Date (magazine)

DATE
description	Austrian monthly magazine
publishing company	Sentence structure publisher
First edition	May 1, 2004
Frequency of publication	per month
Sold edition	10,000 (2014) copies
( observer.at , 2008)
Editor-in-chief	Stefan Apfl
Web link	www.date.at

DATUM - Seiten der Zeit is an Austrian magazine that has been published since 2004 . The magazine appears ten times a year, with a double edition being published for the months of July / August and December / January. Launched to 10,000.

The magazine appears in the classic magazine format (21 by 28 centimeters) with a scope of 96 to 116 pages and is printed on non-glossy normal paper. The magazine is distributed by the distribution company Morawa . The editor-in-chief has been Stefan Apfl since November 2015.

history

Date was founded by Klaus Stimeder and financial consultant Johannes Weyringer with the ambition to offer an alternative to the papers previously available on the market. The declared goal of Datum was to become the Austrian equivalent of magazines like “New Yorker” and Zeit in the long term .

Together with the magazine's zero number, the editorial advisory board was also presented in May 2004, which was supposed to support the young editorial team in an advisory capacity. It consisted of Michael Frank , the correspondent of the Süddeutsche Zeitung in Vienna, the well-known pastor Georg Sporschill , as well as the renowned Austrian journalists Peter Huemer , Barbara Coudenhove-Kalergi and Anneliese Rohrer .

Initially, the magazine was still produced in the editor-in-chief's apartment, but it soon earned a reputation as a quality medium among observers and critics . The Neue Zürcher Zeitung called Datum 2005 an “Austrian Trouvaille”, and columnist Tyler Brûlé named Datum the “International best news magazine” in the Financial Times in the same year . The artist Günter Brus and the philosopher Franz Schuh could be won as regular columnists .

In 2009 Stimeder handed over the editor-in-chief to the journalist Stefan Kaltenbrunner, in 2010 he finally sold his shares to his partner Weyringer, who in turn sold a minority stake to Stefan Kaltenbrunner. In 2013 half of the date went to the media holding company Medecco , founded by the former Styria Media Group board member (later Red Bull Mediahouse and now the News publishing group) Horst Pirker and the former managing director of the daily newspaper die Presse , Reinhold Gmeinbauer. In 2015, Medecco became the sole owner of the magazine.

In February 2016, Medecco announced that the magazine Datum no longer fits into the strategic image of the holding company, which wants to concentrate on “top-notch” titles. The journalist Stefan Apfl, who only took over the editor-in-chief from Kaltenbrunner in November 2015, then bought the title rights and the subscriber file of Datum as part of a so-called asset deal , and announced that he wanted to make a future possible for Datum.

On October 8, 2016, after a break of several months, the first issue of Datum will be published by the newly founded Satzbau Verlag. Before that, Monopol Medien GmbH and ex-LIF boss Alexander Zach had joined as investors.

On May 4, 2018 it was announced that Zeitverlag is aiming for a cooperation with date on the reader and advertising market. The current publishing representative of Zeitverlag, Sebastian Loudon , will also be the publisher of Datum .

content

The content of the magazine is multi-thematic; in addition to reports and analyzes of domestic policy, each issue also includes reports on foreign policy and multi-page photo series. Social and cultural issues are dealt with in the Lifestyle section. A well-known recurring rubric was a monthly interview format, which was initially conducted by Michael Fleischhacker , later by Sibylle Hamann and then by Claudia Unterweger . Current columnists are Franz Schuh and the journalist Saskia Jungnikl . Former columnists include the editor-in-chief of the daily Die Presse Rainer Nowak and the author Katja Kullmann .

In the German press, for example, an investigative research from 2014 was widely quoted from Datum , according to which large German companies are trying to manipulate public opinion with fake postings; a few years earlier, an interview with the journalist Arpad Hagyo, who worked for the newspaper Austria conducted a telephone interview with the robber during a bank robbery. There was also a report about the discovery of an action by the artist group Do we have no other worries , which wanted to expose populism in Austria with a fictitious correspondence to summit crosses .

Prizes and awards

Since its inception, Datum has received numerous national and international awards and nominations. Here is a selection from the past 10 years.

2015

• Austrian magazine award for "Netzflüsterer", by Stefan Apfl and Sarah Kleiner
• 2015: Journalist of the year - special award for quality in the niche

2014

• Dr. Rudolf Bohmann Prize for young journalists for "Heaven on Earth" by Christina Pausackl
• Prälat-Leopold-Ungar-Journalist-Award 2014 to date editor Nina Brnada

2013

• Austrian magazine award for "How we want to die" by Thomas Trescher
• The best young journalists of 2013: The trade journal »Der Österreichische Journalist« selected the date authors Nina Brnada, Moritz Gottsauner-Wolf and Hanna Silbermayr as one of the 30 best young journalists in Austria.

