Quick (German magazine)

Quick

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Categories News magazine
Frequency Weekly
First issue 25 April 1948
Final issue 27 August 1992
Company Bauer Group
Country Germany
Based in Hamburg
Language German

Quick was a German language weekly illustrated news magazine published from 25 April 1948[1] to 27 August 1992 in Hamburg, Germany.

History and profile

Quick was the first magazine published in Germany after the Second World War. The magazine was established in 1948[2] and had an initial print run of 110,000 copies. It had its headquarters in Hamburg.[1] The magazine was launched by the Bauer Media Group and was published on a weekly basis.[2]

At one time one of the most important magazines in its class, it reached a peak circulation of 1.7 million copies in 1960. As attitudes towards sex changed, the magazine tried to adapt, including more coverage of sex and crime in the 1980s. This was not a success; advertising revenue fell by 50% and circulation to 700,000 between 1990 and the closing of the magazine in 1992. Traudl Junge, Adolf Hitler's secretary, for many years worked as a secretary for the chief editorial staff of Quick.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Catherine C. Fraser; Dierk O. Hoffmann (1 January 2006). Pop Culture Germany!: Media, Arts, and Lifestyle. ABC-CLIO. p. 199. ISBN 978-1-85109-733-3. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
  2. 2.0 2.1 "How will Europe’s secretive media giant cope?". Flashes and Flames. 15 February 2013. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
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