Xpress (magazine)
The Xpress (formerly Rennbahn-Express ) was an Austrian youth magazine. It appeared monthly and dealt with the classic topics of youth magazines , such as chart music , film and star coverage and love, but especially in earlier years also youth politics.
history
The newspaper was founded in 1968 in Salzburg as Rennbahn-Express (RBX). The name comes from the Salzburger Rennbahnsiedlung, in which the young founders Karl Vilsecker, Wolfgang Fellner and his brother Helmuth lived and produced. Karl was 15 years old when it was founded, Wolfgang 14 and Helmuth 12. They founded the magazine as a handwritten school newspaper in a high school in Salzburg . The racetrack Express soon evolved Salzburg far to a competition for the comparable German magazine BRAVO , was delivered to many schools in the state and read throughout Austria after a few years. Wolfgang Fellner and his brother went to Vienna and continued to produce the Rennbahn-Express from there.
In 1983 the two founded the political magazine Basta and later the magazines NEWS , TV-Media , Format , e-media and woman . The daily newspaper Austria was founded in 2006 by Wolfgang Fellner.
In 1984 the brothers sold the Rennbahn-Express to the daily newspaper publisher Kurier . Since 2000, the magazine was one ORAC publishing , the newspaper Xpress (until 2005 Racetrack XPRESS renamed) and later with Fellner companies, the NEWS publishing house , merged .
The Xpress was still published by NEWS-Verlag, whereby Fellner withdrew from the operative business and in July 2006 was pushed out of the shareholders' council by the other shareholders WAZ , Gruner and Jahr and Raiffeisen .
Neither the Austrian media analysis nor the Austrian circulation control recorded the Xpress . The reach study CAWI Print by the opinion research institute Fessel-GfK showed a reach of 1.8 percent in Austria in 2011 .
As a result of declining circulation numbers, the Xpress was published for the last time in print form in June 2013, and then for a while as an online offer. Soon after, the online edition was also discontinued.
Star elections and Golden Penguin
In 1978, on the 10th anniversary of the magazine's founding, the Rennbahn-Express was still critical of the popularity votes: "Star elections are actually bland: Every year the same - hundreds of newspapers run a kind of lottery. Here, for the first time, you can choose the stars yourself who want to have impressed the most in the last 10 years - practically in your youth. " In later years the annual star election also prevailed at the RE , and with the star election '88 (started as a kind of annual review in issue 1 / '89) the Golden Penguin trophy was awarded for the first time . The appearance of the trophy (a stylized penguin with a bow tie in tails, holding a plaque with the name of the award winner in front of him) was apparently taken from the artwork of the current EAV album Liebe, Tod & Teufel ; The first general uncertainty as a popular band and RE as a media partner had a mutually beneficial relationship. In the announcement of the star selection, it was planned to give only the "Star of the Year" as the main prize a Golden Penguin, the other winners (rock star, rock woman, rock band, Austro star, Austro band, cinema Star, TV Star, Sports Star of the Year) a silver one. In the end, however, all winners received a Golden Penguin, and so one could soon admire a photo of Michael Jackson with two golden awards in the RE in the RE - for "Star of the Year" and "Rock Star of the Year" 1988.
The categories were subject to constant change: Already in the second year, voting was held in 40 categories, including negative prizes such as "Ugliest Star 1989", "Worst Radio Voice", "Most Unnecessary Person of the Year" for most of the categories. Not infrequently the most frequently mentioned were the same in both extremes.
The star selection and awarding of the Golden Penguins remained an annual fixed point until the RE was discontinued .
literature
- Johannes Moser & Adelheid Schrutka-Rechtenstamm: The youth magazine Rennbahn-Express: Product or producer of youthful culture? (pdf) In: Contemporary folklore and youth culture. Lectures at the 2nd International Symposium of the Institute for Contemporary Folklore of the Austrian Academy of Sciences from June 4 to 8, 1985 in Mattersburg. Klaus Beitl, 1987, pp. 158–176 , accessed on January 31, 2018 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ CAWI Print 2011 - Results (PDF; 2.2 MB). GfK Austria GmbH Accessed on September 24, 2012.
- ↑ "Xpress" will only be digital in future - print edition discontinued. In: orf.at. May 21, 2013, accessed August 1, 2013 .
- ↑ Rennbahn-Express, Issue 1 / XXI, January 1989