Christ and the world

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Christ and the world
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description Protestant weekly newspaper
language German
First edition June 6, 1948
attitude 1971
Editors-in-chief Ernst A. Hepp , Klaus Mehnert , Giselher Wirsing
Editor Evangelical Church in Germany
ISSN (print) 0009-5109

Christ und Welt was an evangelical-conservative weekly newspaper . In the post-war period it was one of the highest-circulation and most influential newspapers in the young Federal Republic, but it increasingly lost readers and influence in the course of social change in the 1970s. In 1980 it was absorbed by the Rheinischer Merkur , and since 2010 the weekly newspaper Die Zeit has published a new newspaper book with this name.

Beginnings

The newspaper was founded in Stuttgart in 1948 by a group of Protestant representatives around Eugen Gerstenmaier . The first edition appeared on June 6, 1948. The newspaper was an officious newspaper of the Protestant Church . Editor-in-chief was initially Ernst A. Hepp and, after he switched to the Hamburger Allgemeine Zeitung in July 1949, Klaus Mehnert . Its successor, Giselher Wirsing (1954 to 1970), made the paper the weekly newspaper with the highest circulation (until 1963). Dozens of authors were employed from the press department of the former Foreign Office under Paul Karl Schmidt , who later became bestselling author. While Schmidt worked in the background because he was too well known and had therefore also changed his name to Paul Carell , the other authors kept silent about their origins. However, in 1948 the Americans rated the paper internally as a “ Nazi newspaper in the underground”. Jürgen Thorwald , formerly a propagandist in Hitler's navy , went the furthest .

Deutsche Zeitung - Christ und Welt (1971–1980)

In 1971 Christ and Welt merged with the Deutsche Zeitung and Wirtschaftszeitung , founded in 1947 in Stuttgart by Curt E. Schwab publishing house , to form Deutsche Zeitung. Christ and the World (DZ). She wanted to become the leading weekly newspaper. The editorial team moved from Stuttgart-Sillenbuch to Bonn in order to have more weight. Ludolf Herrmann , a former employee of Bruno Heck (CDU) , became editor-in-chief . Herrmann was a journalist from a conservative milieu. His comments were sometimes sharp, so that some CDU people avoided him; Helmut Kohl in particular kept his distance from him.

Heinrich Stubbe was the head of the service and also responsible for the church side. In the politics editorial team, Günter Müchler (later Deutschlandfunk ) and Friedrich Thelen (later Wirtschaftswoche , then management consultant) worked, among others, responsible for domestic politics . Gerhard von Glinski headed foreign policy as a one-man department. Dietrich Zwätz was responsible for the economic department. Gerhard Krug and Birgit Lahann , among others, worked in the Society department . Günther Engelhard later headed the department. He introduced a satire page, with contributions by the Hamburg satirist Gabriel Laub . Political satires also appeared there under the pseudonym purk , which were often taken up in the mirror . There the author was called Daniel Doppler. In reality it was Hellmuth Karasek . Günther Schloz was responsible for culture, while Helene Schreiber and Christa Gehr were responsible for the travel department. The photo editor was W. Eric Krupp. Peter Scholtyssek was in charge of the layout.

The main caricaturist was Walter Hanel , who also worked for the FAZ, the WDR and the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . His caricatures for the Deutsche Zeitung were regularly reprinted in Spiegel , Stern and many German weekly newspapers.

Between 1975 and 1980, the DZ was in competition with Hamburg's Die Zeit . It wrote z. B. Klaus Harpprecht , Klaus Mehnert , Peter Scholl-Latour and Walter Wannenmacher. Political guests were heard at the weekly editorial conference. The British ambassador lectured, for example. B. on the world situation, or a representative from the Palestinians reported on the Middle East. Richard Kaufmann, formerly editor of the DZ , informed the editors about the views of the USA and Christo presented plans to cover the Reichstag in Berlin. Before the editorial conference, Scholl-Latour developed ideas to counter the terror of the Red Army Faction (RAF).

Sale to the German Bishops' Conference

In 1980 the Holtzbrinck publishing house sold the paper to the German Bishops' Conference , which was already co-editor of the Catholic weekly newspaper Rheinischer Merkur . This was then given the title “Rheinischer Merkur. Christ and the world ”. Editor-in-chief Ludolf Herrmann went to Gruner + Jahr and became editor-in-chief of the business magazine Capital .

Supplement in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit

The last independent edition of the Rheinischer Merkurs appeared on November 25, 2010. Since December 2, 2010, a special edition of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit has been accompanied by a six-page, editorially independent supplement entitled Christ and World . This special edition is only available for new subscribers of the time and for previous subscribers of the Rheinischer Merkur and not in retail stores. Since October 1, 2016, the supplement has no longer been produced by the Catholic Media House (Bonn), but by Zeit itself. In this context, Die Zeit founded its own subsidiary called ZEIT: CREDO .

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  1. ↑ "under cover Nazi paper"; Peter Longerich , s. Lit. There the names, as far as known as AA Propaganda People until the book was published.
  2. ↑ In November 1948 there were two large articles in C&W about “The catastrophe of the refugee ships in 1945”, which, according to the company's own statement, formed the prelude to a “casual series of reports about the events that occurred during the conquest of the German eastern territories and during the expulsion of the German population ". The lyrics immediately brought great success. According to Mehnert, they “increased the number of copies sold each week from 17,000 to 68,000 within a few weeks”. This made the future target group of readers clear. Thorwald wrote here under “ErBo”, according to the imprint “Ernst Bongartz”, cf. his real name "Heinz Bongartz". Contemporary history online - specialist portal for contemporary history (ZOL)
  3. ↑ FAZ.net August 9, 2016
  4. ↑ ZEIT publishing group founds subsidiary ZEIT: CREDO for “Christ & Welt” ZEIT publishing group August 9, 2016