Alpenzeitung

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The Alpenzeitung was a German-language fascist daily newspaper for the Italian province of Bolzano .

Title head of the Alpenzeitung from September 16, 1934

history

Logo of the Bolzano city editorial office in the edition of November 9, 1926
Newspaper advertisement from Telefunken with the radio receiver for the season 1934/35, issue of September 16, 1934

The publisher was Duck Coop. Prov. Stampa Fascista , the owner of the Fascist Party . Di Stafano was chairman of the publishing house. The administration was directed by G. Galardi. The seat of the newspaper was Bolzano , via Dante 13.

The newspaper first appeared on March 2, 1926 with the subtitle Political Organ of the Province of Bolzano and ceased operations in 1943. The newspaper was printed six days from Tuesday to Sunday. The circulation in 1937 was around 7,000 copies. The articles were mostly the German translation of the Italian-language fascist daily La Provincia di Bolzano from the same publisher, and the editor was Hans Grieco. Other German-speaking employees were Albert Ellmenreich (Meran), Otto Guem (Bruneck) and Rupert Steger, the secretary of the farmers' union and editor of the "Bauernbote".

The Alpenzeitung was headed from 1937 by the director Mario Ferrandi, a local member of the Fascist Party, who had already published the Provincia di Bolzano from 1933 . Walther Schenk performed the duties of the chief editor. The newspaper was represented in Rome by Guido Baroni. In Vienna the newspaper had its representative in Paolo Businari. The newspaper was to find its readership mainly among officials, merchants and in restaurants.

Until the beginning of December 1926 there was an additional title Wirtschaftspolitisches Tagblatt . The supplement Bauernbote was printed from March 1926 to April 1928 . The supplement Farmer Italy was available from April 1928 to February 1930. The entertainment paper as a supplement appeared from March 1926 to September 1943. The supplement Handels- und Wirtschaftsblatt was available from June 1926 to March 1938. The Alpenzeitung's travel and bathing paper was only published by Supplied with the newspaper from April to July 1926. There was a sports supplement from 1926. A supplement to laws and ordinances, provinces and municipalities was also printed from 1926 .

After the German occupation of South Tyrol , the newspaper was discontinued, the last edition appeared on September 8, 1943. After that, the National Socialist Bozner Tagblatt (first edition on September 13, 1943) became the only German-language newspaper in South Tyrol.

literature

  • Karl Bömer : Handbook of the world press. A representation of the newspaper industry in all countries . Leipzig 1937.
  • Erwin Brunner: The German-language press in South Tyrol from 1918 to 1945. Phil. Diss., University of Vienna 1979, p. 331.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefan Lechner: "The conquest of foreigners": Provincial fascism in South Tyrol 1921–1926. Wagner, Innsbruck 2005. ISBN 978-3-7030-0398-1 , pp. 364-366.

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