DU&ICH

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DU&ICH
Du und Ich cover.jpg
Cover of the August/September 2010 edition
Chief editorAndreas Hergeth
FrequencyMonthly
Circulation 20,000 – 24,000 [1]
Founded1969
First issue1 October 1969;54 years ago (1969-10-01)
Final issueJuly 2014
CompanyJackwerth Verlag GmbH & Co. KG
CountryGermany
Based inBerlin
LanguageGerman
Website du-und-ich.net

DU&ICH ("You and I") was a German LGBT magazine. DU&ICH distributed copies monthly. It was published by German company Jackwerth Verlag. The seat of the publishing company was in Berlin. It was in circulation between 1969 and 2014.

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History and profile

DU&ICH was founded in 1969. On 1 October 1969 the first edition was published. Founder of DU&ICH was Egon Manfred Strauss. First chief editor was Udo J. Erlenhardt. [2] In the last 40 years over 465 editions of DU&ICH were printed. The magazine was the oldest German gay magazine [3] —other magazines launched after DU&ICH were him in April 1970 and DON in May 1970.

In the 1970s, journalist Alexander Ziegler worked for DU&ICH. Journalist Dirk Ludigs worked for the magazine in the 2000s and Andreas Hergeth was the chief editor. [4]

Later the magazine (alongside other popular magazines such as Spartacus , him, DOM and ADAM) have been criticised for blurring the lines between ages of consent and encouraging sex tourism (including child sex tourism) in their fetishised portrayals of non-white youths. Many of the sexual images in DU&ICH undoubtedly included children under 18; however, in 1975 the West German government only forbade imagery of under-14s in sexually explicit poses. [5]

The magazine was cancelled in Summer 2014. [6]

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References

  1. Du&Ich – HomoWiki
  2. Spiegel:Die vier vum Jeneral, 1984 (in German)
  3. Merkel, Maik (2007). Schwule Zeitschriften auf dem deutschen Pressemarkt: thematisch und inhaltlich vergleichbar zu Lifestyle-formaten mit heterosexueller Zielgruppe?. GRIN Verlag. p. 45. ISBN   978-3-638-67975-6.
  4. Queer: Vierzig Jahre DU&ICH (in German)
  5. Ewing, Christopher. "'Toward A Better World for Gays': Race, Tourism, and the Internationalization of the West German Gay Rights Movement, 1969–1983." Bulletin of the German Historical Institute. 61 (2017): 109–134.
  6. ""Du & Ich" wird nach 45 Jahren eingestellt". Queer.de (in German). 22 July 2014. Retrieved 13 June 2020.