Dein Spiegel
{{Short description|German children's magazine}}
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| frequency = Monthly
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| category = Children's magazine
News magazine
| company = Spiegel Verlag
| publisher = Spiegel Verlag
| firstdate = {{start date and age|2009|9|1|df=yes}}
| country = Germany
| based = Hamburg
| language = German
| website = [http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/deinspiegel/ Dein Spiegel]
| issn = 1868-7334 }}
Dein Spiegel (German: Your Mirror) is a monthly German magazine aimed at young people. The magazine provides news in an appealing and educative way. It has been in circulation since 2009.
History and profile
Dein Spiegel was first published on 1 September 2009.{{cite web|author=Leah McBride Mensching|title=German press targets younger audience|url=http://www.sfnblog.com/tags/young-reader|publisher=WAN IFRA|access-date=12 August 2015|date=20 January 2010}}{{cite web
|title=The Newspaper Publishing Industry|work=EU Commission|access-date=6 October 2013|author=Andra Leurdijk|author2=Mijke Slot|author3=Ottilie Nieuwenhuis|url=http://is.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pages/ISG/documents/FINALNewsreportwithcovers.pdf|format=Technical Report|year=2012|archive-date=13 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113182106/http://is.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pages/ISG/documents/FINALNewsreportwithcovers.pdf
|url-status=dead}} The magazine began to be published monthly in December 2009.{{cite web|title=Dein Spiegel now monthly|url=http://www.featuresexec.com/bulletin/news_article.php?id=9699#.UlEqNmRJVgs|work=Media Bulletin|access-date=6 October 2013|author=Lena Molitor|date=22 October 2009|archive-date=17 December 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131217224309/http://www.featuresexec.com/bulletin/news_article.php?id=9699#.UlEqNmRJVgs}} The publisher of the monthly is Spiegel Verlag which publishes Der Spiegel among others.{{cite web|title=2012 Brochure|url=http://www.spiegelgruppe.de/spiegelgruppe/home.nsf/4E36CF1395E8C0AFC1257421002AD46A/$file/Engl_UnternBroschuere_2012.pdf|work=Spiegel Gruppe|access-date=6 October 2013|year=2012}} The co-chief editors of the monthly were Georg Mascolo and Mathias Müller von Blumencron until 2013 when they both left the company.{{cite news|title=New Der Spiegel Editor will Also Oversee Web Business
|newspaper=The New York Times|date=29 April 2013|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/30/business/media/30iht-spiegel30.html|access-date=6 October 2013|author=Eric Pfanner|location=Serraval}} There is a four-member core editorial team in addition to 20 editors who also write for Der Spiegel.{{cite web|title=Print for Children: the Boom in Children Magazines|work=Goethe-Institut|access-date=6 October 2013|url=http://www.goethe.de/wis/med/pnt/tre/en6062942.htm|author=Arnd Zickgraf|date=May 2010}}
The magazine targets children ages between 8 and 14. The contents of the magazine mirror those in Der Spiegel, but they are offered in an age-appropriate manner and entertaining and educational way.{{cite web|title=Dein Spiegel|access-date=6 October 2013
|url=https://www.eurobooks.co.uk/languagebooks/code/096004|work=Euro Books}} The topics covered include stories of politics, economics, nature and technology, culture, sport and people in Germany and other countries. The monthly also publishes interviews undertaken by child reporters one of which was with Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, in Hamburg in April 2012.{{cite web|title=Interview with Dein Spiegel|url=http://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/president/news/speeches-statements/2012/04/20120404_speeches_2_en.htm|work=EU Commission|access-date=6 October 2013}} The publisher, Spiegel Verlag, introduces Dein Spiegel as "the news magazine for enquiring girls and boys". Arnd Zickgraf describes the magazine as the first political children's magazine.
The 2010 circulation of Dein Spiegel was 150,000 copies. Spiegel Gruppe announced its 2011 circulation as 67,326 copies.
See also
References
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External links
- {{Official website|https://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/deinspiegel/index-2020.html}}
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Category:2009 establishments in Germany
Category:Children's magazines published in Germany
Category:German-language magazines
Category:Magazines established in 2009
Category:Magazines published in Hamburg
Category:Monthly magazines published in Germany