St. Georg (magazine)
| ST.GEORG
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| description | Equestrian magazine |
| publishing company | Year Top Special Verlag |
| First edition | April 1, 1900 |
| Frequency of publication | 12 times a year |
| Editor-in-chief | Jan Tönjes |
| editor | Gabriele Pochhammer |
| Web link | www.st-georg.de |
| ISSN (print) | 0344-0222 |
St. Georg is a monthly magazine from the Hamburg year Top Special Verlag , which deals primarily with the topics of equestrian sports, horse breeding and, in general, topics related to leisure activities with horses. The St. George is among other things, the patron saint of the riders.
ST.GEORG is the oldest German sports magazine, founded in 1900 as an illustrated magazine for sports and society - the official organ of the German Sports Association . Quite soon the reporting concentrated on the sporting events around the horse.
ST.GEORG today
Today the editorial team of the Hamburg-based magazine focuses on articles dealing with the three Olympic equestrian disciplines dressage , show jumping and eventing . In addition, the are driving sport , the Hunting and, especially in the context of the World Championships, Vaulting , Endurance ( "Endurance") and Western Riding subject of the reporting.
In addition to top-class sport, every issue deals with the unpredictability of everyday equestrianism: This includes training tips from well-known experts, such as national trainers, team riders and Olympic champions in the “Celebrity. or professional lesson ". Veterinary aspects and information on all aspects of horse keeping are further key topics.
St. Georg sees itself as a committed medium that is not afraid to ask uncomfortable questions. One of the headlines of an article about Nicole Uphoff , " Rollkur ", coined a term that has since used the extreme "rolling up" of the horse's neck as a training principle. The discussion about the method, which the World Equestrian Federation then referred to as hyperflexion, has increased in intensity since August 2005 after the article "Dressage pervers" was published in St. Georg .
But St. Georg is also active in other animal welfare issues . So the subject of doping in equestrian sport is always an issue. A lexicon of doping cases in equestrian sport is kept on the magazine's homepage .
In 1962 there were still 220,000 horses in Germany, by 2000 it was assumed that there were around 800,000 horses. The developments in horse breeding and trends in modern production medicine, such as cloning, are editorially supported. Travel reports, product overviews that give the reader orientation aids on the equestrian sports market, and portraits of people who not everyone knows that they have something to do with horses, such as Ursula von der Leyen , are part of the magazine's subject area. In addition, the "Georgie-Seiten" is aimed at the next generation of riding readers.
history
- 1900 The first edition of the (then still) Sankt Georg appeared on April 1st in Berlin as Illustrirte Zeitschrift für Sport und Gesellschaft - official organ of the German Sports Association . The main topics are social news as well as the military and driving sports.
- 1903 concentration on equestrian sport. Benno von Achenbach propagated a new type of tension for carriage horses in St. Georg , which has been practiced worldwide since then.
- 1912 In a competition, the magazine looked for a word that would describe the sporting competition on horseback. So far, the French term "Concours hippique" has been used for this. It won the word “tournament”, which has since become an integral part of German usage. In the same year riders took part in the Olympic Games for the first time. The magazine St. Georg reported from Stockholm.
- From 1919 to 1933 Gustav Rau , who after the Second World War was to be largely responsible for the rebuilding of German horse breeding and the reorientation towards sport horses, was editor-in-chief. In 1913 he initiated the establishment of the German Equestrian Olympiad Committee (DOKR).
- 1920s - The rider's style of jumping, which is common today, of leaning forward over the obstacle, was previously largely unknown in Germany. The paper put the new method of the Italian Federico Caprilli up for discussion.
- In 1943, production of the St. Georg was stopped during World War II. Official reason: lack of paper. During the First World War, the magazine had presented itself as an ardent advocate of the "patriotic cause"; The Hubertus hunt in enemy territory was discussed or asked how competition horses performed in the field. During the Second World War, editor-in-chief Günter Marschall tried to find more neutral topics than his predecessors.
- The first edition after the end of the war appeared on January 1, 1949.
- In 1950 the dressage judge Richard Abé became editor-in-chief. In 1960, the German Equestrian Association decided that full-time journalists could no longer be used as judges at tournaments.
- In 1975 Jahr-Verlag took over the magazine, Gerrit Wöckener became editor-in-chief, followed by Hermann Kothe from 1984–1995.
- In the 1980s, St. Georg was committed to the grievances that existed on the Europe-wide transports of horses for slaughter.
- The St. Georg has been the official organ of the German Rider and Driver Association since 1993 .
- In 1995, Gabriele Pochhammer, the first woman, took over the editor-in-chief of the paper, which has been published by Top Special Verlag since then.
- 2012: Starting with the November edition, the previous deputy editor-in-chief Jan Tönjes took over the chief editor. Gabriele Pochhammer was now editor of the magazine.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jan Tönjes new editor-in-chief for St. Georg magazine. In: pferdenews.eu. October 18, 2012, accessed July 28, 2018 .