Zitty
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| description | Berlin city magazine |
| publishing company | Zitty Verlag GmbH |
| First edition | March 23, 1977 |
| attitude | March 25, 2020 |
| Frequency of publication | Fortnightly, sometimes weekly, on Wednesdays |
| Sold edition | 12,702 copies |
| ( IVW Q1 / 2020) | |
| Editors-in-chief | Lydia Brakebusch Stefanie Dörre |
| Web link | zitty.de |
| ISSN (print) | 0179-9606 |
Zitty ( spelling : ZITTY ) was a biweekly Berlin city magazine . It was founded in 1977 by former employees of the city magazine Hobo, which was founded in the early 1970s . City magazine appeared in the original as a self-managed operation designed Zitty Verlag GmbH , which in 1999 by the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group was bought, then part of the Tagesspiegel group in the Dieter von Holtzbrinck media GmbH was and (DvH media) from April 2014, the Raufeld Publishing GmbH , which in turn had taken over the Berlin city magazine tip six months earlier . Published every two weeks from the start, the magazine was now offered as a weekly newspaper every Wednesday from June 10, 2015 to June 7, 2018 and then reduced back to the original frequency. The last regular issue of Zitty was published on March 25, 2020 at this bi-weekly rhythm .
The Zitty was sold as a subscription magazine as well as in kiosks , bookstores , cinemas and over the counter. It was also available nationwide. From January 1, 2016, Zitty appeared together with tip on GCM Go City Media, in which Raufeld Verlag has a minority stake.
On June 19, 2020 it was announced that Zitty will be hired in favor of tip . The circulation sold fell from 67,013 copies in the first quarter of 1998 to 12,702 copies in the first quarter of 2020, a decrease of 81.1 percent.
profile
magazine
In its early years, Zitty, like its predecessor Hobo, saw itself as part of the off- press and alternative press and, as a “Stattmagazin”, reported primarily on actions and events in the political counterculture . Customer and reader loyalty but she tried not least because of the long time printed for free, now paid classified ads to consumers, of which in particular the dating veritable cult status enjoy.
In addition to current reports and topic texts from Berlin and the surrounding area, it recently offered reports and reviews on current events such as concerts , plays , films , exhibitions and tips on restaurants , pubs, excursion destinations and shopping opportunities. In addition, issues such as homelessness , rental prices and urban development were critically examined.
In addition to his journalistic activities, Zitty had established its own series of events in Berlin. In 2012, the magazine organized ten art events in the “zitty_ART” series, six times the zitty film table quiz in Kreuzberg's SO36 , eleven times the literary event “zitty Reader's Lounge” and six extensive special events such as “zitty Reader's Lounge Special” or “zitty Concert”.
The competitor up until the very end was the city magazine tip , which was more commercial and focused on culture from the start, and was published with a similar layout and structure, postponed by a week until the end of 2015 under the umbrella of Raufeld Verlag GmbH . On April 1, 2014, Zitty was also affiliated to Raufeld Verlag GmbH with unchanged editorial staff . From the beginning of 2016, both city magazines were published by GCM Go City Media with a joint editorial team.
After the start of the COVID-19 pandemic , tip and Zitty published a joint monthly issue . On June 19, 2020 it was announced that Zitty will be hired in favor of tip . Some columns and the comic should be taken over. There are no plans to lay off permanent members of the editorial team; instead, fewer jobs are to be awarded to freelance journalists. In July 2020, the last joint issue of tip and Zitty was published and from September 2020 tip will be published every two weeks again.
publishing company
In addition to the city magazine, the Zitty-Verlag published annual specials in magazine form, including zitty Brandenburg , zitty Essen Gehen , Das Modebuch Berlin , Das Designbuch Berlin , zitty Shopping , Das BerlinBuch and the free special publication zitty Familie in spring .
The (030) Magazin Berlin , a free advertising-financed city magazine in Berlin, was also published by Zitty-Verlag until December 31, 2015 . The name refers to the Berlin area code. The magazine was founded in 1994 and until January 2015 provided information every two weeks about films, concerts, parties, sports and new media. Since January 1, 2016 the magazine has been owned by the media agency elroq entertainment from Berlin, whose owner Tim Schäfer has worked as a freelance music and program editor for (030) Magazin Berlin since 2006 .
