Moonlight tariff

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The moonlight tariff was a reduced fee for calling between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. It was introduced by the Federal Post Office in 1974 and abolished again in 1980. It caused temporary capacity bottlenecks. Linked to this is the memory of contemporary witnesses of standing in line in front of the telephone booths in the evening . Because of the rush, entire local networks could not be reached for a long time. “Speechless by the moonlight,” commented the Frankfurter Rundschau in 1979.

The official designation was "Night Fee I" or "Night Fee II". From a business point of view, it is a control model that influences the usage time. The tariff designation for telephone calls was later taken up again and was temporarily valid from 6 p.m. Among other things, the names Sunshine- and Moonshine rate was Ron Sommer , CEO of Deutsche Telekom , 1998, the award Sprachpanscher of the year . In a figurative sense, other evening or nighttime discounts are also granted at the moonlight tariff.

reception

The term had poetic connotations and is one of the few officially used terms that were immediately adopted in everyday language. It came from the Hamburg advertising agency Lintas , which also developed the slogan Ruf an , and has been included in the spelling dictionary since 1980 . Ildikó of Kürthys Roman Mondscheintarif in which the protagonist waiting for the call of her lover, was published in 1999 in the film version of 2001 led Ralf Huettner Director.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German Institute for Economic Research: weekly report. 1989, p. 122
  2. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, June 11, 2008, p. 1
  3. Telephone: Billions senselessly wasted . In: Der Spiegel . No. 37 , 1979 ( online ).
  4. 2nd Amendment Ordinance to the Telecommunications Ordinance of February 12, 1974 (Federal Law Gazette I No. 15 of February 19, 1974, p. 185ff), Annex 10 (p. 274)
  5. ^ Paul Kirchhof: Non-tax levies. In: Josef Isensee: Handbook of the constitutional law of the Federal Republic of Germany. 3rd edition, Heidelberg 2007, p. 1127
  6. Lothar Lemnitzer: From Aldians to Zauselquote. New German words. Tübingen 2007, p. 75
  7. Dietmar Bartz: Economy from A to Z. Frankfurt am Main 2002, p. 313
  8. Purely German. In: Der Spiegel , June 20, 1983, online
  9. ^ Ildikó von Kürthy: Mondscheintarif Rowohlt, Reinbek 1999, ISBN 3-499-23479-3 . As an audio book, read by Ildikó von Kürthy, Argon Verlag , Berlin, ISBN 978-3-86610-854-7