Freizeit Revue
{{Short description|Weekly German women's magazine}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2022}}
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| frequency = Weekly
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| category = Women's magazine
| company = Hubert Burda Media
| publisher = Burda Senator Verlag GMBH
| founded = {{start date and age|1970}}
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| country = Germany
| based = Offenburg
| language = German
| website = [http://www.freizeitrevue.de/ Freizeit Revue]
| issn = 0941-410X
| oclc = 224618549
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Freizeit Revue ({{langx|de|Free Time Review}}) is a German language weekly entertainment and women's magazine published in Offenburg, Germany. It has been in circulation since 1970.
History and profile
Freizeit Revue was established in 1970.{{cite web|title=Burda Holding GmbH|work=Reference for Business|access-date=25 April 2015
|url=http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/history2/57/Burda-Holding-GmbH-Co.html}}{{cite book|author1=Tristam Carrington-Windo|author2=Katrin Kohl|title=Dictionary of Contemporary Germany|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EbeoAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA167|year=2013
|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-59537-0|page=167|location=Abingdon; New York}} The magazine is part of Hubert Burda Media.{{cite web|title=Freizeit Revue|url=http://bcn.burda.com/brands/german-magazines/freizeit-revue-the-number-one-for-recreation-and-good-entertainment_aid_1850.html|work=Burda Community Network|access-date=25 April 2015|archive-date=19 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150719021731/http://bcn.burda.com/brands/german-magazines/freizeit-revue-the-number-one-for-recreation-and-good-entertainment_aid_1850.html|url-status=dead}} Burda Senator Verlag GMBH, a subsidiary of the company, publishes the magazine on a weekly basis on Thursdays.
The headquarters of Freizeit Revue is in Offenburg. Although men also read the magazine, its major reader group is women over 40.{{cite web|title=Freizeit Revue. Factsheet|work=Publicitas|access-date=25 April 2015|url-status=dead
|url=http://www.publicitas.com/de/belgium/media-solutions/factsheet/mediadata/freizeit-revue/?PARAM1=SOFFO1#.VTup9GTtmko|archive-date=7 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170207072933/http://www.publicitas.com/de/belgium/media-solutions/factsheet/mediadata/freizeit-revue/?PARAM1=SOFFO1#.VTup9GTtmko}} The magazine offers interviews with celebrities and articles about health, travel and fashion, among the others. In the early 1990s Freizeit Revue along with Bunte and Neue Post published the photographs of Princess Caroline, spouse of Prince Ernst August von Hannover, which were taken in Paris leading to an unsuccessful legal action by Princess Caroline.{{cite journal|author=Nicolas Nohlen|title=Von Hannover v. Germany. App. no. 59320/00.2004-VI Eur. Ct. H.R.|volume=100|issue=1|journal=American Journal of International Law|date=January 2006|pages=196–201|doi=10.2307/3518838|jstor=3518838|s2cid=147308444}}
During the fourth quarter of 2000 Freizeit Revue had a circulation of 1,060,297 copies, making it the third best-selling German women's magazine.{{cite news|author=Fiona Jebb|title=Campaign report on Germany|url=http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/news/37777/|access-date=25 April 2015|work=Campaign|date=13 April 2001}} In 2001 it was the sixteenth best-selling women's magazine worldwide with a circulation of 1,060,000 copies.{{cite web|title=Top 50 Women's magazines worldwide (by circulation) 2001|archive-date=2 April 2015|work=Magazines |url=http://www.magazine.org.tw/events/school/report/wmt/Top50Womens.pdf|access-date=26 April 2015|url-status=dead
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402101746/http://www.magazine.org.tw/events/school/report/wmt/Top50Womens.pdf}} Its average circulation was 1,028,000 copies in 2003.{{cite web|title=European Publishing Monitor|url=http://edz.bib.uni-mannheim.de/daten/edz-du/gda/07/med-ind-germany_en.pdf|work=Turku School of Economics (Media Group)|access-date=25 April 2015|format=Report
|date=March 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010103816/http://edz.bib.uni-mannheim.de/daten/edz-du/gda/07/med-ind-germany_en.pdf|archive-date=10 October 2017|url-status=dead}} In the fourth quarter of 2006 its circulation was 1,009,800 copies. The total circulation of the magazine was 1,046,000 copies for 2006.{{cite book|editor1=Helmut K Anheier|editor2=Yudhishthir Raj Isar|title=Cultures and Globalization: The Cultural Economy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W0WV1yvMboEC&pg=PA460|year=2008
|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-1-4462-0261-6|page=460|location=London}} The weekly had a circulation of 1,011,197 copies in 2010, making it the second best-selling weekly women magazine after Bild der Frau in Europe.{{cite web|title=World Magazine Trends 2010/2011|url=http://www.revistas-ari.com/attachments/209_WMT_2010_2011_Europe.pdf|work=FIPP|access-date=4 April 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402165145/http://www.revistas-ari.com/attachments/209_WMT_2010_2011_Europe.pdf|archive-date=2 April 2015}}
See also
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.freizeitrevue.de/}}
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Category:1970 establishments in West Germany
Category:Entertainment magazines
Category:German-language magazines
Category:Magazines established in 1970