''The Gap'' is an Austrian free culture and
music magazine A music magazine is a magazine dedicated to music and music culture. Such magazines typically include music news, interviews, photo shoots, essays, record reviews, concert reviews and occasionally have a covermount with recorded music.
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About
It is published bi-monthly, with a current print run of 40,000 copies. ''The Gap'' focuses on
independent music
Independent music (also commonly known as indie music or simply indie) is music that is produced independently from commercial record labels or their subsidiaries, a process that may include an autonomous, do-it-yourself approach to recording a ...
, film, art, games, literature, politics and design.
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. ''The Gap'' won
FM4
FM4 is an Austrian national radio station operated by the ORF. Its main target is the youth audience, and much of the music output is characterised by an alternative rock and electronic music slant.
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The programming of ''FM4'' is als ...
's "Best Magazine or Blog of the Year" in 2015 and 2016, and journalist Thomas Weber calls ''The Gap'' "more milieu than magazine." 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.
Some of the magazines prominent editors are Thomas Edlinger, Andreas Klinger, Christian Köllerer, Philipp L'Heritier, Teresa Reiter, Werner Reiter,
Heide Schmidt
Heide Schmidt (born 27 November 1948 in Kempten im Allgäu, Germany) is an Austrian politician.
A lawyer and formerly a prominent member of Jörg Haider's Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ), in 1993 Schmidt was one of a group of politicians who, bec ...
, Katharina Seidler, Peter Stuiber, Jonas Vogt, Jürgen Wallner and Barbara Zeman.
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Stevie Hammock Profile
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Magazines published in Vienna
Music magazines
Magazines established in 1997
Free magazines
Bi-monthly magazines
German-language magazines