Kieler Rundschau

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The Kieler Rundschau (KR) was a regional German weekly newspaper for Schleswig-Holstein . It appeared with an initial print run of 10,000 copies on October 23, 1980 and was then published on Thursdays until the summer of 1988.

history

The newspaper was initially published by the Initiative für Pressevielfalt , founded for this purpose in 1979 , which wanted to compete with the KR as an “independent weekly newspaper for Schleswig-Holstein” against the diversity of Springer in the state and against the local monopoly since 1968, Kieler Nachrichten . The concentration of media on the newspaper market at that time was also viewed as critical from a constitutional point of view. The first editor-in-chief consisted of Jens Reimer Prüß , Jürgen Bischoff and Harald Breuer .

From mid-January 1981 the Kieler Rundschau GmbH (later Kieler Rundschau GmbH & Co KG ) , founded on December 3, 1980, took over the publication of the newspaper. Petra Bauer became the first KR managing director. After recurring economic difficulties, 80 percent of the Kieler Rundschau was sold in the summer of 1986 to the Hamburg private man Matthew J. MacDonald and the Kieler Winfried Bartnick, head of Semmel-Verlachs , whose new publisher Neue Kieler Rundschau Verlagsgesellschaft mbH took over the publication of the paper from then on .

Starting in 1987, an attempt was made for eight months - again with a new shareholder and editor-in-chief Tom Janssen - to “give the KR, which was once socially liberal, a new image. But also a 'red-green' KR with a boulevard outfit was not accepted by the Schleswig-Holstein readers ”. The bankruptcy estate was taken over by an advertising clerk from Lübeck, under whose direction the KR appeared as an advertising paper for a few months.

The start-up capital was raised by potential readers (largely from the environment of the SPD, which was politically opposed at the time ) by subscribing to shares in the publishing house. Long-standing KR employees included Werner Knobbe (temporarily managing director and editor-in-chief) and Hans-Peter Bartels .

Following the example of the Kieler Rundschau , similar newspapers such as the Hamburger Rundschau , the Karlsruher Rundschau , the Heidelberger Rundschau or the NaNa - Hannoversche Wochenschau were founded in other cities . In addition to these newspapers, the KR also worked with Flensborg Avis .

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literature

References and comments

  1. ↑ apart from two zero numbers in March and September 1980
  2. ↑ Kieler Rundschau , November 27, 1980, p. 16
  3. ^ Until 1968 there was also the Schleswig-Holsteinische Volkszeitung
  4. ↑ In a KR interview in 1980 Günter Grass spoke of a constitution being broken every day at the kiosk due to market dominance [ Kieler Rundschau , November 27, 1980, p. 15] and in 1982 the former judge of the Federal Constitutional Court Martin Hirsch questioned the control function of the press, if Unrivaled newspapers claim to have the sole truth (kick-off event for the founding of the Karlsruher Rundschau ; [ Kieler Rundschau , May 19, 1982, p. 2])
  5. ↑ Kieler Rundschau , December 11, 1980, pp. 1 and 20
  6. ↑ Jörg Feldner: Kieler Rundschau: The capital cover was always life-threateningly thin. The paper no longer belongs to the readers . In: die feder , August 1986
  7. ↑ Janssen had previously worked for the taz (regional editorial office Hamburg) and after his flying visit to Kiel went to the Hamburger Morgenpost , cf. Marco Carini : Farewell to a journalistic veteran . taz.nord, October 18, 2007
  8. ^ Jürgen Oetting: Kiel media spectacle . In: taz (Hamburg edition) . March 18, 1988.
  9. ↑ Of which only the Hamburger Rundschau survived the KR for several years, the Karlsruher Rundschau appeared for just under one and three quarters of a year, the NaNa for barely a year