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The "Schnüss" ( Rhenish for "Schnauze") is a Bonn city ​​magazine .

History, concept and direction

In 1978, under the influence of the New Social Movements , the magazine was named “De Schnüss” by Harald Grunert, meanwhile co-owner of the permanent representation , Heinz Dietl, today department head of the Boulevard of the Bonn General-Anzeiger , and Gerd Billen as an alternative medium founded.

In its history it has received nationwide reception several times. For example, in the news magazine Der Spiegel , when she glossed over a police operation that had degenerated into physical violence. The "Schnüss" and with it the freedom of the press was able to assert itself in court cases several times. Because of its sometimes controversial titles and its opinionated glosses, the alternative medium was the subject of legal disputes, which it usually won. Disputes with Karl Carstens and Hans-Helmuth Knütter , among others, were legally fought .

Today the "Schnüss" no longer appeals to a pure scene audience. It still sees itself as an alternative magazine and comes up with local reporting, often on niche topics, as well as a large feature section with numerous cultural events from the Bonn / Rhein-Sieg region and Cologne as well as gastro reviews. There are also complex comments and glosses on political and social issues beyond the local, often as cover stories.

Until the end of 2018, at the beginning of the summer and winter semesters at the University of Bonn, the Schnüss Unimagazin was published in a print run of 10,000 copies with information about studying and the university.

Frequency of publication and publisher

The Schnüss appears monthly, always in the last week of the month. After it was paid for for the longest time and was most recently available for 1.90 €, it has been available free of charge at almost 300 distribution points in Bonn since issue 2/2010. According to its own information, it has a print run of 10,000 copies.

Since switching to free distribution, Schnüss is financed exclusively through advertisements and donations. The publisher is the “Association for the Promotion of Alternative Media e. V. ", the distribution is taken over by the Bonn company" Kulticus Promotion ". The editor-in-chief is Gitta List.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Join-in dictionary. Institute for regional studies and regional history of the Rhineland Regional Council
  2. ↑ Trotted in by accident. In: Der Spiegel. 20/1985.
  3. ↑ Karl Vierklang: The foot in the door ... In: Schnüss - The Bonn city magazine. No. 02/1992, p. 18.