Pomegranate (magazine)
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| description | Austrian health magazine |
| First edition | 1932 |
| Frequency of publication | monthly (11 issues per year) |
| Sold edition | 30,000 copies |
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| Editor-in-chief | Brigitte Veinfurter |
| Editor | Merciful Brothers of St. John of God in Austria |
Pomegranate is the magazine of the Austrian Order Province of the Catholic Order of the Barmherzige Brüder vom St. John of God , which has appeared since October 1932.
history
The founder of the pomegranate magazine and the defining editor for many years was Frater Alfons Fink. From 1928 he wrote for the magazine Misericordia published by the Silesian Order Province . Therefore, the prior of the Brothers of Mercy in Vienna at the time , Florian Kronsteiner, commissioned him to prepare his own Austrian religious magazine and created the economic conditions for it. On the one hand, this magazine was intended to correspond to the longstanding wish of many friends, patrons and benefactors of the order for “a magazine dedicated to humanitarian goals” and, on the other hand, to create a lively connection between the order and the population.
In October 1932 the first edition of the pomegranate magazine was published in Vienna, at that time with the subtitle Illustrated monthly of the Barmherzigen Brüder Österreichs . The first pomegranate calendar had been published a year earlier.
Brother Alfons deliberately created the pomegranate as a family sheet. "Our program is in one word: Versatile!", It says in the first edition. In addition to medical articles and reports from the order, the magazine also brought stories, cultural articles, book tips and puzzles. The success of this concept was immediately apparent: the second issue already had 10,000 readers.
After the "Anschluss" , the pomegranate could not appear between 1938 and 1946 due to the rule of the National Socialists and the Second World War . From April 1946 the magazine was published under the direction of Brother Alfons Fink by the Vienna Convention of the Brothers of Mercy. At the beginning of the 1950s, a reorganization was necessary: From then on, the Austrian Order Province acted as the publisher, and the magazine was produced and distributed by the Welsermühl printing and publishing company.
Little changed in terms of content, but the range of topics became more diverse: In addition to the medical contributions, there were articles for women and family, household tips, Kneipp instructions, fashion tips, handicraft instructions, interesting things about plants and medicinal herbs, legal tips and reports from art and culture, Book and record reviews, a serialized novel, short stories, humor, satire and puzzles. The reports from the order and the institutions of the Brothers of Mercy could not be missing.
Up until the 1990s, both the magazine and the calendar contained a large number of advertisements. For example, the 64-page July 1964 edition of the magazine had an additional 25 full pages with advertisements and the 48-page March 1967 edition had seven full pages and numerous individual advertisements on the remaining pages. But the number of advertisements fell and there haven't been any since 1996.
The circulation was 17,000 to 18,000 copies in the worst of times, increased to 23,000 in the 1990s and is currently around 30,000 copies. The magazine is sold through subscription and is distributed and published free of charge in hospitals and health facilities of the Order of the Brothers of Mercy.
Content
The pomegranate magazine is the mouthpiece of the Order of the Brothers of Mercy in Austria as well as the hospitals and health facilities. Accordingly, events in the order as well as topics from the hospitals and health facilities are reported.
According to the program of the founder, Frater Alfons Fink “Versatile”, there is also space for reports from Austria and the world, short stories, puzzles, a gloss and recipes in every issue.
Surname
The pomegranate is the symbol of the Order of the Brothers of Mercy. The fruit from which the pips spring is depicted in the coat of arms of the city of Granada . The founder of the order of the Brothers of Mercy, Saint John of God , worked in that Spanish city, whose name means “pomegranate” in German . The large number of tasty pomegranate pomegranates symbolizes the abundance of mercy. In the coat of arms of the Order of the Brothers of Mercy, the pomegranate was connected to the cross. He symbolically shows their mission, motivated by the Christian message (cross), to be sick, old, disabled and people seeking help in love (pomegranate) and to bring help and hope.
In 1936 the title of the magazine was changed to Der Menschenfreund , because it was of the opinion that the name pomegranate, chosen after the symbol of the order, was too difficult to understand for the population . But in response to popular requests, the magazine was given its original name again in January 1938.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Pomegranate , October 1968, p. 366
- ↑ Pomegranate , October 1932, p. 1
- ↑ Pomegranate , October 1932, p. 1
- ↑ Pomegranate , October 2017, p. 18
- ↑ Pomegranate , October 2012, anniversary supplement
- ↑ Pomegranate , July – August 1964
- ^ Pomegranate , March 1967
- ↑ Pomegranate , February 2018, p. 35
- ↑ www.barmherzige-brueder.at/site/barmherzigebrueder/lexikon/lexikonartikel/article/596.html , accessed on January 29, 2018
- ↑ Pomegranate , October 2012, anniversary supplement