Wooling (magazine)

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WOOLING is a multilingual German youth magazine that is produced and published by students at the Oberland-Gymnasium in Seifhennersdorf, Saxony . After the magazine was recognized as the best German-language school newspaper by the news magazine SPIEGEL in 2001 , the newspaper gained national recognition. In 2007, the WOOLING editorial team temporarily stopped its work in the print area in order to devote itself intensively to promoting young talent and the online edition of the same name that was published at the same time. With a new editorial team, the printed WOOLING is making its comeback in 2009 and since then the magazine has once again been one of the best school newspapers at national level, which is underscored by numerous awards in competitions advertised across Germany.

WOOLING is not only a youth magazine, but also the initiator of aid projects. For example, since January 2005 WOOLING has been actively involved in rebuilding a school in Khao Lak, Thailand, which was destroyed by the tsunami . WOOLING editors worked there as volunteers between 2005 and 2008 . Donations were collected to support the earthquake victims in Java / Indonesia, children in Ghana and families in Poland damaged by floods. Since 2011, the editorial team has been focusing on the starving children of Africa and has taken on an SOS Children's Village sponsorship in Kenya.

history

The Oberland-Gymnasium struggled in 2000 with the threatened school closure. In order to make the public aware of the excellent potential in terms of promoting talent at this educational institution, a new concept was developed for the existing school newspaper and it was renamed WOOLING. The editorial team at the time was under enormous pressure to succeed because they wanted to save their high school. Thanks to the great commitment of the students, supported by the teacher Andrea Thomas, they were able to make the impossible possible by becoming the overall winner of the 2001 international student newspaper competition organized by the news magazine Der Spiegel . The school had become known throughout Germany through WOOLING. This popularity and other activities played a major role in preventing schools from closing.

In April 2005, the online magazine of the same name ( WOOLING.net ) was founded, which was initially intended as a supplement to the print edition, but developed into an independent interactive project. At times there was also a Turkish edition of the online magazine, which was produced in Ünye , Turkey , but was discontinued after about a year due to low demand. The online magazine was discontinued on October 13, 2008.

In 2011, WOOLING introduced the Katzenblatt as a special publication . In this magazine, school-related topics and current regional events are dealt with. The newspaper was very well received, which is why the editorial team decided to expand it and produce it twice a year alongside the magazine.

The WOOLING magazine , on the other hand, deals with socially relevant topics from culture and politics, but also offers a variety of critical, satirical or loose texts, as columns or glosses. More and more people and their stories are picked up and processed journalistically. “Thinking outside the box” is the motto of the Seifhennersdorf editors.

In 2012 WOOLING started a project in cooperation with the Sächsische Zeitung. The editors around the youth magazine were allowed to design the local edition of the SZ and fill it with their own texts.

target group

With a wide range of topics, WOOLING is primarily aimed primarily at young people between the ages of 14 and 19. But many adults have been loyal to the magazine for years.

financing

As a non-profit project, WOOLING is financed through the advertisements placed in the magazine. However, the magazine cannot be financed through advertisers and sales alone. The editor-in-chief always has major problems finding advertisers in the border region around Seifhennersdorf. Without prize money and sponsors, WOOLING's existence would be endangered.

Awards

WOOLING has received many awards. Here are the greatest honors:

  • March 2001: WOOLING wins the SZ competition announced by the news magazine DER SPIEGEL and becomes the world's best German-language school newspaper. In addition, WOOLING received the "School Newspaper Oscar" as the best school newspaper in Saxony and Antje Thomas was awarded the Youth Journalist Prize.
  • June 2005: WOOLING receives 1st place in the youth journalist award in the "Gymnasium" category.
  • March 2006: WOOLING is awarded a special prize for “civic engagement” by the German State School Newspaper Prize.
  • June 2006: WOOLING receives the youth journalist award again and receives first places in the categories "high school" and "online presence / school newspaper homepage". In addition, WOOLING editor Marco Frömter was honored with a second place in the "Author" category.
  • June 2007 Wooling is recognized by the Federal Council as the best cross-media school newspaper. The award was donated by the Federal Association of German Newspaper Publishers (BDZV).
  • June 2007 Also in June 2007, Wooling received an award in the Spiegel school newspaper competition. In the overall ranking, the magazine took second place, in terms of magazine content a third, and online it was enough for fifth place. In addition, the editors Florian Zinner and Marco Frömter were among the winners of Germany's largest school newspaper competition with 3rd and 4th place in the reportage category. The 2007 Youth Journalism Prize of the State of Saxony also went to Wooling and Florian Zinner was awarded second place in the reportage category. Florian Zinner was invited to a research trip to South America by SOS Children's Villages worldwide.
  • June 2008 Wooling was recognized as the second best school newspaper in Germany in the grammar school category in the school newspaper competition organized by the Jugendpresse Deutschland and the Bundesrat. Just two months after the start of the test and one month after the official start, Wooling.net was chosen by the news magazine Der Spiegel in the school newspaper competition as the second best online youth magazine in Germany made by students. In addition, Thomas Linke, the editor at the time, was invited to a research trip to an SOS Children's Village in Romania.
  • July 2008 Second place among the excellent online offers of the Saxon Youth Journalist Prize - reason: The magazine is not relevant to schools.
  • July 2009 WOOLING wins first place in the high school category in the school newspaper competition organized by the Sachsen Youth Press. Fourteen-year-old Alexander Großer was honored with a second prize for his report on Moscow.
  • June 2010 WOOLING is again among the top 3 in the school newspaper competition organized by the youth press in Germany and the Federal Council. The magazine took second place in the grammar school category.
  • July 2010 WOOLING also wins the state-wide competition of the youth press in Saxony in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture. In addition, the WOOLING editors Immanuel Jork and Rico Ehren were among the award winners, each with 1st place and 2nd place in the individual articles category. For the constant performance of the last few years, the youth magazine was invited to a research trip in the center of Europe - Brussels.
  • July 2011 WOOLING wins 3rd prize in the overall category in the school newspaper competition organized by Der Spiegel magazine . Immanuel Jork was also a winner in the special contributions category. Julia Kluttig was awarded the 3rd prize for the cover of the magazine.
  • July 2011 Laura Sikora and Jasmin Hennig, both editors of WOOLING, were able to win 1st prize in the category of individual articles in the state-wide competition of the youth press in Saxony with their interview.
  • July 2012 Immanuel Jork was able to repeat his success in the category special articles in the school newspaper competition of the magazine Der Spiegel . He secured 1st place. Also among the winners were Jasmin Hennig and Laura Sikora with a very special interview about transsexuality. They were happy about 1st place in the interview category.
  • July 2012 The magazine achieved 3rd place in the high school category at the youth journalist award of the youth press in Saxony. In addition, the editors Immanuel Jork, Jasmin Hennig and Laura Sikora were among the winners of the nationwide competition with 1st and 2nd place in the individual contributions category.

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