The organ
| The organ
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| description | Artist magazine |
| language | German |
| publishing company | KOMET Druck- und Verlagshaus GmbH, Pirmasens |
| First edition | 1946 |
| Frequency of publication | per month |
| editor | KOMET Druck- und Verlagshaus GmbH, Pirmasens |
| ISSN |
0030-4891 |
The organ was a German magazine for variety and circus . After the Second World War, the magazine was first published in Düsseldorf and later in Pirmasens .
content
The organ offered information from the variety, show and circus sectors. Some articles have been printed in several languages. Permanent rubrics were
- From the Federal Republic of Germany
- Fixtures
- Ads by artists, circuses and event companies
history
The organ of the Varieté-Welt , trade journal of the international Varieté-Theater- and Circus-Directors Association eV was founded in 1946.
As a rule, it appeared monthly until 1998 in a total of 50 years. According to the imprint in issue 1, 4th volume, 1949, the publisher was Organ-Verlag, Düsseldorf, owner Heinrich Smeets. The name and subtitle of the magazine have changed slightly over time. The publisher according to the legal notice from 1978 to 1998 was KOMET, a printing and publishing house in Pirmasens.
From 1978 onwards, Rudolf Geller reported on the Circus and Varieté Museum in every issue. To this end, he presented circus companies in alphabetical order from Issue 1, 1978 to Issue 5, 1981. From issue 7, 1981, Geller started the "The New Artist's Lexicon" and presented artists from various genres in alphabetical order every month, including numerous magicians. The lexicon ends with the 12th edition 1998 with the letter M.
The first years comprised 24 to 60 pages per issue. They were stapled. Later the page volume grew and required perfect binding of the issues. In the 1980s, the booklets had a page volume of up to 100 pages, about half of which consisted of advertisements. It is little known that the full-page advertisements of the vaudeville houses of the time, such as B. the Hansa-Theater in Hamburg, had to be financed by the performing artists. The program reviews must therefore always be viewed with a certain degree of skepticism. The organ was still produced using the traditional letterpress process until the early 1990s. The new artist magazine "Das Künstlermagazin" from the gedu publishing house, which was emerging during this period, made a major contribution to the organ's finally cessation of publication in 1998.
Individual evidence, notes
- ↑ The change cannot be dated exactly. The information given here is based in part on individual copies that prove the publication in Düsseldorf and on editions that appeared in Pirmasens up to the end of the publication.
- ↑ [1]