Flash (Cologne)
| FLASH
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| description | Multisexual city magazine (Cologne) |
| publishing company | FLASH Community Cologne UG (limited liability) |
| First edition | September 11, 2009 |
| Frequency of publication | per month |
| Widespread edition | 20,566 copies |
| ( IVW Q2 / 2013) | |
| Web link | www.flash-cologne.de |
Flash ( own spelling FLASH ) was a monthly multisexual city magazine for Cologne and the Rhineland. It was published from September 2009 to 2013.
History and description
The magazine was published for the first time in September 2009 and is published by Flash Community Köln UG, based in Cologne. Since 2012 it has had the subtitle This is how you go out in Cologne . Initially printed in the Nordic format and later in the Berlin format, the newspaper initially pursued a boulevard concept, both visually and in terms of content. The optic began to move away from this as early as 2010, and in 2011 the content reversed to a typical city magazine for gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transsexuals, which was communicated by the term multisexual .
In August 2012, the changeover from newspaper format to A4 took place.
In addition to classic city magazine content , FLASH has an important function in networking gay and lesbian self-help groups. The magazine publically supports the demand for full legal and social equality for gay men and lesbian women.
distribution
The main focus of dissemination is in Cologne and Bonn . But the magazine is also available on the Lower Rhine, in Aachen, Siegen, parts of Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse.
The FLASH is available through promotional funding for the reader free of charge to more than 200 points and appear with a print run of 20,566 copies.
In autumn 2012 the attempt to start a separate FLASH edition for southwest Germany based in Frankfurt am Main initially failed.
For a short period of time, FLASH also offered a web video offering with the latest moving image news and interviews.
Name choice
The name FLASH is based on the English expression for "lightning", which - not entirely correct in terms of the language - emphasized the lightning-fast information of the reader. The magazine was published twice a month from January 2010 to August 2012 as the only gay and lesbian print medium in Germany. Monthly since August 2012. The name goes back to the Cologne scene party Flashdance , whose creator Tom Laroche was co-founder of FLASH . He left the company in April 2010.
Employee
The sole owner and editor-in-chief is 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 expansion, Marc Kersten worked there as the head of the department for politics and North Rhine-Westphalia, as well as the chief layouter. From 2000 to 2002 he was editor for application software at the computer magazine c't . From 2002 to the end of 2008 he was the publisher and editor-in-chief of the gay and lesbian Ruhr area magazine EXIT .
Memberships
Since January 2013, FLASH has been a member of the Publigayte network, which initially included the magazines hinnerk (Hamburg), leo (Munich), FRESH (Ruhr area / Düsseldorf) and Victory Column (Berlin). Now there is only a loose collaboration between the magazines FLASH , FRESH and Victory Column .
swell
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/FLASH.CGN/posts/10151615978476574:0
- ↑ IVW advertising media data , 2nd quarter 2013
- ↑ FLASH - Meine Szene, Main Magazin Facebook page ( Memento of the original from January 19, 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.
- ↑ FLASH TV interview with Jürgen Domian
