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What is ADAC Motorwelt?

ADAC Motorwelt is one of Europe's highest-circulation magazines. The magazine is produced for members of the Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club (ADAC).

Magazine
ADAC Motorwelt
  • The ADAC MotorWelt magazine is displayed on a yellow background showing its cover and a spread with traffic illustrations.
  • A spread from ADAC Motorwelt magazine features an article about staff and the ADAC medical repatriation service, set against the backdrop of a yellow air ambulance.

Tasks

  • Relaunch & redesign
  • Content creation
  • Art direction (layout & design)
  • Project management

Hard facts

  • How often? 4 times a year
  • Distribution: Distribution concept via ADAC offices, Edeka, and Netto

Implementation

After a joint development period with Burda, storyboard launched the completely redesigned ADAC club magazine in 2020. ADAC Motorwelt is published four times a year. Club members receive the magazine free of charge at over 9,000 Edeka and Netto stores nationwide, as well as at ADAC offices.

Contents of the magazine

Since its relaunch, ADAC Motorwelt has had a three-part structure: a colourful agenda section with a column and a double page on health is followed by a middle section with interviews, features and reports. The ADAC magazine section concludes with all the club's services. ADAC Motorwelt is supplemented by inserts from the seven regional automobile clubs. These are graphically designed in line with the main magazine.

As an ADAC member, you can take an exclusive look at the latest issue of Motorwelt. In the “My ADAC” login area on the ADAC website, you can also download ADAC Motorwelt as an e-magazine. For more information about the club magazine, visit adac.de.

Photo & video
  • A man pushes a mobile rack filled with boxes behind the open trunk of a light blue car inside a vehicle hall.
    Photo: Jan Steinhauer
  • A man tests the anti-pinch protection on an open car window.
    Photo: Jan Steinhauer
  • Multiple race cars drive side by side through a corner on a wet racetrack.
    Photo: Jan Steinhauer
  • Technicians work on a yellow ADAC rescue helicopter inside a large maintenance hangar.
    Photo: Jan Steinhauer
  • Children ride bicycles through the ADAC move it! driving safety course in the DTM fan zone.
    Photo: Jan Steinhauer
  • A woman holding a tablet stands in a medical training room beside a training mannequin in a hospital bed.
    Photo: Jan Steinhauer
  • Several smartphones display a social media feed featuring photos and videos of prominent guests interviewed by ADAC Motorwelt.

Tasks

  • Photo production
  • Video production

Implementation

Large-format images, high-quality in-house productions, and modern illustrations—these are the visual hallmarks of ADAC Motorwelt.

The centerpiece of each issue is the photo shoot during the celebrity interview. In addition to the images for the magazine, entertaining behind-the-scenes videos are also created, for example with comedians Michael Bully Herbig and Rick Kavanian or with Klaus Meine and Rudolf Schenker from the Scorpions. The clips are used for social media promotion of the respective issue.