Bravo (magazine)
Ashley Tisdale on the cover.
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| Editor-in-Chief | Nadine Nordmann |
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| Categories | Teenage |
| Frequency | weekly |
| Publisher | Pabel Moewig |
| Paid circulation | 53,127 (Q4/2012) |
| Total circulation | 258,932 (Q4/2012) |
| Founder | Peter Boenisch |
| First issue | 26 August 1956 |
| Company | Heinrich Bauer Zeitschriften Verlag KG |
| Country | Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Russia |
| Based in | Munich |
| Language | German, Polish, Czech, Portuguese, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Romanian, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Russian |
| Website | Bravo.de |
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 founder of Bravo was columnist Peter Boenisch. The first issue was published on 26 August 1956 with thirty thousand copies printed, cost 50 Pfennig (equivalent to €1.11 in 2017). 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 afterwards. Starting from issue 34/57 (13 August 1957) the magazine no longer had any subtitles underscoring its newfound focus.
In 1968 Bravo began to be published weekly by Pabel Moewig, a subsidiary of Bauer Verlagsgruppe in Hamburg; the editorial office however remained in Munich.
In the 1970s the magazine sold more than one million copies. By 1996 each issue still sold around 1.4 million issues.Bravo had a circulation of 825,800 copies in 1999. Afterwards the circulation fell steeply. In 2006 the magazine sold around 460,379 copies. In 2010 the circulation of the magazine was 512,358 copies, making it the best-selling teenager magazine in Europe.
Since December 2014, Bravo is published fortnightly.
Bravo covers topics which primarily interest youths, among which are current information on pop and movie stars, as well as relationship and sex counseling.
Under the pseudonyms "Dr. Christoph Vollmer" and "Dr. Kirsten Lindstroem" the then-47-year-old author of romance novels Marie Louise Fischer gave advice on relationships (Knigge für Verliebte, Liebe ohne Geheimnis) from 1964 to 1969. Martin Goldstein started to contribute to the magazine on October 20, 1969.), a practising doctor, psychotherapist, and religion teacher, he took over and replied to readers' questions under the pseudonym "Dr. Jochen Sommer". Goldstein had made a name for himself in sex education with the publications Anders als bei Schmetterlingen and Lexikon der Aufklärung. Later, he answered questions about sex as "Dr. Korff", while "Dr. Sommer" concentrated on psychological questions.
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