Davos newspaper
| Davos newspaper | |
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| description | Local newspaper |
| publishing company | Somedia AG, Chur |
| First edition | March 30, 1881 (as a weekly newspaper for the Davos region ) |
| Frequency of publication | twice a week, on Tuesday and Friday |
| Sold edition | 3,517 (previous year 3,679) copies |
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| Widespread edition | 3,668 (previous year 3,875) copies |
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| editor | Hanspeter Lebrument , CEO of the Südostschweiz Mediengruppe |
| executive Director | Hans Peter Stiffler |
| Web link | Davos newspaper |
The Davoser Zeitung is a German-language local newspaper for the Davos region in the Swiss canton of Graubünden . It appeared as a daily newspaper from 1908 to 1986 , and since 1986 twice a week. It is published by Verlag Buchdruckerei Davos AG (Budag), a company of the Südostschweiz Mediengruppe . The WEMF - certified circulation is 3,517 (previous year 3,679) sold or 3,668 (previous year 3,875) copies distributed .
history
Founding of the newspaper and the rise of Davos
The Davos newspaper created in the 19th century in the population mental readiness for the rise of the farming village of Davos to the world famous resort. Davos also owes its founder, the immigrant Hugo Richter , its discovery as a climatic health resort.
The bookseller Hugo Richter (1841–1921) from Königsberg fell ill in 1863 with pulmonary tuberculosis. In 1865 he was one of the first winter spa guests to travel to Davos, where he quickly recovered. The news of his healing suddenly made Davos famous. After a stay in Basel, Richter returned to Davos, where he founded a bookstore and published books on local topics. In 1880 he opened his own printing house.
The weekly newspaper for the Davos landscape , the direct predecessor of the Davos newspaper, was first published in this printing house on March 30, 1881 . The newspaper was aimed at the local population and was also the official gazette for the Davos region. The Davos papers had been published since 1872, but they were aimed at the spa guests. The weekly newspaper for the Davos landscape was an important discussion forum for the tourism development of the region from the start. Above all, the liberals prevailing in Davos, who pushed progress, had their say. In 1886, for example, the paper vehemently advocated the construction of the railway line from Landquart to Davos .
Tangled ownership
1890 merged the weekly paper for Davos and the Grisons people sheet , which was published as a daily newspaper. The newspaper then bore the awkward names Davoser Zeitung and Bündner Volksblatt . It was bought up in 1892 by the right-wing liberal founding group of the Neue Bündner Zeitung , which was primarily interested in the Bündner Volksblatt , while the Davos editorial team produced the Davos newspaper from then on . The ownership structure of the Davoser Zeitung in the further 1890s remains unclear . The frequency of publication of the newspaper changed several times during those years.
Hugo Richter's services to the development of Davos were recognized. As the first immigrant, he was elected to political and ecclesiastical offices. He sold the Davoser Zeitung and his book printing company around 1900 to the newly founded Buchdruckerei Davos AG .
Daily newspaper and party organ
From 1908 the Davoser Zeitung appeared daily. From 1917 to 1945 it was the declared “organ of the Free Democratic Party”, the former Liberals. After that, it gradually broke away from the strong party affiliation, but remained liberal. The other parties criticized the preference for freedom.
Retreat to the local
In the 1980s, the Davoser Zeitung (like the Bündner Tagblatt ) came under increasing competitive pressure from the modern Bündner Zeitung , which later became Die Südostschweiz . The Davoser Zeitung had to abandon the daily publication frequency. National and international reporting was also given up. However, the local reference, which had always been the reason for the existence of the paper, was strengthened. The Davoser Zeitung has been published twice a week since 1986 , on Tuesday and Friday. Since then, to emphasize the local area, it has had the Walser German subtitle «Davoseri - ünschi Ziitig» (Die Davoserin - our newspaper).
Takeover by the Südostschweiz Mediengruppe
In July 2007 the Südostschweiz Mediengruppe took over the majority of the shares in Buchdruckerei Davos AG (Budag), the owner of the Davoser Zeitung and the Klosterser Zeitung . Before that, there was turbulence between the Budag editorial team and the Board of Directors. After the takeover, both the editorial team and the board of directors were changed. The new editor-in-chief was Thomas Günter, who previously worked for the bourgeois newspaper Der Schweizerische Hausigentümer . The Davoser Zeitung and the Klosterser Zeitung also changed the place of printing under the new owner: instead of being printed at the Ringier printing center in Adligenswil as it was before , it has since been printed in the Haag printing center (St. Gallen Rheintal) of the Südostschweiz Mediengruppe.
Remarks
- ↑ a b WEMF circulation bulletin 2018 , p. 11 (PDF; 796 kB).
- ↑ According to Foppa (2002) Hugo Richter sold the Davoser Zeitung around 1900 to the «Buchdruckerei Davos AG», although he had already sold it in 1892 to the Neue Bündner Zeitung publishing house . Either he bought it again after the first sale, or research has made an error in this regard.
swell
- Daniel Foppa: The history of the German-language daily press in the canton of Graubünden . In: Yearbook of the Historical Society of Graubünden. 132, 2002, ISSN 1011-2049 , pp. 1-71 (also Separatum).
- New editor-in-chief for the Davoser Zeitung. In: Klein Report . August 10, 2007.