DeBug
De: Bug was a monthly magazine from Berlin devoted to "electronic aspects of life". In addition to electronic music styles such as techno , electro or house , the editorial team understood this to mean , above all, the interplay of the various aspects of life with modern technology. Techno and house were understood as the most direct aesthetic expression of digitization. The range of topics at De: Bug included the Internet as a social space, web and interface design , net art and file sharing as well as hardware developments, the latest computer games and software for musicians and other creative people.
In 1997 De: Bug was founded by Alexander Baumgardt, Mercedes Bunz , Jan Rikus Hillmann, Sascha Kösch , Andreas “Paule” Paulun, Riley Reinhold and Benjamin Weiss , who were reorganized after the bankruptcy of the techno magazine Frontpage . Co-founder and co-editor was Mercedes Bunz, who was also editor-in-chief from 1999 to 2001. The first edition was still published under the name Buzz , which, however, was initially changed to Re: Buzz and finally to De: Bug due to naming conflicts . Debugging is a technical term from computer language and, in a broader sense, means something like: "Find an error and repair it".
The first 21 issues were - as is usual with many scene magazines - financed through advertisements and were available free of charge in record shops and clubs, and subscriptions were also available. In 1999, the distribution of single copies was switched to the magazine and train station book trade. The De: Bug was available in newsagents in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Luxembourg.
The De: Bug editorial office was located in Berlin-Pankow (Prenzlauer Berg district), close to record labels, clubs, internet companies and fashion labels. The authors of the magazine were music producers , DJs , radio presenters , software designers , graphic artists or bloggers and thus themselves part of the culture described by De: Bug. Most recently, the core editorial team consisted of Sascha Kösch, Felix Knoke, Timo Feldhaus and Jan Wehn.
De: Bug stood out for its avant-garde layout, which was characterized by distinctive fonts and the large-format newspaper format with newsprint until 2004. The magazine has received numerous prizes and awards for its design, such as the Red dot design award for high design quality, the Award of Excellence of the European Newspaper Award and in 2008 the first place in the genre ranking Music & Film of the Lead Award .
Each issue was made available by the editors as a PDF file on their own website for the next issue to appear . Daily news and blog entries in categories such as screen, music, fashion and music technology were posted on the website www.de-bug.de. In addition, De: Bug was represented on the Internet with a web radio channel and its own podcasts .
The 2013 edition was 25,954 copies plus 2,881 free copies per issue.
De: Bug was published by its own independent De: Bug Verlags-Gesellschaft mbH under the management of Sascha Kösch . On March 11, 2014, Sascha Kösch announced that issue 181 would be the last printed issue.
Web links
- de-bug.de - Homepage of De: Bug
- de: Bug as PDF - De: Bug issues from number 45 for direct download
- Video about De: Bug: Part 1 , Part 2 and Part 3
- Tilman Baumgärtel: Let the hi-hats cascade! , Spiegel online , March 30, 1999
- Michael Pilz: For the 100th time: "De: Bug", magazine for digital existence , Die Welt
- Sascha Kösch: The DE: BUG Manifesto. A look back at 15 years of electronic life aspects de: Bug 165, September 2012
Individual evidence
- ↑ "The party is a" very cultivated form of "delimitation" taz , 7/2009
- ↑ a b Dirk Krömer: Happy the person who can say: I like to work. In: Brand eins , 6/2000, accessed on November 20, 2019.
- ↑ Sascha Kösch: De: Bug says goodbye