New Winterthurer Tagblatt
The Neue Winterthurer Tagblatt (NWT) was a daily newspaper in Winterthur . For 90 years, the liberal newspaper was the main competitor of the more democratically -minded Landbote . In 1968 it stopped being published in the 91st year.
history
The first edition of the newspaper, which in the early years was still called Winterthurer Nachrichten , appeared on May 11, 1868. From June 1, the Winterthurer Nachrichten appeared six times a week and went to battle against the undisputed number 1 in the city, the country messenger , who was criticized only too gladly by editor Gustav Friedrich Zscherzsche (1826–1880), rector of the Zurich industrial school , among others . It was published by the Lübeck typographer Johann Heinrich Westfehling-Ernst. He was secured by a subsidy company. Compliance with the political line was monitored by a seven-person committee, which included the politician and financier of the newspaper Eduard Sulzer-Ziegler . When the Liberals took power in the city after the national railway disaster, the newspaper became their mouthpiece. At that time it comprised six pages, half of which were editorial content and advertisements.
In 1890, after a change of publisher, the paper took on the name Neues Winterthur Tagblatt . Carl Täuber became the newspaper's first editor-in-chief. During his tenure, the paper was able to establish itself on the Winterthur square. Many contributions at this time appeared anonymously, including theater reviews by the writer Jakob Bosshart . Täuber resigned as editor-in-chief in 1897, and his successors were often involved in communal or cantonal politics for the liberals. The editors-in-chief included Oskar Reck , Hans O. Staub and Hans Zwicky . From 1920 to 1948 Hans Kägi (1889–1971) developed the feature section into an important pillar of the New Winterthurer Tagblatt .
In the 1960s, however, the paper ran into economic difficulties after it had decided in January 1963 as part of a relaunch to realign it as a tabloid . Mocked as “Eulach-Blick”, the editorial team was reduced from five to three editors two years later, and the then editor-in-chief Markus Gröber also had to resign. The other media on the Winterthur square commented with relish. The Winterthur AZ reported that the newspaper had lost face with it. As a result, the new editor-in-chief, Hans Rentsch, was charged with correcting the course that had previously been taken.
On May 1, 1967, the Neue Winterthurer Tagblatt appeared with a common headboard with the conservative Weinländer . However, this cooperation, which had led to tensions between Rentsch and the Weinländer editor-in-chief Erwin Akeret , could no longer save the paper. It ceased its publication on September 28, 1968 due to financial difficulties. It was the first of five newspapers that existed in Winterthur at the time and ceased to appear.
Editorial building
After the name change in 1890, the editorial staff of the paper first moved to the “Eggsche Haus” on Eulachstrasse (today Technikumstrasse, the house was demolished in 1937). Around the turn of the millennium, the seat was on the southern edge of the old town, in the building of the later bicycle dealer Hönes. With the growth, rooms on the church square were later occupied until a new editorial building was built on Archplatz during the First World War . The NWT stayed there until 1966/67, when the company was relocated to a new building in the Grüze under the name of Druckerei Winterthur . There, the newspaper was the first newspaper in Switzerland to be re- printed using the web offset process , a decision that turned out to be a financial mistake, as the printing company had previously financed the newspaper across the board. The printing of the newspaper was therefore relocated to the Konkordia printing works , the in-house printing of the Hochwacht , which competes with the newspaper, until the end of the publication .
literature
- Christian Jossi: From the liberal fighting paper to the “Eulach-Blick” . In: Winterthurer yearbook 2004 . Edition Winterthur Foundation, Winterthur 2003, p. 52-55 .
Web links
- New Winterthurer Tagblatt NWT in the Winterthur Glossary.