Appenzeller newspaper

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Appenzeller newspaper
Appenzeller Zeitung Logo.svg
description Swiss daily newspaper
publishing company CH Media
First edition July 5, 1828
Frequency of publication Monday - Saturday
Sold edition 9,623 (previous year 10,340) copies
( WEMF circulation bulletin 2019)
Widespread edition 9,623 (previous year 10,340) ( large print run: 16,106 ) copies
(WEMF circulation bulletin 2019)
Range 0.027 (previous year 0.030) million readers
(WEMF MACH Basic 2019-II)
Editor-in-chief Pascal Hollenstein (Head of Journalism), Stefan Schmid (Editor-in-Chief St. Galler Tagblatt), David Scarano (Editor-in-Chief Appenzeller Zeitung)
Editor CH Media
Web link www.tagblatt.ch

The Appenzeller Zeitung is the largest daily newspaper in the cantons of Appenzell Ausserrhoden and Appenzell Innerrhoden . It is published by the St. Galler Tagblatt and has been published since October 1, 2018 by CH Media , a joint venture between NZZ-Regionalmedien and AZ Medien . It was previously part of the NZZ media group.

profile

The Appenzeller Zeitung is a classic daily newspaper and covers not only events from the region but also national events from society, politics, business, sport and entertainment. It has a WEMF - certified circulation of 9,623 (previous year 10,340) sold / distributed copies and a reach of 27,000 (previous year 30,000) readers (WEMF MACH Basic 2019-II).

Every Thursday, A The weekly newspaper for the Appenzellerland has been published since August 2017, the large edition of the Appenzeller Zeitung with a circulation of 16,106 copies. In addition to being distributed to the subscribers, the A is also distributed in the mailboxes of non-subscribers in the region.

history

founding

Title head of the first edition of the Appenzeller Zeitung

The Appenzeller Zeitung was founded in 1828 by the Trogen doctor Johannes Meyer (1799–1833), who had already published the Appenzell monthly newspaper in 1825 , as an opposition newspaper in the fight against censorship and for democratic renewal. The newspaper, which appears once (on Saturdays) and then twice a week (Wednesdays and Saturdays) for the first two years, reached 620 subscribers in the first year. In the 1830s it became the forum and opinion sheet for all forces of Swiss liberalism who were looking for renewal. Influential exponents of the regeneration movement such as Casimir Pfyffer , Ignaz Paul Vital Troxler , Thomas Bornhauser or Gallus Jakob Baumgartner used the Appenzeller Zeitung to spread their political ideas. In the 19th century, the newspaper was considered “the cheekiest paper in Switzerland”. Landammann Mathias Oertli, one of the most important supporters of the freedom of the press in Switzerland, held his protective hand over the newspaper, even if he wanted calmer language. His son Johann Konrad Oertli was a correspondent for the Appenzeller Zeitung .

Even after Meyer's early death in 1833, the newspaper confessed to radical liberalism , who fought for popular rights in the 1830s and against political Catholicism , against Jesuits and ultramontanes in the run-up to the federal constitutional revision of 1848 .

In 1835 and 1846, Johannes Schläpfer (1814–1872) acquired the two Trogen printing houses Meyer and Sturzenegger, including the Appenzeller Zeitung , the Appenzellisches monthly newspaper and the Appenzeller calendar . The Appenzeller Zeitung appeared in Trogen until 1852 and was regarded as the product of what was then the most important extra-Rhodian town, which is why Herisauer and Vorderländer Drucker tried again and again to publish rival newspapers .

In 1852 the Herisau-based printer Michael Schläpfer (1822–1885) von Rehetobel , who had already published the Yellow Courier , took over the Appenzeller Zeitung from his uncle Johannes Schläpfer , made it a regional daily newspaper and relocated it under the name of M. Schläpfers Buchdruckerei to Herisau with a catchment area that encompasses the Appenzell hinterland and the neighboring Toggenburg . He enlarged the size of the newspaper three times and was not only head of the printing company, but also editor of the Appenzeller Zeitung until 1862, when he hired Johann Ulrich Müller as a full-time editor . The newspaper was now considered a Herisau product, which provoked the founding of competing newspapers in other districts, for example in 1865 in Teufen der Säntis , in 1877 in Heiden the Appenzeller Anzeiger , in 1879 in Trogen the Appenzeller Landes-Zeitung and in 1901 in Gais the advertisement sheet for Gais .

