Bravo is the largest teen magazine within the German-language sphere. The first issue was published in 1956, subtitled as "the magazine for film and television" („Die Zeitschrift für Film und Fernsehen“). Marilyn Monroe's portrait graced the first published issue, the never-published dummy issue cover displayed Elvis Presley. The Editor in chief is a publications primary editor. ... A separate article is about the punk band called The Adolescents. ... Year 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 238th day of the year (239th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Teen magazines are magazines aimed at teenage readers. ... Year 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962), was a Golden Globe Award-winning American actress, singer, model and pop icon. ... “Elvis” redirects here. ...

History

The founder of the magazine was columnist Peter Boenisch. The first issue on 26 August 1956 cost 50 Pfennig, 30,000 copies were printed. Issue number 13/57 was released on 31 March 1957 with the new subtitle "the magazine with the young heart" („Die Zeitschrift mit dem jungen Herzen“) as well as "film, television, pop music" („Film, Fernsehen, Schlager“) which disappeared soon. Starting from issue 34/57 (13 August 1957) the magazine no longer had any subtitles underscoring its newfound focus. A columnist is a journalist who produces a specific form of writing for publication called a column. Columns appear in newspapers, magazines and the Internet. ... is the 238th day of the year (239th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The pfennig was a small German coin valued at 1/100 of a Deutsche Mark and other German currencies with the name Mark. ... is the 90th day of the year (91st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar). ... is the 225th day of the year (226th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar). ...

Beginning in 1968 it was published weekly by the Bauer Verlagsgruppe, which is located in Hamburg; the editorial office however is in Munich. In the 1970s the magazine sold more than one million examples. By 1996 each issue still sold around 1.4 million issues.^[1] Afterwards the circulation fell steeply. Today the magazine sells around 460,379 copies of each issue (Q4 2006).^[2] This article is about the city in Germany. ... For other uses, see Munich (disambiguation). ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, also called The Seventies. ...

Historic remnant. Rudiment of an early issue; "Deutschlands größte Zeitschrift für junge Leute" (Germany's largest magazine for young people)

Focus group and classic columns

Bravo covers topics which primarily interest youths, among which are current information on pop and movie stars, as well as relationship and sex counseling. For other uses, see Youth (disambiguation) Youth is defined by Websters New World Dictionary as, The time of life when one is young; especially: a: the period between childhood and maturity b: the early period of existence, growth, or development. ... A celebrity is a person who is widely recognized in a society. ... A movie star or film star is a celebrity who is a person known for his or her roles in motion pictures. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Under the pseudonym "Dr. Christoph Vollmer" and "Dr. Kirsten Lindstroem" the then-47-year-old author of love novels Marie Louise Fischer started giving advice on relationships (Knigge für Verliebte, Liebe ohne Geheimnis). Starting in 1969 Dr. Martin Goldstein (born 1927 in Bielefeld), an actual doctor, psychotherapist, and religion teacher, took over and started replying to readers questions under the pseudonym "Dr. Jochen Sommer". Goldstein had made himself a name in sex education with the publications Anders als bei Schmetterlingen and Lexikon der Aufklärung. Later, he replied to sexual questions as "Dr. Korff", while "Dr. Sommer" concentrated on psychological questions. A pseudonym (Greek: , pseudo + -onym: false name) is an artificial, fictitious name, also known as an alias, used by an individual as an alternative to a persons legal name. ... Bielefeld is a district-free town in the Regierungsbezirk Detmold in the north-east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ... Psychotherapy is a set of techniques believed to cure or to help solve behavioral and other psychological problems in humans. ... An early 20th century post card documents the problem of unwanted pregnancy. ...

From the early 1970s on a whole group replied to questions. The editors put value in the fact that the "Dr.-Sommer-Team" continued to made up of experts. At its peak Bravo received around 3000 to 5000 letters on puberty and sexuality per week. In 2006, 400 letters were still received. Puberty refers to the process of physical changes by which a childs body becomes an adult body capable of reproduction. ... Look up Sex on Wiktionary, the free dictionary A sex is one of two specimen categories of species that recombine their genetic material in order to reproduce, a process called genetic recombination. ...

Due to the sex education in 1972 two issues with articles on masturbation were censored (prohibited for sale to under-age customers) because they were deemed youth-endangering. Woman masturbating, 1913 drawing by Gustav Klimt. ...

Bravo made noticeably strong use of Anglicism and "Denglisch" starting in the 1980s, long before this became a mainstream phenomenon. An anglicism, as most often defined, is a word borrowed from English into another language. ... Denglisch, sometimes spelled Denglish, is a portmanteau of the words Deutsch and English. ... The 1980s refers to the years from 1980 to 1989. ...

Bravo was – primarily in the 1970s and 1980s – formative for generations of German youths and teenagers,^[3], which resulted in the papers nickname of „Pickel-Prawda“ (pimple-Pravda). The magazine was sometimes confiscated in schools by teachers. Many of todays adults received all of their sexual education from the articles by the Dr.Sommer-team.^[4] Within the GDR the magazine was forbidden, but still very popular and traded for high prices. Bravo played an influential part in promoting pop groups and artists in Germany. The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, also called The Seventies. ... The 1980s refers to the years from 1980 to 1989. ... Look up Pimple in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For other uses, see Pravda (disambiguation). ... “East Germany” redirects here. ...

