Topic (youth magazine)

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Topic

description Youth magazine from the 7th grade
language German
publishing company JUNGÖSTERREICH Zeitschriftenverlag GmbH & Co KG (Austria)
Headquarters innsbruck
First edition 1989
founder Peter Michael Lingens
Frequency of publication 11 times a year
Sold edition 105,000 copies
(ÖAK, 1st half of 2014)
Widespread edition 124,901 copies
(ÖAK, 1st half of 2014)
editor Werner Michael Madl
executive Director Werner Michael Madl
Web link www.lehrerservice.at/to/tostart.php

Topic ( spelling TOPIC) is a youth magazine from the educational media publisher JUNGÖSTERREICH Zeitschriftenverlag GmbH & Co KG.

The monthly magazine is distributed through school subscriptions. The target group are pupils from the 7th grade. The topics covered in Topic include the environment, politics, body awareness, sports, music, stars and culture. From September 2019, a Topic subscription also includes access to the TOPICdigi digital product (www.topicdigi.at).

history

Topic was first published in September 1989 as a variant of the Klex founded in 1987 by Peter Michael Lingens . Klex (for the 5th and 6th grades) and Topic (for the 7th and 8th grades) appeared fortnightly (20 times in the school year) and differed only in the cover story and an economic section for the older ones. They were the magazines for members of the Austrian Youth Book Club.

From September 1990 appeared Klex-Topic as a monthly magazine for the 7th and 8th grade, since the school year 1997/98 there again bears its original name Topic .

Topic has been published jointly with SOS Children's Villages Austria and WWF Austria since the 2019/20 school year .

Edition

According to the Austrian Edition Control (ÖAK), the magazine had a print run of 140,000 (widespread circulation: 124,901) copies and 105,502 subscribers in the first half of 2014.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Klex No. 33 / September 1988, p. 2.
  2. Topic . Issue No. 8, December 1989, p. 9.
  3. Austrian edition control : edition list 1st half of 2014 (PDF; 2.1 MB). Retrieved February 6, 2018.