Hagener Volksblatt

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The Hagener Volksblatt ( original spelling : Hagener VolksBlatt: monthly newspaper for Hagen ) was a left - alternative newspaper for and from Hagen with monthly publication, founded in 1976 .

background

The Westfälische Rundschau , which belonged to the Deutsche Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft (DDVG), was sold in 1975 to the WAZ , which had also taken over the Westfalenpost . Both newspapers were founded in 1946. At the Westfalenpost, there had been wild strikes in the printing plant in June 1975 .

Citizens of the city, who feared a monopoly of the local newspaper market, therefore founded an association on June 28, 1976, which aimed to promote the "material and personnel requirements of an entrepreneur-free newspaper". The founders included the political scientist Bernhard Sanders and Jörg A. Hoppe , who was studying social pedagogy at the time and living in shared apartment B 56 . He made his address available as a means of contacting the newspaper. Sanders was responsible for the advertising section of the newspaper, the editor in charge was Werner Weiß. At the beginning about 80 people participated in the newspaper.

The newspaper wanted

“(...) to be primarily a local paper that names Hagener problems. The Hagener VolksBlatt wants to bring the information that the Hagener daily press withholds or misrepresents. (...) The Hagener VolksBlatt is a newspaper that is non-party, but takes sides. "

- Hagener VolksBlatt: Monthly newspaper for Hagen, Volume 1, No. 0, November 1976, page 1

Work on the newspaper took place in the back room of the Im Fäßchen restaurant on Wilhelmsplatz in Wehringhausen, where the participants of the initiative met on Tuesdays. Among them was Kay-Oliver Schlasse , who starred as a draftsman. All worked on a voluntary basis . Layout and content were in cask developed together and in the residential communities of actors involved "with Letraset , rapidograph and Fixogum glued". The newspaper offered citizens' initiatives and self-help organizations a platform to present their goals. They included the Association for the Promotion of Adventure Playgrounds, the Oedeweg Playground Initiative, the Haspe Urban Development Project, Alcoholics Anonymous and Amnesty International .

The first edition ("Nullnummer") appeared in November 1976 with an edition of 5,000 printed copies. The declared goal was to ensure that the publication was published eight pages per month. It was distributed through sales at the weekly markets in the city center and in the districts of Wehringhausen , Haspe , Altenhagen , Boele and Vorhalle , as well as at selected other locations and at larger kiosks . The price was initially 50 pfennigs per issue, by the time the paper was discontinued in 1982 the price had doubled.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Hagener Volksblatt, issue 0, November 1976
  2. ↑ Hagener Volksblatt, Edition 0, November 1976, page 6
  3. ↑ Hagener Volksblatt, issue 2, January 1977, page 8
  4. ↑ Article Citizens make their own newspaper by Bernhard Sanders, doppelwacholder.de, accessed on January 28, 2020
  5. ↑ Heike Wahnbaeck (Ed.): Come to Hagen, become a pop star, make your fortune! ... dare to build the future out of turn. Catalog for the exhibition in the Osthaus Museum Hagen August 31 to September 23, 2018, 1st edition Essen 2018 (July), page 176 ISBN 978-3-8375-2011-8
  6. ↑ Anna Daniel, Frank Hillebrandt (ed.) Praxis der Popmusik: Sociological Perspectives , page 191