FF there
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| description | Program magazine for television in the GDR and GDR radio , program illustrated |
| language | German |
| publishing company | German Supplement Verlag , Gruner + Jahr (1990–1993), Berliner Verlag (1969–1990) |
| First edition | 1946 |
| attitude | 1996 |
| Editor-in-chief | Osmund Schwab (1986) |
| ZDB | 41249-1 |
FF here (own notation: FF keeping ) was a magazine of the GDR , published by the radio and television, as well as articles on entertainment topics. It appeared weekly and was the only program guide that appeared in the GDR. The magazine was founded in 1946 as Der Rundfunk , and received its later title in 1969. It was published until 1996, most recently by Deutscher Supplement Verlag .
history
Founded in 1946 as Der Rundfunk by Wilhelm Beier , the magazine was called our radio from 1953 and radio and television of the GDR from 1959 . For 1956, the weekly circulation was around 448,000 copies. In the course of the introduction of a second television program and the introduction of color television on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the founding of the GDR, the magazine was redesigned. It now appeared as FF while partially in color and was expanded to 48 pages. The weekly circulation rose from 1.25 million copies (1965) to 1.53 million copies (1990). The retail price was initially 30 pfennigs, and since the 1970s 50 pfennigs. From 1969 onwards, the FF was included in the election of the television favorite, which until then had only been made by the readers of the Berliner Zeitung . The price , which was previously restricted to Berlin , received a GDR-wide response, and in 1970 over 100,000 readers took part in the survey. The FF thereby became one of the most popular magazines in the former GDR and at the end of the 1980s had a coverage rate of 22%. According to a report to the GDR Council of Ministers from 1988, the FF was sold out within 20 minutes on average in the district cities and after two hours at the latest in the other cities. The Subscribe to the magazine was according to this report is no longer possible because an increase in circulation for lack of paper and printing capacity could not be done; In 1987, around 485,000 subscription requests had to be rejected for this reason.
The FF was produced in the Berlin print shop , a company of VOB Zentrag , using the gravure printing process. In order to achieve the high number of copies, new paths had to be found, as the printing capacity of the existing machines was insufficient. When it appeared in October 1969, four-shift operation was introduced, ie employees worked ten days (alternating afternoon shift, night shift and early shift) and four days off. This affected five to six machine workers as well as an electrician and a locksmith for any repairs that might be required.
After the reunification , the circulation dropped rapidly; in August 1992 it was only 518,000 copies, the price was 1.20 DM. As early as July 1990 FF was taken over by the publishing house Gruner + Jahr , which sold it on to the German supplement publishing house in November 1993 . Since February 1996 it has only appeared as a supplement to the television newspaper TV Today for subscribers from the new federal states . The FF thereby was finally set in 1996.
literature
- Bernd Klammer: Press sales in East Germany . Dortmund contributions to newspaper research, vol. 56. Verlag Walter de Gruyter , 1997, ISBN 978-3-11-096810-1 .
- Michael Meyen : Denver Clan and New Germany. Media use in the GDR . Ch. Links Verlag , 2003, ISBN 978-3-86153-310-8 .
- Uwe Breitenborn: How did the bear laugh? Berlin Contributions to Media History, Vol. 1. Weißensee Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3-934479-99-9 .
Web links
- Björn Wirth: “FF here” is discontinuing its publication. In: Berliner Zeitung . February 16, 1996, accessed June 16, 2015 .
- Popular magazines of the GDR ( Memento from March 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- Comics in the "FF included"
Individual evidence
- ↑ FF here; No. 11; Program week from March 10th to 16th, 1986; P. 2 (imprint)
- ↑ Abbreviation for television broadcasting
- ↑ Bernd Klammer: Press sales in East Germany. P. 91.
- ↑ Michael Meyen: Denver Clan and New Germany. P. 138.
- ↑ Uwe Breitenborn: How did the bear laugh? P. 31.
- ↑ Uwe Breitenborn: How did the bear laugh? P. 299f.
- ↑ a b Bernd Klammer: Press sales in East Germany. P. 89.
- ↑ Bernd Klammer: Press sales in East Germany. P. 90.