Berlin stock exchange courier
The Berliner Börsen-Courier (BBC) was a left-liberal daily newspaper published from 1868 to 1933, which mainly published news about the prices of securities traded on the stock exchanges and information about the mortgage market . Furthermore, important news and reports from industry, trade, politics and culture were published.
Foundation and concept
The first edition appeared as a trial edition on September 12, 1868, while regular distribution began on October 1, 1868. According to the trading hours on the stock exchanges, the daily edition appeared in the late afternoon. On Sunday evening the newspaper came out under the name Die Station , which was designed mainly as a feature section . The main part of the daily edition consisted of one page of political news and three pages of news and reports from trade and industry. There were also four supplements: the course slip , the advertisements, the station as a feature section and a weekly supplement on news from the real estate sector.
Just three months later, the BBC's concept was expanded. From January 1, 1869, a morning and an evening edition appeared. The evening edition mainly consisted of the previous content. The morning edition, however, focused on the news and reports from the fields of politics, entertainment and culture. In the following years, the evening edition was also provided with more news and reports, with reports from the local area also appearing.
Founder and management
The founder of the BBC, George Davidsohn (1835-1897), was a trained banker and came as a journalist from the Berliner Börsen-Zeitung (BBZ). This double professional experience contributed significantly to the BBC's ability to hold its own economically. He also set new standards in the design of newspaper quality in terms of speed of publication and level of reporting. When the economic crisis hit the BBC in the years 1875-1877, the brother Robert Davidsohn (1853-1937) took over the business of the newspaper and converted it in 1884 into a public company.
The increased requirements for the provision of acute news led to the introduction of flexible working hours and the establishment of a night editorial office. Now in the 1980s, reports from foreign exchanges were also published. The reports were deepened by statistics and forecasts. Another supplement, Berliner Wespen , which was designed by Julius Stettenheim , should cover the area of humor and satire. In the years to come, political reports and news became more and more important. The BBC was the first newspaper in Berlin to print reports from the Reichstag . In 1885 the BBC was the first newspaper in Berlin to introduce a sports section.
Culture, circulation and attitude
Culture also featured prominently in BBC coverage. In Germany it was said that no theater company could do without reports from the BBC. In the twenties, as part of the reorganization of the formats of the newspapers ( Berlin format ), the BBC was also adapted. Since August 24, 1924, the BBC had the subtitle Modern Daily Newspaper . While the BBC's circulation was 11,000 in 1914, it rose to 50,000 to 60,000 in 1923. From 1925 to 1927 the circulation reached 40,000 copies.
On December 24, 1932, the Berliner Börsen-Zeitung announced that it had bought the shares in the BBC. On December 31, 1933, the BBC appeared for the last time with the number 609. The BBC was thus absorbed into the BBZ. The BBZ was merged with the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (DAZ) in 1944 .
Editors (selection)
Editors-in-chief
- George Davidsohn (from 1868 to 1897)
- Julius Salomon, evening edition (from 1897 to 1910)
- Isodor Landau, morning edition
- Albert Haas (from 1910)
- Emil Faktor (from 1916 to 1931)
- Hans Baumgarten (from 1931 to 1933)
- Karl Baatz (until 1933)
Department editors
- Günther Anders (feature section)
- Hans Herrig (theater)
- Hans von Bülow (literature)
- Curt Glaser (art reports)
- Hans Hopfen (literature)
- Isidor Kastan (politics and literature)
- Léo Lania (local news)
- Paul Lindau (theater)
- Pem (local news)
- Ernst von Wildenbruch (literature)
- Eugen Richter (feature section)
- Alfred Schütze (trade)
- Paul Bormann (trade)
- Benno Jacobsen (theater review)
- Oskar Bie (art reports)
- Oskar Eichberg (music review)
- Emil Freystadt (politics)
- Max Adolf Klausner (Politics)
- Erich Salzmann (Politics)
- Wilhelm Streit (politics)
- Manuel Schnitzer (local news)
- Richard Wilde (local news)
- Felix Joachimson (local news)
- Max Marcuse (1862-) (trade)
- Max Neustädter (trade)
- Georg Horwitz (trade)
- Bernhard Schuetz (trade)
- Hans Hirschstein (Colonial News)
- Willy Steneberg (Insurance Market)
- Siegfried Lewinson (Commerce)
- Martin Wenck (politics)
- Wilhelm Schwedler (Politics)
- Josef Adolf Bondy (Politics)
- Heinrich Friedmann (politics)
- Paul J. Bloch (local news)
literature
- Ulla C. Lerg-Kill: Berliner Börsen-Courier (1868–1933). In: Heinz-Dietrich Fischer (ed.): German newspapers from the 17th to the 20th century (= journalism-historical contributions. Vol. 2). Verlag Documentation, Pullach near Munich 1972, ISBN 3-7940-3602-6 , pp. 283-298.
- Oskar Loerke : The book cart. Meetings in the Berlin Börsen-Courier 1920–1928 (= publications of the German Academy for Language and Poetry, Darmstadt. Vol. 34, ZDB -ID 504305-0 ). Edited by Hermann Kasack with the assistance of Reinhard Tgahrt . Lambert Schneider, Heidelberg et al. 1965.
- Heinz-Dietrich Fischer: German press publishers from the 18th to the 20th century (= journalism-historical contributions. Vol. 4). Publishing house documentation, Pullach near Munich 1975, ISBN 3-7940-3604-4 .
- Ursula E. Koch : Berlin Press and European Events 1871. A study of the reception of the great events in the first half of 1871 in the political daily newspapers of the German capital (= individual publications of the Historical Commission in Berlin. Vol. 22). Colloquium-Verlag, Berlin 1978, ISBN 3-7678-0439-5 .
- Klaus Täubert: Emil factor. A man and (s) a newspaper (= sites of the history of Berlin. Vol. 109). Edition Hentrich, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-89468-107-1 .
- Jürgen Wilke (Ed.): Put under pressure. Four chapters of German press history (= media in past and present. Vol. 17). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2002, ISBN 3-412-17001-1 .
- Konrad Dussel : German daily press in the 19th and 20th centuries (= introductions, communication studies. Vol. 1). Lit, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8258-6811-7 .
Web links
- Poster: Man and woman read the Berliner Börsen-Courier , by Hans Rudi Erdt , 1913
- Digitized edition (so far only born in 1885)
Individual evidence
- ^ Christian Dries: Vita Günther Anders (1902-1992). In: http://www.guenther-anders-gesellschaft.org . International Günther Anders Society, 2017, accessed on July 3, 2018 .