Happy Weekend (magazine)
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| description | Erotic contact magazine |
| Area of Expertise | Personals , erotic , swingers |
| language | German |
| publishing company | Silwa publishing house |
| First edition | 1972 |
| Frequency of publication | Fortnightly; monthly from 2017 |
| editor | Silwa-Film BV (Essen) |
| Web link | happyweekend club |
| ZDB | 2319337-2 |
Happy Weekend (abbreviated HW) is a German erotic contact magazine that has been published as a printed magazine since 1972 and has also been available as an online magazine since 2006.
history
The magazine was founded in 1972 by the bookseller Horst F. Peter and his wife. Peter previously imported the German-language magazine Weekend Sex from Scandinavia . He copied Weekend Sex with the senior weekend sex editor and called his magazine Happy Weekend . Since the sale of pornography was still banned in Germany in 1972, the booklets were sent from the Netherlands. The official seat of the publishing house Silwa-Film BV was therefore for a long time in the Netherlands. After a legislative reform in 1973, the company was able to send the booklets from Essen. They were sold to people of age at train station bookstores, petrol stations and sex shops, or earlier also in video stores. It was primarily a magazine with private and commercial advertisements for sexual contacts. The ads were supplemented with porn photos, letters to the editor, intimate interviews, fictional erotic stories, reports from events such as Venus Berlin or Torture Ship and news from the amateur and professional scene. The intimate interviews of female amateurs or couples, mostly swingers and whores , were supplemented with revealing pictures. Also swingers clubs and brothels were presented in reports and also advertised in the magazine. Over the years there have been various columns by people from the erotic field. Kyra Shade had a column for years .
Happy Weekend was published every 14 days until the bankruptcy in 2016 and monthly since 2017. In later years the magazine came with a DVD called "Lustpool". This mostly contained reports, porn film trailers from the company Videorama and visits to swinger clubs . Happy Weekend also ran a website.
The magazine began with an initial circulation of 10,000 copies in 1972. The circulation was at times 90,000 copies in 1997. Later the circulation was 80,000 copies. Happy Weekend is considered the oldest and most famous contact magazine in Germany. According to the publisher, the Silwa Group , it was the European contact magazine with the highest circulation. Happy Weekend was overtaken by the Austrian Contact Magazine (ÖKM) as the sex contact magazine with the highest circulation. The ÖKM edition, with various country editions, is around 400,000 copies across Europe.
In addition to Happy Weekend, the Silwa company produced porn films. Before the bankruptcy in 2016, six companies were under the Silwa umbrella: Videorama GmbH , Elfra Filmproduktions- und Verlagsgesellschaft , Profima , SVK-Video-Kopierwerk , Silwa Filmvertrieb GmbH and E. A. T. Medien . The companies had 270 employees at the time of the wedding. At the time of the bankruptcy, there were 16 employees left.
With the bankruptcy of Silwa , the publication of Happy Weekend was discontinued in September 2016. The Internet is seen as the reason for the decline of the Silwa company and Happy Weekend . Happy Weekend has been published again since April 2017 . In April 2017, the magazine had a circulation of 8000 copies when it was restarted.
Happy Video Private
From 1986 the Silwa company Videorama produced the film series Happy Video Privat . Director and producer was Harry S. Morgan . Morgan's Happy Video Privat series was the longest running porn film series in Germany and Europe. The series ran from 1986 to 2011 with 116 editions under Morgan's direction and he became known in the porn industry through this video series. In the series, he interviewed couples having sex before filming them. The interviews were mostly about sex. Morgan was always in the picture during the interviews. A new episode of Happy Video Privat came out about every two months . In each video, later DVD, five to seven pairs could be seen. Initially, couples who advertised on Happy Weekend had to be contacted by Morgan in order to find private individuals who were willing to act in front of the camera. Later on, around 15 couples reported themselves per month. In Happy Weekend , Happy Video Privat was advertised and vice versa. For this and other Videorama series , Morgan received his first Venus Award in Berlin in 1997 as Best Series Director. Michaela Schaffrath aka "Gina Wild" was a swinger and got in touch with Morgan via Happy Weekend when she was there on a cover picture. Isabel Golden came into contact with Harry S. Morgan through the publication of her autobiography entitled "The Erotic Diary of a Thirty Year Old " in Happy Weekend and was first seen in several episodes of Happy Video Privat and then became a professional actress. Golden shot a Happy Weekend Special Edition with Morgan - excesses in Paris based on her diary. Four more films in the Happy Weekend - Special Edition with Golden series followed. On the cover of the films carried the logo of Happy Weekend . As with Gina Wild and Isabel Golden, other video drama porn stars , such as Lena Nitro , Leonie Saint , Texas Patti and Vivian Schmitt, were featured frequently in Happy Weekend .
literature
- Regina Böhne: Contact wanted. Investigation into the language of everyday pornography. Herodot, Göttingen 1985, ISBN 3-88694-035-7 .
- Philip Siegel : Three rooms, kitchen, porn. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt 2017, ISBN 978-3-593-50584-8 .
Web links
- Happy Weekend in the Silwa group of companies Happy Weekend
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Philip Siegel: Three rooms, kitchen, porn. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt 2017, p. 66 ff.
- ↑ a b c d “Happy Weekend” broke - quiet end of a porn empire . In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung . 23rd September 2016.
- ↑ Peter Janisch: From the porn postil to the senior magazines. In: Upper Austria news. February 27, 2006, accessed January 3, 2018.
- ↑ Free porn from the Internet spoils Horst F. Peter the WAZ business on October 16, 2011, accessed on January 5, 2018
- ↑ Erotic contact magazine "Happy Weekend" will be published again in WAZ on March 29, 2017, accessed on January 5, 2018
- ↑ Gina Wild: I, Gina Wild. Heyne Verlag, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-936143-15-3 , p. 5 ff.
- ↑ Stéphanie Souron: Golden Girl , article from July 10, 2005 in the Brigitte .
- ^ Page Isabel Golden at IMDb
- ↑ Isabel Golden - Biography ( Memento of the original from May 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
