scouting
| scouting | |
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| description | General yearbook for scouts |
| language | German |
| publishing company | Spurbuchverlag (Germany) |
| First edition | 1984 |
| Frequency of publication | yearly |
| Sold edition | (Self-reported) 4,000 copies |
| Editor-in-chief | Paul-Thomas Hinkel |
| Web link | www.scouting.de |
| ISSN |
0176-4624 |
scouting was a quarterly German scout magazine . Today scouting is sold as a yearbook. The first edition came out in 1984.
history
magazine
The founding of scouting was largely initiated by Klaus Hinkel and his son Paul-Thomas Hinkel, which was joined by a team of other volunteer editors from various scout associations. Klaus Hinkel and his son Paul-Thomas Hinkel come from the German Scouting Association St. Georg (DPSG) and rejected the educational changes of the 1970s and 1980s, especially in the DPSG. Paul-Thomas Hinkel was therefore also instrumental in founding the conservative Untermerzbacher Kreis on 26/27. June 1982 involved. The focus there was on the scouting of Baden-Powell and today's association life of the DPSG. According to the participants of this meeting, scouting in the DPSG has been undermined for decades. According to Paul-Thomas Hinkel, the DPSG federal management consisted of “highly paid, red-green functionaries” in the 1970s. It was therefore agreed to adhere to the old guidelines and went on a confrontation course with the DPSG federal management. Paul-Thomas Hinkel, district chairman of the DPSG district of Haßberge, was expelled from the DPSG because of “behavior that was harmful to the association”. According to the Catholic News Agency , the magazine also represented the critical positions towards the DPSG federal management that were expressed within the association in the Untermerzbacher Kreis , which Paul-Thomas Hinkel co-founded .
The magazine was published quarterly from 1984 by the German Spurbuchverlag , the counterpart to the French publisher “Signe de Piste”. In addition to the magazine scouting , translations of the original French works (track books ) by Eric Lesprit, Jean-Louis Foncine or Serge Dalens, but also classics such as The Boy Scout Book by Alexander Lion or The Blue Flower of the Wandering Bird by Werner Helwig in new editions appeared there.
In the foreword of the first edition, the editor referred to the international character of the scout movement and called for more understanding for the scout brothers in their own country and beyond national and association borders. From the beginning, Paul-Thomas Hinkel, who remained editor-in-chief to this day, was responsible in terms of press law. The editor is his father, Klaus Hinkel.
In the first issue the subtitle was “Journal for Scouts and Scouts”. The magazine was printed entirely in black and white. From 1989 the cover picture was colored, in 1994 the subtitle changed to "Independent magazine for scouts and scouts". Since 1996, individual inside pages have been printed in color and from 2006 the magazine has appeared entirely in color. In 2007 the subtitle changed again, this time to “Adventure, Outdoor, Movement”. The format has been DIN A4 upright since it was founded.
Yearbook
Since number 4/2012 scouting is no longer published quarterly, but in the form of a yearbook. The first edition of the yearbook was delivered in December 2013. In addition, with this development, the current reporting has been moved to the Internet.
Surname
The name scouting comes from English and describes the scouting movement as a whole. scouting was also the name of the very first Boy Scout magazine published by the London publisher Pearson in parallel with Baden-Powell's bestseller Scouting for Boys .
Self-image and readership
The magazine saw itself as the only independent platform for all German scouting. However, their reporting also extends to topics and personalities of the German youth movement , with reports on well-known and less well-known scout organizations and groups of the youth movement. In 2007 reports came from 72 different organizations, including eleven groups from non-scouting leagues and associations of the German youth movement.
Another aim of the magazine was to enable the groups to think outside the box, to help managers with problems and to make the goals of the scout work clear. In the editorial of the 2/07 edition, the editor-in-chief Paul-Thomas Hinkel also commented on the readership as follows: “We want to put a scout magazine on the table for all scouts, but we're not interested in national affiliations. We are neither on one side nor on the other - we are on Baden-Powell's side. "
Another central concern of the editorial team was the documentation of historical scouting and youth movements and scouting life. These articles were often furnished with documents and photographs, some of which were unique, from the archives of scouting and the Spurbuchverlag. Much was also contributed by external article writers.
Circulation and distribution
According to its own statements, the magazine achieved a sold circulation of 4,000 copies in 2007. The printed edition was 12,200 copies in 2008, making it one of the highest-circulation scout magazines in Germany. The magazine saw itself primarily as a subscription magazine . In addition, it was also distributed at scouting events, and there was also a change of dispatch for advertising purposes. It was particularly widespread in Germany; according to the publisher, it was also sent to around 20 other countries. A survey carried out by the publisher in the 1990s showed a number of readers per issue of up to six people. In a survey on awareness on the website pfadfinder-treffpunkt.de at the end of 2006, a total of 44 percent of those questioned stated that they knew this magazine, but only 13 percent read it regularly. No figures are known about the current yearbook.
