Aschersleben General

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Aschersleben General

description Regional daily newspaper
publishing company CW Niemeyer, Hameln
Headquarters Aschersleben
First edition November 24, 1989
attitude May 30, 1992
Frequency of publication Monday to Saturday
Sold edition 4057 copies
( IVW  Q1 / 1992)
Widespread edition 4447 copies
( IVW  Q1 / 1992)
editor Deister and Weser newspaper
ZDB 1288875-8

The Ascherslebener Allgemeine was a German daily newspaper at the time of the turning point .

founding

Newspaper co-founder Martin Lampadius with one of the first issues of the Ascherslebener Allgemeine

The Ascherslebener Allgemeine was one of the first independent newspapers in the GDR . It was published at the turn of November 1989 as a loose-leaf collection by its founders Martin Lampadius, Marko Litzenberg, Sigrun Poeschel and Stefan Adler as a counterpart to the then "Freiheit" (the later Mitteldeutsche Zeitung ) and initially given away or distributed in return for a voluntary donation . The founders and authors had either just finished their apprenticeship or were still students.

With this license certificate, the Aschersleben General officially became one of the first free newspapers in the GDR.

At first the newspaper was only copied at irregular intervals, because there weren't that many copiers in the GDR. One edition was therefore copied in the parish office of the evangelical St. Stephen's congregation, another at the urging of the founders even in the building of the former SED district leadership . In the absence of paper, which at the time was subject to a state quota, one of the first issues was even developed on A4 photo paper . Print shops in Peine and Staßfurt later helped with the printing of the paper, which dealt critically with the conditions in the former GDR, reported on the destruction of files in the local state security building ( Stasi ) and on the democratic changes on site.

Conversion from weekly to daily newspaper

The first edition of the Ascherslebener Allgemeine appeared as a loose-leaf collection on November 24, 1989.

With the announcement at the beginning of 1990 that there would be a monetary, economic and social union on July 1st, the receipt of donations in the editorial office collapsed dramatically, so that a professional solution for the continued publication of the Ascherslebener Allgemeine had to be found.

In February 1990, the founder of Contact for Hamelin Verlag presented CW Niemeyer who went to Quedlinburg already Quedlinburger newspaper published and at the headquarters Hameln long daily experience with the Dewezet had. From March 1990 the Ascherslebener Allgemeine appeared as a daily newspaper with a supra-regional cover contributed by DeWeZet , as well as a local section produced on site. The newspaper was printed in Hamelin due to a lack of free regional printing capacities, which meant a great deal of logistical and financial expense.

Martin Lampadius and Marko Litzenberg were taken over from the founding team in the new daily newspaper editorial team and received journalistic training. Both are still active in journalism in Aschersleben today . Sigrun Poeschel and Stefan Adler, however, continued their school days.

attitude

The Ascherslebener Allgemeine , like its sister newspaper in Quedlinburg, the Quedlinburger Zeitung , was taken over by the Mitteldeutscher Verlagshaus and then discontinued. The last issue appeared on June 30, 1992. All employees were offered the option of continuing to work in various local editorial offices of the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, the same applied to the employees from the branches. Not all accepted this offer.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of editions 1992-1 In: ivw.de , accessed on December 8, 2017 (PDF; 12 MB)
  2. ↑ a b Marieluise Denecke: "The beginning was above all adventurous". In: szlz.de. Schaumburger Zeitung, November 6, 2009, accessed December 8, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Günter Herkel: 20 years later: Strong home broadcaster. In: verdi.de. December 21, 2009, accessed December 8, 2017 .

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