Men (magazine)
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| description | Lifestyle magazine for gay men |
| language | German |
| publishing company | Bruno Gmünder Verlag ( Germany ) |
| Headquarters | Berlin |
| First edition | 1987 |
| attitude | 2017 |
| Frequency of publication | per month |
| Sold edition | 8,000 copies |
| Editor-in-chief | Kriss Rudolph |
| Web link | Former domain name: m-maenner.de |
| ISSN (print) | 0935-8838 |
Men was a monthly lifestyle magazine published between 1987 and 2017, mainly for gays by the Bruno Gmünder Verlag in Berlin .
The magazine was the leader in the German market for commercial gay press, free of pornography , but with artistic and erotic photos and nudes of men. It was mainly devoted to current political issues and issues of the gay zeitgeist.
history
The magazine appeared for the first time under the name of Männer in 1987 with the basic concept of pin-up photos, editorial articles and personals. The German judiciary was accused of the nudes contained therein being harmful to minors. Thereupon it was changed conceptually in 1989 and from then on appeared under the title Men current . Since October 2007 the magazine has appeared again under its original name. The editors-in-chief included u. a. Frank Herrmann, Andreas Tölke, Frank Jaspermöller and Peter Rehberg. Kevin Clarke was the editor-in-chief of the March 2011 to January 2013 issues . In May 2013 the theologian and book author David Berger took over this position. Die Welt commented on May 28, 2013: “This makes Berger one of the most important keywords in the gay community in Germany. And the monthly magazine Männer is getting a campaign-proven boss who is known far beyond the scene. "
Bruno Gmünder on the orientation of the paper:
“We have always said that gay life also includes eroticism, the development and visualization of physicality. And these aspects are still among the key elements of men today. Other magazines have bowed to the pressure of advertising agencies, politics and the judiciary and thrown out all erotica in order to even be for sale. We have never given in to this pressure because the connection to the reader's world is most important to us. Everything else is subordinate. "
In December 2014, Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe canceled its advertising campaign in men , justifying this with alleged right-wing populist and discriminatory statements by editor-in-chief David Berger in August and November of that year. The Bruno Gmünder Verlag declared that it would not distance itself from Berger and cling to him, which earned the publisher negative criticism from the queer.de website .
On February 1, 2015, Berger was released from his position, and his previous deputy, Kriss Rudolph , became editor-in-chief .
The magazine was discontinued in March 2017 and the website continued with the latest news for some time. In September 2017, the website with its social media channels was taken over by the blu media group (blu media network GmbH). The website address now only refers to the news offer from blu media network GmbH.
Web links
- Former website name: www.m-maenner.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Last IVW figures from 2003 . Retrieved December 10, 2014.
- ↑ New boss at MÄNNER . www.queer.de. Retrieved February 22, 2011.
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Lucs Wiegelmann: Catholic ex-hardliner runs gay magazine. In: Die Welt , May 28, 2013
- ↑ Andreas Marschner: Curiosity about the unknown (25 years of Bruno Gmünder Verlag), Männer aktuell , July 2006, p. 34 f.
- ↑ Tatjana Kerschbaumer: Dispute over the editor-in-chief of "Männer" - Too right to be gay? , Tagesspiegel from December 10, 2014
- ↑ Gmünder-Verlag fires David Berger , queer.de, February 2, 2015
- ↑ MEN goes digital - MEN . In: MEN . March 13, 2017 ( m-maenner.de [accessed August 1, 2017]).
- ↑ Bruno Gmünder Verlag discontinues the print magazine "Men" . In: queer.de . ( queer.de [accessed August 1, 2017]).
- ↑ On our own behalf: blu Mediengruppe takes over Spartacus divisions and starts cooperation with OUTtv . In: blu hinnerk GAB rik Leo . August 30, 2017 ( blu.fm [accessed September 4, 2017]).
- ↑ "blu" media group takes over "Spartacus" . In: queer.de . ( queer.de [accessed September 4, 2017]).