The fatal passport
DER TÖDLICHE PASS - magazine for a closer look at the soccer game is a German soccer magazine . It was launched in 1995 by Stefan Erhardt and has been published quarterly since then. The editorial office is based in Munich . In 2006 this magazine was also available in station bookshops. From 2007 it will again only be available by subscription. The print run is currently 500 copies, a booklet has between 84 and 100 pages.
The main concern when the magazine, originally conceived as an intellectual fanzine, was the criticism of the increasing appropriation of football by commercial interests, especially in the course of the reporting by private television. Accordingly, the name of the magazine picks up on one of the phrases that were used in the sensational preparation of football reports by broadcasters such as RTL or SAT.1 in the 1990s.
In addition to the obligatory reviews of games of the German national team , tournaments such as the European and World Cup, as well as national and international matches at club level, each issue also deals with aspects of amateur football. In addition, the interaction between art and football and between literature and football is the subject of various articles on football culture . There is also a comprehensive review section. In addition to the three editors Stefan Erhardt, Claus Melchior and Johannes John, the writers Fridolin Schley , Andreas Unterweger and Henning Heske as well as correspondents from Berlin, Cologne, Florence, Barcelona and Paris regularly write in this magazine.
DER TÖDLICHE PASS was for a long time the only German-language magazine that approached the phenomenon of football intellectually, before the magazines 11 Freunde , ballesterer , Zwölf , Transparent and Null Acht came onto the market.