Tram magazine

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Tram magazine
Tram magazine logo
description Trade journal
language German
publishing company GeraMond Verlag GmbH
First edition 1970
Frequency of publication per month
Sold edition 9000 copies
( [1] : media data)
Editor-in-chief Michael Hofbauer
executive Director Henry Allgaier
Alexander Koeppl
Web link www.strassenbahnmagazin.de
ISSN (print) 0340-7071

The Straßenbahn Magazin is a German magazine about trams and local transport . It was founded in 1970 by the Franckh-Kosmos publishing house , was later transferred to GeraNova Zeitschriftenverlag and has been published by GeraMond Verlag since issue number 99 (1/1996) .

history

After the zero number was tried out as a special issue in the Lok Magazin in 1970 , the magazine appeared every three months from August 1971 (February, May, August, November). Three issues were dedicated to just one company: 17 ( Strasbourg ), 21 ( Bremen ) and 24 ( Cologne ). From issue 39 of February 1981, the subtitle changed from “Reports and pictures from the past and present” to “Electric local transport in reports and pictures from the past and the present”. In November 1993, issue 91 was changed to a new appearance, before issue 99 and the change to GeraMond in February 1996, the entire tram magazine was revised - including the format, the scope and the proportion of color photos. At the same time, six issues per year were now distributed; From issue 123 (01/2000) the publication was changed to monthly.

Edition

The tram magazine appears monthly with a circulation of almost 9,000 copies. According to its own information, it is Europe's largest tram magazine. The volume is around 80 pages.

content

The magazine documents the historical developments in local rail transport in text and images and reports on innovations in transport companies in Germany, Europe and worldwide. Historic and modern vehicles, businesses, routes and depots as well as museums are presented. Model trams have also been dealt with since 1997 , initially as an enclosed 16-page DIN A 5 booklet only for subscribers , and later as an integral part of the magazine. Jens-Olaf Griese-Bandelow has been the head of the model editorial department since 1998.

editorial staff

The editorial office is in Munich .

Editorial management:

  • Clemens Hahn (editor-in-chief until September 2000)
  • Thilo Kreier (editor-in-chief until February 2002)
  • Clemens Hahn (Program Manager until May 2002)
  • Michael Knoblach (acting editor-in-chief until April 2003)
  • Clemens Hahn (Program Manager until June 2004)
  • (Until May 2008 without editorial management)
  • Michael Krische (Program Manager until May 2009)
  • Michael Krische (editor-in-chief until June 2010)
  • Michael Krische (editor-in-chief until August 2011)
  • (Until January 2013 without managing editor)
  • Michael Krische (editor-in-chief until May 2014)
  • Michael Hofbauer, formerly Krische (editor-in-chief since June 2014)

Responsible editor (publisher):

  • Bernd Otto Gessner von Sothen (1970 to 1974)
  • Heinz Matthiesen (1974 to 1976)
  • Martin Pabst (1977 to 1998)
  • Herbert Sommerfeld (1980 to 1983)
  • Konrad Hierl (1980 to 1993)
  • Wolfgang Klee (until mid-2005)
  • Stefan Vockrodt (until mid-2012)
  • André Marks (until November 2015)
  • Martin Weltner (until November 2018)
  • Michael Sperl (since May 2019)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Krische takes over the program management magazines at GeraMond , W&V online, May 22, 2008; accessed on March 4, 2016