Sheet (magazine)
| Blatt - City newspaper for Munich
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| description | German city newspaper |
| First edition | July 6, 1973 |
| attitude | June 14, 1984 |
| Frequency of publication | biweekly |
| ISSN (print) | 0177-6282 |
The sheet - city newspaper for Munich was an alternative instead of newspaper that appeared from July 6, 1973 to June 14, 1984 in a total of 274 issues in Munich . Founders were Gerd Hortmeyer and Jürgen Ritter. "Blatt" was the first alternative city newspaper in West Germany and is considered to be the prototype of all later city magazines . The paper saw itself as a journalistic platform and forum for the undogmatic left and the alternative movement. Blatt saw itself as part of a counter-public that wanted to let those who did not have access to the established media have their say. The event calendar and the large classifieds section became a model that was copied a lot. The paper can be seen as the forerunner of those papers that were discovered by various large publishers as a lucrative business model at the end of the 1980s and styled into profit and consumption-oriented glossy magazines.
The sheet came out fortnightly and was read beyond Munich, the circulation fluctuated between 10,000 and 25,000 copies. After the paper had registered its highest circulation figures around 1977, it was discontinued in 1984 due to the hopeless financial situation. After a collapse in advertisements and a falling number of subscriptions, number 274 was the last “emergency issue”.
Over the years, several criminal proceedings have been initiated against those responsible under press law for denigrating the state , publicly approving criminal offenses and inciting criminal acts . For example, because of insulting the Bavarian Prime Minister Alfons Goppel ("senile white sausage president ") and instructions on cannabis cultivation .
A Munich judicial officer is said to have been exclusively busy looking for suspicious statements in the fortnightly publication - including its classifieds section.
Well-known collaborator of the paper was the comic author and illustrator Gerhard Seyfried .
See also
literature
- Franz-Maria Sonner (Ed.): Working man is looking for a luscious partner. The 1970s scene in classified ads . Antje Kunstmann Verlag, Munich 2005.
- ID archive at the International Institute for Social History: Black Texts. Political censorship in the FRG - 1968 until today. Documents - analyzes - discussions . Edition Amsterdam 1990, ISBN 3-89408-002-7 (documentation of , inter alia, some incriminated leaf articles on pages 41f, 71 and 82)
- ID archive in the International Institute for Social History: Project Memory. ID article from the years '73 -'81 , Amsterdam 1988 (ID article for the sheet on pages 75-79)
Archives
- Archive 451, Munich, Christine Dombrowsky, since 2010 in the " Archive of the Munich Labor Movement ".
Web links
- Solveig Grothe: The invention of the city magazine - One against all , in one day from Spiegel online on March 9, 2009, online at spiegel.de
- Das Blatt - the first alternative city newspaper , video: Eva Mair-Holmes reports on her collaboration with the “Blatt”, uploaded on October 19, 2012, online at memoro.org
Individual evidence
- ^ Homepage Protest Munich: 1967 - The Trikont Verlag and the archive 451, accessed online on December 15, 2018 | 3:56 p.m. - available online