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Telepolis is an on-line magazine of the Heise magazines of publishing house, which among other things also c't and ix operate published as well as the Heise News Ticker. The net magazine concerns itself since at the beginning of of 1996 with net-political questions, data security, scientific topics, culture criticism, politics and media.

History

It was created by the editors Armin Medosch and Florian Together they had conceived the meeting row in the autumn 1995 "Telepolis "and had organized. This led to the establishment of the magazine. 2001 were extended the team with the residents of Munich lady journalist Michaela Simon, 2004 with wolf Dieter Roth.

Telepolis is considered as a sign of the German-language on-line journalism. The Telepolis editorship received in the year 2000 the European price for on-line journalism of the conference of medium Net Media in the category "to Investigative reporting "for the Enfopol reporting of its authors Christiane Schulzki Haddouti, Erich Moechel and Duncan Campbell. 2002 were honoured the editorship with the Grimme on-line Award, 2003 with the Lead Award.

In the same year the publishing house reduced the budget for operating reasons drastically and Armin Medosch had its editorship place in London to close. Afterwards the classical net-political topics, which made Telepolis in the net scene famous, played occasionally a somewhat smaller role. Later with the mention by net problems like the warning waves around Domains, copyright, imprint etc. this topic was however again taken up.

11 September 2001

The magazine dedicated itself under the impression of the terrorist attacks from 11 September strengthens geopolitical topics. Besides there are to reports and commentating to new scientific research results with Specials to the Weltraumfahrt and astronomy, to the genetic engineering and to alternative energies.

Admits still is the magazine by its Specials to the world-wide hearing system Echelon, to the Enfopol papers or to the copyright. The Special to conspiracy theories, written by Mathias in the single-handed attempt, around 11 September in several respects particularly stands out approximately: It led the reversal of the Telepolis Themenspektrums in and was extraordinarily successful regarding its reader numbers and its later book success.

Characteristics of Telepolis

Altogether Telepolis is characterised by the fact that also articles are published there, which would have elsewhere no chance, because the topic failed too or authorities and unpleasant contemporaries is attacked. The moreover one also articles (for example of Tom Appleton) appear proven the wrong statements contain. But the authors are also often located in the cross fire of the criticism, since Telepolis is one of the last on-line magazines, in which the readers still comments to the articles under these set can. These comments are to be read however with caution, since they are sometimes actually constructional, repeatedly however - traditionally Friday afternoon - against it pure Trollen represent. Besides contributions can not be evaluated in the Telepolis forum, contrary to other Heise forums. Likes is also the annual price mystery, which belongs to the most difficult on the German medium market.

Books

Since 2000 Telepolis publishes also books. The most successful are so far the volume published by Christiane Schulzki Haddouti "of the end of anonymity - the globalization of the monitoring ", as well as the volume published by Armin Medosch and Janko "Netzpiraten ". In November 2004 the first, appeared Telepolis Special published from Harald fence as high polish magazine with the title "like researchers and spaceman ALIENS to seek out wants ".