Banat Post

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Banat Post
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description Newspaper of the country team of the Banat Swabians
Area of ​​Expertise Association sheet
language German
publishing company Self-published
First edition December 1956
Frequency of publication twice a month
Sold edition 15,000 copies
( Source )
Editor-in-chief Walter Tonţa
editor Country team of the Banat Swabians
executive Director Peter-Dietmar Leber
Web link www.banater-schwaben.de

The Banater Post is the newspaper of the Landsmannschaft of the Banat Swabians . The newspaper has been published since December 1956 and is the official newsletter of the Banat Swabians worldwide.

history

In December 1956 the first issue of the Banater Post was sent free of charge to the members of the Landsmannschaft. Starting in 1957, the paper was to appear regularly on a monthly basis. This was the goal set by the chairman of the Baden-Württemberg regional association of the Banat Swabian regional team , the lawyer Peter Maurus from Hatzfeld . The first issue of the "Banater Post" appeared as number 6 in December 1956 as a two-column circular letter from the Landsmannschaft der Banat Swabians from Romania in Germany eV Landesverbände Hessen and Baden-Württemberg. As number 6, because Peter Maurus had already sent five circular letters in loose succession and saw the “Banat Post” in the tradition of these circulars. The volume was four pages in the format 21 × 30 cm. Mauru's first edition of the “Banater Post” and the positive reception from compatriots had the first reaction that the then federal chairman of the Landsmannschaft, Anton Valentin , forbade the publisher to use the subtitle “Rundbrief der Banat Schwaben”. The second edition was therefore published with the subtitle "Bulletin of the Banat Swabians from Romania". The proposal to name the newspaper “Banater Post” came from Wilhelm Reiter .

The first editor of the “Banater Post” was Lothar Orendi-Hommenau , the son of the well-known journalist and writer Viktor Orendi-Hommenau , until 1958, the year he died . After him, Wilhelm Reiter took over the editing. The first years of the newspaper literally reflected the situation of the Banat Swabian community . Questions of material integration such as the equalization of burdens and legal security, questions of social integration such as family reunification, as well as the situation of Germans in the Banat, were the main topics of the newspaper. The “News from the Banat and Romania”, which were taken from the Neue Weg in glossary , were a permanent section and occasionally took up a whole page of the only few pages in the paper. The column “News from the Banat and Romania” is continued today (2010), 54 years later, on page two.

The “Banater Post” appeared in 1956 with the headline “Banater Post. Circular letter from the Banat Swabians from Romania ”. The owner and publisher of the newspaper was, at the same time, the state chairman of Baden-Württemberg of the Landsmannschaft der Banat Schwaben, but had to bear the entrepreneurial risk alone. After the proposal to create an official regional press organ was discussed at the regional political meeting of the Landsmannschaft in Stuttgart in June 1957, from April 1958 the "Banater Post" was published "on behalf of the federal board of the Landsmannschaft". On January 1, 1961, the "Banater Post" became the property and administration of the Landsmannschaft due to a contractual agreement between the publisher Peter Maurus and the federal board of the Landsmannschaft der Banat Schwaben. The contract was handled by the national board of the Landsmannschaft Anton Valentin and Hans Huniar . From 1962, Hans Huniar was also responsible for the content. As the number of subscribers increased, so did the “Banat Post”, thematically opening up new fields: comprehensive articles on various aspects of the history of the Banat Swabians, cultural articles, folklore articles, especially written by Anton Peter Petri . From 1988 to 2012 Walter Wolf was the editor of the paper; Walter Tonța has been editor-in-chief of the "Banater Post" since June 1, 2012 .

In 1962 there were 200 recipients of the Banat Post. In March 2010 the paper had a monthly circulation of 15,600; 15,000 copies per month in 2020. The Banater Post is purchased worldwide, in addition to Germany in another 17 countries: Belgium , France , Great Britain , Italy , the Netherlands , Austria , Romania , Sweden , Switzerland , Spain , Hungary , Australia , Argentina , Brazil , Guatemala , Canada and the USA ( source: federal office in Munich ).

literature

  • Peter-Dietmar Leber: One voice for the country team and the countrymen. About the beginnings of the “Banater Post” in Germany , Banater Post No. 13/14, Volume 51, from July 10, 2007, pages 3–4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ banater-schwaben.org , Peter-Dietmar Leber: Change in the editorial office
  2. ↑ Karin Bohnenschuh: Advertisement prices . In: banater-schwaben.org, accessed on July 11, 2020.