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The Augustin is Viennese a homeless person newspaper.

Over the newspaper

The Augustin developed as one of the first Austrian road newspapers from an instruction project of students of the social academy in Vienna. It orients itself at international models such as The Big Issue from London. The newspaper is sold by homeless people and/or expenditure-bordered humans on the road. Half of proceeds of sale (1 euro) remains the shop assistants. It appears 2 times in the month and experienced a very high acceptance, which made it possible that the edition could become within 10 years five eight. If the sold edition at the beginning of of 1996 amounted to in the month still scarcely 10,000 pieces, then at present 35,000 pieces per expenditure (70,000 in the month) are printed and also sold. The Augustin is financed completely by incomes from the newspaper sales and private donations. Without public and/or church subsidies around independence to protect one does.

The nature of the newspaper

According to an investigation of the German road sheet scene, which "clearing-up-oriented" between rather and that rather "salesoriented" homeless person newspapers differentiate, the Augustin combines both tendencies.

On the one hand it operates Lobbying for the underprivileged fringe groups of our society, informed about the activities of social projects and initiatives, understands themselves as society-critical grandstand. On the other hand it turns - "with the means "Populismus" (write style, topic variety, service elements, anti- Horoskop, reader connection elements such as mystery etc. were promoted,") to a mass public. A fixer a component of the newspaper, at present 8 sides, is the pro SA and Lyrik contributions of homeless people and/or formerly homeless person authoresses reserved. These are also encouraged to take over journalistic tasks and develop their abilities thereby.

Structure of the newspaper

SAND & TIME: Internal from "the synthesis of the arts "Augustin
FAN POST OFFICE: Here our readers come and critic inside to word
MIRACLE WORLD (irregular): Global facts over a mad planet
HEROES: of August in shop assistants - and of humans in the shade of the "side views" - cameras
DOING & LEAVING: The sociopolitical magazine, the magazine of the social movement
CLOSING HOUR (irregular): Platform of the prisoners, platform for law and execution of sentences criticism
THINKING BAR (irregular): A little theory, a little utopia and again and again impacts to the maintained controversy
LETTERS AT Dr. SUMMER (each 2. Expenditure): More or less hidden satire
SAVINGS KITCHEN (each 2. Expenditure): Christa Neubauers favorable prescriptions
HOROSKOP (each 2. Expenditure): Views of the personal future
CROSS & WORD: EH of Wagners grotesque cross word mysteries
MARKET PLACE: Private, free classified advertisements
STRAWANZERIN: 8-seitiges meeting program with Radiotipps
SUBURB: Over unmistakable Vienna. Constantly with haven guessing series LOKALMATADOR and with guarantees stronachferner soccer reporting
ART.IST.IN: The art and culture sides of the Augustin
WORKSHOP: 8 sides literature of the literature enterprise of the excluding. The constant column contains DIARY of a

Projects

Apart from the newspaper sales are in the course of the years some projects developed however also from the incomes of the newspaper sales to be financed.

Radio Augustin - transmission on radio orange 94.0 the only free radio of Vienna
"Vintages - hearing - seeing - the Augustin untwists" monthly television broadcast on Okto the only free television station of Vienna
August in celebrations - "Integrative of events, which make the meeting possible of humans, who are separate by social walls otherwise".
Being correct thunderstorm of first Viennese homeless person choir
F13 Friday of the 13. - of AUGUSTIN initiated network of AktionistInnen and AktivistInnen
11% K.Theater kabaretUNartiges theatre
FC black-and-white Augustin black-and-white AUGUSTIN, homeless person resounding masters 2004!
Closing hour network of execution of sentences-critical initiatives, along-initiated by the Augustin, and engaged prisoner responsible person inside

Film

"the AUGUSTIN as synthesis of the arts and its social meaning for the shop assistants" of Erich Rappold, Marc Nana Gyan Ackwonu and Sebastian de Vos. Vienna 2004, 20 min.