Corona Magazine

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Corona Magazine
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description Science fiction and fantasy magazine
language German
publishing company in color and multicolored (Germany)
First edition 1997
Frequency of publication per month
Editor-in-chief Björn Sülter
Web link http://www.corona-magazine.de

The Corona Magazine is a free, bi-monthly online magazine focusing science fiction and fantasy . It has been published since 2014 by the Verlag in Farb und Bunt , which specializes in literature from the fantastic field. The magazine has also been published as an e-book on all known platforms such as Amazon , ITunes and Google Play since 2014 . In addition to the current issue, an archive with all issues published up to that point is available on the magazine's website. With over 8,800 subscribers, the magazine describes itself as the largest online magazine in the German SF world.

history

The forerunner of the magazine was founded as an e-mail newsletter in Switzerland in 1997 by Philipp Ruch under the name “WOR” or “WORM”. Ruch was editor-in-chief, with Rafael Scholl and Martin Seebacher serving as additional editors. The initial readership consisted of 50 predominantly CompuServe users. In terms of content, the newsletter mainly dealt with Star Trek .

In the same year with the 25th issue, the newsletter was renamed “Star Trek Outpost for Relevant Messages” (STORM) and presented itself in a more complex way: Instead of a simple list of messages, it now had several sections, a table of contents and direct links to the most important messages.

In mid-1998 Philipp Ruch was editor-in-chief and Rafael Scholl was deputy editor-in-chief. Other senior editors were Markus Müller, Martin Seebacher and Markus Wüthrich. Text chief Dennis Horn later also became editor-in-chief.

After the 40th edition in 1998, the newsletter was renamed "Corona". The circulation was now 4,670 readers. Dennis Horn succeeded Philipp Ruch as editor-in-chief in September 1999 with the 55th edition . The circulation is 8,570 readers.

With the October 2014 issue, Corona Magazine changed its publication frequency to a free e-book, which can be downloaded from all common portals. An e-book-compatible display device ( Amazon Kindle , Tolino , iPhone / iPad, Android smartphone / tablet, etc.) or appropriate software on the PC (e.g. Caliber or Adobe Digital Editions ) is required for reading . Mike Hillenbrand and Jennifer Christina Michels were editors and editors-in-chief from 2014 to 2018 .

Mike Hillenbrand is also the publisher, Björn Sülter has been editor-in-chief since 2018 . The team of around 30 editors includes a. well-known writers and professional journalists, editors and translators such as Armin Rößler , Bernd Perplies , Christian Humberg and Hermann Ritter .

In the course of its 17-year history, numerous professionals from the media world have written in Corona Magazine. Since 2017, the online Corona Magazine has been giving awards together with the magazine Fantastisch! the audience award German Fantasy Prize .

content

At times when several Star Trek and other science fiction series ( Babylon 5 , Space 2063 or the X-Files ) ran parallel on television, most of the magazine articles also referred to Star Trek and science fiction. Due to the dwindling audience interest in these topics, more franchises have been added to the reports and articles over time. The fantasy division was also increasingly included. Today Corona Magazine deals with all topics related to fantastic worlds.

Regular sections in the magazine are:

  1. Spotlight (lead story )
  2. News from the SF, book, TV and cinema world
  3. TV tips with a focus on science fiction and fantasy
  4. Reviews of films, books, comics, etc.
  5. Interviews with authors, actors, draftsmen etc.
  6. Science articles
  7. Short story

The magazine has remained non-commercial to this day.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Imprint of the 300th edition
  2. ↑ Philipp Ruch, Rafael Scholl: Corona issue 55.Retrieved on December 13, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b Corona Magazine October 2014 [1]
  4. ↑ Imprint of the 1st e-book edition 2014
  5. ↑ Mike Hillenbrand: Foreword . In: Corona Magazine , issue 01/2018, ISBN 978-3-95936-091-3 . (Announcement of the expansion of the editorial team), Björn Sülter: Foreword . In: Corona Magazine , Edition 02/2018, ISBN 978-3-95936-092-0 . (As editor-in-chief)
  6. ↑ Approach to the German Fantastic Prize 2017 - The nomination round for the audience award has started perry-rhodan.net by Pabel-Moewig Verlag KG , March 7, 2017