2012

• Speaker and dialogue award from the German Institute for Future Policy for “The End of Modesty” by Anna Giulia Fink and Florian Skrabal, as well as for “Styrian Mohicans” by Benedikt Narodoslawsky.

2011

• Axel Springer Prize for "Happy is dead" by Gerald Drißner (first award for a contribution from Austria)
• Journalist of the year : Special prize for innovation for Stefan Kaltenbrunner and Klaus Stimeder (the special innovation prize was also awarded in 2005 and 2009)

Other awards

• At the end of 2008, a jury from the international Colophon magazine symposium in Luxembourg selected Datum as one of the 100 most innovative magazines worldwide. In this list, DATE is one of the few text-heavy magazines.
• In 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009 and 2011, the magazine was voted the most popular domestic magazine for FM4 listeners.
• In 2006 and 2007 a Sports Media Austria (professional representative of the Austrian sports journalists) went to Date: to Gerald John for “Lichtgestalt” (2006) and Helmut Neundlinger for “Wunderkind” (2007).
• In October 2007, Lukas Kapeller received the South Tyrol Marketing Society's award for young journalists for his report “Land of Holes”.

readership

The magazine publishes data collected by opinion research institutes on its own readership at regular intervals. In September 2008, Datum also carried out a reader survey. Accordingly, the readers have an above-average education, an above-average net household income and mostly live in the urban area (84 percent). In addition, 58 percent of readers are male, 70 percent between 20 and 39 years old and 47 percent are described as “decision-makers and executives”. A special feature is the long dwell time, i.e. the time spent reading the magazine: On average, date consumers read 3.8 hours in the magazine, with 73 percent saying that they leaf through almost all the pages of a magazine.

Web links

• Website of the magazine

Individual evidence

1. ↑ diepresse.com of November 4, 2015
2. ↑ Martina Stemmer: Die Qualitätstreber , in: Falter of June 22, 2005, p. 21
3. ↑ In the tavern with Fauser  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Article by editor Thomas Unter about the beginnings of the magazine, issue 1/2009  
4. ↑ Small but nice , nzz.ch, October 21, 2005
5. ↑ Ones to watch, read, listen and drink to ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 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. , FT.com, September 10, 2005 
6. ^ Columnists: Tyler Brûlé , FT.com
7. ↑ Stimeder sells date share , derstandard.at, June 18, 2010
8. ↑ Medecco joins Datum , derstandard.at, February 27, 2013
9. ↑ Datum has a new owner , diepresse.com
10. ↑ Stefan Apfl . In: Apflhain .
11. ↑ Kaltenbrunner new editor-in-chief of kurier.at , kurier.at, November 11, 2015
12. ↑ derstandard.at , February 26, 2016
13. ↑ orf.at , October 6, 2016
14. ↑ "Date" and "Time" agree a close publishing cooperation. Retrieved May 4, 2018 . 
15. ↑ see, for example, sz.de from November 2014
16. ↑ Telephone conversation with a bank robber - “Do you want to speak to a hostage?” Spiegel Online , March 2, 2007
17. ^ Austria before the parliamentary elections - A mixture of abuse . Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 29, 2006
18. ↑ Prizes and awards ( Memento of the original from October 20, 2011 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. , datum.at 
19. ^ Austrian Association of Journals and Specialized Media, ÖZV . Archived from the original on March 7, 2016. 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. 
20. ^ "Presse" editor-in-chief Nowak is journalist of the year . derStandard.at, December 16, 2015, accessed on January 3, 2016.
21. ↑ oezv.or.at ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2016 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. 
22. ^ Prelate Hungarian Journalist Prize: Caritas Vienna . 22nd January 2016.
23. ↑ 2013 magazine award to “Datum” journalist Thomas Trescher . In: derStandard.at .
24. ↑ Florian Skrabal - co-founder of dossier.at . Archived from the original on March 7, 2016. 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. 
25. ↑ From the publisher . In: Falter Archive .
26. ↑ derstandard.at , notification dated December 30, 2008
27. ^ Prize winners 2006 . Sports Media Austria, May 23, 2006
28. ↑ 2007 winners . Sports Media Austria, June 17, 2007
29. ↑ Student wins prize for young journalists ( memento of the original from October 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , FH Joanneum , October 5, 2007  
30. ↑ SMG annual report , Südtirol Marketing Gesellschaft, May 2007 - May 2008
31. ↑ Media data published by DATUM ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ; PDF; 1.56 MB) 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. Retrieved February 19, 2015.