Exit (magazine)
| EXIT | |
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| description | Gay city magazine (NRW) |
| publishing company | EXIT Medien GmbH |
| First edition | October 2002 |
| Frequency of publication | per month |
| Widespread edition | 11,802 copies |
| ( IVW Q3 / 2012) | |
| Web link | www.exit-magazin.de |
Exit (self-written EXIT ) was a monthly gay magazine for North Rhine-Westphalia . It was published from 2002 to 2014.
History and description
The magazine was first published in October 2002 and was published by EXIT Medien GmbH based in Düsseldorf, formerly Essen. After the business was taken over by the Berlin publisher Olaf Alp in July 2012, EXIT and rik moved into new premises in Cologne's Friesenviertel. In April 2014 EXIT merged with rik and no longer appears as an independent magazine.
In addition to traditional city magazine content , EXIT played an important role in networking gay and lesbian self-help groups in North Rhine-Westphalia. The magazine journalistically supported the demand for legal and social equality for gay men and lesbian women.
distribution
The main area of distribution was in the Ruhr area and Düsseldorf . But the magazine was also available in the Lower Rhine, Bergisches Land and Westphalia.
The EXIT was available to readers free of charge at 267 locations in North Rhine-Westphalia thanks to advertising funding and had a print run of 12,000 copies.
Name choice
The name EXIT was chosen based on the English expression for “exit”, which alludes to “getting out” of oneself ( coming out as a gay or lesbian) as well as the English expression “get out of the closet” . The partially used subtitle "The gay going-out magazine for NRW" was intended to underline the main thrust of content, to offer readers a comprehensive scene guide and calendar.
The magazine had nothing to do with euthanasia associations of the same name or neo-Nazi dropout programs.
Employee
The sole managing director and editor-in-chief until the end of 2008 was Marc Kersten, who had already published the gay city magazine Pink Power in Berlin from 1991 to 1995 . After a brief interlude as editor-in-chief of the nationwide gay newspaper First , he switched to the Ruhr area magazine Rosa Zone in 1997 . After its renaming (1998) to Queer and a nationwide distribution, Marc Kersten worked there as department head for politics and North Rhine-Westphalia as well as chief layouter. From 2000 to 2002 he was editor for application software at the computer magazine c't . Marc Kersten was the editor of the multisexual Cologne scene newspaper Flash until August 2013, which was then discontinued.
Up until the end of 2009, Dietrich Dettmann was responsible for EXIT's local reporting. He was also part of the Queer editorial team in North Rhine-Westphalia and started the new magazine "FRESH - das Queermag für NRW" in 2010 Region Cologne / Bonn / Aachen took over from Flash. In addition to Marc Kersten, the EXIT editors-in-chief were Dietrich Dettmann, Lars Lienen and Markus Girg.
Memberships
From its establishment until the end of 2012, EXIT was an associated member of GayCityCom , the then association of gay metropolitan magazines in Germany. At the end of June 2007 this cooperation was dissolved. It was replaced in July 2007, a new composite gay city magazines named Publigayte the Magazine also gave (Frankfurt and Rhine-Main / Neckar), hinnerk (Hamburg), Leo (Munich), rik (Cologne) and Victory Column (Berlin) belonged to.
Web links
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- ↑ IVW advertising media data , 3rd quarter 2012