Star-time-blind magazine
The Stern-Zeit-Blindenzeitschrift is a magazine for the blind and visually impaired, which is published in the tactile Braille . It offers selected articles from the current issues of Stern magazine and the weekly newspaper Die Zeit on subscription.
The German Central Library for the Blind in Leipzig (DZB) manages the production and sales of the Braille edition, the selection of the articles is done by the Hamburg publishing house Gruner + Jahr .
The Stern-Zeit-Blindenzeitschrift appears fortnightly and is offered in two versions - as a print edition Stern / Zeit Braille with a length of 52 pages and also as an electronically sendable version Stern / Zeit Braille digital .
history
1968
In 1968, Henri Nannen ( Stern ) and Gerd Bucerius ( Die Zeit ) launched the Stern-Zeit-Blindenzeitschrift .
“In the non-profit project Stern-Zeit-Blindenzeitschrift, selected articles from the current issues of Stern and Die Zeit appear every 14 days . The 52-page booklet is regularly delivered to around 2,500 blind and visually impaired readers and to numerous institutions. "
2007
The publishing house Gruner + Jahr stopped the production and distribution of the Stern-Zeit-Blindenzeitschrift for cost reasons.
“The Hamburg publisher Gruner + Jahr wants to discontinue the 'Stern-Zeit-Blindenzeitschrift' this summer. 'We want to change the medium,' said Stern managing director Ove Saffe . The edition causes excessive losses and is no longer produced for over 6000, as it used to be, but only for 1400 subscribers. "
The Braille edition was continued as a star podcast , i.e. an audio download.
2008
The Stern-Zeit-Blindenzeitschrift is continued by the German Central Library for the Blind in Leipzig.
Star podcast
The German Central Library for the Blind in Leipzig offers an article by Stern every week as a podcast episode or as an audio download on the DZB-operated internet platform for the blind and visually impaired.
References and comments
- ↑ Stern.de, "G + J Journals for the Blind and Visually Impaired" ( Memento of the original from November 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Website of the advocacy group Self-Determined Living in Rehienland-Palatinate eV, "G + J discontinues magazine for the blind" (April 15, 2007) ( 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.
- ↑ Press release "Stern-Zeit-Blindenzeitschrift: Der Stern and Die Zeit again in dot print" (October 14, 2008) ( 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.
