Vienna.

His latest book is "bauhaus design", the first comprehensive overview on this topic, and a biography on Peter Ghyczy, an architect, inventor and entrepreneur.