Public forum

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Public forum
Publik-Forum-Logo.svg
description German biweekly newspaper
publishing company Publik-Forum Verlagsgesellschaft mbH
First edition 1972
Frequency of publication Fortnightly
Sold edition 34,708 copies
( IVW 2/2020)
Widespread edition 39,094 copies
( IVW 2/2020)
Editor-in-chief Alexander Schwabe
editor Readers' initiative Publik-Forum eV
Web link publik-forum.de
ISSN (print) 0343-1401

Publik-Forum is a fortnightly magazine with a focus on ecclesiastical, religious and social issues. It is the Church Referendum and Initiative church from below close. The magazine is published by Publik-Forum Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, the 55% majority of which is held by the reader initiative Publik-Forum eV with around 1100 members (represented by the association's chairwoman Agnes Frei). Other shareholders of the publishing company are the publishing house itself (represented by managing director Richard Bähr), the editorial team (represented by the editor-in-chief) and the publishers (represented by co-editor Norbert Copray ) (as of 2010).

history

Publik-Forum's predecessor was the weekly Publik , which was founded in 1968 by the Catholic Church in Germany and financed until 1971. Publik was supposed to symbolize the idea of ​​a church - renewed by the Second Vatican Council - that is on the move and is conducting an open dialogue with society as a whole. The experiment was ended after three years because the editors and the German Bishops' Conference had different opinions about the content of the newspaper. The financial support was canceled; this meant that the newspaper Publik had to be discontinued.

Launched Publik-Forum was the (then) Roman Catholic readers initiative Publik e. V. (since 2013: Reader-initiative Publik-Forum eV ). Today Publik-Forum sees itself as an ecumenical newspaper.

Almost 60 percent of the readers are Catholic , according to a reader survey , about a third Protestant (as of 2009). A distinctly left-wing Catholic profile is still characteristic.

Other products of the publisher are

  • the public forum EXTRA , which appears monthly alternating between EXTRA topic and EXTRA life ,
  • the weekly wisdom letter sent by e-mail ,
  • the free daily Spiritletter .
  • Book productions on ecclesiastical, religious and social topics were largely discontinued in 2017 due to a lack of profitability.

A mail order book store with selected products such as hand-signed books by prominent authors rounds off the offer.

The youth magazine provo , some of which was written by young people themselves, was discontinued in 2012.

In 2007 the Bremen Peace Prize was awarded to the then co-editor-in-chief of Publik-Forum , Wolfgang Kessler , in the category “Public commitment to justice, peace and the preservation of creation” .

The long-standing claim newspaper of critical Christians was replaced in 2010 by critical - Christian - independent .

Publik-Forum provides the Swiss magazine Aufbruch - Newspaper for Religion and Society eight times a year with the 32-page core section, while the magazine Aufbruch creates its 16-page cover section itself.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexander Schwabe , publik-forum.de, accessed on May 9, 2019
  2. ↑ READER INITIATIVE PUBLIK EV: Annual report for the year 2010, in: Members' circular April 2012 (PDF; 707 kB)
  3. ^ Gesellschaft für Publizistik GmbH (Ed.): Announcement of the Secretariat of the German Bishops' Conference: Public is dead, in Public, November 19, 1971 . Frankfurt am Main, S. 1 .
  4. ^ Würzburg Synod: Press work ( Memento from February 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Florian Bock: The Birth of Publik-Forum, in: Ders .: The case "Publik" - Catholic press in the Federal Republic of Germany around 1968 . Ed .: Commission for Contemporary History by Wilhelm Damberg. Row B, volume 128 . Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2015, ISBN 978-3-506-76642-7 , pp. 451-472 .
  6. ↑ http://www.publik-forum.de/lip
  7. ↑ Publik-Forum: Media data and reader analysis (PDF; 2.91 MB)
  8. ↑ Readers 'initiative Publik-Forum: Members' newsletter December 2017 (PDF; 475 kB)
  9. ↑ dieschwelle.de, Peace Prize 2007, accessed on December 28, 2019.