The existing article about EVAU described an architecture magazine. The reality is entirely different. EVAU was a German-language Gesellschaftsmagazin — a society magazine — devoted to Vereine (clubs and associations), Ehrenamt (volunteering), and bürgerschaftliches Engagement (civic participation). Published from Stuttgart by the editorial agency Magaziniker, it was co-edited by Anton Tsuji and Florian Burkhardt, who set out to tell the stories of the more than 600,000 clubs and associations in Germany and the passionate people who run them.
The magazine earned a Special Mention at the German Design Award from the Rat für Formgebung, with the jury praising its compelling reportage, strong photography, and a modern, creative layout that adapted to its content. For a small indie publication about volunteering to share a stage with design-industry heavyweights was a validation of both the concept and the craft.
EVAU ran for three print issues before the project concluded. The online magazine remains archived but is no longer updated. It was, while it lasted, a genuinely original proposition: a beautifully designed independent magazine that took civic life seriously enough to give it the editorial and visual treatment usually reserved for fashion or architecture. The people who wupp things — who get things done, in the untranslatable German sense — deserved that attention, and EVAU gave it to them.
<a href="https://evau-mag.de/">Visit EVAU