Gert Braun

Gert Braun (born February 15, 1924 ) is a German journalist .

Life

In the mid-1960s, together with Ewald Struwe, he modernized the illustrated Neue Revue published by Heinrich Bauer Verlag in Hamburg . He then emigrated with Struwe to the Hamburg women's magazine Constanze, which is published by Gruner + Jahr .

Braun became editor of the youth magazine Bravo, which was also published by Bauer, and in October 1972, succeeded Liselotte Krakauer , who held the office for 13 years and three months and who was on leave together with deputy Karlheinz Müllenbach, the editor-in-chief of Bravo, who was under him in the first quarter of 1973 the circulation exceeded one million for the first time. At Bravo, Braun soon got involved with Martin Goldstein , who first appeared at the magazine in 1969 as the “Dr. Jochen Sommer ”and from 1971 also as“ Dr. Alexander Korff ”was committed to convince them to print a series of sex education. In 1974 the first bare breasts were featured on a Bravo title.

After Brown had originally planned mid-1980 the chief editor post at the the Burda publishing house published magazine Bunte to take over, he was at the Bauer publishing company on October 1, 1979, the executive chair of the Quick left. He succeeded Fred Baumgärtel , who became the publishing director for Bauer Magazines Playboy, Quick and Bravo on January 1, 1980. At Bravo Braun was inherited by Rüdiger Wittner . At Quick he became the long-serving editor-in-chief of the time it was published at Bauer-Verlag. At the beginning of 1987 he was replaced by the 44-year-old Egon F. Freiheit , who was once referred to as a "helper in need". Quick recently had a circulation of 815,000.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Publishers: Merciless Jäger , Der Spiegel , October 23, 1972, p. 72.
2. ^ The Bravo Story, p. 5 , Bravo , (accessed July 16, 2012).
3. ↑ Fred Baumgärtel in the Munzinger archive , accessed on July 16, 2012 ( beginning of article freely available)