The hour
| The hour
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| description | Austrian daily newspaper |
| language | German |
| Frequency of publication | 6 times a week (MON-SAT) |
| Editor-in-chief | Karl Tschuppik |
| editor | Emmerich Békessy |
The hour was an Austrian daily newspaper that appeared from February 2, 1923 to March 11, 1938. The editor was Imre Békessy . The editorial office and the publishing house were in the publishing house Canisiusgasse 8-10, 1090 Vienna. The newspaper was printed by Johann Nepomuk Vernay Druckerei- und Verlags AG and the owner was Kronos-Verlag AG .
The daily newspaper was Austria's first tabloid . She introduced a new style in headline design, exhibited restless upheavals, and made extensive use of photos and illustrations. Accordingly, the newspaper had a small amount of text, which again included little politics but a lot of gossip. There was also a large share of advertisements. The concept was successful and the newspaper advanced to become one of the highest-circulation newspapers in Vienna, which had a lasting impact on the local press.
The newspaper is best known to posterity through the violent arguments between Karl Kraus and the publisher Imre Békessy, who Kraus was able to prove that he was fraudulent and extorted.
history
The newspaper was founded in 1923 by Imre Békessy , also Germanized Emmerich Békessy, who fled Hungary in 1918 . As a classic tabloid in today's sense, the newspaper brought stylistic and conceptual innovations to the Austrian press landscape. In terms of content, the paper showed great ambivalence from the start , as it was lurid and aggressive on the one hand, and liberal, progressive and anti-nationalistic on the other.
After Békessy was charged, he sold the newspaper and emigrated. The shares of the owner of the hour - Kronos-Verlags AG were transferred in 1926 to a consortium under the leadership of Vernay AG . The former head of the official news office, Hofrat Josef C. Wirth , was his successor as publisher . The newspaper continued to exist until 1938 when it was discontinued by the National Socialists.
Content and editorial policy
The newspaper had the typical characteristics of a tabloid such as a low proportion of text and a high proportion of images, as well as a low proportion of politics and a high proportion of gossip. The newspaper, which was geared to the interests of the “little man”, was often in line with social democracy, as it was also directed against political and economic exploitation. Nevertheless, Békessy obviously tried to find quality employees when putting together the editorial team. So he recruited Karl Tschuppik , the former editor-in-chief of the prestigious Prager Tagblatt , as editor-in-chief of the New Day .
Political Direction
The hour dealt with international issues in a relatively extensive manner and advocated better understanding among European nations in order to secure peace. The newspaper was therefore turned against nationalist currents and so the party program of the German National in was hours sometimes simply as "cretinism", and after the Hitler / Ludendorff coup attempt of 1923, the newspaper ran the headline already too late: Germany's most terrible disaster begins . The newspaper also advocated the eight-hour day and the lifting of the abortion ban.
Well-known employees of the newspaper were the editor-in-chief Karl Tschuppik, Egon Friedell , Anton Kuh , Erik von Krünes , Alexander Sandor Nadas and, at times, Billy Wilder .
Tabloid and criminal manifestations
The other side of the newspaper was an aggressive and lurid tone and a permanent campaign against the Vienna Sittenamt , against whose snooping the newspaper allegedly opposed, but actually itself violated the privacy of the allegedly protected persons in the reporting. The newspaper was therefore repeatedly confiscated.
For Karl Kraus , the newspaper was, according to Germanist Klaus Amann, the “epitome of a pornographic bandit paper and 'brothel journalism'; he calls it not an opinion but a 'sexual organ' ”.
“The 'Hour' is waging a relentless battle against police spying on private life. She advocates that people live their lives, and attributes it to the increasing provincialization of Vienna that the sexual act is interrupted by organs other than the certified informers of the ›hour‹. "
According to Kraus, he invested around 6,700 hours in research in order to prove Békessy blackmail, fraud, perjury , forgery of documents and defamation and demanded "Get out with the villain". Although Kraus' allegations were mainly related to Békessy, he also attacked the employees of the paper who apparently cooperated with Békessy - above all the editor-in-chief Tschuppik, who in his position was responsible for dubious work practices and articles. Tschuppik turned against Békessy late and left the newspaper in 1926. Békessy also left the newspaper in 1926 after the extortion allegations against him became more concrete and charges were brought against him. He returned to Hungary and later emigrated to the USA.
literature
- Klaus Amann: The poets and politics. Essays on Austrian literature after 1918. Edition Falter / Deuticke, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-85463-119-7 , pp. 34–37.
- Anton Kutschera: The lesson under the direction of its editor Emmerich Bekessy. A contribution to the study of the inflation press in Austria . Dissertation. University of Vienna, Vienna 1952.
- Helmut W. Lang (Ed.): Austrian Retrospective Bibliography (ORBI). Row 2: Austrian Newspapers 1492–1945. Volume 3: Helmut W. Lang, Ladislaus Lang, Wilma Buchinger: Bibliography of Austrian newspapers 1621–1945. N-Z. Edited at the Austrian National Library. KG Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-23385-X , pp. 290-291.
Web links
- Editions digitized by the Austrian National Library : The Hour (online at ANNO ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.oeaw.ac.at/cgi-bin/cmc/wz/nam/00488
- ↑ Buchforschung.at (PDF; 206 kB)
- ↑ oeaw.ac.at imprint information
- ↑ a b Amann: The poets and politics. Essays on Austrian literature after 1918. 1992, p. 35.