The Gap (magazine)

The Gap
EditorYasmin Vihaus
CategoriesArts & music
CirculationBi-monthly (40,000)
PublisherMonopol
First issue1997 (1997)
CountryAustria
Based inVienna
LanguageAustrian German
Websitewww.thegap.at

The Gap is an Austrian free culture and music magazine.

About

It is published bi-monthly, with a current print run of 40,000 copies.[1] The Gap focuses on independent music, film, art, games, literature, politics and design.[2]

History

The Gap was founded in 1997 by Manuel Fronhofer, as a black and white fanzine that was copied in a Vienna University of Economics and Business basement. The first issue had a run of a thousand copies, and featured the band Blur on the cover.[3]

The Gap won FM4's "Best Magazine or Blog of the Year" in 2015 and 2016, and journalist Thomas Weber calls The Gap "more milieu than magazine."[4][3] The publisher is Monopol Media. In 2017, Yasmin Vihaus took over the editorial office of Amira Ben Saoud; the position was previously held by Stefan Niederwieser.[5]

Editors

Some of the magazines prominent editors are Thomas Edlinger, Andreas Klinger, Christian Köllerer, Philipp L'Heritier, Teresa Reiter, Werner Reiter, Heide Schmidt, Katharina Seidler, Peter Stuiber, Jonas Vogt, Jürgen Wallner and Barbara Zeman.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ The Gap Staff 2015.
  2. ^ Der Standard Staff 2015.
  3. ^ a b Weiser & Schaur-Wünsch 2015.
  4. ^ FM4 Staff 2015.
  5. ^ Ternai 2017.

Bibliography

  • Der Standard Staff (2015), ""Islamisierung? Nein danke": Website von Magazin "The Gap" gehackt", Der Standard (in German), retrieved 20 February 2019
  • The Gap Staff (2015), "Portfolio", The Gap (in German), retrieved 20 February 2019
  • FM4 Staff (2015), "Exit Poll 2015 - Teil 2", FM4 (in German), retrieved 20 February 2019{{citation}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  • Ternai, Matthew (26 June 2017), "Manuel Fronhofer and Yasmin Vihaus - The Gap Interview", Music Austria (in German), retrieved 20 February 2019
  • Weiser, Ulrike; Schaur-Wünsch, Teresa (14 May 2015), "The Gap: "Mehr Milieu als Magazin"", Die Presse (in German), retrieved 20 February 2019