Street newspaper

Saleswoman for a street newspaper in San Francisco

Street newspapers or street magazines (sometimes also referred to as homeless newspapers ) are local newspapers or magazines that are sold by people in social need and, in rare cases, are also edited. Mostly it is the homeless , but often also asylum seekers or long-term unemployed , who get low-threshold access to work, stay in contact with society and earn a low income.

principle

A fundamental principle of street newspapers is that the sellers receive at least 50 percent of the selling price as income. The sellers often come into conversation with the buyers, and some sellers now even have something like regular customers . In some cases, the purchase serves more to donate than to buy newspapers, so that many newspapers purchased remain unread. Sometimes the amount of money is rounded up by the buyer with a small tip.

All sellers are provided with a so-called seller ID. Depending on the newspaper, the sellers are assigned a sales point or they can determine the sales point themselves.

There are some binding rules for the sellers: It is forbidden to sell the newspaper while intoxicated or to consume alcohol during the sale. The salespeople should also not beg on the side.

history

The Vagabunden magazine, founded in 1927, can be seen as the forerunner of the street newspapers. Gustav Brügel, tramp and writer from Balingen near Stuttgart , published the first issue of the magazine Der Kunde . Gregor Gog took over from the second issue and founded the Brotherhood of Vagabonds .

The first street paper was founded in New York in 1989 and was called Streetnews. Two years later, inspired by the New York street paper, John Bird founded the first street paper in Europe - The Big Issue . He was supported by The Body Shop . The Big Issue has been sold in London since 1991 and was the model for many other street newspapers in Europe . The concept was also exported to other continents. The street papers The Big Issue Australia , The Big Issue South Africa , The Big Issue Namibia and The Big Issue Japan established themselves .

In 1987 and 1988 the first Berber letters published by Hans Klunkelfuß appeared irregularly, about four times a year, 8–12 pages on photocopied paper with an edition of 100 to 500 copies. Klunkelfuss and other homeless people use the sale of the newspaper they have produced themselves in order to secure their survival on the street independently of government aid. In 1992, BankExpress , later BankExtra , now Draussenseiter , was the first German street newspaper to appear in Cologne ; in October 1993 citizens in social difficulties - BISS in Munich and 14 days later Hinz and Kunzt from Hamburg joined them. In 2006 there were already around 30 street newspapers in Germany. In 2010 the total monthly circulation in Germany was 250,000 copies.

The awareness of the street papers was further increased when in 2003 the author Joanne K. Rowling allowed the street papers to print the first chapter of the latest Harry Potter volume free of charge two weeks before the official publication date, which was also done by a total of 24 German-language street papers (20 in Germany, three in Austria and one in Switzerland).

2004 paid tribute to the then UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on the day of Poverty (17 October), the work of street newspapers. He wrote an exclusive article on poverty that was printed in the street papers.

Today 200,000 people worldwide sell street newspapers and reach six million readers.

Umbrella organizations

Many street newspapers have joined together to form networks such as the International Network of Street Papers (INSP) or The North American Street Newspaper Association (NASNA). An extensive list of street papers from around the world can also be found on these websites. INSP belong to 112 street papers from 40 countries (as of 2011). The Homeless World Cup has been taking place under the auspices of INSP since 2003 , in which homeless people from all over the world compete against each other in a soccer tournament.

On April 1, 2000, the Federal Association of Social Street Papers was founded in Germany as the umbrella organization for German street papers. However, this umbrella organization dissolved again in spring 2008. Many German-language street newspapers from Austria, Switzerland and Germany are now part of INSP.

Awards

In 2010 the street magazines BISS (Munich), Donaustrudl (Regensburg), Riss (Augsburg) and Straßenkreuzer (Nuremberg) were awarded the Wilhelm Hoegner Prize by the Bavarian SPD parliamentary group . "The street newspapers have committed themselves to the goal of supporting people in need, in social difficulties, people who live on the street," said SPD parliamentary group leader Markus Rinderspacher at the ceremony in the Bavarian state parliament for the award ceremony.

At the end of 2011, the Bremen street newspaper Zeitschrift der Straße received a special typographical award . The International Society of Typographic Designers (ISTD) from London, the international professional association by and for typographers and graphic designers , presented an Award of Excellence to the street magazine designed by students from the Bremen University of the Arts . In addition, the design of the Bremen street magazine was awarded three times by the Type Directors Club (TDC) in New York City at the beginning of 2012 .

