Munich church newspaper
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| description | Subscription weekly newspaper |
| publishing company | Saint Michaelsbund |
| First edition | January 5, 1908 |
| Frequency of publication | weekly |
| Sold edition | 17,379 copies |
| ( IVW 2/2020, weekly) | |
| Editor-in-chief | Susanne Hornberger |
| editor | Armin Wouters |
| Web link | www.muenchner-kirchenzeitung.de |
The Münchner Kirchenzeitung is the Catholic weekly newspaper in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising .
The owner and publisher of the 28-page weekly newspaper, published as a diocesan paper on behalf of the Archbishop's Ordinariate, is the Diocesan Association of the St. Michael Federation . The editor is Professor Armin Wouters . The church newspaper contains the Münchner and Rosenheimer Kirchenanzeiger as a supplement .
The content is about reporting on the life of the church - from the parish to the pope, with a special focus on the archdiocese as a distribution area, the classification of what is happening in the church and the world through commentary, faith and life support, culture, social affairs and service .
history
The first edition of the “Wochenblatt für die Catholic Pfarrgemeinden München” (weekly paper for the Catholic parishes of Munich), which was founded and published by the Munich city pastors - was dated January 5, 1908. What began on eight small pages grew and prospered - from July 1910 onwards Roof of the "Catholic Press Association for Bavaria", today's Sankt Michaelsbund. Soon there were the first photos and advertisements. From 1919 on, the paper was called the “Munich Catholic Church Newspaper”, and from 1935 it was the diocese paper for the entire Archdiocese of Munich and Freising. Formative figures of the first decades were the prelates Ludwig Müller and Simon Irschl , one of their most successful recruits the blessed Father Rupert Mayer .
During the Nazi era , the chief editor of the church newspaper and later prelate Michael Höck was interned for four years in the Dachau concentration camp because of his articles . After much harassment and problems with the delivery of paper, the church newspaper was no longer allowed to appear from 1940 to 1945. The approval number six of the military government's message control speaks for the trustworthiness of those responsible after the war. First there is the Bavarian poet Alois Johannes Lippl and the Salesian Father Edmund Johannes Lutz for a short time . But then soon after, and for a good 20 years, Monsignor Lorenz Freiberger , who uses his journalistic skills to bring the newspaper to the fore, and sometimes even turns it into a political talk of the day.
With the Second Vatican Council and its aftermath, social issues are becoming more important in the church newspaper. The self-image is also discussed more intensely. The independence necessary for good journalism on the one hand and the loyalty indispensable in the special context on the other hand have given the Münchner Kirchenzeitung a good reputation to this day. The MKKZ newspaper has been shortened since 1972, and its layout has become more detailed. Taking responsibility for a number of years Georg Thurmair , which until today has a name as a writer of hymns, and for a long time Hans-Georg Becker and Johannes Schiessl . Other names to be mentioned are: Karl Wagner , Hannes Burger and - even if only in the beginning - Herbert Riehl-Heyse .
Since 1991 the MKKZ has been called the Münchner Kirchenzeitung again. In 1997 color found its way for the first time, initially only on the cover, from 2000 on four pages and since 2008 on all pages.
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literature
- Irmgard Huber: History of the St. Michaelsbund 1934-1945. Term paper for obtaining the academic degree of a Magister Artium. 1985. LMU Munich, Institute for Communication Studies (newspaper studies).
- Johannes Schießl (Ed.): Visiting ... 33 portraits of celebrities in the Munich church newspaper. Verlag Sankt Michaelsbund , Munich 2003, ISBN 3-920821-33-5 .
- Johannes Schießl: Lines in Change. A journey through 100 years of the Munich church newspaper. In: Münchner Kirchenzeitung, issue 2 of January 13, 2008, pages 16 + 17.
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