About Frizz Mainz

Frizz Mainz

Frizz Mainz is the Mainz and Wiesbaden edition of FRIZZ Das Magazin, the German city-magazine network. Published under the brand FRIZZ – Das Magazin für Mainz, Wiesbaden und Umgebung, the monthly magazine delivers the region's events to its readers: music, party, film and stage, the cultural and leisure life of Rhineland-Palatinate's capital and its Hessian neighbor across the Rhine. Distributed free through the region's retail, gastronomy, cinemas, clubs and cultural venues, FRIZZ Mainz serves the Rhine-Main area's young, culturally active audience – the readers who shape the region's nightlife, festival culture and creative scenes on both banks of the Rhine. The digital home of the edition is frizzgehtaus.de – the portal whose name, "frizz geht aus" (frizz goes out), captures the magazine's mission: the guide for the night out.

Overview

Frizz Mainz is part of FRIZZ Das Magazin, a city-magazine network of 15 individual regional editions (formerly FRITZ), roughly half of them IVW-verified, with a combined circulation of around 320,000 copies. The magazines appear monthly and are free of charge.

The Mainz/Wiesbaden edition addresses the twin-city region on the Rhine: Mainz, the capital of Rhineland-Palatinate, the city of Johannes Gutenberg and the printing press, of the carnival – one of Germany's great Fastnacht strongholds – of the Roman heritage, the cathedral and the ZDF broadcasting center on the Lerchenberg; and Wiesbaden, the capital of Hesse, the spa city with its neoclassical Wilhelmstrasse, its casino, its thermal springs and its own cultural institutions. Together the two state capitals, separated only by the Rhine, form a metropolitan region whose cultural and leisure life the magazine chronicles – the only FRIZZ edition to serve two state capitals at once.

The editorial concept follows the FRIZZ formula: a region-specific magazine section with features and special topics, plus a comprehensive event calendar for party, music, film, culture and entertainment on site. Distribution is target-group-oriented through retail, gastronomy, cinemas, music clubs, stage and theater venues – the places where the region's culturally active audience gathers: the students of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, the media professionals of the ZDF, the carnival celebrants of the Mainzer Fastnacht, the wine lovers of the Rheinhessen region and the regulars of the Altstadt's wine taverns.

The digital platform at frizzgehtaus.de extends the monthly print magazine into daily online journalism, with event listings, cultural news and magazine articles – from the Philharmonic State Orchestra's new "Staatsorchester meets …" concert series to the World Design Capital 2026 events in the region, from exhibitions on the destruction of Mainz on 27 February 1945 to readings by authors like Dominik Bloh, from second-hand fashion features to festival previews, from the Staatstheater's program to the region's independent cultural venues.

History

The FRIZZ network – formerly FRITZ – has been one of Germany's city-magazine networks for years, with 15 regional editions covering cities from Dresden to Freiburg, Halle to Karlsruhe, Leipzig to Mainz and Wiesbaden. The Mainz/Wiesbaden edition has been part of this network, serving the Rhine metropolitan region with its monthly city magazine.

Over the years, FRIZZ Mainz has documented the region's cultural life: the Mainz carnival – the Fastnacht with its Rosenmontag parade, its carnival clubs and its centuries-old traditions, one of the three great Rhenish carnival strongholds alongside Cologne and Düsseldorf – the Gutenberg commemorations in the city of the printing press, the development of the ZDF broadcasting center, Wiesbaden's emergence as a design city – culminating in the World Design Capital 2026 program, which opened in January 2026 in Darmstadt and makes design visible as a social force in Wiesbaden and the Rhine-Main region – and the everyday cultural calendar of the two state capitals.

The "frizz geht aus" brand – the magazine that goes out – captures the publication's identity: not a magazine to be read at home, but a companion for the night out, the guide that tells readers where to go, what's on and who's playing. The domain name itself is the editorial program.

Content and Sections

The editorial program of Frizz Mainz follows the city-magazine formula. The magazine section covers the region's cultural and urban life: features on Mainz and Wiesbaden's neighborhoods and institutions, portraits of local figures – musicians, artists, chefs, cultural organizers – reports on cultural developments, gastronomy features and the topics that move the region – from the carnival to the wine culture of Rheinhessen, from the media city to the spa city, from the Roman heritage to the contemporary art scene.

Special topics provide the editorial deep-dives: themed issues on festivals, on the carnival season, on the World Design Capital 2026 program and on the region's cultural highlights – the content that positions the magazine as the region's cultural chronicler. The WDC 2026 coverage – the year-long program that makes design a visible social force in Wiesbaden and the region – exemplifies the magazine's role as the companion to the region's defining cultural moments.

The event calendar is the magazine's service core: comprehensive listings for party, music, film, culture and entertainment in Mainz, Wiesbaden and the surrounding area – the guide that tells readers what's on, where and when. From the Philharmonic State Orchestra's "Staatsorchester meets …" concert series – which brings guests, themes and musical styles not normally found in classical concerts – to club nights, from theater premieres at the Staatstheater Mainz to the carnival events, from exhibitions on the city's wartime destruction to readings and literature events, from festivals that ask how climate change tastes to the cultural programs of the region's institutions – the calendar covers the region's full leisure spectrum. The digital platform at frizzgehtaus.de carries the event calendar into the daily online format, with listings that keep readers current between issues.

Publisher and Organization

Frizz Mainz is published as part of the FRIZZ Das Magazin network, serving Mainz, Wiesbaden and the surrounding area under the brand FRIZZ – Das Magazin für Mainz, Wiesbaden und Umgebung. The magazine appears monthly and is distributed free throughout the twin-city region. Specific publisher and editor-in-chief details for the Mainz edition are not publicly confirmed in the sources consulted.

Digital Presence

The digital home of Frizz Mainz is frizzgehtaus.de, the portal that extends the monthly magazine into daily online journalism. The site publishes event listings, cultural news and magazine articles – from classical music to second-hand fashion, from festivals to exhibitions, from readings to the World Design Capital 2026 program – serving the readers' daily information needs between monthly issues. The portal's name – "frizz goes out" – is the editorial program in a domain: the magazine as the companion for the night out.

The FRIZZ network's digital infrastructure supports the Mainz edition's online reach, carrying the brand into the social media channels where the region's young audience discovers its cities' culture. The combination of the monthly print magazine with the daily digital platform serves the Rhine capitals' culturally active readers in the formats they use.

With its monthly rhythm, free distribution, its position in the 15-edition FRIZZ network and its twin-city focus on Mainz and Wiesbaden – the only FRIZZ edition serving two state capitals – Frizz Mainz remains the region's city magazine: the guide to the Rhine capitals' culture, gastronomy, nightlife and events, from the carnival to the concert hall, from the Gutenberg city to the spa city, from the Fastnacht parade to the design biennale, from the monthly print issue to the daily digital click.