Berndt Media
| Berndt Media-Verlag | |
|---|---|
| legal form | |
| founding | 1986 |
| Seat | Bochum |
| management | Joachim Berndt |
| Branch | media |
| Website | www.kultur-kino-bildung.de |
The Berndt Media-Verlag , based in Bochum are the monthly magazines choices , angel and trailer out and sells the Düsseldorf Kinomagazin biographer . Joachim Berndt is the founder and owner.
history
Berndt Media-Verlag was founded in 1986 by Joachim Berndt. The original task was the general agency of taz in the Rhine-Ruhr area. From April 1989 the Cologne cinema magazine choices was published as the first self-founded . In 2001 the magazines engels in Wuppertal and trailer for the Ruhr area were founded. Initially these were purely film art magazines, but over time they covered the entire spectrum of metropolitan culture. From 2006, a monthly focus on a current socio-political topic was added, which is examined from a multi-perspective. In addition, the publisher occasionally issues special publications on certain topics (dance nrw, solidarity concepts, classical nrw etc.). In addition, Berndt Media-Verlag sells the Düsseldorf film magazine biograph . The website www.kultur-kino-bildung.de sees itself as a showcase of Berndt Media publishing house, in which the best articles from choices , trailer and angel are presented. The publishing house has ten permanent employees, four graphic designers and around 50 freelance authors. Together with the AKAFOE culture office boskop, he offers the course in cultural journalism at the Ruhr University in Bochum.
Memberships
Berndt Media-Verlag has been a member of the Federal German Working Group for Environmentally Conscious Management since the late 1990s. V., BAUM for short, a network for sustainable business. Since he has signed the BAUM code of conduct for sustainable business, the BAUM logo can be affixed to the booklets. The magazines published by Berndt Media-Verlag were one of the first to be climate-neutral printed on chlorine-free paper. In line with its ethical understanding of the company, the publisher works with a printing company that guarantees that there are no editions of trickery. Owner Joachim Berndt is a member of Greenpeace and Attac as well as a cooperative member of the taz .
Berndt Media-Verlag is a member of the information community for determining the distribution of advertising media (IVW), which controls the circulation of the magazines externally. This is now a unique selling point among the magazines on the Rhine and Ruhr.
Prices
Berndt-Media-Verlag has donated numerous prizes: the "choices audience award - Cineasia Award 2007" at the cineasia filmfestival # 6, the "choices audience award international competition" at the European short film festival unlimited # 1, the "choices audience award" at the short cuts cologne short film festival 2006, the "trailer-Querdenker-Preis" at the "blick. Film Festival from the Ruhr Area "2008, the" trailer-ruhr Audience Award "at the International Women's Film Festival (IFFF) Dortmund | Cologne 2009, the "Berndt Media Prize - Best Film Title" at the Lünen Kinofest etc. The prizes are presented in the form of a statue or certificate.