GEO Epoche

GEO Epoche
CategoriesHistory magazine
FrequencyBimonthly
Circulation120,000 (Feb 2020)
Founded1999
CompanyGruner + Jahr
CountryGermany
Based inHamburg
LanguageGerman
WebsiteGEO Epoche
ISSN1861-6097
OCLC985026999

GEO Epoche is a bimonthly history magazine owned by Gruner + Jahr based in Hamburg, Germany.[1] The subtitle of the magazine is das Magazin für Geschichte (German: The History Magazine).[1] It is a by-product of the geography magazine GEO.[2]

History and profile

GEO Epoche was launched in 1999.[3][4] Its headquarters is in Hamburg.[5] It provides research articles, photos and illustrations about important historical events.[3] The magazine, unlike other history magazines in Germany, attaches importance to the writers' subjective expert knowledge.[6] From 2007 the magazine has been in cooperation with the Zentrale für Unterrichtsmedien im Internet e.V.’ (ZUM, Centre for teaching tools online).[4]

In the period between its start in 1999 and 2012 GEO Epoche enjoyed higher levels of circulation, but then its circulation level began to decrease like that of other history magazines in Germany.[7] As of February 2020 the circulation of the magazine was about 120,000 copies.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b "Geo-Epoche: das Magazin für Geschichte" (in German). University of Hamburg Libraries. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  2. ^ Michael Wobring (2015). "The function and use of image documents in German popular history magazines". In Susanne Popp; Jutta Schumann; Miriam Hannig (eds.). Commercialised History: Popular History Magazines in Europe. Approaches to a Historico-Cultural Phenomenon as the Basis for History Teaching. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. p. 198. ISBN 978-3-631-65779-9.
  3. ^ a b c Esra Celebi (5 February 2020). "About GEO Epoche". PPA. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  4. ^ a b Fabio Crivellari (2015). "Bygone news. The journalistic formatting of history". In Susanne Popp; Jutta Schumann; Miriam Hannig (eds.). Commercialised History: Popular History Magazines in Europe. Approaches to a Historico-Cultural Phenomenon as the Basis for History Teaching. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. pp. 72, 75. ISBN 978-3-631-65779-9.
  5. ^ Susanne Popp (2015). "Bygone news. The journalistic formatting of history". In Susanne Popp; Jutta Schumann; Miriam Hannig (eds.). Commercialised History: Popular History Magazines in Europe. Approaches to a Historico-Cultural Phenomenon as the Basis for History Teaching. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. p. 42. ISBN 978-3-631-65779-9.
  6. ^ Stephan Jaeger (2015). "Popular historical writing from a narratological perspective". In Susanne Popp; Jutta Schumann; Miriam Hannig (eds.). Commercialised History: Popular History Magazines in Europe. Approaches to a Historico-Cultural Phenomenon as the Basis for History Teaching. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. p. 130. ISBN 978-3-631-65779-9.
  7. ^ Claudius Springkart (2015). "Popular history magazines in Germany". In Susanne Popp; Jutta Schumann; Miriam Hannig (eds.). Commercialised History: Popular History Magazines in Europe. Approaches to a Historico-Cultural Phenomenon as the Basis for History Teaching. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. pp. 239–240. ISBN 978-3-631-65779-9.