The postillon

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The postillon
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description Satire website
First edition October 28, 2008
Frequency of publication Every day
Editor-in-chief Stefan Sichermann
Web link der-postillon.com

The Postillon is a German-language website operated by Stefan Sichermann and daily satirical articles in the style of newspaper articles and agency reports .

history

The website was founded on October 28, 2008 by Stefan Sichermann, who worked full-time for an advertising agency until 2011 and initially operated the site (usually under the pseudonym "DerChefred") on his own. Sichermann was inspired by the US satirical newspaper The Onion . The satirical self-portrait of Postillons According to the newspaper, there is contrast already since October 28, 1845, received its first content of by-trotting postilions . Accordingly, the logo of the site shows a post horn with a hobby horse .

The Postillon recorded a significant increase in the number of users in 2011 after a report entitled: Raid on kino.to forces millions of users to spend two minutes looking for a new streaming platform that will be available after the video-on-demand has been closed . Page Kino.to was published. The Postillon articles spread mainly via social networks such as Facebook , Twitter and Google+ . In March 2014 alone, the Postillon’s contributions were shared almost 700,000 times. This means that the satire blog has a higher social media reach than news portals such as Focus Online, Süddeutsche.de or Frankfurter Allgemeine.

In 2010, the Postillon won The BOBs in the category Best Weblog German (best German weblog), both in the jury and in the user rating, of the annual blog awards given by the broadcaster Deutsche Welle . An online shop called Shopillon has existed since October 2011, selling humorous products such as B. distributes a minority quartet. In March 2012, a collection of popular Postillon articles was first published in paperback. On May 24, 2012, the first satirical news program with content in the style of the Postillon was published on YouTube under the title Postillon24 Nachrichten . On the occasion of the federal election in 2013 , additional videos were published in cooperation with Yahoo . This collaboration has continued since November 2013.

In June 2013 the Postillon received the Grimme Online Award in the “Information” category and as an audience award.

According to its own information, the website had over four million visitors for the first time in February 2014.

Since April 25, 2014 NDR television has been broadcasting the Postillon24 news . In addition, since May 8, 2014, NDR's youth radio, N-Joy , has had one-minute postillon radio news as part of the N-JOY morning show . Also on the pop / service shaft of the Bavarian Radio Bayern 3 were Postillon radio messages sent temporarily.

In January 2016, the Facebook page Faktillon went online, which posts “'Facts', half-truths & more!”, Based on satirical references to various other Facebook pages that allegedly publish true facts.

On November 9, 2016, shortly after the election victory of Donald Trump as President of the United States, the coachman started his international edition The coachman with the headline: "Make News Honest Again".

In the meantime, Sichermann runs the site full-time, financing the offer through advertising income , steady subscriptions, book sales and donations. He no longer writes all the articles himself, but has built up a team of permanent and freelance authors. According to the legal notice, the permanent authors include Alexander Bayer and Dan Eckert, and the freelancers Philipp Feldhusen, Peer Gahmert, Ernst Jordan, Sebastian Wolking, Daniel Al-Kabbani, Bernhard Pöschla and Tobias Lauterbach.

There are several comparable news portals internationally. In addition to the role model The Onion from the United States, these include De Speld from the Netherlands, Le Gorafi from France, Lercio from Italy, El Mundo Today from Spain, Die Tagespresse from Austria and Waterford Whispers News from Ireland, with whom the Postillon cooperates .

In May 2020, the Postillon released the BER construction simulator app , which landed at number 2 on the Apple free games charts within a few hours. The app promises "a lot of frustration".

Content

In addition to classic articles, the Postillon Ratgeber, the results of fictitious surveys, weekly user surveys that are carried out in collaboration with the fictitious opinion research institute Opinion Control (“Sunday question”), “Psychotests”, and the title pages of the fictitious magazine Postillon am Sonntag (PamS) appear under the heading "Tomorrow in PAMS," a compiled from reader submissions Newsticker with puns and "letters of the week", which consist of comments in social media or e-mail and mostly came from people who do not understand the satirical character, or to complain about the humor.

The fictional stories in the articles often allude to current topics and deal with social realities. Reports from other online media or, especially in the case of historical or at least not up-to-date references, representations in Wikipedia are regularly linked in the text . These links usually refer to the satirized real events that form the background of the article or the respective sentence.

