MIBA (magazine)
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| description | Model railway magazine |
| Area of Expertise | Leisure time |
| language | German |
| publishing company | Publishing Group Rail ( DE ) |
| Headquarters | Fürstenfeldbruck |
| First edition | 1948 |
| Frequency of publication | per month |
| Editor-in-chief | Martin Knaden |
| editor | Publishing group Bahn |
| Web link | www.miba.de |
| ISSN (print) | 1430-886X |
The MIBA (short for miniature trains ) is a magazine on the subject of model trains that has been published since 1948. In addition to the monthly issue, a MIBA special appears four times a year , which deals in detail with individual topics from the area of model railways. New products are presented annually in a special issue for the Nuremberg Toy Fair .
history
The foundation of the MIBA goes to Werner Walter Weinstötter back. Together with Heinz Bingel and Joachim Kleinknecht he brought out the first edition in the summer of 1948 under the title Miniature Railways. The first edition in A5 format was 7,000 copies and cost DM 1.50. Until Weinstötter obtained his own publishing license in 1949, the magazine was published by Rosine Speicher at the Nuremberg publishing house Frauenwelt .
From 1951 to 1968 MIBA appeared sixteen times a year. Then it was changed over to thirteen issues a year.
Weinstötter managed Miba-Verlag until 1983. Since 1996, MIBA-Verlag has been part of the WAZ Group . Through the merger of MIBA-Verlag and Hermann-Merker-Verlag (publisher of the Eisenbahn-Journal ), the Bahn Verlaggruppe was created in 2001 . On July 1, 2020, this was taken over by the Munich publishing house GeraNova Bruckmann .
Further publications
The MIBA Spezial series is published four times a year by the same publisher and is devoted to a single theme. This series is aimed more at the advanced model railroader. Another regular publication is MIBA Modellbahn digital - this publication is accompanied by a DVD with programs for model railway control and planning as well as demo versions.
Individual evidence
- ^ MIBA: Obituary for Werner Walter Weinstötter. MIBA, accessed March 15, 2018 .
- ↑ Five decades of model railway history. MIBA, September 1998, accessed March 15, 2018 .
- ^ VGB Verlagsgruppe Bahn GmbH. WAZ media group , archived from the original on February 21, 2007 ; accessed on March 15, 2018 .
- ↑ GeraNova Bruckmann buys the Bahn Verlag group. Retrieved July 4, 2020 .