De Groene Amsterdammer
De Groene Amsterdammer is one of only two existing Dutch weekly political magazines. De Groene Amsterdammer is published on Thursdays. The sold circulation is currently 25,000 copies.
history
The magazine first appeared on June 1, 1877 under the name "De Amsterdammer - weekblad voor Handel, Industrie en Kunst". The target group was the intellectual liberal bourgeoisie. It was given its current name on March 14, 1925. During the German invasion in World War II , the publication was interrupted for a month, and only on June 8, 1940 was an edition filled with exclusively cultural and scientific articles published. With the provisionally last edition of October 12, 1940, De Groene Amsterdammer was discontinued voluntarily.
The first post-war edition of June 16, 1945 ushered in the restart. In January 1949 there was almost a merger with the like-minded magazine Vrij Nederland . After an argument between the two owners of the sheet Rients Dijkstra and Theo Moussault, taking the latter contact with the editor of Vrij Nederland , Henk van Randwijk on an initiated by Dijkstra Quick method and the resistance of the editors of De Groene Amsterdam against van Randwijk as Editor However, these plans foiled. The circulation of De Groene Amsterdammer fell steadily from then until 1975, Vrij Nederland could only hold up for years with the support of the newspaper Het Parool and the publishing house "Arbeiderspers".
De Groene Amsterdammer went online in 1994 under the leadership of Marianne van den Boomen , making it one of the pioneers in the Netherlands. The editions from 1877 to 1940 have been completely digitized and can be accessed free of charge as a facsimile .
Previous editors-in-chief
| before World War II | after the Second World War | |||
| Johannes de Koo | 1877-1894 | Rients Dijkstra | 1945-1970 | |
| no editor in chief | 1894-1897 | no editor in chief | 1970-1985 | |
| Johannes de Koo | 1897-1907 | Martin van Amerongen | 1985-1997 | |
| Henri Pierre Leonard Wiessing | 1907-1914 | Gerard van Westerloo | 1997-1998 | |
| no editor in chief | 1914-1920 | Martin van Amerongen | 1999-2002 | |
| Gerhard Wilhelm Kernkamp | 1920-1929 | Hubert Smeets | 2003-2007 | |
| AC Josephus Jitta | 1929-1936 | Xandra Schutte | 2008– | |
| no editor in chief | 1936-1940 | |||
| temporary cessation | 1940-1945 | |||
Edition development
In 1882 the sheet had a circulation of 4,000 copies, in 1939 12,000 copies were reached. The post-war circulation was significantly higher at 40,000 (1946), but fell continuously until 1975, since then it has fluctuated around 15,000.
| Edition sold since the investigation by the "Oplage Instituut" | |||||||||
| year | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 |
| Edition | 13,487 | 13.303 | 12,820 | 14,274 | 14,621 | 14,414 | 13,868 | 13,016 | 12,856 |
De Groene Amsterdammer today
De Groene Amsterdammer is aimed at a left-liberal, intellectual audience and covers a range of topics in the areas of politics, business, culture and sport that corresponds to that of daily newspapers. Over the years, the paper had numerous prominent collaborators and authors, including Frederik van Eeden , Loe de Jong , Simon Vestdijk , Willemijn Posthumus-van der Goot , Anton Levien Constandse and Geert Mak . The draftsman Opland worked for De Groene Amsterdammer from 1947 until shortly before his death in 2001 .
In contrast to the national daily newspapers in the country, De Groene Amsterdammer does not belong to a group and emphasizes its independence. The editorial team consists of 14 employees.
Curiosities, worth mentioning
- In the March 10, 1999 edition, Benito Mussolini , Augusto Pinochet and Josef Stalin found themselves as editors-in-chief in the imprint. The layouter obviously wanted to protest against the abolition of editorial self-administration.
- To celebrate its 125th anniversary, De Groene Amsterdammer appeared daily for one week in May 2002.
swell
- Jan van de Plasse: Kroniek van de Nederlandse dagblad- en opiniepers / seed gesteld by Jan van de Plasse. Red. Wim Verbei , Otto Cramwinckel Uitgever, Amsterdam 2005, ISBN 90-75727-77-1 . (Dutch; earlier edition: Jan van de Plasse, Kroniek van de Nederlandse dagbladpers , Cramwinckel, Amsterdam 1999, ISBN 90-75727-25-9 )
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2019/04/09/hoofdredacteur-vrij-nederland-wil-verder-zonder-redactie-a3956256
Web links
- De Groene Amsterdammer website (Dutch)