zenith (magazine)
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| Area of Expertise | Orient, Middle East, Central Asia, South Asia, Islam, Economy, Culture and International Politics |
| language | German |
| publishing company | German Levante publishing house |
| First edition | 1999 |
| Frequency of publication | half-yearly |
| Sold edition | 5,000 copies |
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| editor | Candid Foundation gGmbH |
| executive Director | Jörg Schäffer, Daniel Gerlach |
| Web link | zenith.me |
| ISSN |
1439-9660 |
| ZDB | 2003642-5 |
zenith is an independent German trade magazine that deals with the Arab-Islamic world.
The German-language magazine has been published twice a year as a printed edition since 2018 and deals with topics from politics, economics, culture and society in the Middle East , North Africa , South and Central Asia and the Islamic world in general.
Zenith is editorially and economically independent from the German Levante Verlag GmbH in Berlin and published by the non-profit Candid Foundation gGmbH. Editor-in-chief Daniel Gerlach is responsible within the meaning of the press law .
history
The magazine was founded in summer 1999 by students of Islamic studies in Hamburg as a non-profit project. Zenith now has an extensive network of journalists and specialist authors.
In October 2012 the magazine was relaunched. Since then, the addition “magazine for the Orient” has been dispensed with. In addition to the magazine, the publisher and editorial team produce the online platform zenith.me , on which current articles on “zenith topics” are published. The zenith magazine has been an organ of the non-profit Candid Foundation gGmbH since spring 2015. The Candid Foundation behind the magazine also organizes the zenithTalk series of talks , the zenith photo award and designs events and conferences worldwide.
In an issue in 2013, Zenith displayed a playful, fictional map of Kurdistan on the cover and asked "Can this country still be prevented?" There followed violent negative reactions from the Turkish media and positive ones from Kurdish northern Iraq . Daniel Gerlach reported on hacker attacks on the website and the system of the magazine.
Goals, content and structures
In spring 2000 the association "forum zenith eV" was founded. Until 2008, the association also acted as the publisher of the zenith magazine. In the meantime, the association is mainly devoted to the content of the magazine and the promotion of young journalists and photographers. The magazine describes itself as a platform for young, critical, alternative journalism about a region whose image is shaped by "crisis reporting, prejudices and ideologically hardened positions" and wants to give German-language reporting additional facets.
Although zenith also publishes specialist articles, the editors say they insist on journalistic style and design. While zenith describes itself primarily as a specialist magazine, the information community for determining the distribution of advertising media (IVW) speaks of zenith as a general-interest magazine .
In 2008 three of the six editors, Daniel Gerlach, Jörg Schäffer and Veit Raßhofer, founded the “Deutsche Levante Verlag GmbH” to ensure that the magazine was published regularly. The association "forum zenith eV" provides the publisher's advisory board and, according to the founding agreement, ensures that zenith "remains committed to information and does not become a PR tool for companies, states or public persons". Cooperation and partnerships with other media and organizations must therefore not restrict the magazine in terms of its journalistic quality, its editorial freedom and the exercise of its self-imposed information obligation. zenith is a media partner of Spiegel Online , Die Welt , the Goethe Institute , the Bertelsmann Foundation and the German UNESCO Commission.
Since the relaunch of the online presence in 2017, articles in German and Arabic have been published in addition to articles.
zenith photo award
The CANDID Foundation and the Mercator Foundation have been awarding the zenith photo award since 2011 . The competition honors professional and amateur photographers who document Islam in Germany and Europe in their photo series.
Web links
- Web presence
- "Are there before it bangs!" , Interview about zenith in the "Freie Magazin" fm5
- Those who understand the Middle East: away from Karl May and Peter Scholl-Latour , review in the NZZ , Alexandra Bühler, August 31, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ Zenith media data 2014 . Retrieved January 19, 2015.
- ↑ About us. December 5, 2016, accessed January 4, 2020 .
- ↑ CANDID Foundation gGmbH.
- ↑ CANDID Foundation gGmbH
- ↑ Iris Alanyali: "Zenith": How an Orient magazine was targeted by Turkish hackers . In: THE WORLD . July 25, 2013 ( welt.de [accessed April 5, 2018]).
- ↑ "How we live together", report on the 4th zenith photo award in the FAZ