Poster Press

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Poster Press

description Music magazine, youth magazine
language German
publishing company Coral Publishing House
First edition September 27, 1973
attitude November 11, 1974
Frequency of publication Fortnightly

Poster Press (alternative spellings: POSTER PRESS or POSTER-PRESS ) was a music and youth magazine from Germany , which the Koralle-Verlag in Hamburg published every 14 days from 1973 (first edition September 27, 1973) to 1974. The booklet cost 1.80 marks. The publication of the magazine was planned as early as 1972 with an initial circulation of 500,000 copies. In 1974, the magazine was one of the top 3 magazines in terms of reach for the fortnightly published titles, alongside " Das Motorrad " and " Pop " .

The special thing about »Poster Press« was that the magazine consisted exclusively of folded posters that covered the topics of music, nature photography, art, gags and other content. The editorial part was printed on the back of the poster. From June 1974, for example, the magazine published extracts in a six-part series from an unpublished 400-page manuscript by Monika Dannemann , Jimi Hendrix's last partner . Individual issues of the magazine were promo - singles as Flexi Disc at.

Kurt Koszyk and Karl Hugo Pruys mention in their standard work, the dtv - Handbuch der Massenkommunikation , the comparability of the magazine with the youth magazine " Bravo " and mention a circulation of 200,000, but point out that the "Poster Press" only in the shadow of the "Bravo" could claim. Despite targeted hands-on activities, the interest of readers and buyers was so low that the magazine was discontinued. On November 11, 1974, Koralle-Verlag handed over the »Poster Press« to Jürg Marquard's youth magazine »Pop« in Zurich .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Advertisement in the comic magazine ZACK, September 1973
  2. ↑ Poster Press. In: Rudolf Stefen : Massenmedien und Jugendschutz , Federal Testing Office for Writings Harmful to Young People , 1976, p. 39.
  3. ↑ cf. Yearbook on media statistics and communication policy , Wissenschaftsverlag Volker Spiess, Berlin 1972, p. 135.
  4. ↑ youth markets - Youth Media 1974, Institute for Youth Research (IJF) . In: Advertise and Sell . No. 31 , 2005, p. 44 .
  5. ↑ Pop music: To the point of exhaustion. Der Spiegel 31/1974, July 29, 1974.
  6. ↑ Kurt Koszyk, Karl Hugo Pruys: Handbuch der Massenkommunikation , dtv, Munich 1981, p. 102. (also as hardcover from the Verlag Documentation Saur , Munich)
  7. ↑ cf. Günter Wallraff: The “picture” manual. The picture manual up to the picture failure. Konkret, 1981 p. 82 u. 83.