After Michael Schläpfer's death in 1885, his widow Wilhelmine continued the business with her three sons and a son-in-law. In 1889 the company was renamed Verlag Schläpfer & Co. AG. The two older sons soon left the company, the youngest, Emil Schläpfer (1871–1915), was editor-in-chief and in 1891 employed Johann Jakob Frey as editor and successor to Johann Ulrich Müller.

In 1905, at Emil Schläpfer's request, his nephew Albert Schläpfer (1877–1955), Michael Schläpfer's grandson, took over the family business and ran it for 40 years.

Bollinger era

In the 17 years before, in the years during the Second World War and for 22 years afterwards - for 45 years - domestic editor Alfred Bollinger (1886–1992), with his critical attitude towards totalitarian systems, was the defining figure of the Appenzeller Zeitung and was in his Significance for them compared with that of Willy Bretscher for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and Peter Dürrenmatt for the Basler Nachrichten . He was accompanied by like-minded foreign editors Alfred Kundert (in office 1919–1934), Heinrich Jenny (1935–1940), Rolf Pestalozzi (1941–1950) and Hans Alder (1950–1969). During the Second World War, the Appenzeller Zeitung received several warnings from the censorship authorities and was even confiscated once. Together with Albert Schläpfer, who headed the family business before and during the World War, and above all with the owner after the World War, Colonel Otto Schläpfer (1903–1976), who is the fourth generation to head the company, Bollinger ensured a significant upswing in the newspaper; in its time it doubled its circulation to 14,000 copies.

Loss of independence

With the acquisition of the publishing rights for the rival papers Säntis and Appenzeller Anzeiger in 1969 and the Appenzeller Landes-Zeitung in 1973, the Appenzeller Zeitung developed into a newspaper in all of Ausserrhoden and in 2000 had a circulation of 16,873 copies. From 1969 onwards it was competed by the Appenzeller Tagblatt , a header of the St. Galler Tagblatt with a multi-headed editorial office in Teufen.

Historical title head of the Appenzeller newspaper

From 1993/1994 onwards, the Appenzeller Zeitung , which is still closely related to the FDP but has now increasingly become a forum newspaper , worked together with six other regional newspapers from Eastern Switzerland, producing the joint cover section and, from 1996, a joint page entitled “Eastern Switzerland”. With the Wiler Zeitung and Ostschweiz she formed the advertising combination “OK”. In 1996 the publishing house Schläpfer & Co. AG was renamed Appenzeller Medienhaus Schläpfer AG.

In 1997 the Wiler Zeitung switched to the St. Galler Tagblatt in the advertising collaboration ; the Eastern Switzerland has set the end of 1997 as a result. The Appenzeller Zeitung could no longer maintain its absolute independence, and Peter Schläpfer (1930-2014), the fifth generation leader of the company, was forced to enter into a cooperation with the St. Galler Tagblatt (and ultimately sell the company entirely ). On April 1, 1998, Zollikofer AG, publisher of the St. Galler Tagblatt , took over 40% of the Appenzeller Zeitung , which - while retaining the name - has only appeared as a regional edition of the St. Galler Tagblatt since then . In return, the St. Galler Tagblatt discontinued its Appenzeller Tagblatt . At the beginning of 2006, the company, now renamed St. Galler Tagblatt AG, took over Appenzeller Medienhaus Schläpfer AG in full and renamed it Appenzeller Medienhaus AG in 2006.

Since March 2013, Eastern Switzerland has appeared on Sunday as the seventh print edition of the St. Galler Tagblatt and thus the Appenzeller Zeitung. From November 2017 to June 2019 it was only published digitally, after which it was discontinued together with Central Switzerland on the Sunday after the last edition on June 30, 2019.

On September 22, 2007, the Appenzeller Zeitung published an "obituary" for the weekly Herisauer Zeitung , which, however, was simply not published due to technical problems. In 2010, the Innerrhod government, led by Carlo Schmid, canceled all subscriptions out of annoyance at the Appenzeller Zeitung's condescending coverage of the canton of Innerrhoden and announced an information boycott against the newspaper. This was later canceled.

