Berlin extra service

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The Berliner Extra-Dienst was a left-wing socialist publication that appeared from 1967 to 1979. The Extra-Dienst emerged from the Berliner Extra-Blatt , a weekly newspaper that appeared in 14 issues in 1967, and went into the newspaper Die Neue in 1979 . The Berliner Extra-Dienst appeared twice a week.

History and people

The first edition of the Berliner Extra-Blatt appeared on February 11, 1967 . This was intended to create a journalistic counterbalance to the dominant Springer press in Berlin. The project was financially supported by Rudolf Augstein , but failed after a good three months because the newspaper was boycotted at Berlin kiosks. Thereupon the editors around Walter Barthel , Martin Buchholz , Carl L. Guggomos and Hannes Schwenger decided to break away from the concept of a tabloid and in future to publish an information service : The Berliner Extra-Dienst , which appeared for the first time on May 20, 1967. In 1969, according to Spiegel, he had around 4,000 subscribers.

The information service was published by EXTRA-Dienst GmbH , whose shareholders, along with Barthel and Guggomos, were Klaus Meschkat , Lothar Pinkall and Horst Mahler . Mahler, although a partner, participated in early 1969 together with Johannes Agnoli , Detlef Michel and others in a campaign against the Extra-Dienst , which seemed too little revolutionary to him, and called for subscription cancellation. Soon afterwards, a further information service was founded in Berlin, which was declared to be different from the extra service , Rote Presse Korrespondenz (RPK).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Catalog entry in the journal database: https://ld.zdb-services.de/resource/1974-4 .
  2. ↑ ZDB entry: https://ld.zdb-services.de/resource/40331-3 .
  3. ↑ For the development of the publications, see documentation "Extra über uns" from February 5, 1969
  4. ↑ Otto Köhler: "Expropriated Extra-Dienst - Disempowered Röhl!" (Der Spiegel, 8/1969)
  5. ↑ See documentation “Extra über uns” from February 5, 1969 , entry for January 17, 1969.
  6. ^ Founding declaration of the RPK from February 22, 1969