The capital letter
The capital letter - information and background service from Berlin ( spelling : DER HAUPTSTADTBRIEF ) is a German magazine that is published by the capital letter publishing company based in Berlin . It is published every two months as a printed edition in magazine format and as an online edition on the Internet . The publisher of the capital letter is Detlef Prinz , the editor is Ulrich Deppendorf (previously Bruno Waltert ), the editorial director was Rainer Bieling until 2018 . The editors and publishers are located in the listed building at Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 in Berlin-Kreuzberg.
Media type and manifestations
The capital letter is politically independent and is financed through the sale of advertisements and subscriptions. As usual with information and background services, it is only available as a printed edition by subscription, not in newsagents. The online edition is barrier-free accessible on the Internet. From 2011 to 2014, current special editions appeared at irregular intervals in cooperation with the Family Business Foundation in the daily newspapers Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Die Welt and Die Welt Kompakt . Since June 2015, in cooperation with the Funke Mediengruppe, in addition to the printed magazine edition, a monthly edition has been published as a separate newspaper book under the title The Capital Letter - The Background Pages in the Berliner Morgenpost newspaper .
Target audience and authors
According to its self-description, the capital letter is aimed “at decision-makers and multipliers in politics , administration , business , science and the media. It offers analyzes, statements, concepts, pleadings and comments that are useful for forming opinions in an open society and for decision-making in parliamentary democracy. ”The authors of the capital letter, in addition to politicians from all democratic parties, are primarily political analysts and legal and Economist emerged, u. a. Stefan Aust , Philipp Bagus, Hans Magnus Enzensberger , Udo Di Fabio , Jörg Guido Hülsmann , Kai A. Konrad , Hans Kremendahl , David Marsh, Dietrich Murswiek , Thorsten Polleit , Hans-Peter Schneider , Roland Tichy , Hans-Werner Sinn , Jürgen Stark , Werner Weidenfeld , Klaus F. Zimmermann .
history
The capital letter has been published since October 1999. The reason for the establishment of an information and background service from Berlin was the move of the Bundestag and the federal government from Bonn to Berlin. The founders were the television journalist Ernst-Dieter Lueg , the lawyer and book author Diether Huhn, the publisher Detlef Prinz and the newspaper journalist and editor-in-chief a. D. Bruno Waltert. Ernst-Dieter Lueg, Diether Huhn and Bruno Waltert have since passed away. Since issue 102 of May 2011, The Capital Letter has been published in its current form, printed in magazine format and as an online edition on the Internet.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the Capital Letter , section special editions, accessed on June 5, 2015
- ↑ The Capital City Letter website , About Us, accessed on May 30, 2014
- ↑ The Capital Letter website , archive section, accessed on May 30, 2014