GQ - Gentlemen's Quarterly
| GQ - Gentlemen's Quarterly | |
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| description | Men's and lifestyle magazine |
| language | German |
| publishing company | Condé Nast Germany ( Germany ) |
| Headquarters | Munich |
| First edition | October 1997 |
| Frequency of publication | eleven times a year |
| Sold edition | 18,782 copies |
| ( IVW 2/2020) | |
| Widespread edition | 19,975 copies |
| ( IVW 2/2020) | |
| Range | 0.46 million readers |
| ( AWA 2017) | |
| Editor-in-chief | André Pollmann |
| Manager | Jessica Peppel-Schulz |
| Web link | gq-magazin.de |
| ISSN (print) | 1434-5560 |
GQ - Gentlemen's Quarterly is a men's and lifestyle - magazine Condé Nast. The German edition is published by Condé Nast Germany .
history
The magazine has existed in the USA since 1957. In October 1997, the first German edition appeared, which emerged from the 1984 men's Vogue . In 2002, the magazine's brand family was expanded to include the GQ Style special fashion issue , which appears twice a year. With GQ Cars , a second offshoot appeared from 2004, which was discontinued in 2008. The offshoot GQ Watches is also published once a year . GQ has its own website, some of which also take over the contents of the magazine.
André Pollmann has been Chief Creative Director of the German edition and Joko Winterscheidt Chief Curiosity Officer since January 2020 . The sold circulation is 18,782 copies, a decrease of 78.7 percent since 1998. The frequency of publication was reduced to eleven times a year in January 2020 and will be reduced to ten times a year in January 2021.
expenditure
In addition to Germany, GQ has so far been published in the following 18 countries: Australia (via licensees), Brazil , China (via licensees), France , Great Britain , India , Italy , Japan , Mexico , Portugal (via licensees), Romania , Russia , Spain , South Africa (via licensees), South Korea (via licensees), Taiwan , Turkey and the USA .
From the GQ column Kurt tries again by Kurt Molzer, the book Kurt's Stories was created in 2006 : From the life of a grandiose womanizer . Kurt Molzer was editor-in-chief of Penthouse magazine until mid-2009 .
The GQ's biggest international competition is Esquire magazine .
Men of the year
The GQ selects the GQ Men of the Year every year as part of an evening gala . Outstanding personalities from the international and German show and music business as well as from society, sport, culture and fashion are nominated.
At the 2009 award ceremony in Munich's Haus der Kunst , 14 categories were awarded, including Sir Bob Geldof (Life Time Charity), Tom Ford (fashion), Gerard Butler (international film), Stefan Aust (media) and the band Mando Diao ( Music pop).
Other award winners from previous years (selection): Hans-Dietrich Genscher (Lifetime Achievement / Politics), Nicolas Cage (film international), Jürgen Vogel (film national), Armin Mueller-Stahl (Lifetime Achievement), David Garrett (music), the German National handball team (sport) and David Mayer de Rothschild (engagement).
The evening gala has been taking place in the rooms of the Komische Oper Berlin since 2010 . In previous years, Munich was traditionally the venue. Those honored included Matthias Schweighöfer (Film National), Bushido (Music National), Michael Schumacher (Sport), Mark Ronson (Style), Nora Tschirner (Woman of the Year 2010) and Annie Lennox ( commitment to her fight against the HI- Virus).
In 2013, the singer Anastacia received a special award for her commitment to early breast cancer detection. She had just had a mastectomy of both breasts after her second diagnosis of breast cancer.
In 2014, GQ published photos of two prominent, kissing, heterosexual men in the context of the sometimes controversial, otherwise apparently mostly positive action of word of mouth - Gentlemen against homophobia .
In 2019, climate activist Greta Thunberg was named Game Changer of the Year .
Initiatives
From January to September 2005, Alfa Romeo launched the 156 Sportwagon GQ special model. With the exception of two engine variants, there was no option to choose any equipment on the special model. Because this Alfa 156 Sportwagon was configured by the readers themselves. In a joint campaign with Alfa Germany, GQ had previously carried out a survey on what the optimal Alfa should look like.
The Citroën GQ is a concept vehicle that was created in 2010 on the initiative of the editor-in-chief of GQ .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ After the end of “JWD”: Joko Winterscheidt becomes Chief Curiosity Officer at “GQ” meedia.de, January 28, 2020
- ↑ according to IVW ( details on ivw.eu )
- ↑ Condé Nast wants to be less of a publisher and more of a brand agency sueddeutsche.de, October 1, 2019
- ↑ Kurt Molzer: Kurt's stories: From the life of a grandiose woman hero . the best from the GQ star columnist. Ullstein , Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-548-36843-6 (249 pages).
- ↑ http://www.gq-magazin.de/articlesbytag/Maenner%2Bdes%2Bjahres/0/
- ↑ gq-magazin.de: GQ Men of the Year 2010: all winners, pictures and videos of the great gala - Komische Oper Berlin - GQ ( Memento of the original from December 31, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and still Not checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , October 30, 2010, accessed January 21, 2011
- ↑ Report on the response to the campaign on the GQ magazine website ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed May 2015
- ↑ GQ of August 12, 2019
