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The church

description Evangelical weekly newspaper
publishing company Wichern-Verlag , Berlin
First edition 1945
Frequency of publication weekly on Sunday
(delivery on Thursday)
Sold edition 5359 copies
( IVW  Q3 / 2019)
Editor-in-chief Constance Bürger (Head of Duty)
editor Bishop Christian Stäblein , co-editors Johanna Haberer , Susanne Kahl-Passoth and Wolf Krötke
Web link die-kirche.de
ISSN 0949-8664
ZDB 748897-x

The church (in its own spelling also: " the church") is a weekly evangelical church newspaper . Founded in 1945 in and for Greater Berlin , this weekly newspaper was also subject to a split and a name change for the issues in West Berlin after the city was divided . It has only appeared again since 2003 under the common name Die Kirche as the official Protestant church journal for Berlin-Brandenburg and the Silesian Upper Lusatia .

history

The church first appeared on the first Advent after the end of World War II , that is on December 2, 1945. The first editor-in-chief (“Editor in Chief”) was Kurt Böhme . The required press license by an occupying power came from the American military government , and Greater Berlin was intended as the distribution area . With the collapse of the four-power administration of Berlin during the beginning of the Cold War , the eastern edition of the church had to be split off and re-licensed. In West Berlin , the church then operated as the “Berliner Sonntagsblatt” , whose publisher and owner until 1994 was the “western area” of the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg .

Five weekly Protestant newspapers were published in the GDR , three of them for the Lutheran churches ( Mecklenburgische Kirchenzeitung , Der Sonntag in Sachsen and Glaube und Heimat in Thuringia), Die Kirche for the churches of the Union and the Potsdam Church for the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg . In 1988, just like the other Protestant church newspapers in the GDR , Die Kirche was censored several times by the press office . Nos. 16 and 17 of 1988 did not appear at all because the Berlin-Brandenburg church leadership refused to accept the censorship.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall in the early 1990s, the Berliner Sonntagsblatt and the Potsdam Church merged , which resulted in the renaming of the “Berlin-Brandenburgisches Sonntagsblatt” . Further mergers and collaborations for the common use of the mantle followed, some of which were later abandoned. In 1995 it became the property of Wichern-Verlag; It was renamed or renamed Die Kirche - Evangelische Wochenzeitung in 2003.

Its distribution area now covers the entire area of ​​the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia . In the third quarter of 2017, the weekly newspaper had a total circulation of 7,762 copies, with a sold circulation of 5,966 copies, of which 5,789 were subscribers.

Content and design

The church contains 16 pages of current reports, reports and interviews from church life in Berlin, Brandenburg and Silesian Upper Lusatia every week. In addition, she reports on the Evangelical Church in Germany , other regional churches and the global ecumenical movement. Regular rubrics are event notices, service schedule, personal details, obituaries and letters to the editor. One focus is on the 50-part, full-page orientation courses Faith and Diakonia .

The newspaper appears in newspaper format 315 x 417 mm and is printed in color using web offset . During the GDR era the newspaper appeared in black and white.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Publisher's information and title portrait die Kirche 2020 (PDF; 170 kB), including advertising price list No. 32 from December 1, 2019.
  2. ↑ Jens Bulisch: Evangelical Press in the GDR . Göttingen 2006, p. 52.
  3. ↑ Jens Bulisch: Evangelical Press in the GDR . Göttingen 2006, p. 30.
  4. ↑ Jens Bulisch: Evangelical Press in the GDR . Göttingen 2006, pp. 382-383.
  5. ^ IVW : Kirche, Die - Evangelische Wochenzeitung (Berlin, Brandenburg, Schlesische Oberlausitz) (woe) , accessed on November 14, 2017