Emder Newspaper

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Emder Newspaper
Emder newspaper Logo.svg
description Subscription daily newspaper
language German
publishing company Emder newspaper publisher
Frequency of publication Monday to Saturday
Sold edition 8542 copies
( IVW 2/2020, Mon-Sat)
Editor-in-chief Axel Milkert-Lipperheide (provisional - ViSdP)
executive Director Michael Hinners
Web link www.emderzeitung.de
ZDB 2041896-6

The Emder Zeitung (from 1900 to 1975: Rhein-Ems-Zeitung ) is a daily newspaper that appears in Emden , East Frisia . Until April 2020 it was the smallest full newspaper in Germany. Since then, the cover section has been obtained from the Nordwest-Zeitung in Oldenburg. The circulation sold is 8,542 copies, a decrease of 22.8 percent since 1998. The newspaper is based on Ringstrasse in the administrative district in Emden.

distribution

In addition to the city of Emden, its distribution area extends to the communities Krummhörn and Hinte , parts of the communities Moormerland and Ihlow and the island of Borkum . According to its own information, it has a market share of 70 percent in the city.

Edition

The Emder newspaper , like most German newspapers in recent years to rest lost. The number of copies sold has fallen by an average of 1.7% per year over the past 10 years. In contrast, it rose by 0.7% last year. It is currently 8542 copies. The share of subscriptions in the circulation sold is 82.1 percent.

Development of the number of copies sold

editorial staff

For years, the Emder Zeitung was the smallest full newspaper in Germany. In other words , it produced all of the pages (including the so-called cover , i.e. the supra-regional section mostly supplied by news agencies) itself. Since 2020, it has been receiving the cover from the Oldenburger Nordwest-Zeitung. In the 1980s, the paper was the first nationwide newspaper to switch to electronic full-page make-up. This secured her special attention in the media for years, many delegations from other publishers (even from Asia) visited the Emder Zeitung to find out more about the working methods.

The name of editor-in-chief Herbert Kolbe , who took over the management of the editorial team in 1981 and retired at the end of December 2006 , is inextricably linked to these innovations . Kolbe had won the Theodor Wolff Prize in 1979, when he was still editor of the Neue Ruhr-Zeitung . Two editors of the Emder Zeitung who worked for the Emder Zeitung while Kolbe was editor-in-chief also won this award: Peter Intelmann in 1997 for a report about a night drive through East Friesland and Jens Voitel in 2006 for the description of the processes at the district court of Emden , for the he looked over the shoulders of the servants and the accused for a week.

Holdings

Nordwest-Medien GmbH & Co.KG (Oldenburg), which in Oldenburg also owns Nordwest-Zeitung , is the majority owner of Emder Zeitung GmbH & Co.KG as well as Emder Zeitung Vertrieb GmbH ( both Emden). Both are listed as "subsidiaries" in the consolidated financial statements.

Publishing products

The Emder Zeitung publishing house also publishes various advertising papers ("Heimatblatt", an advertising paper that appears every Wednesday; "Sonntagsblatt", an advertising paper that appears every Saturday), which are also distributed in the Aurich and Wittmund districts .

history

The Emder Zeitung was founded in 1900 under the name Rhein-Ems-Zeitung . The name of the newspaper refers to the Dortmund-Ems Canal , which was completed only a year earlier and which ultimately connects the Ems to the Rhine via canals in the Ruhr area . The canal was built to establish the port of Emden as the “Sea Gate of the Ruhr Area”, which it was for several decades - albeit not exclusively. In the city of Emden there was a spirit of optimism due to the expected and, by and large, increase in sea traffic due to the shipment of coal and iron ore. At the same time, foreign, non-East Frisian workers immigrated to Emden as a result of the construction of the canal - a circumstance that was intensified in the following years by the increasing industrialization of Emden.

The newspaper landscape of Emden was until then bourgeois shaped by the Ostfriesische Zeitung and the Emder Zeitung , which had nothing to do with the current Emder Zeitung. The Rhein-Ems-Zeitung, on the other hand, saw itself from the beginning as an organ for all the creative classes in the city. The then 45-year-old book printer Anton Gerhard (1855–1935), who had lived in Emden since 1876 and opened a small printing house in 1883, which among other things published a Christian weekly, saw a gap in it, including the craftsmen and (port) workers address to his newspaper. The first edition of the Rhein-Ems-Zeitung appeared on November 15, 1900. The popularity of the new newspaper , which was politically different in comparison to its competitors, was great enough to change the publication mode as early as the turn of the year 1900/1901: the Rhein-Ems-Zeitung henceforth appeared as a daily subscription newspaper.

Gerhard quickly gained new employees for his newspaper in East Friesland, some of whom were already working in similar companies in Westphalia , the Rhineland and Hanover . Wolff's Telegraphic Bureau ensured the supply of supraregional news . The number of subscribers had risen to around 500 in March 1901, around four months after the first edition appeared.

In the course of the unrest after the First World War , a workers 'and soldiers' council was also formed in Emden . A delegation of the same appeared on November 11, 1918 in the publishing house to request the publisher to serve as a body of the council in future. It finally happened. The Rhein-Ems-Zeitung traded from now on for some time as "Official organ of the Workers 'and Soldiers' Council". The phase did not last long, however, as the Workers 'and Soldiers' Council subsequently dissolved.

During the Weimar Republic, the Rhein-Ems-Zeitung remained true to its liberal to left-wing liberal line. In addition to the well-known competitors from the conservative camp, OZ and EZ , there was also the Volksbote published by Hermann Tempel , who later became a Social Democrat member of the Reichstag , and from 1932 also the Ostfriesische Tageszeitung , the East Frisian NSDAP organ.

