The evening (Germany)

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The evening
Logo of "The Evening"
description A newspaper for Berlin
Area of ​​Expertise Regional daily newspaper
language German
First edition October 10, 1946
attitude January 23, 1981
Frequency of publication Every day except Sundays
Editor-in-chief Maximilian Müller-Jabusch
editor Hans Sonnenfeld
executive Director Sonnenfeld and Müller-Jabusch
ZDB 40001-4

The evening was a daily newspaper that appeared in West Berlin from 1946 to 1981 . The newspaper appeared daily, except on Sundays, in large-format Berlin format .

history

After the end of the Second World War , there were 13 newspapers in Berlin in the summer of 1946 , of which only five appeared in the western sectors , while eight were published in the Soviet sector . In the run-up to the first post-war election in Berlin , which took place in all four sectors on October 20, 1946, the American and British military governments began to take steps to counter this journalistic imbalance. In October 1946, for example, the American military administration granted Hans Sonnenfeld and Maximilian Müller-Jabusch a license for a daily newspaper that first appeared on October 10, 1946 - ten days before the election. Despite the title “The Evening”, it was a lunchtime newspaper. Sonnenfeld, before the end of the war, authorized signatory and print shop manager at Ullstein , became the publisher of “Abend”, while Müller-Jabusch, editor of Vossische in the Weimar Republic and then press officer of Deutsche Bank until 1940 , became editor-in-chief. Both were managing directors of the publishing house.

The initial circulation of "Abend" was 100,000 copies in November 1946, with a newspaper circulation of all titles in the western sectors of around 1.4 million copies. In the significantly smaller eastern sector, the total circulation at the same time was 2.8 million copies. After the election of October 1946, which was a positive one for the Western powers, the circulation was reduced again due to a shortage of paper: the "Abend" now appeared with 60,000 copies.

In November 1947, the kidnapping of the reporter Dieter Friede to East Berlin, who reported mainly from the Soviet sector for "Abend" and other newspapers, caused a considerable stir . The SMAD first denied any knowledge of the fate of the missing peace, and then reported the arrest in ADN Friedes on charges of espionage. After stops in special camp No. 7 in Sachsenhausen , Friede was imprisoned in Vorkuta , from where he returned to West Berlin in October 1955 .

During the Berlin blockade from 1948, the Deutsche Verlag managed the paper deliveries to the Berlin publishers, while the telegraph distributed the paper to all newspapers that appeared in Berlin format . In addition to the “evening”, that was the Social Democrat , the Kurier , the Monday Echo and the Spandauer Volksblatt . In 1953 the Verlag des “Abend” founded the Mercator printing company together with the Tagesspiegel , and Sonnenfeld and Müller-Jabusch also joined the management team.

In October 1978, Sonnenfeld resigned from his position as newspaper publisher for “Abend” and as managing director of the publishing house and Mercator printing company. The Frankfurt entrepreneur Carl Eberhard Press (including Deutsche Großtransportgesellschaft) acquired 90% of the share in the publishing house and the 50% share in the Mercator printing company for a net DM 5 million. (The original purchase price was 7 million DM; after examining the books, however, Press was able to reclaim at least 2 million DM from Sonnenfeld.)

The "evening", which still had a circulation of 100,000 copies in the 1960s, was only 44,000 copies in mid-1980. The West Berlin newspaper market was dominated by Springer-Verlag , which accounted for 80% of the total circulation. In addition to the tabloid "Abend", only the "Tagesspiegel" and the " Spandauer Volksblatt " were independent of Springer. While the “Tagesspiegel” with its liberal orientation and serious appearance was not exposed to any direct competition from Springer and the Volksblatt had its strength in the orientation towards Berlin-Spandau , the evening was in direct competition with Bild , BZ and Morgenpost . In June 1980, Hossein Sabet acquired the evening and the 50% share in the Mercator print shop from the previous owner Carl Eberhard Press. Sabet first published the newspaper in the morning from mid-September 1980 ( slogan : “The best thing in the morning is for us the evening ”) and changed the editorial team. Karsten Peters , formerly Abendzeitung , became the new editor-in-chief . The new initial print run was 100,000 copies, the editorial office moved and production was changed to light typesetting . On January 23, 1981, the last edition of "Abend" appeared; the publisher was insolvent.

literature

  • Horst Hoferichter, Ulrich Winkler-Hermaden : The failure of the daily newspaper “Der Abend” on the Berlin press market in 1980/81. Economic framework conditions and content analysis comparisons with the "BZ" . FU Berlin, Berlin 1982. (Master's thesis)
  • Michael Mücke: The evening case. A media-political investigation into the suspension of a newspaper . FU Berlin, Berlin 1982. (Master's thesis)
  • Klaus Betz, Maksut Kleemann: The death of the evening. A Berlin newspaper posse . Wissenschaftsverlag Volker Spiess, Berlin 1985.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Susanne Grebner: Der Telegraf: Creation of a licensed newspaper close to the SPD in Berlin 1946 to 1950 . Lit Verlag, Münster 2002, ISBN 3-8258-4540-0 , p. 151.
  2. ^ A b Susanne Grebner: Der Telegraf: Creation of a licensed newspaper close to the SPD in Berlin 1946 to 1950 . Lit Verlag, Münster 2002, ISBN 3-8258-4540-0 , pp. 181-183.
  3. ^ Arthur Lee Smith: Kidnap City: Cold War Berlin . Greenwood Publishing Group, London 2002, ISBN 0-313-32361-5 , pp. 26-29.
  4. ↑ a b Always total . In: Der Spiegel . No. 36 , 1980, pp. 116 f . ( online ).
  5. ↑ Gunhild Freese: Seven million for the evening . In: Die Zeit , No. 4/1978.
  6. ↑ Joachim Nawrocki: In the morning when evening comes . In: Die Zeit , No. 42/1980.
  7. ↑ Last poison . In: Der Spiegel . No. 5 , 1981, pp. 90 ( online ).
  8. ↑ Not evaluated for the article, bibliographical information quoted from Ute Schäfer and Rainald Stromeyer (eds.): Berlin-Bibliographie (1978 to 1984) of the Senate Library Berlin , Vol. 69. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-11-011348 -1 , p. 404.