Rubrics
The focus was on trip reports , historical articles on the boy scout and youth movement as well as subject-specific interviews. Other components were the forum , heard, seen, read , appointments , invitations , international issues and, since issue 1/07, the practice pages especially for younger group leaders . The magazine used the conventional German spelling up to the 1/08 issue .
The editorial office
The eight members of the editorial team in 2007 came from seven different organizations according to their own information: the German Scouting Association Saint Georg, the Association of Christian Scouts , the Association of Scouts , the German Scout Association , the German Scout Association , the Catholic Scouting Association of Europe and of the European Scouting Society Saint George. In the past, representatives from the Ring of German Scout Associations and the Ring of German Girl Scout Associations made up the largest share of the editorial team. In addition to this permanent editorial team, around 250 correspondents from over 100 different groups were involved in the content of scouting in the previous five years . Guest authors included Alexej Stachowitsch , federal leader of the Phoenix Boys' Union , Fritz-Martin Schulz, federal leader of the Nerother Wandervogel , the author Piet Strunk, the songwriter Erik Martin , the theologian Jochen Senft and the pedagogue Hans Gerr . The magazine was produced by volunteers; it had no full-time employees.
Awards
In 2003 the magazine received the “Robert Baden Powell Prize” from the Scout Aid Fund for its 20 years of service to German scouting. The laudation said about the editors of scouting : “Among other things, they used ideas, strength and resources with the aim of giving the German scouts a voice that was informative, critical and open about the boundaries of the various associations and leagues , lively and unreservedly informed. (...) Scouting contributes to the unity of the German scouts in spirit and to the increasing information through its comprehensive and largely objective reporting. "
criticism
Up until a few years ago, scouting was rated negatively by the DPSG in particular. The federal board of the DPSG repeatedly forbade the admission of editors to events; He referred to an agreement in the ring of German scout associations not to speak to scouting . This was due on the one hand to the scouting biography of Klaus and Paul-Thomas Hinkel, on the other hand to statements that were perceived as critical of the DPSG. Nevertheless, official representatives of the DPSG also made statements in the journal and DPSG tribes regularly submitted their reports for printing. The magazine also provided a forum for those scout organizations that were not part of the World Organization of the Scout Movement and World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts . Cooperation with these groups was largely rejected by the member organizations of the Ring of German Scout Associations and the Ring of German Scout Associations. There has been a significant change here in recent years. The (online) editing of Scouting is now taken into account in press releases by the DPSG federal board and diocesan associations. The publication "Boy Scout Associations & Associations", which was created by scouting editors in the Spurbuchverlag, also took place with the active involvement of the member organizations of the Ring of German Scout Associations and the Ring of German Girl Scout Associations. Numerous joint events or statements that have taken place in recent years between member organizations of the Ring of German Scout Associations and the Ring of German Scout Associations and other German Scout Organizations show that a cautious opening has started here too. Since the start of the Scouting website, over 320 articles related to the DPSG have been created.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dieter Sawitzky, Paul-Thomas Hinkel, Norbert Katz, Rochus Hinkel u. a. according to the imprint of the first edition
- ^ Paul-Thomas Hinkel: The scout associations in the Federal Republic of Germany. Spurbuchverlag, 3rd edition 1990, ISBN 3-88778-154-6
- ↑ KNA Information Service No. 12 of March 21, 1985, quoted from: Paul-Thomas Hinkel: The Scout Associations in the Federal Republic of Germany . 3. Edition. Deutscher Spurbuchverlag, Baunach 1990, ISBN 3-88778-154-6 , p. 222 .
- ↑ See scouting issue 4/12, pp. 4–5.
- ↑ According to scouting issue 1/07 to 4/07
- ↑ see foreword of the scouting issue 1/07
- ↑ According to scouting edition 2/07
- ↑ mediadaten-online.com ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 1, 2009
- ↑ Survey by the scout meeting point, end of 2006 ( Memento from September 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b see the imprint of the 1/84 to 2/07 edition
- ↑ Scouting 1/88, 2/88, 1/89, 4/96, 1/97
- ↑ scouting. Independent magazine for girl and boy scouts. Issues 1/84 to 1/07
- ↑ Statement of the editor-in-chief last in the editorial of issue 2/07
- ^ Robert Baden Powell Prize 2003. Boy Scout Aid Fund, archived from the original on September 28, 2007 ; Retrieved January 5, 2015 .
- ↑ DPSG federal management announces "Within the framework of the ring there is an agreement not to speak with and (scouting)." In: scouting 3/05. In contrast to this statement, there is the interview with BdP chairman Roland Baetzel in the same issue.
- ^ "The sponsors were the DPV, BdP, the Hungarian Scout Association and the Russian associations NORS and RAS-N." On the VDAPG website [1]
- ^ "On Saturday, May 7th, 2016, the top meeting between the Sankt Georg (PSG) and the BMPPD took place." On the website of the BMPPD [2]
- ↑ The sponsors of the scout conference are among others rdp and DPV on the website of the scout conference [3]
- ↑ Keyword search under scouting.de [4]
