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physica status solidi − Legacy, Present, and Future

The past year marks the end of an era for physica status solidi (pss): on the 18th of April, 2018, its Founding Editor Karl Wolfgang Böer, passed away at the age of 92. On the occasion of this sad event, let us look back on his invention, his lasting legacy and the future opportunities for the journal. In the early 1960’s, Böer, while living in Spandau (WestBerlin), was a young professor at the Humboldt University Berlin (East) and institute director at the East-German Academy of Sciences. His great determination obviously met favorable circumstances within the East-German state that wanted to gain larger international recognition at the high time of the Cold War. He managed to persuade the Academy to create a new research outlet of a kind that had not previously existed before then solely dedicated to the growing field of solid state physics and aimed at rapid publication: 16–50 days within a pure print environment certainly still sound quite competitive, even today. From the outset, physica status solidi (with academic Latin as the 5th, “neutral” language of the journal title besides German, English, French and Russian used in the articles) was designed as an international publication, at least on a European level during its first years. Consequently, the masthead of the inaugural issue displayed 14 eminent Editorial Board members from both eastern and western European countries (for example, Peter T. Landsberg from Cardiff), followed by a Review and 12 German-language research articles. Unfortunately, the fate of the journal after the first issue that appeared in July, 1961, did not look very bright: a few weeks later, on the 13th of August, 1961, the Berlin Wall was built which, as one its merest but crucial consequences for pss, immediately cut off the journal from its communication paths to the West. The closure of the Iron Curtain in Berlin triggered further critical