NL was launched in 1953 and came out monthly in
East Berlin. The magazine was modeled on the West German magazine
Bravo. The target audience of
NL was East German youth. Its publisher was the
Free German Youth which was the official youth organization of the ruling party,
Socialist Unity Party. The goal of
NL was to reinforce the official views of the state among young people through articles about sex, relationships, pop stars and young workers. During the early 1980s it featured a regular column for the readers who asked questions about sexuality.{{cite journal|author=Ingrid Sharp|title=The Sexual Unification of Germany|journal=
Journal of the History of Sexuality|date=July 2004 Ingeborg Dittmann was the editor of
NL from 1973 to its closure in 1992.{{cite magazine|author=Josephine Hüetlin|title=Pop stars, sex and communism: the story behind an East German youth magazine|url=https://www.codastory.com/rewriting-history/neues-leben-magazine/ ==References==