In addition, book publications appeared in the Zitty-Verlag, u. a .:
- Several anthologies by the Berlin comedian and comic artist Fil .
- Roland Brückner: Mumpelmonster: The Decision-Making Book . Children's book. 2011. ISBN 978-3-922158-01-1 .
- Roland Brückner: Mumpelmonster 2: Where is the journey going? . Children's book. 2013. ISBN 978-3-922158-03-5 .
- Ulf S. Graupner and Sascha Wüstefeld: The Upgrade, Volume 1 . Comic band. 2012. ISBN 978-3-922158-02-8 .
- Ulf S. Graupner and Sascha Wüstefeld: The Upgrade, Volume 2: Pioneer Afternoon in Tenochtitlán . Comic band. 2013. ISBN 978-3-922158-10-3 .
Edition
Zitty was also affected by the crisis in print media, which began around the year 2000, accompanied by a sharp decline in print runs : According to IVW, the number of copies sold in the first quarter of 1998 was 67,013. The extensive newspaper reform carried out in spring 2015, including the changeover to weekly publication, accelerated the downward trend: In the third quarter of 2017, only 12,760 issues were sold, 3,126 of them as e-papers , of which 3,075 were again known as "other sales".
criticism
From 2007 the event data was processed by Cine Marketing GmbH . This met with criticism from various media, as the organizers now had to enter their dates for a fee, which could potentially exclude smaller providers.
Most recently, Cine Marketing GmbH offered the option of entering the data yourself and publishing it in this way. For this she then “only” demanded a one-time “setup fee” of 30 euros. The Cine Marketing supplies ten Berlin media with this event data , besides zitty also tip , the Tagesspiegel and the Potsdamer Latest News .
Editorial management
- Werner Radasewsky, 1st editor-in-chief + VdiSP - 1977–1984, responsible. for the journalist. Profile.
- Rainer Bieling - Senior Editor from 1980, then Editor in Chief 1983–1986
- Manfred Hobsch - editor, managing editor 1988–1997
- Bruno Preisendörfer - editor, managing editor 1987–1997
- Kevin Cote - Editor-in-Chief 1997-2000
- Burkhard Riepenhoff - editor-in-chief 2000–2001
- Matthias Kalle - Editor-in-Chief 2004–2006 and 2007–2008
- Mercedes Bunz - Editor-in-Chief 2006-2007
- Kai Röger - Editor-in-Chief 2009–2012
- Jan Oberländer - Editor-in-Chief 2013–2014
- Lydia Brakebusch, Stefan Tillmann - editors-in-chief 2014–2017
- Lydia Brakebusch, Stefanie Dörre - editors-in-chief 2017–2020
See also
Web links
- Literature by and about Zitty in the catalog of the German National Library
- zitty online
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b On our own behalf: Raufeld Verlag takes over the city magazine zitty . At: Tagesspiegel Online , March 21, 2014
- ↑ Berliner Stadtmagazine: Raufeld-Verlag also buys “Zitty” after “Tip” . At: Spiegel Online , March 21, 2014
- ↑ a b The "Zitty" is discontinued . At: Tagesspiegel Online , June 19, 2020
- ↑ a b This is where the book of action dies . At: Spiegel Online , June 19, 2020
- ^ Zitty ivw.eu
- ↑ Andreas Hartmann: Out for city magazine: The Zittypartie is over . In: The daily newspaper: taz . June 25, 2020, ISSN 0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed June 26, 2020]).
- ^ Website of (030) Magazin Berlin with information about the publisher, online at berlin030.de
- ^ Zitty Berlin - The capital city magazine (woe). IVW ; accessed on November 17, 2017
- ↑ Organizers should pay admission . In: taz , November 29, 2007.
- ↑ Event service . ( Memento of the original from October 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Cine Marketing GmbH website; Retrieved October 18, 2012
