Marabo (magazine)
Marabo was a city magazine for the Ruhr area founded in Bochum in 1978 , which ceased publication in Essen in 2005 .
Publication history
Founded by Günter Macho and Christian Hennig in Bochum in 1978, the magazine was published monthly from 1979 to 2001 as a Marabo magazine - topics, tips, dates at the Bochum Bolero publishing and production company and was distributed throughout the Ruhr area . In the meantime it switched to Andromeda-GmbH and Nordis-Verlag, both in Essen. The full title was from No. 1/1982 to No. 7/2005: Marabo - Magazin fürs Ruhrgebiet. Culture, leisure and politics in the Ruhr area ; In 2001 it was taken over by Merlin Medien GmbH Essen ( Merlin Entertainments Group ) in 2001.
Christian Hennig was the editor-in-chief until he changed publishing house , then he was replaced by Peter Krauskopf, who had worked for the magazine as a film editor and gastronomy critic for over 20 years .
The last issue was the July 2005 issue.
meaning
The Marabo justified in its distribution area, a contrast with the dominant WAZ Group standing tradition of investigative , social , ethnographic and comic stories , as its representative Werner Schmitz , Kurt Schrage and Thomas Meiser apply.
The MARABO-Online edited by Stefan Laurin was the first daily journalistic internet offer in the Ruhr area.
Web links
- Marabo at the German National Library
- Stefan Laurin: 30 years of MARABO on ruhrbarone.de on February 3, 2008. Last accessed on August 1, 2012.