Fanzine

A fanzine (English, portmanteau of fan and magazine) is a magazine that is made by fans for fans. Fanzines are often photocopied or reproduced in offset printing. In addition to these paper forms has especially with the proliferation of the Internet and the electronic dissemination of established e -zines, in which the content will be published as HTML or PDF.

The makers of the fanzines are committed members of the corresponding scene and operate the writing and copying of books at his own expense at their leisure. There are various fanzines: Fanzines for football fans, subcultures, comics, different styles of music and scenes, role playing and so on. Fanzines are often written in colloquial language and contain, depending on the subject area, for example, concert reviews, football match reports from the fans, interviews with the respective stars or bands, background reports and reviews of recordings, concerts, board games, or other products. They often make this pioneering work for larger magazines, record labels, etc., which are often aware only through fanzines on bands etc..

Spreads are usually available only in the scene where they are sent in the subscription or distributed in person. Some are also traded in the relevant scene assigned stores. There are also a number of free copies Especially with the electronic fanzines. Some commercial journals of the respective scenes, like the English Metal Forces or the German Rock Hard, began as a fanzine.

Fanzines are as good as not to be found in normal libraries. The Association Archive of Youth Cultures has therefore set itself the goal to collect fanzines and archive, to make them available to a wider audience, the Scientific Research and posterity. Principle, however, they fall under the legal deposit charge on the German National Library.

Egozine

A Egozine is a special kind of fanzine. A Egozine is usually only brought out by one person. The contents of the Egozines are usually focused on a topic, said to travel reports can include everything from review collections, and reflect very often only the purely subjective opinion of the " maker " resist.