A regularly recurring character and running gag is "little Timmy (9)" who, for example, discovered the disappearance of his rabbit after the Easter roast , was "not found for over five hours" during a game of hide-and-seek , or because the family cat's "child's hair allergy" went into the home had to.

The content can be used freely for non-commercial purposes under a Creative Commons license .

public perception

In 2011, the Postillon met with criticism with an article that appeared shortly after the death of Steve Jobs and reported on (fabricated) speculations about the "design and features" of his coffin. Numerous readers were indignant about the short time between the (real) event and its satirical treatment and announced in the comments that they would not read the postilion in future; the criticism of not having “waited a little longer” and the phrase “one less reader” subsequently became a running gag among regular readers.

In August 2012, the postilion hit the headlines when the television presenter Dieter Moor copied an article on the construction of the Berlin airport in his section End with Moor (within the ARD broadcast ttt - titel, thesen, temperamente ) without referring to the authorship of Sichermann . After various media, including Stern.de, reported on the incident and numerous viewers complained on the show's Facebook page, ttt first published a general apology and later an explicit reference to the original source of the joke.

The article Crossing the line: Record jump from 39 kilometers declared invalid , in which the postilion reported about an alleged violation of the line when Felix Baumgartner jumped out of the stratosphere , with which the Austrian extreme athlete broke several aeronautical records on October 14, 2012 Feedback on the Internet, including some angry criticism from numerous Baumgartner fans.

The photo used by the Postillon for the contribution comes from the local media archive Wikimedia Commons and shows Ronald Pofalla signing the coalition agreement for the 18th parliamentary term of the Bundestag .

When numerous media reported on January 2, 2014 that Ronald Pofalla was expected to move to the board of directors of Deutsche Bahn , the Postillon also published such an article, but dated it to January 1. This gave many readers and some media the impression that the message originally came from the postillon and was not true.

At the soccer World Cup in 2014 , after the German national team's 7-1 victory against Brazil, the postilion reported that a "pub owner who promised a free schnapps for every German goal had [gone] broke", Taken over unchecked from the Russian broadcaster Rossija 24 . The news spread on several Russian-language news portals.

In January 2015, the postilion caused confusion when it reported an alleged cancellation of the Pegida demonstration on January 5th. The postillon backed up his reports through Twitter and Facebook messages as well as screenshots, according to which the organizers of the Pegida fell out. Finally, a link was distributed via social networks that led to a fake Spiegel online page that confirmed the postilon's report. The forgery itself did not come from the postillon, but it was widely spread by it.

In November 2015, several Syrian news websites picked up a postillon report according to which the only Syrian present at the Syria summit in Vienna was a waiter who served the participants canapes and drinks. As correctly reported by the Postillon, no representative from Syria attended the conference.

At the end of May 2016, AfD politician Beatrix von Storch considered an article in Postillon from January 2015 about the introduction of a European national team to be so authentic that she spoke out against it in a public Facebook post and accused Chancellor Angela Merkel of the European Football Championship to want to abolish and dissolve the EU nation states so that there would be “only the EU Bundesliga” in the future. This caused confusion on the net, as the public had no reference to the Postillon report in this case.

At the beginning of August 2016, the Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk (MDR) fell for an older post by Postillon from May 2016. The article dealt with an allegedly planned merging of the often confused words "sei" and "seit" to "seidt" as part of a spelling reform . The news was taken over unchecked in a radio broadcast.

In December 2016, Norbert Schittke , a "Reich Chancellor" of the Reich Citizens' Movement , in an interview with a reporter for the heute-show, claimed that the AfD was founded by Angela Merkel and that if the CDU failed, it would immediately be incorporated into this party. He presented an article by the Postillon as evidence in support of his claim.

In February 2018, Erika Steinbach published a picture of a headline on her Twitter profile saying that a Muslim would no longer want to drink a Jägermeister after discovering a Christian cross on the bottle logo. This picture came from the satirical website "Der Gazetteur" and was then processed into an article by the postillon. After Steinbach was informed about the satire, she said that such a report could have been real in the current political climate.

In September 2018, the Munich State Security investigated the portal because the satirical article published about a year and a half earlier, "You make me nothing but trouble": Björn Höcke turns the Hitler photo on his bedside table against § 86a ( use of symbols of unconstitutional organizations ) . Due to unclear statements in the investigation file of a Munich music student, it was initially reported that an investigation was being carried out against him because he had liked the article on Facebook . The investigations of the Nuremberg-Fürth public prosecutor's office were quickly stopped. The representation is not punishable because it "took place in the context of an article that satirically dealt with Björn Höcke and the AfD."