Examples

Germany

• offside - The Osnabrücker Street Newspaper: Osnabrück, bimonthly, circulation 10,000 (Christmas time 13,000), also subscription, first issue on July 29, 1995
• Arts of the Working Class: Berlin, every two months, 10,000 copies, first issue on April 29, 2018
• Asphalt-Magazin : Hannover, monthly, circulation 25,000, also subscription for the waiting room, founded in 1994
• BISS : Munich, monthly (except August), circulation 35,000, also subscription, founded in October 1993
• bodo - the street magazine : Bochum and Dortmund
• Brücke: Erfurt edition 4000–4500, subscription possible
• The Jerusalemists: Neumünster
• The Ruhrstadt Zeitung (DRZ, formerly: Homeless): Essen, bi-monthly, circulation 9,000
• The support: Berlin, edition 12,000, publication 2001 discontinued
• The road: Wuppertal - Solingen - Remscheid, monthly
• Donaustrudl: Regensburg, monthly, edition 5,000, first edition April 1998
• outside! (also: “outside!”): Münster, monthly, circulation 8,000–10,000, also subscription, founded in 1994, fourth oldest street newspaper in Germany
• Outsider (formerly Bank-Extra): Cologne, monthly, circulation 3,000 (as of May 2011), also subscription, founded in June 1992 as Bank-Express, Germany's oldest homeless newspaper
• drobs: Dresden, monthly, first edition January 1998
• fiftyfifty : Düsseldorf (39,000 copies); also in Bonn, Duisburg, Essen, Frankfurt / Main, Mönchengladbach, monthly, total circulation 60,000
• Frei (e) Bürger (own spelling: FREIeBÜRGER): Freiburg, monthly (except Sept.), edition 7,000, also downloadable as PDF files, since June 1998
• Guddzje: Saarbrücken
• Hempels (own spelling: HEMPELS): Kiel and Schleswig-Holstein, monthly, circulation 21,000
• Hinz and Kunzt : Hamburg, monthly, circulation 57,000, also subscription outside of Hamburg, founded in November 1993
• KiPPE: Leipzig, monthly, circulation 10,000
• motz : Berlin, fortnightly, circulation 12,000, also subscription, founded in 1995
• Emergency exit Jena: Jena
• Parkbank Zeitung: Braunschweig, monthly, circulation at least 3,000
• Pavement: Halle on the Saale
• Cross head: Berlin, Cologne, monthly
• Riss: Augsburg, every two months, 4000 edition
• Social world: Frankfurt / Main
• No way out road ?: Gifhorn, every two months, edition 1,000
• Street Forum: Karlsruhe
• Strassenfeger (1995–2018): Berlin, every three weeks, circulation 8,000–9,000
• Road cruiser : Nuremberg - Erlangen - Fürth, monthly (double issue in August), circulation 12,000–18,000, also downloadable as PDFs, founded in 1994
• Streem - urban art & street magazin: Berlin, 4 times a year, circulation 20,000, current issue only on the street, previous issues free online, first issue 2011 still under the name Streetmag, since 2013 under the name streem
• StreetJournal : Berlin, first edition in January 2011, monthly, print edition up to 10,000 copies, free of charge as an online edition
• Straw: monthly, Rostock, edition 7,000
• Daily rate (spelling: TagesSatz): monthly, except January and August. In January and August there is a seller edition, Kassel (since 1994), Göttingen (since 1996), edition 3000–3500 (status: September 2004), also downloadable as PDFs, first edition on September 23, 1994
• Trott-war : Stuttgart, monthly + two special editions annually, circulation 30,000, first edition on November 17, 1994
• Apartment looser: Michelstadt
• Zeitschrift der Straße : Bremen und Bremerhaven, currently (2012) every two months, initial circulation 14,000, current circulation (2012) 13,000, first issue on February 2, 2011

