Film echo / film week

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Film echo / film week

description The trade journal for the film industry in Germany
language German
publishing company Verlag Horst Axtmann GmbH ( Germany )
Frequency of publication weekly
Sold edition 2,586 copies
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Editor-in-chief Ralf Bögner
Web link www.filmecho.de
ISSN (print) 0015-1149

Filmecho / Filmwoche is a weekly trade magazine about cinema and the film industry .

It is the oldest German film magazine still in existence and at the same time the official organ of the Main Association of German Film Theaters (HDF Kino e.V.). With news, market analyzes and background reports on the German cinema landscape, it is primarily aimed at decision-makers in the industry. It is divided into the categories of film industry, cinema, market, production, TV & media and international.

history

The first edition of the publication, then still called Film-Echo , appeared in Hamburg in March 1947 as the official organ of the business association of film theaters in the British zone. The first editorial office was the Waterloo House. Up until the end of the 1940s, reports were mainly made on the cinema in Hamburg and in northern Germany. At the beginning the magazine appeared monthly, later it switched to a weekly publication.

Die Filmwoche magazine , cover in the period between the world wars

In May 1950 the company moved to Wiesbaden . In February 1962, Film-Echo merged with the trade journal Die Neue Filmwoche , which was published in Baden-Württemberg . Also in 1962 the association with the Berlin trade journal Filmblätter took place .

Since then, the magazine has been published as Filmecho / Filmwoche . The name "Filmwoche" refers to the weekly cinema journal Die Filmwoche , which was published before the Second World War .

From 1971 to 2006 Detlef Schaller headed the commercial department of the specialist magazine. Even after leaving operational business, he continues to act as editor of the Filmecho / Filmwoche .

Since 1964 the Hauptverband Deutscher Filmtheater e. V. and Filmecho / Filmwoche for the great successes of German and foreign films the golden screen .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Filmecho / Filmwoche media data 2016 (PDF) filmecho.de; accessed on March 18, 2016
  2. ↑ own spelling filmecho | filmwoche
  3. ↑ a b c Magazines of the 1940s ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at filmmuseum-hamburg.de, accessed on March 18, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.filmmuseum-hamburg.de
  4. ↑ German / German-language film magazines / magazines (programs) (PDF) bundesarchiv.de; accessed on March 18, 2016
  5. ↑ How to call in ... In: Der Spiegel . No. 13 , 1947, p. 21 ( online ).
  6. ^ Library of the Federal Archives Filmarchiv Berlin (PDF)
  7. ↑ Die Filmwoche , 1928 No. 6
  8. ↑ Special prices at goldene-leinwand.de, accessed on March 18, 2016