Wapiti (magazine)

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Wapiti (formerly Bimbo )

description Children's magazine
language German
publishing company Johann Michael Sailer Verlag GmbH & Co. KG ( Germany )
Headquarters Nuremberg
First edition 1978
Frequency of publication per month
Sold edition 25,731 copies
(IVW 2nd quarter 2014)
Editor-in-chief Andrea Hösel
executive Director Horst Ohligschläger, Christophe Mauratille
Web link Elk
ISSN (print) 2698-7376

Wapiti (formerly Bimbo ) is a German magazine for children between seven and ten years. It is published by the Sailer Verlag in Nuremberg , which belongs to the French Bayard Group . Wapiti serves the areas of interest wild and domestic animals, nature and knowledge.

history

The title of the magazine denotes a small African elephant named Bimbo

Wapiti has its origins in the magazine Der kleine Tierfreund, launched in 1949 . Due to the differentiating reading habits, the older periodical was continued as the youth magazine Tierfreund , which in 1978 was accompanied by a children's magazine called Bimbo . The magazine tradition that has existed since 1949 was also recognizable in the bimbo , as the Bimbo magazines from then on had the subtitle “The Little Animal Friend”. In the 1980s, Wilfried Beuerle acted as editor-in-chief. At that time, a booklet consisted of 20 pages printed in full color. The font was much larger, the articles were a lot shorter than in Tierfreund . Characteristic of the issues of the 1980s was the monthly continuation story on pages 2 and 3, written by Wilfried Beuerle and illustrated by Wolfgang Weber. It was about the adventures of the small eponymous African elephant Bimbo . In October 2019 the magazine was renamed Wapiti .

Todays situation

Wapiti is only available by subscription , the magazine is not sold at the kiosk and appears monthly with a sold circulation of around 25,000 copies. It is considered to be of educational value and is recommended by the Ministries of Education and the Reading Foundation . Wapiti sees itself as a hands-on magazine for young adventurers, animal and nature lovers.

Content

  • Reports and animal portraits from all over the world (e.g. desert, rainforests, from pole to pole, wild west), animal families (e.g. everything about wild dogs, big and small cats), special animal topics (e.g. how Live animals, animals in need, animal stars, jobs with animals) and curriculum-related topics (e.g. forest and meadow, four seasons)
  • Knowledge pages including knowledge tests
  • Animals at home: fun and games with pets, tips for keeping and caring for them
  • Craft ideas, suitable for the main topic or the season
  • Illustrated reading story for guessing and combining in order to attract young readers to longer texts
  • Handicraft sheets on thick paper with games and movable handicrafts: e.g. B. windmill, mini-table football, flip book
  • Animal poster with knowledge poster on the back (knowledge in pictures - photos on a special topic [e.g. volcanoes, islands, space] or a habitat [e.g. steppe, oceans] with information on it)
  • Why questions, cinema tips, puzzles, comics

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Title page of Bimbo. The little animal lover , January 1981 edition
  2. ↑ Bimbo becomes Wapiti , sailer-verlag.de, accessed on November 24, 2019