Argentine daily newspaper
| Argentine daily newspaper | |
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| description | Argentine weekly newspaper |
| language | German |
| publishing company | Alemann SRL |
| First edition | 1878 |
| Frequency of publication | friday |
| Sold edition | 10,000 copies |
| Range | about 0.05 million readers |
| Editor-in-chief | Stefan Kuhn |
| editor | Juan and Roberto Alemann |
| Web link | www.tageblatt.com.ar |
| ZDB | 966047-1 |
Argentinisches Tageblatt is the name of a German-language foreign newspaper that was founded in 1874 and appears in Buenos Aires . It is currently published weekly, having appeared daily from 1889 to 1981. It serves as an entertainment and communication medium for the German, Swiss and Austrian communities in Argentina.
history
The forerunner of the Argentinisches Tageblatt, the Argentinische Bote , was founded in 1874 by Johann Alemann, an immigrant from Switzerland, as a communication medium for the settlers in the province of Santa Fe . The newspaper appeared in this format for only one year. Alemann and his sons Theodor and Moritz then moved to Buenos Aires, from where the magazine was reissued as Argentinisches Wochenblatt in 1878. The rapid growth of the German-speaking community and the need to maintain a communication organ of communal importance gave the weekly newspaper impulses. The Alemann family settled permanently in the federal capital and dedicated themselves to the weekly publication of the magazine.
From April 29, 1889, the now successful weekly was published daily and has been called the Argentinisches Tageblatt ever since . From 1889, Johann Rudolf Müller was one of the employees . Johann "Juan" Alemann died in 1893, and his sons Theodor and Moritz continued to run the publishing house. After Theodor Alemann's death in 1925, his son Ernesto, a journalist trained in Germany, took over the editorial work. In its extremely liberal attitude, the newspaper defended the attitude of the Weimar Republic and was an exception among the German press abroad, which was usually reactionary. The Argentinisches Tageblatt vehemently opposed National Socialism , which led to some conflicts. It was boycotted by that part of the German community in Argentina that leaned towards Nazi ideology, and it received repeated bomb threats. Its dissemination in the Third Reich was banned after Adolf Hitler and his government came to power . In 1936 Ernesto Alemann was officially withdrawn from Heidelberg University because of his opposition to the Nazi regime.
On the other hand, during the rule of National Socialism in Germany, the Argentinisches Tageblatt acted as a communication medium for exiled German opponents of the Nazi regime throughout Latin America and for a large part of the German-speaking Jewish community there. The official representatives of Germany in Argentina and personalities close to the NSDAP, which had thousands of members in Argentina, brought six trials against the daily newspaper . In the post-war period, too, the Argentinisches Tageblatt had difficulties because of its anti-totalitarian stance. The government of Juan Domingo Perón , who embarked on an alleged policy of neutrality in the last year of the war and at the same time maintained close ties with the German government, gave the newspaper a paper rationing in the early 1950s, which led to a temporary closure of the associated publisher.
After the military coup in 1976 , the publication supported the new rulers and encouraged them in their bloodthirstiness. Leading articles called for “night and fog actions” in which opponents of the regime should disappear. Roberto Alemann , the editor's son, was appointed Minister of Economics for the military and thus part of the regime under which 30,000 people were killed in acts of state terrorism between 1976 and 1983 .
The owner family makes it difficult to access the issues of that time and is apparently trying to make a meaningful reappraisal of their role in Argentina's dirty war in that era more difficult.
The Argentinisches Tageblatt is still owned by the Alemann family to this day. The current editor and publishing director is the aforementioned Roberto Alemann, a liberal economist who has served twice as minister of economics; once in the bourgeois-radical government of Arturo Frondizi and in the military dictatorship. In 1981, the Tageblatt returned to a weekly Saturday edition while retaining its name. The daily newspaper has been available on Friday since 2014.
In 2012 the newspaper was awarded the first media prize “Dialogue for Germany” from a CDU / CSU-affiliated foundation “Solidarity with Germans Abroad”.
The Argentinisches Tageblatt has a printed circulation of 10,000 copies. Its reach is estimated at around 50,000 readers.
Web links
- Argentinisches Tageblatt - the official website
- 120 years of AT (PDF; 2.9 MB) - anniversary edition (including the history of the newspaper)
literature
- Sebastian Schöpp: The 'Argentinische Tageblatt' 1933 to 1945. A forum for anti-National Socialist emigration . Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-932089-02-2 .
- Peter Bussemeyer: 50 years of the Argentinisches Tageblatt. Becoming and advancing a German newspaper abroad. Buenos Aires 1939.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Horacio Verbitsky : El país: Genocidios , Página / 12 , 2012-06-03.
- ↑ Press release of the foundation "Solidarity with Germans Abroad" (PDF)