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Ronnie Grob: True lies from the post horn . Medienwoche.ch, January 19, 2012, accessed August 22, 2012.
  2. ↑ a b c d Allow me: The Postillon! Academicworld.net, accessed August 22, 2012.
  3. ↑ The Postillon 1845–2012 . The postillon.
  4. ↑ Raid on kino.to forces millions of users to spend two minutes looking for a new streaming platform . The Postillon, June 9, 2011, accessed August 22, 2012.
  5. ↑ Social Media Charts: RTL.de and Postillon with new like records , meedia.de, April 17, 2014
  6. ↑ Just in time for the 166th anniversary: ​​Postillon-Shop Shopillon opened! The postillon, October 28, 2011, accessed August 22, 2012.
  7. ↑ The best Postillon articles from 2008 until today also available in paperback . The postillon, March 15, 2012, accessed August 22, 2012.
  8. ^ Postillon24 news on YouTube (accessed August 22, 2012).
  9. ↑ Bastian Brinkmann : “Postillon” goes on air. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 13, 2013.
  10. ^ Grimme Online Award 2013: Grimme Institute selects award winners in Cologne. (No longer available online.) Grimme Institute , archived from the original on October 25, 2014 ; Retrieved June 21, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.grimme-institut.de
  11. ↑ Advertise on der-postillon.com . The postillon, accessed March 6, 2014.
  12. ^ Matthias Kohlmaier: Fee-financed satire. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 9, 2014.
  13. ↑ Oliver Junge: Caught cold as an ass. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , April 24, 2014.
  14. ↑ “Die Postillon Hörfunknachrichten” every morning on N-JOY on the radio , ndr.de
  15. ^ Neumarktaktuell: "Postillon-Hörfunknachrichten" again on Radio BAYERN June 3 , 2015, accessed on May 22, 2016 .
  16. ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk: Der Postillon - BAYERN 3 Podcast Download - Audio Podcast from Bayerischer Rundfunk - Audio podcast 163447. (No longer available online.) In: podcast.de. Archived from the original on May 22, 2016 ; accessed on May 22, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.podcast.de
  17. ↑ factillon. In: www.facebook.com. Retrieved March 2, 2016 .
  18. ↑ "Today is not Thursday": Postillon offshoot conquers the world of the network. In: http://www.tz.de/ . Retrieved March 2, 2016 .
  19. ↑ Make News Honest Again! The Postillon launches The Postillon (the-postillon.com) . In: The Postillon . ( der-postillon.com [accessed November 9, 2016]).
  20. ↑ Support the postillon. In: The Postillon. Retrieved April 23, 2020 .
  21. ↑ Imprint: editorial staff, permanent staff , der-postillon.de
  22. ↑ https://speld.nl
  23. ↑ http://www.legorafi.fr
  24. ↑ http://www.lercio.it
  25. ↑ http://www.elmundotoday.com
  26. ↑ https://dietagespresse.com
  27. ↑ http://waterfordwhispersnews.com
  28. ^ The Postillon: International Partners. Retrieved July 26, 2018 .
  29. ↑ Postillleaks: The lying game about BER from @Der_Postillon and @IlluReflection is number 2 in the iOS app charts. In: @postillleaks. May 9, 2020, accessed May 9, 2020 .
  30. ↑ The Postillon: Now free for Android and iOS: The BER construction simulator - the first official Postillon mobile phone game! In: der-postillon.com. May 8, 2020, accessed May 10, 2020 .
  31. ↑ Stefan Sichermann, Dan Eckert: Counselor: How to cut your own hair. In: The Postillon. April 8, 2020, accessed April 23, 2020 .
  32. ↑ Stefan Sichermann, Dan Eckert: Survey: Majority would prefer proper zombie apocalypse to boring corona crisis. In: The Postillon. April 6, 2020, accessed April 23, 2020 .
  33. ↑ Psychological test: Are you still alive or already dead? Retrieved August 1, 2016 .
  34. ↑ New tomorrow at the kiosk: Postillon am Sonntag No. 49/2015. In: The Postillon. Retrieved March 2, 2016 .
