PM history
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| description | popular science magazine |
| Area of Expertise | history |
| publishing company | Gruner + Jahr ( Germany ) |
| First edition | 1998 |
| Frequency of publication | per month |
| Editor-in-chief | Jens Schröder Markus Wolff |
| Web link | pm-magazin.de |
| ISSN (print) | 2510-0661 |
PM History (spelling: PM HISTORY ) is a multi-thematic German-language history magazine. It appears monthly in the Hamburg publishing house Gruner + Jahr . Its subtitle is: Europe's largest monthly history magazine.
The magazine is best known for its easily understandable reading stories, which are illustrated with numerous photos and images. Thematically, the entire spectrum of human history is covered, with a special focus on classical high cultures and European history .
construction
At the center of every issue of PM History is the large special section , which includes several reading stories on the cover topic. These can be historical events, significant personalities, cultures, epochs or epoch-spanning phenomena in human history.
The focus is framed by further reading stories, the topics of which are clearly different from those of the special section. This also includes a large series of photos with a separate topic and a short interview with a researcher.
Each issue also contains fixed categories, including “A photo and its history”, “Disused”, in which a lost profession is presented, or “Masterpiece”, which traces the genesis of a work of art. “Time Machine” presents a historical event from the perspective of a famous contemporary witness. There are also recommendations for books, films and exhibitions, as well as a riddle. The quotation page "Explosives" forms the end of the booklet.
history
PM History is an offshoot of the knowledge magazine PM Vorläufer was a special section in the parent magazine, which appeared from 6/1993 with the title The historical event . In autumn 1993 the first issue of PM - The historic event was published as a separate issue with a thickness of 64 pages. The topic was the first supersonic flight of the pilot Chuck Yeager . As the magazine found a growing readership, the frequency of publication increased steadily.
In 1998 the name was changed to PM History . Under the new name, the magazine was initially published four times a year (six times from the second year) with a volume of 100 pages. At the same time, the previous monothematic orientation of the magazine was abandoned in favor of a multi-thematic range. From 2002 ten issues appeared per year, since 2004 the magazine appears monthly. In 2020, the editorial offices of the PM and Geo brand families merged .
Personal details
From 1998 Ernst Deissinger was the editorial manager. His successor was Sascha Priester , who was responsible for PM History from 2007 as editor-in-chief and from 2010 to 2012 as editor-in-chief . Then Hans-Hermann Sprado was publisher and editor-in-chief. In 2014 Florian Gless became editor-in-chief of the PM brand family , and in 2015 he appointed Rüdiger Barth as editor-in-chief of PM History . In 2016, Jens Schröder took over the editorial management. In 2018 Jens Schröder replaced Florian Gless as editor-in-chief of the PM brand . Jens Schröder and Markus Wolff have been editors-in-chief of the PM and Geo brand families since 2020 . Joachim Telgenbüscher has been the chief editor of PM History since 2018.
Edition
The last edition was reported to the IVW in quarter 04/2019 . At that time, the sold circulation was 34,199 copies. The share of subscriptions in the circulation sold was 46 percent. The magazine had the highest sold circulation of the reported history magazines.
Podcast
The Forgotten Three - The PM History Podcast has been published since 2019 . The first season on Audible has 24 episodes, the length of one episode is around 45 minutes. In it, editor-in-chief Joachim Telgenbüscher, together with historian Janine Funke and fact checker Fabian Klabunde, each present three lesser-known people from world history: u. a. Traitors, lifesavers, pioneers and dictators.
Former publications
- PM History Special : From 2008 to 2014, a monothematic special was published once a year.
- PM History Collection : From 2011 to 2012/2013, a collection of articles on a topic from the monthly issues was published once a year, but individual new articles were also added.
- Audiobook edition Our big moments - German history from 1945 to the present day with original audio documents and texts from the PM History editorial team, published by audio media.
- Pocket books Stories on history : collections of various magazine articles on a specific topic, published by dtv.
- Audiobooks on the subject of history in the Road University series from Complete Media Verlag.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ PM - The historic event. In: Catalog of the German National Library. Retrieved April 16, 2020 .
- ^ PM History. In: Catalog of the German National Library. Retrieved April 16, 2020 .
- ↑ Gruner + Jahr: Florian Gless takes over editor-in-chief of the PM family , Meedia, September 12, 2014
- ↑ Uwe Mantel: Rüdiger Barth changes from "Stern" to "PM" In: dwdl.de. January 20, 2015, accessed August 2, 2016 .
- ↑ Kevin Hennings: "PM" and "Geo" management teams reorganized. In: dwdl.de. June 16, 2016, accessed August 3, 2016 .
- ↑ G + J: Jens Schröder and Markus Wolff are the new editors-in-chief of the “Geo” and “PM” titles. In: meedia.de. November 25, 2019, accessed April 22, 2020 .
- ^ PM History. In: ivw.eu. Accessed June 1, 2020 .
- ^ IVW: Public magazines with national distribution / knowledge magazines. In: ivw.eu. Retrieved on April 16, 2020 (To compare the sold circulation of the history magazines, click on "All details".).
- ↑ The Forgotten Three - the "PM HISTORY" podcast. In: audible.de. Accessed June 1, 2020 .
- ^ PM History Special. In: Catalog of the German National Library. Retrieved April 16, 2020 .
- ^ PM History Collection. In: Catalog of the German National Library. Retrieved April 16, 2020 .