Hörzu
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Hörzu is a German weekly television listings magazine published by Axel Springer
Axel Springer AG
Axel Springer AG is one of the largest multimedia companies in Europe, with more than 11,500 employees and with annual revenues of about €2.9 billion. The Company is active in a total of 36 countries, including Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Russia and Germany, France, Spain, Switzerland...

. The magazine first appeared in 1946 as the first radio program magazine to be produced in what was then the British zone of occupation
Allied Occupation Zones in Germany
The Allied powers who defeated Nazi Germany in World War II divided the country west of the Oder-Neisse line into four occupation zones for administrative purposes during 1945–49. In the closing weeks of fighting in Europe, US forces had pushed beyond the previously agreed boundaries for the...

. Over the years Hörzu has shifted the emphasis of its coverage from radio to television programs.

The first edition of the magazine appeared on 11 December 1946 as HÖR ZU! Die Rundfunkzeitung ("LISTEN! The radio newspaper") as it was originally entitled. There were three editions in the first year of publication, 48 in 1947, and since then the magazine has appeared 52 or 53 times annually.

Circulation of the magazine increased rapidly. 1949 saw the first appearance of Mecki, Hörzus cartoon hedgehog mascot. In the 1960s Hörzu produced and released records as a subsidiary of Electrola
Electrola
Electrola was a record label founded in Berlin in 1925 by the Gramophone Company. In March 1931 Electrola, along with its parent label and Carl Lindström Company parent Columbia Graphophone Company, merged to form the Electric & Musical Industries Ltd. . The German EMI unit was first called...

, Cologne
Cologne
Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...

. Since 1965 the Hörzu has awarded the annual Golden Camera television prize.

In early 2010, the bimonthly magazine Hörzu Wissen ("Hörzu Knowledge") was launched, which covers science, history, health, and technology topics. The magazine launch was considered a major success by Springer AG, with the premiere issue selling 130,000 copies.

Editors-in-chief of Hörzu

  • Eduard Rhein
    Eduard Rhein
    Prof. Eduard Rudolph Rhein was an inventor, publisher, and author.He was the founder of the German magazine "Hörzu", which he directed as its editor-in-chief until 1964...

    (1946)
  • Hans Bluhm (1965)
  • Peter Bachér (1974)
  • Felix Schmidt (1985)
  • Helmut Reinke (1987)
  • Klaus Stampfuss (1989)
  • Andreas Petzold (1997)
  • Michael Lohmann (1999)
  • Jörg Walberer (2001)
  • Thomas Garms (2003)
  • Christian Hellmann (2009)
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