" Oops, now I'm coming! “Was the headline of the Rhein-Ems-Zeitung on January 31, 1933, one day after Hitler was appointed Chancellor , referring to the popular hit by Hans Albers at the time . The newspaper, which was close to the DDP , saw itself exposed to the hatred of the local NSDAP not only since this headline - later described as a “stroke of genius”. In the first few months after the “ seizure of power ”, despite pressure from the local NSDAP, she stayed with her line of accepting advertisements from Jewish business people. On April 24, 1933, a group of NSDAP supporters finally appeared in front of the publishing house, shouted slogans and threw stones. The SA, which appeared a quarter of an hour later, asked the publisher Franz Gerhard to meet several demands of the NSDAP, otherwise they could not guarantee the protection of the publishing staff from the crowd gathered outside. The publisher then gave in to the demands. The new editor-in-chief was the founder of the Emden NSDAP, Folkerts, who had previously completed an editorial traineeship at the right-wing conservative Emder Zeitung .

The 1935 order of the Reichsleiter for the press to merge smaller publishers took the Nazis in Emden as an opportunity to close both the Rhein-Ems-Zeitung and the Emder Zeitung . Editing and technology were transferred to the newly founded newspaper der Ostfriesen in 1936 , which subsequently continued to exist as the second daily newspaper alongside the party organ, but had to cease publication in 1941 as a result of the war. The only newspaper in Emden that appeared continuously from 1933 until the end of the war in 1945 - albeit at last irregularly and often only as an emergency edition - was the party organ OTZ .

After the Second World War , the East Frisian press was reorganized, as the Allies had come to the conclusion well before the end of the war that the media had played a decisive role in the implementation of National Socialist ideology. For Ostfriesland, where at that time the daily newspaper was still the most important because it was the only medium of local reporting, this meant that all local newspapers were initially banned and had to cease to appear. This naturally affected the NSDAP newspaper Ostfriesische Tageszeitung . The Ostfriesen newspaper, which was discontinued in 1941 for reasons of supply, and its two predecessor newspapers , Rhein-Ems-Zeitung and Emder Zeitung , were also banned. The only medium was initially the Allied bulletins, later Official News , in which political parties, business associations and churches were gradually given editorial space. The first independent daily newspaper in north-west Germany was the Nordwest-Zeitung in Oldenburg , founded in 1946 , which appeared twice a week with news only for the East Frisian area. In addition, from April 1947 there was the social democratically oriented Nordwestdeutsche Rundschau in Wilhelmshaven , also with supplements exclusively for East Friesland. The first daily newspaper licensed by the Allies, which also appeared in East Frisia, was the Leeraner Ostfriesen-Zeitung , which had no historical predecessor. The long-established daily newspapers remained banned until the Federal Republic of Germany was founded, although the Allies made no difference which political orientation the newspaper had before January / March 1933. The Rhein-Ems-Zeitung only appeared again in September 1949 after the Basic Law was passed and the Federal Republic was founded. Today it operates under the name Emder Zeitung .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to IVW ( details on ivw.eu )
  2. ↑ according to IVW ( online )
  3. ↑ according to IVW , second quarter 2020, Mon-Sat ( details and quarterly comparison on ivw.eu )
  4. ↑ according to IVW , fourth quarter in each case ( details on ivw.eu )
  5. ↑ List of award winners on www.bdzv.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 3, 2012.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.bdzv.de  
  6. ↑ Article and justification at www.bdzv.de , accessed on March 3, 2012.
  7. ↑ www.bundesanzeiger.de
  8. ↑ 100 years Rhein-Ems-Zeitung / Emder Zeitung 1900–2000. Anniversary supplement of the Emder Zeitung, November 18, 2000, p. 65 ff.
  9. ^ So Walter Deeters: History from 1890 to 1945. In: Ernst Siebert, Walter Deeters, Bernard Schröer: History of the city of Emden from 1750 to the present. (East Frisia in the protection of the dike, vol. 7). Verlag Rautenberg, Leer 1980, DNB 203159012 , p. 243.
  10. ↑ 100 years Rhein-Ems-Zeitung / Emder Zeitung 1900–2000. Anniversary supplement of the Emder Zeitung, November 18, 2000, p. 14 f.
  11. ^ Inge Lüpke-Müller: A region in political upheaval. The democratization process in East Frisia after the Second World War. (Treatises and lectures on the history of East Frisia, Volume 77). Verlag Ostfriesische Landschaft, Aurich 1998, ISBN 3-932206-11-8 , p. 243. In the following Lüpke-Müller: A region in political upheaval.
  12. ^ Lüpke-Müller: A region in political upheaval. P. 239, judged that the local newspapers "had discredited themselves through their role as an important propaganda medium of the National Socialists" and refers, among other things, to some articles in the Ostfriesischer Kurier published in Norden , but above all to the Wittmunder Anzeiger for Harlingerland . The Anzeiger , in particular , had already distinguished itself during the Weimar Republic through NSDAP-friendly reporting, as Lüpke-Müller elsewhere ( The district of Wittmund between monarchy and dictatorship . In: Herbert Reyer (Hrsg.): Ostfriesland between republic and dictatorship . Ostfriesische Landschaftliche Verlags- und Vertriebsgesellschaft, Aurich 1998, ISBN 3-932206-10-X , passim .). In her judgment, however, she had disregarded the role of the Rhein-Ems-Zeitung as the liberal local newspaper for Emden, which was in clear opposition to the NSDAP until it was forced to join forces.

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Coordinates: 53 ° 22 ′ 3.1 ″  N , 7 ° 11 ′ 57 ″  E