Nürtinger Stattzeitung

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Nürtinger STATT newspaper
Logo of the Nürtinger STATTzeitung
Area of ​​Expertise Instead of newspaper for Nürtingen
language German
First edition Print edition July / August 1980, online edition July 15, 2004 to February 2020
Frequency of publication on-line
editor Association of the Stattzeitung for Nürtingen
Web link Nürtinger STATT newspaper

The Nürtinger STATTzeitung was an online city newspaper and a Stattzeitung for Nürtingen . From 1980 to 1993 it was published and sold monthly in print. It appeared online from 2004 to 2020. It saw itself as a self-managed newspaper project. In the founding statute it says: "The Nürtinger STATTzeitung sees itself as an opposition newspaper to the ruling politics and opinion". The name refers to the oppositional stance of the opposing public as well as the reference to Nürtingen. As a participatory newspaper, it presented local politics, culture and social manifestations. It was a platform for other clubs and groups in Nürtingen. Like similar city magazines, it attached great importance to an overview of events. In 2006 she was awarded the "Alternative Media Prize" in the Internet category.

history

Beginnings

The club of the Stattzeitung für Nürtingen was founded in 1980. The sheet was printed until 1993 and sold at the weekly market and in pubs.

The Nürtinger STATTzeitung emerged from the "Nürtinger Blättle" published by the Nürtingen youth center . The "Nürtinger Blättle" existed since September 1979 and saw itself as the "mouthpiece of the Nürtinger Alternative-Kulturscene" (NAKS). In the last edition of "Nürtinger Blättle" there was a call for a new alternative publication project, a Stattzeitung:

“There are numerous groups and people working on problems and possible solutions. Some look hopefully at Nicaragua and realize that there is a lot going on for good (did?). Only with us does everything stay the same, a lot of the bad. Women are oppressed, children abused, nuclear power plants built, old people uprooted through resettlement, the state protected from the citizen, the unadjusted psychiatricized, books banned, workers raped on assembly lines, etc. We think we should look for new things together and try to do more to become. To be effective, we need to find ways to work together. That is why we propose to start a newspaper project with the following purpose: - forum for discussion by groups working in different directions, - organ to clarify left positions, with the aim of developing a common perspective, finally - gathering and organizing the various critical ones Forces to further disseminate critical positions and to develop units of action at the communal level in order to help the knowledge and skills of individuals to be fully effective. "

As a result, fifteen interested parties came together on April 16, 1980, mostly between the ages of 20 and 30. This starting group summarized its intention in the draft statute: " The 'Nürtinger Stattzeitung' sees itself as an opposition newspaper to the prevailing politics and opinion ". The creation of the Nürtinger STATTZeitung can be classified in the course of the new social movements .

At first, the Nürtinger STATTzeitung was just an onlooker in the local council. In the course of time, the Nürtinger STATTzeitung managed to get a seat at the press tables, as well as the receipt of press invitations, press releases from the city and the documents to prepare for the municipal council meetings.

Editorial work in the print era

Every month the volunteers produced a newspaper edition that consisted of an average of 32 pages. At times the editorial team consisted of up to twenty members, young women and young men. For some, this time-consuming work was the main occupation in certain life situations such as unemployment or a relaxed study phase. The newspaper was designed and designed in DIN A3 format. The printer then reduced it to A4. The first layout table consisted of a fruit crate with a glass top and a light below it. Later the editorial team worked on two self-made light tables, at which two pages could be laid out, as well as in a darkroom, initially in the Silberburg restaurant, which is run on a voluntary basis according to the concept of the "pub collective", and later in the parents' house a member of the editorial board. The printed pages had to be folded, folded, and then stapled by hand. The print run of the first edition was 801 copies, " one for the protection of the constitution " was added as a comment. From July / August 1982 the editors reduced the circulation to 550 copies. The print edition was distributed by volunteer members of the editorial team at schools, at events and at the weekly market in the pedestrian zone. At the beginning, a newspaper edition cost 1 DM. Three years later it cost 2 DM.

Part of the movement

The Stattzeitung in the early years not only reported on events, but also saw itself as an active “part of the movement” and “a bit of a fun guerrilla”. Some newspaper makers were involved in squatting and in the organization of peace and anti-NPD demonstrations. After a report on deficiencies such as mold growth in apartments in Grötzinger Strasse in the Oberensingen district, which the city had allocated to the financially weak, the editors brought the topic up in local council meetings. Through actions that are not exclusively to be regarded as fun guerrilla , she played a significant role in the formation of opinion in Nürtingen, which in the print era prevented the planned nuclear bunker in Nürtingen by a referendum on March 16, 1986. But even in the online era, for example, she played a part in the fact that the Monsanto / Pioneer tests at the Nürtingen-Geislingen University of Economics and Environment with transgenic maize varieties and broad-spectrum herbicides with the active ingredient glyphosate were discontinued at the Tachenhausen estate under the name Roundup .

