Hangover demos
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| description | Political magazine |
| language | German |
| publishing company | Kater Demos Verlag UG (limited liability) |
| Headquarters | Berlin |
| First edition | 2015 |
| attitude | 4th May 2018 |
| Frequency of publication | half-yearly |
| Editor-in-chief | Alexander Singing Leaves |
| editor | Kater Demos Verlag |
| Web link | www.katerdemos.de |
| ISSN (print) | 2366-0511 |
Kater Demos is a German political magazine with the subtitle Das utopische Politikmagazin . The magazine appears approximately every six months and is distributed by the German Press Distribution (DPV) throughout Germany (as well as in Austria, Switzerland and Luxembourg). The over 40-strong editorial team is based in Berlin. The magazine was founded in 2015, so far issues on “Democracy”, “Work”, “Media”, “Surveillance” and “The Foreign” have appeared. Unusually in the industry, the magazine completely dispenses with advertising income and is instead financed through donations ( crowdfunding ), individual sales and subscriptions, which means that it is not IVW- checked. With the publication of the fifth issue on May 4, 2018, the magazine will appear for the last time for the time being.
Content
Each issue of the monothematic print magazine deals with social megatopics from a critical-analytical perspective. In addition to the pure analysis of the status quo, Kater Demos outlines political ideas and utopias for the future in the sense of constructive journalism ; for comparison, there is only the online magazine Perspective Daily . The magazine is aimed at an explicitly young audience.
Half of each issue consists of recurring rubrics such as: rocket launch (introductory essay), thinking outside the box (international report), the red thread (a series of articles spread across the entire issue), Katers utopia (epilogue), pensieve (personal comments from the team), Everything for the cat (diversion) or And now you come! (Action ideas for readers). The other texts run without a rubric.
Release
The magazine was presented to the professional public for the first time in September 2015 at Indiecon, the festival for independent magazines, the German industry meeting for independent magazines, by founders Franziska Teubert and Alexander Sängerlaub .
Reviews
The magazine received very favorable reviews from various media. Annette Zoch wrote in the Süddeutsche Zeitung that, despite cat content, Kater Demos is a very serious magazine that would like to be carried around for days in order to give dog-ears to thoughts that one would like to pursue longer. Politically, she positioned the magazine as follows:
“The much-described and much-criticized Generation Y thinks intensely about which society they want to live in, whether their parents' ideals are still their own. Perhaps Bernie Sanders, if he were able to speak German, would also read Kater Demos, the "utopian political magazine" aimed at this generation. "
The industry magazine fuel commented:
"Kater Demos is the name of the new hope of the German political papers."
For the weekly newspaper Der Freitag , Claudia Reinhard wrote on the newspaper's online presence in an overview of magazines that are primarily financed through crowdfunding:
"With Kater Demos, the market has grown with a wonderful political journal for young people."
Web links
- "Views of an Anglers" - the Süddeutsche Zeitung on the second issue on the focus of work , accessed on May 24, 2016
- The industry magazine W&V about Kater Demos - “This is how print works today” , accessed on May 12, 2016
- Internet presence , accessed on April 20, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ DNV industry magazine about hangover demos , accessed on May 12, 2016
- ↑ Self-understanding of the editorial team , accessed on May 12, 2016
- ↑ Kater-Demos-Newsletter from May 2, 2018
- ↑ Hangover Demos: Tweet from May 3, 2018. In: Twitter. Retrieved May 3, 2018 .
- ↑ Charlotte Clark on Constructive Journalism à la Perspective Daily and Kater Demos , Retrieved May 12, 2016
- ↑ Friday about crowdfunding as a form of financing for magazines , accessed on May 12, 2016
- ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung about new releases at Indiecon , accessed on May 12, 2016
- ↑ Annette Zoch in the Süddeutsche Zeitung on May 22 , 2016 , accessed on April 20, 2017
- ↑ Fuel from Kater Demos "Politics for Utopians" , accessed January 4, 2017
- ↑ Friday about crowdfunding as a form of financing for magazines , accessed on January 4, 2016