In 2014, St. Galler Tagblatt AG sold the printing division and the Appenzeller Verlag of Appenzeller Medienhaus AG, which was taken over in 2006, to the printing company Appenzeller Volksfreund AG and the previous publishing director Marcel Steiner. The editors previously employed by Appenzeller Verlag were transferred to St. Galler Tagblatt AG, and Appenzeller Medienhaus AG was deleted in 2015.

Latest developments

In 2018, the NZZ media group brought the St. Galler Tagblatt together with the Luzerner Zeitung to the CH Media joint venture founded with AZ Medien , which is owned equally by both groups. In preparation for this, the holding companies of the two newspapers, Tagblatt Medien Holding AG and LZ Medien Holding AG, were merged to form CH Regionalmedien AG. The joint venture includes the regional newspapers and the radio and TV stations of both companies. Operations began on October 1, 2018. Since July 2019, the Saturday editions have been published as Switzerland on the weekend with an additional bundle on the beautiful sides of life with more reports and backgrounds.

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Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b CH Media. New media company has started. In: persoenlich.com . 1st October 2018.
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  4. ↑ WEMF circulation bulletin 2018 , p. 3 (PDF; 796 kB).
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  6. ↑ Appenzeller Zeitung. 175 years anniversary. In: persoenlich.com. July 2, 2003.
  7. ↑ Thomas Fuchs: Schläpfer, Johannes. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  8. ↑ Thomas Fuchs: Schläpfer, Michael. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  9. ^ Alfred Bollinger : Editor JJ Frey. 1858-1925. In: Appenzellian yearbooks. Vol. 52, 1925, pp. 57-61 (archived in E-Periodica of the ETH Zurich ).
  10. ^ Parish chronicle . In: Appenzellian yearbooks. Vol. 83, 1955, p. 49 f. (archived in the E-Periodica of ETH Zurich).
  11. ↑ Thomas Fuchs: Schläpfer, Albert. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  12. ↑ Alfred Bollinger, Herisau. In: Appenzellian yearbooks. Vol. 130, 1992, pp. 65-67 (archived in E-Periodica of the ETH Zurich).
  13. ^ Peter Witschi: Alder, Hans. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  14. ^ "Appenzeller Zeitung": The "cheeky paper" is 175 years old. In: Klein Report . July 2, 2003.
  15. ↑ Hans Alder: Colonel Otto Schläpfer, Herisau. In: Appenzellian yearbooks. Vol. 4, 1976, pp. 42-44 (archived in E-Periodica of the ETH Zurich).
  16. ↑ Hanspeter Strebel: 190 years of the “Appenzeller Zeitung”: from the battle paper to the purely local section. In: St. Galler Tagblatt . 5th July 2018.
  17. ↑ Marcel Steiner: Peter Schläpfer (Herisau, 1930-2014). In: Appenzellian yearbooks. Vol. 141, 2014, p. 201 f. (archived in E-Periodoca at ETH Zurich).
  18. ↑ Appenzeller Medienhaus sold to the St. Galler Tagblatt. In: Klein Report. December 6, 2005.
  19. ^ "Eastern Switzerland on Sunday". Eighth Sunday newspaper launched in German-speaking Switzerland. In: persoenlich.com. March 3, 2003.
  20. ↑ NZZ regional media . The print edition of “Ostschweiz am Sonntag” is discontinued. In: persoenlich.com. 19th September 2017.
  21. ↑ CH Media: The last “Zentralschweiz am Sonntag” published. Accessed January 31, 2020 (English).
  22. ↑ Herisauer Zeitung. Wrongly said dead. In: persoenlich.com. September 24, 2007.
  23. ^ "Appenzeller Zeitung". Innerrhoder government no longer informs the newspaper. In: persoenlich.com. March 19, 2010.
  24. ↑ Tagblatt Medien. Appenzell printing companies join forces. In: persoenlich.com. October 30, 2014.
  25. ↑ Rainer Rickenbach: Shareholders agree to merger. In: Lucerne newspaper . May 14, 2018.