New Era (Graz)

The New Times from 1945 to 2001, the Social Democratic newspaper of Styria . She joined the legacy of the 1890 to 1934 existing sheet Arbeiterwille on.

history

The Neue Zeit appeared for the first time on October 27, 1945 as a weekly newspaper. It had been on the market as a daily newspaper since January 1, 1946. The last edition is from April 29, 2001.

Die Neue Zeit, or NZ for short, was affected by the general decline of the party press in Austria in the 1960s and 1970s, to which, for example, the Styrian ÖVP newspaper Südost-Tagespost fell victim in 1987. However, at the end of the 1980s, the NZ managed to break away from its close dependence on the SPÖ . The experiment, which was started in July 1987 as an independent left-liberal newspaper owned by the employees, worked very well for a short time (in 1991 the circulation was around 70,000 copies). The NZ survived the central organ of the SPÖ, the Arbeiter-Zeitung , by at least 10 years, but ultimately also failed because of economic realities. According to a press release by the Association of Austrian Newspapers on April 11, 2001, the Graz Regional Court opened the bankruptcy of the daily newspaper. The Alpenländischer Kreditorenverband commented: "After the press funding was recently cut at the federal level and canceled at the state level, the company had been lacking any liquidity for a long time. This was compounded by declining sales figures, with 'Neue Zeit' recently having around 16,000 subscribers and approx . 80,000 readers should have. " The increase in paper prices and postal rates also created financial burdens. The difficult situation also caused significant wage arrears to accumulate among staff. Publisher and editor-in-chief Josef Riedler tried in vain to ensure that the regional newspaper, which had previously been declared dead several times, would be published again.

Editors and employees

• Atha Athanasiadis , later editor-in-chief of NEWS
• Heinz Brantl , election campaign strategist and left-liberal thought leader of the SPÖ
• Johannes Frankfurter , musicologist and critic
• Hans Hellmer , culture editor
• Günther Horvatek , who later became a politician and member of the Styrian state parliament, was a reporter and freelancer from 1963 to 1975
• Harald Kaufmann , music researcher and critic
• Dietmar Polaczek , composer and later Italy culture correspondent for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
• Günther Nenning , publicist and civil rights activist
• Gerhard Roth , writer, worked for the paper for many years in his youth
• Josef Riedler , editor-in-chief from the 1970s
• Alfred Seebacher-Mesaritsch , editor, writer, local historian

literature

• Josef Riedler: The history of the NZ. In: Franz Ivan, Helmut W. Lang, Heinz Pürer (eds.): 200 years of daily newspapers in Austria. 1783-1983. Festschrift and exhibition catalog. Austrian National Library et al., Vienna 1983, p. 223ff.
• Thomas Steinmaurer, Elfriede Scheipl: Concentrated and interwoven. Austria's media system at a glance (= contributions to the media and communication society. Vol. 10). Studien-Verlag, Vienna et al. 2002, ISBN 3-7065-1755-8 , p. 17.

Web links

• Entry on Neue Zeit (Graz) in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Annual review 2001 VOEZ

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Annual review 2001 VOEZ ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ Gottfried Krieger: A pioneer of music journalism in Austria. On the life and work of Harald Kaufmann (1927–1970). In: Austrian music magazine . 7/8, 2010, pp. 4–12.