

However, editions are still published in some other countries.Īmerican pop singer Britney Spears, who was a teen phenomenon in the late 1990s and early 2000s, holds the record for most appearances on the cover (56). In February 2017, Bravo stopped publishing in Spain with issue 552. In 2010 the circulation of the magazine was 512,358 copies, making it the best-selling teenager magazine in Europe. In 2006 the magazine sold around 460,379 copies. Bravo had a circulation of 825,800 copies in 1999. By 1996 each issue still sold around 1.4 million issues. In the 1970s the magazine sold more than one million copies. In 1968 Bravo began to be published weekly by Pabel Moewig, a subsidiary of Bauer Verlagsgruppe in Hamburg the editorial office however remained in Munich.

Starting from issue 34/57 (13 August 1957) the magazine no longer had any subtitles underscoring its newfound focus. Issue number 13/57 was released on 31 March 1957 with the new subtitle "the magazine with the young heart" ( "Die Zeitschrift mit dem jungen Herzen") as well as "film, television, pop music" ( "Film, Fernsehen, Schlager") which disappeared soon afterwards. The publication was initially subtitled as "the magazine for film and television" ( "Die Zeitschrift für Film und Fernsehen"). Marilyn Monroe's portrait graced the first published issue the never-published dummy issue cover displayed Elvis Presley. The first issue was published on 26 August 1956 with thirty thousand copies printed, cost 50 Pfennig (equivalent to €0.67 in 2021). The founder of Bravo was columnist Peter Boenisch. German, Czech, Portuguese, Serbian, Slovenian, Polish, Romanian, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Russianīravo (stylized in all caps) is the largest teen magazine within the German-language sphere. Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia (after 1992 Czech Republic and Slovakia), Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Russia
