Tigerpress
The Tiger Verlag GmbH was an owner-managed small publishing house based in Hamburg . He was best known for the temporary publication of the popular comic magazine " Fix & Foxi ".
history
The magazine has been published since 1953, first in the own publishing house of the “Fix & Foxi” inventor Rolf Kauka , then by various other publishing houses. In the 1960s and 1970s the circulation was up to 400,000 copies per week, at times ahead of the US-based competitor “ Donald Duck ”. It was discontinued for the first time in 1994. In 2000 Kauka died. In 2005, his widow Alexandra Kauka granted the license for the “Fix and Foxi” print magazines to the newly founded Tigerpress publishing house, which started publishing the comic on a monthly basis from October 25, 2005. The founders of the publishing house were Jan Wickmann (as managing director; he is a son of Rolf Wickmann , the former magazine director of the Hamburg publishing house Gruner und Jahr ), Lutz Mathesdorf as chief draftsman (he was previously a bestselling author at Rowohlt Verlag and Carlsen Verlag ) and Michael Hopp (previously editor-in-chief of the magazines Wiener , TV total , TV Movie and TV Today ). However, after internal disagreements, Mathesdorf soon left the publishing house. He was initially temporarily replaced by Michael Hopp, and later by Helmut Murek as the new chief draftsman.
The publisher also brought out other titles: In addition to a few short-lived ones, such as “Pauli”, also named after a Kauka figure (since May 2008, 2 issues), “ Ghost Stories ” (originally published by Bastei-Verlag , from October 13, 2008 Tigerpress, 3 issues) and “TiCo Fantasy” (1 issue), the magazine “ Conny - Horses, Boys and Adventure ” and the magazine “Friends” intended for preschool children (based on a world of figures by Helme Heine ) were published by Tigerpress until the end , There were also various “Fix & Foxi” offshoots, such as “Lupo” (since late 2007 to 2009), named after a character from the “Fix & Foxi” comics, and the quarterly “Fix & Foxi Classic Album” (until 2009 ). The “Fix & Foxi” book, several “Fix & Foxi” albums and “Fix & Foxi” lucky bags were published in cooperation with the Weltbild publishing group and the Bild newspaper ( Axel Springer AG ) .
On June 4, 2009, due to the sharp drop in sales ( IVW- tested print run II / 2008: 84,067, of which only 42,658 were sold; most recently, according to the publisher, even only 18,000 copies) and a massive 80% decline in advertising, the publisher filed for insolvency proceedings . The publisher cites the declining number of children, increasing competition from other media and decreasing willingness to read as further reasons.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Fix-und-Foxi-Verlag Tigerpress is broke , Die Welt , June 15, 2009.