Basic democratic editorial meetings

The STATT newspaper editorial team already worked in the print era on a grassroots basis . Responsibility in terms of press law changed in the rotation process. In the online era, decisions were also made on a grassroots basis. Every member of the editorial team had the right of veto . However, there was a person responsible in terms of press law. Author abbreviations were generally used instead of the full names of the authors.

Alternative reporting consciously

The first print edition showed an occupied house, the so-called Villa Melchior, which later became the Nürtingen Free Art School. In the December 1988 edition, the Stattzeitung expressed that it had stood out from the mainstream in Nürtingen from its own perspective and, in retrospect, cited numerous examples of alternative reporting. The Nürtinger STATTzeitung uncovered the role of council member Walter Staffa as a right-wing extremist networker in the print era. She also commented on this in the online era, as did Peter Härtling . Thaddäus Kunzmann's views mentioned in the Nürtinger STATTzeitung also met with nationwide protests in 1986, for example in " Die Zeit ": " Shortly afterwards, the district chairman of the Junge Union in Esslingen, Thaddäus Kunzmann,“ spread about the arrogance of Israel, our democratic constitutional state for them To blame Jewish murders in the Third Reich. ”“ Der Spiegel ”also reported on it. A year earlier, Thaddäus Kunzmann's STATTzeitung in Nürtingen was " sharply attacked " for reporting on a similar topic . The Nürtinger STATTzeitung later presented this as follows: " At an event with the former concentration camp inmate Otto Wisst, he made a statement. In an interview with the STATTzeitung, Otto Wisst later said:" If I just think of one boy, it was provocative it said .... They can turn such people into an SS again tomorrow. That would be the first to volunteer ". That was published as a quote. Thaddäus Kunzmann said that was slander! As a member of the Junge Union, which was a member of the Stadtjugendring (SJR), he called for the SJR Should stop the financial support of the STATTzeitung. There was a discussion at the Stadtjugendring, in which the STATTzeitung made it clear: "That is quoted and that is freedom of the press." The STATTzeitung continued to receive financial support from the Stadtjugendring. "The special subject catalog of the STATTzeitung included 1981 the NPD state party conference in the Nürtingen town hall and the Nürtingen "peace demonstration". Other major issues in the 1980s were the new town hall ("Palazzo Prozzo"), the protest against a planned Neckar sludge dump on the nearby Hörnle (Swabian Alb) , requesting advice from Pro Familia in Nürtingen, and the census in the Federal Republic Germany 1987 as well as right-wing radical events in Nürtingen, which also affected the municipal council (Walter Staffa, Rolf Kosiek).

Relationship to the local daily newspaper and city representatives

The Nürtinger Zeitung felt that the Stattzeitung was “ insubordinate competition ” in the 1980s . On the other hand, the Nürtinger STATTzeitung saw itself as a " journalistic corrective " for reporting in the Nürtinger Zeitung with its integrated official gazette. Letters to the editor that did not appear in the Nürtinger Zeitung because they were rejected by the then editor-in-chief Günter Schmitt, or that appeared there in an abridged or modified form, were often printed by the Stattzeitung in their original version. Every now and then the STATTzeitung published so-called "Schmitt'ser" from the Nürtinger Zeitung, the term "Schmitt'ser" referred to the last name of the editor-in-chief at the time. When Dr. Rolf Kosiek had been dismissed from the civil service and thus from the teaching position at the then Fachhochschule in Nürtingen in 1980 because his right-wing extremist activities became known in the relevant places and were rated there as no longer tenable, the Nürtingen STATT newspaper Günter Schmitt criticized that he As editor-in-chief of the Nürtinger Zeitung, in his article about this case, "left no doubt " as to "to whom his sympathy and sympathy belong ". The Nürtinger STATTzeitung also met with criticism that another editor of the Nürtinger Zeitung had demanded, of all things , in relation to Rolf Kosiek: " The radical decree must go! ". The STATTzeitung raises the rhetorical question as to whether the competing newspaper reports on the occupational ban of a communist candidate for teacher training through the radical decree with the same " human touch " and " equally vehement words against the practice of occupational prohibition ". In the course of time, the Nürtinger STATTzeitung gave up publicly criticizing the Nürtinger Zeitung and tried rather to act according to the journalistic principle: " Never scold other newspapers, do it better! " Walter Staffa during his lifetime is Dr. Rolf Kosiek is a right-wing extremist networker in Nürtingen. He is one of the few right-wing extremists affected by the radical decree. In 2005, the Nürtinger STATTzeitung summed up its changed relationship with city representatives and the Nürtinger Zeitung: " Some of the images of the enemy from earlier have been defused. The city representatives have become closer to the citizens and have lost their arrogance, and the Nürtinger Zeitung has also moved a bit away from reporting on the court. " In 2016, the Nürtingen STATTzeitung presented photos from ten years of online photo gallery in the Nürtingen town hall in the photo exhibition STATTbilder, and Mayor Claudia Grau welcomed the vernissage. According to the description of the exhibition, the photos showed " a loving, profound and astute view of Nürtingen ". The photo exhibition was named by the Nürtinger Zeitung as " The perspective of the alternative ".