In addition to the idea of the Dr.-Sommer-team, Bravo invented the so-called Bravo-Starschnitt (star cut), a puzzle of a life-sized poster of a celebrity. Every new issue provided one cutout piece - a perfect way for customer retention. The first Starschnitt-feature began in 1959 and was a poster of Brigitte Bardot. A puzzle is a problem or enigma that challenges ingenuity. ... Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Brigitte Bardot (French IPA: ) (born September 28, 1934) is a BAFTA Awards-nominated French actress, former fashion model, singer, known nationalist, animal rights activist, and considered the embodiment of the 1950s and 1960s sex kitten. ...

Present

Originally there was only a single Bravo magazine, today different variants are published. This is a result of higher individualisation and changing interests. The following brands are part of the "Bravo Family":

• Bravo.de (Internet portal for teenagers independent of the magazine)
• Bravo Girl (targeting girls)
• Bravo Screenfun (for computer games and video game consoles)
• Bravo Sport (sport magazine)
• Bravo Sport TV (sport TV show)
• Bravo TV (youth television magazine)
• Bravo Hits (regularly published music compilation album)
• Bravo Hip Hop Special (published six times a year, focusing on Hip-Hop, R'n'B and Rap)

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Starting on 16 May 1993 Bravo TV was aired first on RTL 2 and later on ZDF. The first presenter was Kristiane Backer, followed by Heike Makatsch. After a longer break Bravo TV reappeared on 5 November 2005 on ProSieben. May 16 is the 136th day of the year (137th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ... RTL II is a German television network, founded as a second-generation commercial broadcaster in 1993. ... Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (Second German Television), ZDF, is a public service German television channel based in Mainz. ... Cover of CD single Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover, released 29 June 1999 Makatsch in her 1996 debut movie Männerpension as Maren Krummsieg Heike Makatsch (born August 13, 1971) is a German actress. ... is the 309th day of the year (310th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... ProSieben is a commercial television station in Germany distributed to a large extent via cable and satellite along with DVB-T (Digital Video Broadcasting - Terrestrial) in larger population centres. ...

The magazine distributes its "Bravo Otto" (a small Indian-styled figure) award in different categories. The design of the figure is inspired by Winnetou, played by Pierre Brice, who had a longstanding connection within his cinematic role to Bravo. Among the prized artists were Inge Meysel, Pierre Brice (Winnetou), Joachim Fuchsberger, Stefan Raab, David Hasselhoff, Mariah Carey, Boris Becker, Bro'Sis, Heike Makatsch, Horst Janson and many more. Furthermore each week the readers vote in the Bravo charts, which sometimes oppose the sales charts and are an indicator of artists popularity in the past and today. Winnetou is the Native-American hero of several novels written by Karl May (one of the best selling German writers of all time), in German including the sequel Winnetou I to Winnetou III. According to Karl Mays story, first-person-narrator Old Shatterhand encounters Winnetou and after initial dramatic... Pierre Brice (born 6 February 1929 in Brest, France), birth name Baron Pierre Louis de Bris, is a French actor, mainly known to the audience for his role as fictional Apache-chief Winnetou in German Karl May movies. ... Inge Meysel Inge Meysel (May 30, 1910 – July 10, 2004) was a German actress. ... Pierre Brice (born 6 February 1929 in Brest, France), birth name Baron Pierre Louis de Bris, is a French actor, mainly known to the audience for his role as fictional Apache-chief Winnetou in German Karl May movies. ... Fuchsberger in Die weiße Spinne (The White Spider) (1963) Joachim Fuchsberger (born March 11, 1927 near Stuttgart) is a German actor and television host best known to a wide German-speaking audience as one of the recurring actors in various Edgar Wallace movies (always playing one of the good... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... David Michael Hasselhoff (born July 17, 1952 in Baltimore, Maryland), nicknamed The Hoff, was an American actor who was best known for his lead roles on Knight Rider and Baywatch. ... Mariah Carey (born March 27, 1970) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, music video director, and actress. ... Boris Franz Becker (born November 22, 1967) is a former World No. ... BroSis, a pop group from Germany, were the result of the second season of the international television sensation Popstars, a precursor to the Idol shows. ... Cover of CD single Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover, released 29 June 1999 Makatsch in her 1996 debut movie Männerpension as Maren Krummsieg Heike Makatsch (born August 13, 1971) is a German actress. ...

In 2006 Bravo released an anthology providing an overview of Bravo's perception of the world within the past 50 years.

References

1. ^ Märkische Oderzeitung - Journal, 26./27. August 2006, S. 4
2. ^ Heinrich Bauer Verlag: BRAVO
3. ^ Pop 2000 (ARD), episode 4 1968-1970: Sex & Drugs & Rebellion.
4. ^ Pop 2000 (ARD), episode 8 1982-1985: Gib Gas, ich will Spaß.

External links

• www.50JahreBravo.de Official site for the 50 year anniversary
• www.Bravo.de Bravo Internet portal (independent from the magazine's editorial staff)
• DrSommerteam.de Dr. Sommer Team: guidance and counseling
• www.bravo-archiv.de The digital Bravo archiv (1956 to present)