  35. ↑ Stefan Sichermann: Little Timmy (9) finds out after an Easter roast that his rabbit has disappeared. In: The Postillon. April 25, 2011, accessed April 23, 2020 .
  36. ↑ Stefan Sichermann: Little Timmy (9) has not been found playing hide-and-seek for over five hours. In: The Postillon. October 11, 2013, accessed April 23, 2020 .
  37. ↑ Stefan Sichermann, Dan Eckert: Little Timmy (9) has to go to the home because the family cat suffers from a child's hair allergy. In: The Postillon. July 15, 2015, accessed April 23, 2020 .
  38. ↑ The Postillon: Imprint. In: The Postillon. Retrieved June 25, 2016 .
  39. ↑ Tech journalists and fanboys speculate about the design and features of Steve Jobs' coffin . The Postillon, October 6, 2011, accessed August 22, 2012.
  40. ↑ New tense Future III introduced to enable discussions about Berlin Airport . The postillon, August 15, 2012, accessed August 22, 2012.
  41. ↑ a b Thomas Knüwer: Dieter Moor, the friendly plagiarist of the ARD . Indiscretion a matter of honor, August 20, 2012, accessed August 22, 2012.
  42. ↑ Niels Kruse: Where "Titles, Theses, Temperaments" steals his jokes . Stern.de, August 20, 2012 (accessed August 22, 2012).
  43. ^ Moor copied from "Postillon". In: Der Tagesspiegel , August 22, 2012, accessed on August 22, 2012.
  44. ↑ Cross the line: Record jump from a height of 39 kilometers declared invalid . The Postillon, October 15, 2012, accessed October 23, 2012.
  45. ↑ Michèle Binswanger : Teenager sexually harassed by himself . Tagesanzeiger.ch, October 17, 2012, accessed October 23, 2012.
  46. ↑ Left! Two! Three! Four! (Baumgartner Special) . The Postillon, October 20, 2012, accessed October 23, 2012.
  47. ↑ Stefan Sichermann: Exclusive: Former Chancellery Minister Ronald Pofalla changes to the board of Deutsche Bahn. The Postillon, January 2, 2014, accessed on January 3, 2014 .
  48. ↑ Lars Wienand: Pofalla absurd: How the postillon trolled the net twice. In: Rhein-Zeitung . January 3, 2014, accessed January 3, 2014 .
  49. ↑ Jan Falk, Oliver Koch: How the satirical page Postillon confused the network. (No longer available online.) In: Ruhr Nachrichten . January 3, 2014, archived from the original on January 3, 2014 ; Retrieved January 3, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ruhrnachrichten.de
  50. ↑ Responses, collected on the postilon's Facebook page: [1] [2] [3] [4]
  51. ↑ The pub owner, who promised a free schnapps for every German goal, broke , Der Postillon, July 9, 2014.
  52. ↑ The bankrupt bartender: Russen-TV falls for Postillon joke , Meedia , July 11, 2014.
  53. ↑ Video on vesti.ru.
  54. ↑ Left! Two! Three! Four! (232) , Der Postillon, July 12, 2014.
  55. ↑ Real satire on the Internet - Der Postillon cancels PEGIDA , Süddeutsche Zeitung, accessed on January 9, 2015
  56. ↑ Laura Sandgathe: Syrian waiter at Syria conference: media fall for "Postillon" report. In: RP Online. November 5, 2015, accessed February 2, 2016 .
  57. ↑ AfD politician falls on Postillon contribution purely article of the Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung
  58. ↑ MDR falls for satire: From "sei" and "seit" becomes "seidt" contribution by Spiegel Online
  59. ↑ LVZ-Online: ZDF “heute show” - Reichsbürger falls for satire - LVZ - Leipziger Volkszeitung. December 14, 2016, accessed January 28, 2017 .
  60. ^ AfD sympathizer: Erika Steinbach falls for a satirical report . In: T-online.de , February 24, 2018, accessed on March 27, 2018.
  61. ↑ Florian Schillat: Former CDU MPs - Don't believe everything that Erika Steinbach puts online: her tweets in the fact check . In: Stern.de , February 26, 2018, accessed on March 27, 2018.
  62. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung : Police allegedly did not investigate against students - Süddeutsche Zeitung. September 14, 2018, accessed September 15, 2018 .
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