Kreuzberg Chronicle

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The Kreuzberg Chronicle has been published in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg since November 1998 . The free and independent district magazine appears in ten issues annually at the beginning of each month.

history

The Kreuzberger Chronik was founded in 1998 by the booksellers Michael Laser and Charalampos Ioannou as "Kiezzeitung", the graphic design came from the Kreuzberg typesetting office Vorsatz, the content concept from the journalist Hans W. Korfmann, who in 1999 also took on the role of editor. For many years the photographers Wolfgang Krolow and Michael Hughes have been permanent employees, and the permanent authors include Waltraud Schwab (taz), Michaela Prinzinger , Edith and Eckhard Siepmann, Wolfgang Kröske alias Dr. Strange, Saskia Vogel, Alf Trenk, Kajo Frings.

Appearance

The Kreuzberger Chronik differs from the usual advertising magazines, among other things, in its columnar style and longer articles by well-known authors. According to its self-image, it is not a news magazine, but a bibliophile cultural contribution. In addition to a literary page, texts on the history of the district and the present day Kreuzberg, the magazine is dedicated in detail to a current social topic. Most of the front pages feature a portrait of a Kreuzberger whose story is told in the magazine. In 2005 a collection of these portraits was published as a book under the title “Kreuzberger” by Verlag an der Spree. Also as a book was published in November 2011 by the outsider publisher “Der Herr D.”, a column that was published for ten years in the Frankfurter Rundschau and the Kreuzberger Chronik.

financing

The Kreuzberger Chronik is financed exclusively by advertisements from Kreuzberg traders, some of whom have been with us since 1998. The print run is 3000 copies. Since issue number 34, the district magazine has been online worldwide with a free archive and with up to 30,000 page views per month.

In 2016, the Kreuzberger Chronik was awarded the Aeternitas Media Prize for the report “No peace in the cemetery”, along with the 3sat broadcaster and the Süddeutsche Zeitung . The reasoning states that “the socially highly relevant contribution” “has an exemplary character and describes a conflict that is also being discussed outside of Kreuzberg”.

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