Meininger Tageblatt

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Meininger Tageblatt
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description German daily newspaper
publishing company Meininger Mediengesellschaft mbH (MMG)
First edition July 2, 1849
Frequency of publication working days
Sold edition 9112 copies
( IVW 2/2020, Mon-Sat)
Editor-in-chief Walter Hörmann
editor Meininger Mediengesellschaft mbH
Web link www.insuedthueringen.de
ZDB 1191236-4

The Meininger Tageblatt (MT) is a daily newspaper for the city of Meiningen and the old district of Meiningen . The sold circulation is 9112 copies, a decrease of 45.6 percent since 2001.

The publisher and editor of the newspaper is Meininger Mediengesellschaft mbH (MMG). The Meiningen media company and the editorial team are based in Meiningen. The newspaper is printed in a printer in Würzburg-Heuchelhof . There is an editorial cooperation with the Suhler daily newspaper Freies Wort . The newspapers Meininger Tageblatt, Free Word (FW) and Südthüringer Zeitung (STZ) have a joint website with inSüdthüringen.de .

history

First published until the ban in 1936

As early as July 2, 1849, the first edition of the Meininger Tageblatt appeared three times a week. The first publisher was the Hofbuchdruckerei FW Gadow & Sohn. In the following decades the paper developed into the most widely read newspaper in the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen . In 1863 the format was enlarged and from then on it appeared daily except Sundays and public holidays. At the same time, the sheet becomes an indicator for Meiningen and the duchy. In 1867 the publisher Hermann Marbach took over the newspaper, whose family continued the Meininger Tageblatt until 1936. During the fire in Meiningen in 1874, the publishing house was completely destroyed. The inauguration of the new building took place on August 7, 1875 at the same location.

From 1879 the newspaper appeared daily, including Sundays and public holidays. In 1889 the format was initially enlarged to 29 by 41 centimeters and in 1891 to 35 by 53 centimeters. In 1890 the first multi-colored advertising inserts and graphics were introduced. In 1903 pictures and entertainment supplements followed. In 1914, a modern rotary press took over printing, producing 5,000 newspapers per hour. After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, most of the independent daily newspapers in Germany were banned, so the Tageblatt had to be closed on September 30, 1936 after 88 years. After the fall of the Hitler regime, Meiningen was in the Soviet occupation zone and belonged to the GDR from 1949 , so that the newspaper could not be published again.

Re-establishment

After the freedom of the press was granted in the GDR during the fall of the Wall in 1989/1990, the Meininger Tageblatt was the first new or revived free daily newspaper in Thuringia. Newly founded by the journalist Siegfried Herzog, it appeared again for the first time on February 20, 1990 and immediately found a large readership. The first editor-in-chief was Ulrich Lutz. From February 20, 1990 to May 31, 2001, the publisher was the Gesellschaft für Werbung, Presse und Vertrieb mbH (WPV) Meiningen . The managing directors were Siegfried Herzog and Bernd Schachenmayer.

Newspaper head from 2003 to 2016

On June 1st 2001 the publishing house Meininger Mediengesellschaft mbH (MMG) was founded, which from then on publishes the Meininger Tageblatt. At the same time, the Meininger local editions of the Meininger Tageblatt and the newspaper Freie Wort merged and published an identical Meininger local edition in both newspapers by December 2002. An editorial cooperation between the two newspapers has been taking place since January 2003 , which includes the mutual acquisition of articles and entire pages in print and online and the joint production of the newspaper initially under the name of Freie Wort Meiningen / Meininger Tageblatt . At the same time, the publication of the main edition of Freie Wort with a Meiningen local section in the old district of Meiningen was stopped. In April 2003 the name was changed to FW Meininger Tageblatt .

Since April 1, 2016, the newspaper title has been Meininger Tageblatt again . The newspaper was printed from 1990 to 2010 in Nüdlingen near Bad Kissingen (until 2005 in Berlin format , then in Rhenish format ), and from 2010 to 2017 in the Erfurt printing center . The Tageblatt has been produced in Würzburg since April 2017 .

As part of the ceremony for the 30th anniversary of the re-establishment of the Meininger Tageblatt on January 24, 2020 in the Meiningen Volkshaus , the Federal Ministry of Finance presented the 95-cent special stamp "Freedom of the press" with State Secretary Sarah Ryglewski .

editor

The first publisher was the Meininger Hofbuchdruckerei FW Gadow & Sohn from 1849 to 1867 . Then until 1936 the publisher Hermann Marbach sold the Meininger Tageblatt. From 1990 to 2001 the newspaper was published by the Society for Advertising, Press and Sales mbH (WPV) Meiningen . Since 2001 the publisher has been Verlag Meininger Mediengesellschaft (MMG), in which Verlag WPV mbH in Meiningen and Suhler Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co.KG (SVG) in Suhl held a 50 percent stake. In 2010 the Upper Franconian media group took over the share from the UPU.

Edition

The Meininger Tageblatt has lost a lot of its circulation in recent years . The number of copies sold has fallen by an average of 2.5% per year over the past 10 years. Last year it decreased by 3.9%. It currently amounts to 9112 copies. The share of subscriptions in the circulation sold is 93.7 percent.

Development of the number of copies sold

Publishing and editing

  • Managing Directors: Pierre Döring, Tobias Konrad
  • Editorial management: Ralph W. Meyer, Marko Hildebrandt-Schönherr (deputy)
  • Local editorial offices:
  • Offices
    • Meiningen, Neu-Ulmer-Strasse 8a
    • Wasungen (Service Point), Untertor 1

Local pages

Side dishes

The "Meininger Heimatklänge" (history reports from the region), "Spektakel" (program information from the Meininger Theater ), the "Liftfaßsäule" (monthly cultural preview of the region) and the weekly television magazine rtv appear as supplements in the Meininger Tageblatt at regular intervals .

swell

  • History section: Meininger Tageblatt, “150 Years of Tradition”, special edition June 1999 and FW Meininger Tageblatt, edition of February 20, 2010.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to IVW ( details on ivw.eu )
  2. ↑ inSüdthüringen.de, imprint
  3. ↑ Meininger Tageblatt, April 1, 2016 edition.
  4. ^ Federal Ministry of Finance - press releases special stamp "Freedom of the press".
  5. ↑ insuedthueringen.de Article: Deeply rooted in the region - 30 years of Meininger Tageblatt.
  6. ↑ Mediengruppe-Oberfranken Meininger Tageblatt.
  7. ↑ according to IVW ( online )
  8. ↑ according to IVW , second quarter 2020, Mon-Sat ( details and quarterly comparison on ivw.eu )
  9. ↑ according to IVW , fourth quarter in each case ( details on ivw.eu )