Basta (magazine)

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Basta! was an Austrian monthly magazine founded in 1983 and discontinued in 1994 .

history

The first edition of Basta appeared in April 1983. The brothers Wolfgang Fellner and Helmut Fellner appeared as founders of the magazine . The name is said to be based on a "word donation" by André Heller . The editors-in-chief were Wolfgang Fellner and Wolfgang Maier.

The magazine began in 1983 in a small editorial office in the 5th district in Vienna, where the Rennbahn-Express youth magazine, founded by the Fellner brothers, was also based. In 1984, however, the brothers sold both media (or the publisher) proportionally to the courier group .

The last regular edition of Basta appeared in June 1994. From July 1994 to September 1995, after the merger with the Wiener , 15 issues were published as “Wiener, Basta”, after which the Wiener was published again under its usual name. Before that there was massive resistance in the BASTA editorial team to the takeover by the “Wiener”, but the sale was a done deal on the part of the owner.

General

Pope John Paul II by Alfred Biber (title page)

Basta became known, among other things, through an alleged interview with the top candidate of the bourgeois Greens ( VGÖ ) Herbert Fux about his sex life, which of course turned out to be largely invented. Other celebrities were also given more or less true sex stories, but they remained without political significance. Fux, however, won the process following the faked article, but lost the National Council election on April 24, 1983, in which his group was initially considered to be promising, due to the internal controversy with Alexander Tollmann stimulated by the article in Basta .

“The harmonious harmony between Fux and Tollmann should only last a short time. The reason for the rift were passages from an interview by Herbert Fux in the magazine "Basta", given after his listing for the VGÖ, which concerned the intimate life of Fux. Herbert Fux himself always emphasized that he was quoted completely wrongly, even invented and successfully complained to "Basta" because of it. Alexander Tollmann must have lost confidence in the prominent candidate on his list, despite Fux's assurances. Both of them thus became political victims of an interview that was partially demonstrably fake. "

Journalists working at Basta included:

  • Conny Bischofberger (today interviewer at the Kronen Zeitung)
  • Dieter Chmelar (initially as head of sports, today at "Kurier")
  • Andreas Dressler
  • Michaela Ernst (Editor-in-Chief, "Weekend Magazin" and "Festspiele Magazin". Author)
  • Euke Frank (today Woman editor-in-chief)
  • Josef Galley (afterwards for News and "Austria", today press spokesman in the Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture)
  • Angelika Hager (known as Polly Adler)
  • Thomas Kralicek (now RTL)
  • Walter Mayer
  • Susi Riegler
  • Werner Schima (today chief editor at "Austria")
  • Alwin Schönberger (today profile)
  • Marga Swoboda († 2013, long-time columnist at Kronen Zeitung)
  • Cultural journalist Heinz Sichrovsky
  • Tino Teller (today at News)
  • Andreas H. Ubell (today editor in charge of the broadcast at ATV and Schau TV)
  • Karl Wendel (now with "Austria") Manfred Klimek (photographer) Gregor Wagner (photographer - now head of communications at Forum Mobilfunk) Ricardo Herrgott (photographer) Martin Vukovits (photographer)

Werner Schima acted as editor-in-chief (later editor-in-chief at News and today at “Austria”). Christian Neuhold was in charge of the special parts. The now deceased Rennbahnexpress boss Peter Leopold took care of the music reviews. After the leading BASTA editors, including Schima, followed Wolfgang Fellner for the founding of News, Dieter Chmelar, Angelika Hager and Heinz Sichrovsky took over the management of the editorial team for a few weeks.

Then Robert Sterk was installed as editor-in-chief against the will of the editors via the courier company (represented by Peter Rabl). Chmelar, Galley and Ubell as works council tried to avert this. Without success. Even a strike against Sterk had no effect on the representatives of the courier group.

Sterk, who previously worked for WIENER's Deputy Editor-in-Chief, managed BASTA without success until it was hired, mainly because a large part of the editorial staff did not want to follow his editorial line. Most of the editorial staff left BASTA before the end.

Basta was at times heavily noticed in the media and was also quoted by daily newspapers. The better-known articles from the initial phase of the magazine include “The secret government bunker”, “Hans H. Groer confessed at Basta” and “The cannon affair” ( Noricum scandal ). The paper also reported on the Lucona scandal. "Action reports" such as the "Aids KZ" or "The False Waldheim in Falkenstein" also received media attention.

Over the years, the magazine has had various subtitles or title additions, including: “ Austria's first illustrated magazine ”, “ Illustrated conversation piece for Austria ” and “ The magazine on the pulse of time ”.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ How a party went down "live" on the radio . arbeiter-zeitung.at. March 25, 1983. Retrieved June 20, 2011.
  2. ↑ Elections as turning points. 3. The “Greens” in Austria ( Memento of the original from January 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mediathek.at
  3. ↑ Curriculum Vitae. connybischofberger.com, accessed on January 11, 2014 .
  4. ^ Conny Bischofberger : Adieu, dear Marga! Kronen Zeitung , November 22, 2013, accessed on January 13, 2014 .

literature

  • Armin Thurnher : The trauma, one life: Austrian details Vienna 1999, page 237.