Nature (magazine)

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description Environmental magazine
language German
publishing company Konradin Medien GmbH,
Konradin Mediengruppe (Germany)
First edition 1980
Frequency of publication per month
Sold edition 38,434 copies
( IVW 2/2020)
Widespread edition 39,532 copies
( IVW 2/2020)
Editor-in-chief Christoph Fasel
Web link natur.de
ISSN (print) 1615-3928

natur is a German-language magazine founded in 1980 . Its orientation is ecological , and it is published monthly. In 1999 the oldest German-language magazine, Kosmos , founded in 1904, merged with the magazine natur to form natur + kosmos . Since the redesign in June 2012, it has been called nature again . The new editor-in-chief in 2019 was Axel Bojanowski , who also became editor-in-chief of Bild der Wissenschaft .

history

History cosmos

1903 became cosmos. The association of friends of nature founded. In 1904 the first four issues of the magazine Kosmos appeared in a Stuttgart publishing house . Topics were nature and science in general and astronomy in particular. From 1944 to 1946 there were no issues of Kosmos .

In 1970 Kosmos set up a scientific advisory board. Among others, Bernhard Grzimek and Wolfgang Engelhardt belonged to it, the latter was chairman of the German Nature Conservation Ring for many years . The magazine was increasingly devoted to questions of ecology and environmental protection.

History nature

In 1980 Horst Stern founded the environmental magazine natur , where he acted both as publisher (until December 1984) and at times as editor-in-chief. Editing and publishing was the German branch of the Swiss Ringier Verlag, Ringier Germany in Munich. The first edition appeared as an unsalable copy with a cover picture by the Viennese artist Ernst Fuchs . The first regular edition went on sale in June 1981. Stern magazine devoted to topics such as species protection , citizens' initiative , Evolution , land consumption , bionics , industry and ecology . The reports on the Chernobyl reactor disaster and a large-scale mineral water test published in 1991, which caused a considerable stir, are considered milestones . In connection with the dissolution of the Ringier Germany publishing house, the title changed in March 1996 to the publisher natur media belonging to the Konradin Mediengruppe , which published it until 1999.

Fusion of both titles

In 1999 the magazines Kosmos and natur were merged. The new name was natur + kosmos . Since the June 2012 issue, the magazine has been called natur again . Topics are, for example, the global climate , the ocean as a habitat, the future of the mountains, responsible meat consumption , nature conservation as an instrument of peace, the energy transition and climate change in Germany.

Conception

The renaming in 2012 was accompanied by a graphic and content relaunch. Furthermore, nature, the environment and sustainable living remain core topics of the magazine. However, the editorial team wants to emphasize the experience of nature and an approach to life close to nature. In the respective “focus” of the issue, a multi-part cover story, the editors track down the most important trends in nature and the environment and look at them from several angles.

To do this, she evaluates current affairs in politics and society from her point of view every month in “Der Grüne Blick”. And in “Experience Nature”, authors visit the most beautiful wild places in Germany and show what you can observe there. Text and photo reports from nature and the environment complete the magazine.

On the website you can find more current news, information about the stories in the magazine, surveys and image databases where photographers can post their nature photos. As part of the new concept, the website is updated almost daily by the editorial team.

The following name changes have been made to the magazine over the years:

  1. "Nature - The Environment Magazine" (from January 1985)
  2. "Nature - Magazine" (from March 1992)
  3. "Nature - magazine for the ecological future" (from December 1993)
  4. "Nature - Engagement-Fascination-Lifestyle" (from March 1996)
  5. "Nature - Fascination-Health-Lifestyle" (October 1996 to March 1999)
  6. "Nature - the magazine for nature, the environment and sustainable living" (from June 2012)

Editors-in-chief

  1. Horst Stern , also editor (June 1981 to September 1982)
  2. Christian Schütze (November 1982 to May 1983)
  3. Horst Stern, also editor (June 1983 to August 1983)
  4. Adolf Theobald (September 1983, responsible from October 1983 until January 1985)
  5. Manfred Bissinger (February 1985 to January 1989)
  6. Dirk Maxeiner (February 1989 to May 1993)
  7. Günter Haaf (June 1993 to February 1996)
  8. Gerd Pfitzenmaier (March 1996 to March 1999)
  9. Ilona Jerger (April 1999 to March 2011, as editor-in-chief of natur + kosmos )
  10. Jan Berndorff (January 2012 to December 2013)
  11. Sebastian Jutzi (since January 2014)
  12. Christoph Fasel (since January 2018)

The scientific advisory board consisted of:

Awards

In March 2012, Cord Aschenbrenner received the Journalism Prize from the World Population Foundation for an essay on the subject of world food.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ It comes from Spiegel Online: Axel Bojanowski becomes editor-in-chief of Bild der Wissenschaft und Natur , by Marc Bartl Kressköpfe August 5, 2019
  2. ↑ Axel Bojanowski becomes the new editor-in-chief of “Bild der Wissenschaft” and “Natur” , Meedia August 5, 2019
  3. ↑ natur.de (October 13, 2012): natur: Portrait of the story .
  4. ↑ World Population Foundation "World Population Foundation awards journalist prize"
  5. ↑ Award-winning essay How many people can the earth feed