Austria

• 20s: Innsbruck, monthly (July / August and December / January a double issue each), circulation 15,000
• Apropos : Salzburg, monthly, print run 10,000
• Augustin : Vienna, fortnightly, edition 45,000
• Eibisch-Zuckerl: Wiener Neustadt, bi-monthly, edition 6,000
• kaz: Kärntner Allgemeine Zeitung, Klagenfurt, Villach, monthly with 48 pages (December / January as double issue), circulation 10,000 to 17,000
• Kupfermuckn : Linz, Wels, Steyr, monthly, circulation between 30,000 and 50,000
• Los-Magazin: Südost Österreichs, first edition February 2020, appears 4 times a year; The los-Magazin is the continuation of the Eibisch-Zuckerl ➜ 1st edition 2,000 pieces. The core of the magazine consists of the SOL magazine - it is supplemented by reports, articles and contributions with high regional relevance!
• marie - The Vorarlberger street newspaper , monthly, circulation between 20,000 and 30,000
• Megaphone : Graz, monthly, circulation 15,000
• MO magazine for human rights ( SOS Mitmensch association ): Vienna, 4 times a year, circulation 30,000 (20,000 insert in the daily newspaper Der Standard; 8-10,000 copies sold via Kolportage ), since December 2003, 48 pages
• The Global Player (formerly Die Bunte Zeitung ): Vienna, Salzburg, Graz, Linz, Klagenfurt, every 4 to 8 weeks
• Uhudla : Vienna, 3 to 4 times a year, 10,000 copies

Switzerland

• Surprise : Zurich, Basel, Bern, St. Gallen, edition 23,000
• GasseZiitig Lozärn, Lucerne, circulation 8,000-14,000

International

The Big Issue is an internationally known and successful London street newspaper written by professional journalists and mostly sold by homeless people. Five different local editions are sold in Great Britain , and newspaper projects have also been initiated in four other countries: Australia (four different editions), South Africa , Namibia and Japan .

Street newspapers are widespread in Europe and can be found in almost all major cities. Well-known street newspapers are u. a. The Big Issue (Great Britain), Fedél Nélkül ( Budapest ), Terre Di Mezzo ( Milan ), Z Magazine ( Amsterdam ), Situation STHLM ( Stockholm ), Hus Forbi ( Denmark ).

literature

• Maria Laura Bono : Street Newspapers. Lambertus Verlag, Freiburg in Breisgau 1999, ISBN 978-3-7841-1159-9

Web links

Commons : Street Newspaper  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• International Network of Street Papers - INSP - international umbrella organization of the SP
• The North American Street Newspaper Association - NASNA

Individual evidence

1. ^ History of the Globetrotters
2. ↑ "Dudley slept. Bibliography of the preprints in street magazines " (hermesmeier.berlin, accessed on March 17, 2015)
3. ↑ ^{a b} derStandard.at: Cover of the street newspaper "Kupfermuckn" awarded , July 25, 2011
4. ↑ Award ceremony of the SPD parliamentary group in November 2011
5. ↑ International recognition for the “Zeitschrift der Straße”. Certificate of Excellence for Bremen project . On: website of the University of the Arts Bremen ; Retrieved February 17, 2012.
6. ↑ Highest award. ISTD Design Award for “Zeitschrift der Straße” ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . On: website of the printing company BerlinDruck ; Retrieved February 17, 2012. 
7. ↑ Bremer “Zeitschrift der Straße” convinces New York jurors. Triple award for HfK design project at the Type Directors Club Award 2012 . On: website of the University of the Arts Bremen ; Retrieved February 17, 2012.
8. ↑ The Osnabrück Street Newspaper - apart. Retrieved April 19, 2020 . 
9. ^ Arts of the Working Class. Retrieved July 8, 2020 (UK English). 
10. ↑ Asphalt - The Street Magazine ( Memento of the original from January 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
11. ^ Homepage of BISS - Citizens in Social Difficulties
12. ↑ Street Magazine: Voice of the Homeless
13. ↑ Jerusalëmmer online: self-presentation and online booklet archive ( memento of the original from November 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
14. ↑ Donaustrudl Online: About Us - The Donaustrudl Story ( Memento of the original from May 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
15. ↑ http://www.muenster.org/draussen/
16. ↑ Homepage of the street magazine Draussenseiter
17. ^ Oasis Cologne via bank extra
18. ↑ Media data fiftyfifty ( memento of the original from October 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
19. ↑ Media data on frei-e-buerger.de ( Memento of the original from May 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
20. ↑ Chronicle ( Memento of the original from July 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on frei-e-buerger.de 
21. ↑ Homepage of Hinz & Kunzt: Das Magazin
22. ↑ homepage cant - The Leipziger Strasse newspaper
23. ^ Park bench Braunschweig
24. ^ [1] Berliner Zeitung of December 12, 2016.
25. ↑ Road cruiser: media data ( memento of the original dated August 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
26. ↑ media data
27. ↑ Esther Loose: Better to have the newspaper in hand than completely without a roof ( Memento of the original from April 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on September 26, 2004 
28. ↑ Daily rate: The story of the daily rate ( Memento of the original from April 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
29. ↑ Trott-war: We about us ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
30. ↑ https://nachhaltig.at/sol-magazin/