Zur Rolle von Unterhaltungsmagazinen in der Pandemie. Zwischen entdifferenzierten Sammelsurien und differenzierten Wissensvermittlern

This article explores how illustrated entertainment magazines address Covid-19 in two time periods: from February to July 2020 and from October to December 2021. The journals not only represent a contact scene between science and the public, but also mediate between various professional discourses that deal with the pandemic and have to select which processing mode they prefer. While the journals, because they are already in permanent crisis mode, are initially hardly irritated by the pandemic in that they work on it in tabloid mode, for example by showing the reaction of celebrities who are themselves laymen, in the second phase of the investigation they switch to serious communication of science and contribute to the popularization of medical and epidemiological knowledge.