Ringier Germany

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Ringier Germany GmbH

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legal form GmbH
founding 1972
Seat Munich
management Wolf Prüter (Managing Director)
sales 100 million DM
Branch media

Ringier Deutschland GmbH was an independent German subsidiary of the major Swiss publisher Ringier , based in Munich, specializing in special interest magazines . Titles such as Natur , Globo, fotoMAGAZIN , Alpin, Fliegermagazin or Drachenfliegermagazin appeared there.

history

At the beginning of the 1970s, the Swiss Ringier AG expanded to Germany, bought the Munich-based Heering Verlag, which specializes in photo books and magazines, and renamed the new company "Ringier Deutschland GmbH". With Heering, Ringier acquired the title fotoMAGAZIN and the dealer magazine Fotowirtschaft in addition to photo book series . Ringier also acquired the title Fliegermagazin and the hang-glider magazine , which is in the process of being founded, from the Munich aviation publisher Walter Zuerl . Then there were the titles Alpin and later Natur , Horst Stern's magazine .

New developments in 1995 were the travel magazine GLOBO and the customer magazine BMW Magazin developed by the auto and aviation journalist Peter Groschupf . Runner's World was the publisher's first licensed edition.

Ringier Germany employed almost 100 people and at times produced ten monthly magazines and numerous special issues. In 1988 the publishing house moved to Munich-Neuperlach. The former Heering publishing house in Sendlinger Ortlerstrasse 8 is now a residential building.

Dissolution and sale

In 2001, two years after the death of long-time managing director Wolf Prüter and under the leadership of his successor, the former publishing director Bodo Meinsen, the Ringier Group gave up its business activities in Germany. The publishing house was closed in a controlled manner.

Most of the titles - Fliegermagazin, Drachenfliegermagazin (today's name: Fly and glide ), Fotomagazin, Fotowirtschaft and others - Ringier sold to Hamburg's Top-Special-Verlag, a Springer subsidiary, which after a merger with Jahr-Verlag der Jahr Top Special Verlag became. The titles Alpin and Natur were bought out by editors and continued. Until recently, Nature was published by Konradin-Verlag as Natur Kosmos , but is now published again under the old title Natur . Runner's World jogged to Stuttgart to the engine press . Only the travel magazine GLOBO could not find a buyer, because the big publishers had developed travel magazines themselves after GLOBO appeared and ultimately oversaturated the market. The magazine has been discontinued.

Pitch for BMW magazine

Editor-in-chief Peter Groschupf and Ringier Germany publisher Günter Forster attempted to continue the contract for BMW magazine , which initially succeeded until BMW boss Bernd Pischetsrieder declared the contract that had already been signed to be invalid and had a second pitch carried out after a first bidding competition had been won by Groschupf and Forster. The second bidding competition for this magazine, which appears in 23 languages, was ultimately won by the corporate publishing department of the Hamburg publishing house Hoffmann und Campe , which now operates under the name Hoffmann und Campe X.

Ringier Publishing (Germany)

The Ringier subsidiary Ringier Publishing (Deutschland) GmbH, publisher of the magazine Cicero among others , has no connection with the now extinct Ringier Deutschland GmbH in Munich .

documentation

  • Christian Kolbe: Traces of Time 175 Years of Ringier - Patriarchs, Press and Profit. In: DOK , Schweizer Fernsehen , May 5, 2008.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ W&V 41/2001, page 27
  2. ↑ Traces of Time 175 Years of Ringier - Patriarchs, Press and Profit ( Memento from June 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ https://steidl.de/Buecher/Ringen-um-Ringier-0304121746.html