The Pöppel-Revue

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The Pöppel-Revue was a magazine for the German-language game criticism that appeared from 1979 to 2001.

history

The origin of the magazine was a fanzine founded by Knut-Michael Wolf under the title Wolfs Wirtschaftsbrief , with which the six players in the play-by-mail game Executive Decision should originally be informed. The zero number appeared on October 29, 1977 and after Wolf reported increasingly about other games in the subsequent editions, the 35th edition was renamed Die Pøppel-Revue with a self-made logo and the subtitle "The specialist magazine for players" . The name goes back to the name “Pöppel” for the game pieces originally called “ Halma kegel”, which Wolf heard at a game meeting. In 1979, in response to the selection of the game of the year, the election for the Golden Pöppel was organized, which in 1990 became the German Games Prize . From 1979 Edith O'Rial, who was responsible for the editorial, was also part of the editorial team, which was an invention by Wolf.

With issue 76 in January 1983 - after well over 30 games had run - the play-by-mail part was abandoned and continued by the Stabsanzeiger. The Pöppel-Revue only appeared five times a year. By 1986 the number of subscribers reached almost 1,000 and the volume grew to around 60 pages. At the turn of the year 1985/86 Die Pöppel-Revue was taken over by Friedhelm Merz Verlag . The content remained largely unchanged, the pawn on the front page was replaced by the publisher's logo, which later became the hallmark of the Essen game days . In 1989, Wolf initially gave the position of editor-in-chief to Friedhelm Merz , later Matthias Hardel took over .

In 2000 the magazine got caught up in the scandal over the manipulation of the number of votes at the German Games Prize and then stopped publication at the end of 2001, while editor-in-chief Hardel switched to Spielbox .

source

This article was first published by the author in Ludopedia [1] .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Overview of game magazines at alte-spiele.de
  2. ↑ meome.de: The spielbox readers are in demand: The future of the German Games Prize after the number multiplication of the Pöppel Revue survey ( Memento from February 20, 2001 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ meome.de: Spielbox gets a new editor-in-chief ( Memento from May 16, 2003 in the Internet Archive )

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