Brasil Post

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The Brasil-Post was a German-language weekly newspaper that was published in Brazil . The newspaper was last published in October 2012.

history

The Brasil-Post was founded in 1950 by 103 German-Brazilians. They set themselves the task of vitalizing the German language and making a German medium available to the Germans and German-Brazilians. The newspaper quickly gained a large readership and expanded. Since the German language was banned in Brazilian schools from 1938 until the 1960s, many people of German origin learned the German language through the newspaper.

From the 1990s, the sale of the newspaper shifted more and more to the metropolitan area of São Paulo , the city with the most German industrial companies outside of Germany, as the number of German-speaking residents in São Paulo increased. In other parts of the country the readership continued to decline.

Most recently, the readership was 36% in São Paulo, 41% in Rio Grande do Sul , Santa Catarina and Paraná , with 15% in states like Espírito Santo , Rio de Janeiro , Minas Gerais and Mato Grosso do Sul and the remaining 8 % fell on other states of Brazil.

The newspaper stopped its publication in October 2012 due to financial difficulties that 85-year-old publisher Ursula Dormien could no longer cope with.