New Austria

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Issues of Neues Österreich on a flea market (2011)

Das Neues Österreich was an Austrian daily newspaper that was launched as an "organ of democratic unification" by the founding parties of the Second Republic ( ÖVP , SPÖ and KPÖ ). The except Monday published daily leaf was - after the Red Army issued as of 15 April 1945 Army Group Newspaper Austrian newspaper - the first daily newspaper that before the official end of the war was published on 23 April 1945th

Its prominent editors included Leopold Figl and the popular actor Paul Hörbiger . The communist Ernst Fischer was its first editor-in-chief , deputy editors-in-chief were Paul Deutsch (SPÖ) and Leopold Husinsky (ÖVP) In 1947, Ernst Fischer left the newspaper, who was accused of being politically too left-leaning editorial management.

The paper operated successfully for many years and achieved print runs of up to 200,000 copies. The Sunday edition was particularly popular with its extensive feature section and extensive advertising supplement. For a number of reasons, including the tobacco shop ban on Sundays and a price increase that did not allow competitors to keep up, the newspaper began to suffer financially in the early 1960s. It was sold in 1963 to a private publisher owned by Fred Ungart, which, however, could no longer prevent the circulation from shrinking. On January 28, 1967, the "New Austria" was discontinued. Its last editor-in-chief was Anton Fellner .

A large number of well-known personalities emerged from the editorial staff of New Austria. Thomas Chorherr switched to the press and became editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper of the same name, Ernst Wimmer , who later became the chief ideologist of the KPÖ , moved to the Volksstimme , Anton Fellner was head of the "Religion" department at ORF from 1975 to 1990, Elfriede Hammerl is a multiple award-winning journalist and author.

Employee

• Hellmut Andics , editor
• Otto Basil , culture editor 1948–1964
• Dolores Bauer , editor
• Thomas Chorherr , local journalist
• Barbara Coudenhove-Kalergi
• Anton Fellner , editor-in-chief 1964–1967
• Ernst Fischer (writer) , editor-in-chief until 1947
• Rudolf Kalmar junior , editor-in-chief 1947–1956
• Kuno Knöbl
• Friedrich Lorenz , editor-in-chief from 1956
• Theodor Ottawa
• Hermann Josef Ullrich , music critic 1946–1967
• Hans Weigel , theater critic
• Siegfried Weyr
• Ernst Wimmer
• Elfriede Hammerl

Web links

• Editions digitized by the Austrian National Library : Neues Österreich (online at ANNO ).
• 66 historical newspaper articles on "we congratulate".

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Franz Grössl: The reconstruction of the Austrian People's Party press. In: Heinz Pürer (ed.). The Austrian daily press. Past present Future ; a documentation of lectures of the symposium "200 years of daily newspaper in Austria". Board of Trustees for Journalist Training, Salzburg 1983, p. 92.