With a lot of black humor, the satirical magazine Titanic has provoked one or two politicians in recent decades, and now the humor project is fighting against extinction.
As German media report, the magazine has been bankrupt for two months and the editors and authors have been waiting for their money ever since. You want to attract new subscribers with a campaign – and thus save yourself from financial misery.
Public broadcasters “slid our way in”
The reasons for this are “print crisis, inflation, rising paper prices, rare earth metals for the TITANIC office plants, massage chairs for the editor-in-chief,” the medium writes in its appeal. Publisher Oliver Maria Schmitt explains in more detail to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that the circulation sold has fallen to around 15,000 copies and that, according to Schmitt, paper and printing costs have tripled.
But the increasing competition also causes problems for the company, as he mentions the satirical formats on the television channels ARD and ZDF, which, for example, attract a large audience with Jan Böhmermann’s “heute show”. The public broadcasters “are trying to get us in en masse,” Schmitt continues.
Titanic can be saved
In addition, there is a change in ‘satire usage behavior’ that a monthly magazine with an editorial lead time of one week can hardly respond to. This “anachronistic dosage form” is becoming increasingly difficult to convey. We therefore need to think about what a ‘Titanic 5.0’ might look like.
But he still hopes there will be enough people who say, “We don’t want a world without ‘Titanic’.” They now urgently need 5,000 subscriptions, which is the only way to make ends meet at least until the end of the year. . One Titanic sank, there was nothing more that could be done, but now readers could save the other Titanic – by becoming a subscriber.
Source: Krone
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