Dresden culture magazine
The DRESDNER culture magazine was founded in 1990 and is one of three free city magazines in Dresden with a print run of 35,667 copies ( IVW 2/2007) . It reports monthly on the city's cultural life and has a program calendar with cultural reports and information as well as a classified section and event addresses.
Until 1997 the magazine appeared as a sales magazine with the subheading Die Illustrierte der Stadt . In 1997 the change to a free medium with the subtitle Kulturmagazin took place . The distribution area extends beyond Dresden to Eastern Saxony to Görlitz , Kamenz and Zittau . The Dresden culture magazine has been available online at the web address www.dresdner.nu since October 4th, 1999.
The Dresden culture magazine from the publisher media GmbH, one of major publishing houses independent, pure employee is issued company . The AWA's regular target group analysis from 2005 shows a main group of readers between 25 and 29 years of age and a reach of 2.3 readers per issue.
In the mid to late 1990s, Dresden's future mayor Ingolf Roßberg wrote the monthly column.
Since 2005 Medien Verlags GmbH Dresden has been committed to the search for the "Sound of Dresden" every year. As part of a competition, local music groups are asked to send in their own productions. The performers can move freely within the various musical styles, as there is no genre limitation. After an internal editorial preselection, the selected artists will be presented in the magazine as well as the online edition. In addition, users are encouraged to vote which artists will be included on the music CD “Sound Of Dresden”, which will be released later. The publication of the CD is always linked to an event at which a selection of the artists represented on the CD appear, who have been chosen beforehand by the willing audience for the event. The event underscores the company's strong commitment and ideology.
The history of the “Sound Of Dresden” is marked by a particular highlight. The winners of the public voting from 2005, Polarkreis 18 , were later signed to Motor Music and thus known to a wider audience.