Hinz & Kunzt
| Hinz & Kunzt
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| description | Hamburg street magazine |
| publishing company | Hinz & Kunzt gGmbH, Hamburg |
| First edition | November 1993 |
| Frequency of publication | per month |
| Sold edition | 52,629 copies |
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| Editor-in-chief | Birgit Mueller |
| editor | Dirk Ahrens |
| executive Director | Jörn Sturm |
| Web link | hinzundkunzt.de |
Hinz & Kunzt is a street magazine that is sold by homeless or homeless people in the Hamburg region and that has been published monthly by the non-profit publishing house Hinz & Kunzt GmbH since November 1993.
"Hinz & Kunzt" is both the title of the magazine and the name of the project behind it. The magazine sees itself as an advocate for homeless and socially disadvantaged people. According to the company, the project is “Hamburg's largest employment project for the homeless”.
history
The street magazine was founded as a cooperation project between homeless people and journalists by Stephan Reimers , the then head of the Diakonisches Werk Hamburg . The first edition appeared in November 1993. The model was the London street newspaper The Big Issue . More than 14 million newspapers have been sold and around 5,500 vendor cards issued.
publishing company
The Hinz & Kunzt publishing house is a non-profit GmbH . The shareholders are the Diakonisches Werk Hamburg (66.6%) and the Patriotic Society of 1765 (33.3%). The publisher is based in Altstädter Twiete 1–5 in downtown Hamburg. The operation of the publishing house is financed half from the newspaper business (sales and advertising revenues) and half from donations.
The tasks of the advisory board include advising and developing recommendations for resolutions for the shareholders' meeting, particularly in the case of conceptual questions, the editorial line and the planning of new projects.
Hinz & Kunzt is part of the network of international street papers INSP ( International Network of Street Papers ).
Media data
The first day of sale of the magazine is the last working day of the previous month. It appears in Hamburg and the surrounding area. 94 percent of Hamburg residents know the street magazine (as of 2008).
The circulation fell by about a fifth from 2013 to 2017 and then recovered.
- November 1993: 30,000 copies
- III. Quarter 2013: over 70,000 copies (IVW).
- III. Quarter 2017: 52,629 copies (IVW)
- 2018: 60,000 copies per month.
- 2020: 60,000 printed copies per month. During the corona pandemic, street sales were suspended for April and May 2020 issues.
distribution
sales staff
Hinz und Kunzt has 38 employees, including 22 former salespeople (as of 2018). Since this is a cooperation project, former salespeople are preferred to be employed as sales employees. In addition to the coffee bar, sales also organize various leisure activities. The allowed sales places are allocated weekly. The sales staff are regularly visited and looked after at their sales points.
Seller
Hinz & Kunzt is sold by more than 500 street vendors (as of 2018). Sellers are the homeless, homeless, Hartz IV recipients and pensioners. The sellers receive a numbered photo ID. You buy the newspaper for 1.10 euros directly in the publishing house and resell it for 2.20 euros. Begging, alcohol and drug consumption are prohibited when selling the street magazine. The project is presented to the new sellers, they are shown through the individual rooms and given their ID. Then they are shown the city map with sales areas at the sales counter so that they can determine for themselves where they want to be. At the start, new sellers receive ten newspapers free of charge. The new sellers then have to report to the counter every Wednesday to have their seats confirmed. The more often this happens, the more often you will get this place as a regular place.
Social care
The salespeople are also looked after by two permanently employed social workers who arrange apartments and accommodation or therapy and withdrawal facilities, advise and clarify social issues or help with administrative procedures. Hinz & Kunzt guarantees or manages 20 apartments (as of 2018).
At the Öjendorf cemetery there is a birch with name boards in memory of the deceased Hinz & Kunzt sellers.
Workplace projects
Hinz & Kunzt helps through projects to create jobs for the homeless.
Two former homeless people act as city guides on a one-and-a-half-hour, six-kilometer-long tour to show groups of visitors the points of contact for the homeless, the "Hamburg side scenes".
As part of the “Donate your deposit” campaign, three homeless people collect the passengers' returnable bottles at Hamburg Airport, thereby securing their jobs that are subject to social insurance.
As part of the “Brotretter” campaign, five homeless people are selling bread and baked goods from the day before at affordable prices in the Lohbrügge branch of the young company.
On-line
The magazine and the project are represented on the web with the “hinzundkunzt.de” website . The project introduces itself, provides information for buyers, sellers, donors and advertising customers, allows insights into the current issue of the magazine and provides an archive of the previous issues (going back to 2003).
The website uses the possibilities of the medium: Videos are available and works from the “Kunzt Collection” are offered for sale in an online shop .
The online offer is supplemented by event notices, information on the “Hamburg side scenes” (alternative city tour through the city of Hamburg) and the “Circle of Friends” (sponsoring membership).
The website partly has the character of an Internet newspaper .
Awards
In 2016, the longstanding editor-in-chief Birgit Müller was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit.
Web links
- Project website
- Founder for over 25 years Hinz & Kunzt: "In the beginning we were super naive" Birgit Müller in an interview with Friedrike Gräf, In: www.taz.de, December 17, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Misha Leuschen: Hamburg's social voice has to stay loud. In: Hamburger Wochenblatt , November 3, 2018, p. 8.
- ↑ Shareholders - strong partners by our side. In: hinzundkunzt.de. Retrieved July 16, 2017 .
- ↑ Jan Haarmeyer: Top chefs serve up - for "Hinz & Kunzt". For the 25th birthday of the street magazine in April, a different restaurateur cooks together with homeless people in Eimsbüttel. In: "Hamburger Abendblatt", March 6, 2018, p. 13.
- ↑ Media data and advertising prices. In: hinzundkunzt.de. Retrieved July 16, 2017 .
- ↑ Hinz & Kunzt, media data 2018
- ↑ Misha Leuschen: Hamburg's social voice has to stay loud. In: Hamburger Wochenblatt , November 3, 2018, p. 8.
- ↑ Juliane Lauterbach: "Hinz & Kunzt" is back. In: " Hamburger Abendblatt ", May 27, 2020.
- ↑ Misha Leuschen: Hamburg's social voice has to stay loud. In: Hamburger Wochenblatt , November 3, 2018, p. 8.
- ↑ a b Annabell Behrmann: Hamburg with the eyes of a homeless person. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . March 18, 2017, p. 10.
- ↑ Jan Haarmeyer: Top chefs serve up - for "Hinz & Kunzt". For the 25th birthday of the street magazine in April, a different restaurateur cooks together with homeless people in Eimsbüttel. In: "Hamburger Abendblatt", March 6, 2018, p. 13.
- ↑ These projects worked. Deposit collectors at the airport, BrotRetter in Lohbrügge and city tours. In: "Hamburger Abendblatt", March 6, 2018, p. 13. Author abbreviation (haa).
- ↑ Federal Cross of Merit - Honor for our editor-in-chief Birgit Müller. In: hinzundkunzt.de. January 19, 2016. Retrieved July 16, 2017 .