Online era from 2004 to 2020

In 2004, an editor decided to revive the Nürtinger STATTzeitung online. It did so on July 15, 2004. The editorial meetings were held once a week and were open. In February 2020, the Nürtinger STATTzeitung said goodbye to its readers in its online offer.

The logo of the online era goes back to a lettering from the print era and contains the animated figure Kilroy was here or Mr. Chad meaning "Kilroy is watching you", which draws attention to facts and grievances as well as unexpected omnipresence.

Pricing structure

While the print editions were still sold for DM 1 to DM 2, the online offer was free thanks to the voluntary work and the lack of printing costs.

Award

In 2006, the Nürtinger STATTzeitung received the Alternative Media Prize "in the Internet section. Criteria were:" Extraordinary, using other ways than the mainstream, committed, critical, not populist ". The laudation held padeluun .

Supraregional importance

Copies of the print version of the Nürtinger STATTzeitung are stored in the journal database (ZDB) of the Berlin State Library and the German National Library . The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung stores all copies of the print era, some of which are also archived in the Württemberg State Library and in the "Archive for the History of Resistance and Labor" in Berlin. In 2006 the Nürtinger STATTzeitung received the "Alternative Media Prize" in the Internet section, which is awarded by the Nuremberg Media Academy, now the Journalist Academy Foundation . In a Seydlitz geography book by Schroedel Verlag, the dispute about the establishment of the Hugo Boss company in Nürtingen and Metzingen is illustrated, among other things, based on a text from an article in the Nürtinger STATTzeitung about the municipal council meeting on May 6, 2008 as an example of land use conflicts in of the Stuttgart region.

Local archiving

An indexed complete edition of the printed newspapers is made available in the Nürtingen city archive. The digital legacy of the online presence is preserved offline.

literature

  • Marion Tichy, Manuel Werner: The Nürtinger STATTzeitung, in: Gabriele Hoofacker: Citizens Media, New Media, Media Alternatives, 10 Years Alternative Media Prize , Munich 2009, pp. 51–60.

Press

  • Uwe Gottwald: " The perspective of the alternative. Exhibition by the Nürtingen Cultural Office with photos from ten years of the Stattzeitung's online gallery ", in: Nürtinger Zeitung from February 19, 2016 [1]

Web links

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Thomas Hauptmann: History of the Nürtinger STATTzeitung, Part 1: The emergence of a different public. In: Nürtinger Stattzeitung. June 20, 2009, accessed February 27, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Thomas Hauptmann: History of the Nürtinger STATTzeitung, Part 2: Alternative news. In: Nürtinger Stattzeitung. November 1, 2010, accessed February 27, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Manuel Werner: First trial against "field liberators" in Baden-Württemberg. In: Nürtinger Stattzeitung. January 9, 2008, accessed February 27, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Thomas Hauptmann: Versatile criticism of GM maize cultivation. In: Nürtinger Stattzeitung. May 17, 2007, accessed February 27, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Manuel Werner: His 90th birthday: No clean bill for Dr. Walter Staffa. In: Nürtinger Stattzeitung. February 3, 2008, accessed February 27, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Manuel Werner: The first badges of honor of the city of Nürtingen. Critical premiere. In: Nürtinger Stattzeitung. June 30, 2008, accessed February 27, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Manuel Werner: The Nürtingen honorary citizen Peter Härtling comments. Clear words on the award of the Nürtinger Badge of Honor to Dr. Walter Staffa. In: Nürtinger Stattzeitung. June 21, 2008, accessed February 27, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Robert Leicht: The taboo breaks. Anti-Semitism speaks up again. In: time online. February 14, 1986. Retrieved February 27, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Dirk Koch: Only political power in mind. SPIEGEL editor Dirk Koch on the new audacity under Chancellor Helmut Kohl . In: Der Spiegel . No. 6 , 1986, pp. 26, 27 ( Online - Feb. 3, 1986 ).
  10. ↑ Manuel Werner: One year old! Stattzeitung celebrates exuberantly. In: Nürtinger Stattzeitung. July 17, 2005, accessed February 27, 2016 .
  11. ^ Exhibition of the Statt-Zeitung. In: Esslinger Zeitung. February 15, 2016, accessed February 27, 2016 .
  12. ↑ http://www.ntz.de/nachrichten/kultur/artikel/die-perspektiven-des-alternativen/ Uwe Gottwald: " The perspective of alternatives. Exhibition of the Nürtinger Kulturamt with photos from ten years of the online gallery of the Stattzeitung ", in: Nürtinger Zeitung from February 19, 2016
  13. ↑ Editor: "Bye STATTzeitung!" In: Nürtinger Stattzeitung. February 12, 2020, accessed February 14, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Manuel Werner: "Kilroy was here". The story of the "green man" that keeps appearing in the header of our STATTzeitung. In: Nürtinger Stattzeitung. January 2, 2012, accessed February 27, 2016 .
  15. ^ Padeluun : Laudation for the 2006 award winners. Internet section. 3rd prize nuertinger-stattzeitung.de. (PDF; 11.5 kB) In: Website of the Alternative Media Prize. 2006, accessed February 16, 2020 .