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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
  • Cover page of ADAC Motorwelt 02/2025 next to an open double page showing a railway bridge
  • Double page spread from ADAC Motorwelt 02/2025 shows photo gallery with Klaus Meine and Rudolf Schenker from the band Scorpions

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
  • Two members of the band Scorpions wearing black leather jackets and sunglasses walk across the gangway at the airport.
    Photo: Urban Zintel; Assistant: Konstantin Walther; Hair & Makeup: Miriam Spiegel; Location: Hanover Airport
  • Two band members of the Scorpions are sitting in an airport waiting area, one holding an electric guitar
    Photo: Urban Zintel; Assistant: Konstantin Walther; Hair & Makeup: Miriam Spiegel; Location: Hanover Airport
  • Three mechanics are working on a blue and a yellow compact car in a bright workshop bay
    Photo: Marc Wittkoski
  • Photo: Marc Wittkoski
  • Close-up of an ADAC employee checking a windshield wiper with a small measuring device
    Photo: Marc Wittkoski
  • Several iPhones display social media feeds with photos and videos of prominent interview guests from 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.