ZYN!

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ZYN! The only German satirical magazine - satire, cartoons, columns and angry readers

description Satirical magazine
publishing company toonster, Cologne
First edition 1992-2006
Frequency of publication per month
Sold edition Internet copies
( Imprint ( Memento of February 5, 2001 in the Internet Archive ))
Editor-in-chief Markus Klein, Arno Schürhoff
editor Markus Klein

ZYN! was a German online satirical magazine . In contrast to classic satirical magazines, it only appeared on the Internet . It called itself "the only German satirical magazine". The editorial office was Cologne on the Rhine.

ZYN! Magazine was founded by Arno Schürhoff and Markus Klein at the end of 1992 as the successor to various literary and satirical magazines that were popular in the mailbox scene at the time . Other founding fathers were Frank Meurer and Jörg Tochenhagen.

The first issues appeared as ANSI text or later as a kind of newsletter in the mailbox scene and in FidoNet , and from 1995 as one of the first German satirical magazines on the Internet.

Since 1992 Markus Klein has been the publisher under the name Sammy , and the editor-in-chief has been Arno Schürhoff under the name Snorr for a long time . Among the up to 35 editors and authors wrote in contributions, articles and columns among other things

  • Kirsten Peter Rabitsch (1977-2006); Author name: Lethargoman
  • Andreas Winterer ; Author name: Zara ; Writer, journalist and author of the novels Cosmo Pollite and Scott Bradley
  • Stefanie Teufel; Author name: Diabola ; Author of the guidebook series Now I'm learning Suse Linux
  • Elke Kasten-Lauber; Freelance screenwriter (including judge Barbara Salesch and founder of the satirical magazines Bitchkitsch and Verbalmassaker , in which the author Anja Gsottschneider also participated)
  • Peter Hostermann; Author name Onkelhoste ; Author of Senfblog.de
  • Elvira Jibben; Author of the satirical newspaper and Attack!
  • Raymund Krauleidis ; Author of the novel Schmoltke & Ich
  • Rolf Schilling; Author of the satirical magazine Eulenspiegel
  • Frank Hildebrandt; Author and department head of the ZYN! Poster Division ZPD

as well as other editors from Germany and occasional guest authors.

Since 2000, the so-called "hustlers" have also been added, the satirical term for the illustrators and cartoonists of ZYN! Magazine and the company's own toonster publishing house, which was founded in 2004 . To the cartoonists who are also on ZYN! were published, belonged among others

  • Joscha Sauer (artist and inventor of the not funny cartoon series)
  • Cartoonist, graphic artist and online editor Sven Knoch (inventor of Ivy's Bar )

In addition, the technical programmers of the editorial team, which included the IT experts Jörn Reder and Hrvoje Husic, invented the editorial team's own publishing software called “ZAS”, which provided the editors with technical options to both write articles and publish them promptly.

The satirical magazine ZYN! won 2nd place in the alternative media award in 2003 .

For many years the magazine had between 120,000 and 150,000 readers and visitors every day. Commercial use by advertising media was always rejected by the magazine's founders and editors for ideological and ethical reasons in order to guarantee the magazine's independence. In doing so, the publisher ensured that the ZYN! published and often politically critical texts were not endangered by potential censorship of lobbyist business relationships.

The online parody “Spiggl” on the German news magazine Spiegel Online , which was specially developed as a satirical campaign, also generated enormous media coverage . The original layout of the Spiegel online website was completely hijacked by the ZYN! Programmers in order to give the impression that readers are on the Spiegel page. The parody "Spiggl" contained many news and articles that came from the pen of the satire authors. The parody even led to a fictional interview published there with Chancellor Gerhard Schröder about German nuclear weapons plans being picked up by an Iranian news agency and published as a “real” report. In early 2006, the politician Friedrich Merz also embarrassed himself when he bought a ZYN! -Article presented at a carnival event as a separate work and the media became aware of the "text theft".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alternative Media Prize 2003, laudation zyn.de. (PDF) In: alternative-medienpreis.de. Retrieved April 7, 2019 .
  2. ↑ From the Gulli, May 20. In: gulli.com. Retrieved March 8, 2017 .
  3. ↑ FUCKUP Weblog - Satirical Magazine ZYN! almost triggers international crisis. Retrieved March 8, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Carnival embarrassment: How Friedrich Merz pugged the speech. In: Spiegel Online . Retrieved March 8, 2017 .