{{Short description|German film magazine}} {{Infobox magazine | title = Filmdienst | image_file = frameless|class=skin-invert | image_size = | image_caption = | president = | publisher = | editor = | frequency = Monthly | category = Film magazine | firstdate = 1947 | country = | based = | language = German | website = {{URL|www.filmdienst.de}} | issn = }}
'''''Filmdienst''''' (also spelled ''Film-Dienst'') is the oldest German-language film magazine, with fortnightly print editions published in West Germany and later in Germany between 1947 and 2017. It stopped printed publications due to poor sales and transitioned to an all-digital format in January 2018.
== History and profile == The magazine was founded in 1947 as ''Filmdienst der Jugend'', as the official organ of the Katholischen Filmkommission (Catholic Film Commission), and was renamed ''Filmdienst'' in 1949.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ines W. |title=Filmdienst - Der ältesten deutschen Zeitschrift für Filmkritik droht das Aus |url=https://www.moviepilot.de/news/filmdienst-der-altesten-deutschen-zeitschrift-fur-filmkritik-droht-das-aus-179856 |access-date=16 March 2023 |work=MoviePilot.de |date=21 October 2016 |language=de}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Sandford |first1=John |title=Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture |date=2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-136-81610-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rMKHCOW9aIYC&dq=Filmdienst+1947&pg=PT377 |language=en}}</ref> From the 1960s onwards, it gradually became independent of Catholic hierarchies and principles.<ref name="sto" /> In 1987 the magazine staff started compiling the ''Lexikon des Internationalen Films'' ("Encyclopaedia of International Films").<ref name="sto" /> In 2013, the magazine was rebooted with renewed contents and design, but it failed to significantly improve its sales.<ref name="sto" /> The Germany's oldest publication of film criticism, as of 2015 it had a paid circulation of less than 3,000 copies.<ref name="sto">{{cite news |title="Filmdienst": Deutschlands älteste Filmzeitschrift vor dem Aus |url=https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/filmdienst-deutschlands-aelteste-filmzeitschrift-vor-dem-aus-a-1117972.html |access-date=16 March 2023 |work=Der Spiegel |date=24 October 2016 |language=de}}</ref> In January 2018 it was relaunched in an online form, with improved content.<ref>{{cite news |title=Bonn: Die Zeitschrift "Filmdienst" geht am Montag ins Netz |url=https://rp-online.de/panorama/fernsehen/die-zeitschrift-filmdienst-geht-am-montag-ins-netz_aid-17708203 |access-date=16 March 2023 |work=Rheinische Post |date=5 January 2018 |language=de}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{Official website|https://www.filmdienst.de/}}
Category:Magazines established in 1947 Category:1947 establishments in Germany Category:Film magazines published in Germany Category:German-language magazines Category:German film websites Category:Catholic magazines published in Germany