North Sea Newspaper
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| description | German daily newspaper |
| publishing company | Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH |
| First edition | 1866 |
| Frequency of publication | Monday to Saturday |
| Sold edition | 47,773 copies |
| ( IVW 2/2020, Mon-Sat) | |
| Editor-in-chief | Christoph Linne |
| Web link | www.nordsee-zeitung.de |
The Nordsee-Zeitung (NZ) is the only local daily newspaper in Bremerhaven . In the district of Cuxhaven there is also the Cuxhavener Nachrichten in the north and the Osterholzer Kreisblatt in the south . The sold circulation is 47,773 copies, a decrease of 36.4 percent since 1998.
history
Johann Bohls and AE Lachmann founded the Nordsee-Zeitung in 1866 in Geestemünde on the Lower Weser. The bourgeois-liberal newspaper was sold in 1901 to the Provinzial-Zeitung of Geestemünde.
On June 25, 1895, the cigar manufacturer Wilhelm Schnibbe, the captain and director of the hiring office of North German Lloyd Carl Wiegand and the bank director Carl Schröder and 149 other partners founded the Bremerhaven newspaper in Bremerhaven for the Lower Weser region . On July 28, 1895, it was named Nordwestdeutsche Zeitung . Josef Ditzen , who was previously editor-in-chief of the Provinzial-Zeitung in the then independent Lehe , was appointed managing director of the later Nordsee-Zeitung on May 5, 1896 . It was politically non-partisan and liberal; and was called Nordwestdeutsche Zeitung - still in the subtitle today. Ditzen had already started working at the end of July 1895. On August 11, 1895, the first edition of the newspaper appeared with a circulation of 20,000 copies, which was distributed free of charge for seven weeks.
In 1900 she published the so-called Huns speech of Emperor Wilhelm II on July 27th in Bremerhaven to say goodbye to the German East Asian Expeditionary Corps to suppress the Boxer Rebellion in the Chinese Empire . The speech aroused considerable criticism internationally and in the German Reich . The print made the newspaper known in Germany.
In 1913 the publishing house bought the Unterweser-Zeitung and was now called Nordwestdeutsche Zeitung, Zeitungsverlag und Druckerei GmbH . The newspaper had a circulation of around 17,500 copies. In 1931 the son Kurt Ditzen took over the publishing house. The newspaper was now bourgeois / conservative with a circulation of around 21,500 copies.
On the occasion of the book burning in Bremerhaven on May 6th, 1933, four days before the actions in the Reich, the Nordwestdeutsche Zeitung presented itself to its readers on May 12th as a newspaper that “out of inner conviction fully supports Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler and the national movement ”. She also indicated that "her capital was never in Jewish or foreign hands and [...] there was never a Jew among the editors, employees and workers".
Since 1935 Ditzen was personally liable partner of the Nordwestdeutscher Verlag Ditzen & Co KG. In 1937 Ditzen joined the NSDAP . During the Second World War , parts of the company were relocated to Wremen and to Hafenstrasse 140 in Bremerhaven-Lehe . The last edition of the newspaper appeared on May 7, 1945.
After the war, publisher Kurt Ditzen was not given a license to publish a newspaper due to his membership in the NSDAP from the military government in the American occupation zone . Ditzen leased the business for five years to the Nordsee-Zeitung, newly published in October 1947 by license holders Bruno Stöwsand and Walter Gong . After Ditzen was classified as exonerated in the denazification process in 1948 , he took over the publishing house again in 1949. Stöwsand remained editor-in-chief until 1957 and was then publishing director and member of the newspaper's management until 1975.
From September 1949 until the beginning of the 1970s, the Nordsee-Zeitung worked together with the civil Bremer Nachrichten . For a while the newspaper appeared in Bremen under the title "Bremer Nachrichten mit Nordsee-Zeitung".
Joachim Ditzen-Blanke - Kurt Ditzen's adoptive son - became a co-publisher in 1965 and sole publisher in 1982. From 2000 until her death in January 2012, his wife, Roswitha Ditzen-Blanke, was the sole publisher.
From 1967 to 1982 Rudolf Dahmen, as editor-in-chief of the Nordsee-Zeitung, shaped the style of the daily newspaper as a non-partisan newspaper. In 1971, the publisher Ditzen-Blanke and the editor-in-chief Dahmen signed long-term technical and editorial cooperation agreements with the newspaper publishers in Nordenham , Bremervörde , Zeven , Otterndorf and Cuxhaven as well as with the Stader newspaper publisher ( Stader Tageblatt , Buxtehuder Tageblatt and Altländer Zeitung ).
The course for corporate succession had been prepared since 2002. Since 2007 Matthias Ditzen-Blanke has been responsible for essential parts of the company at Ditzen GmbH & Co. Under his leadership, the innovative design and implementation of the North Sea printing center took place in 2007, and the editorial organization was reorganized in 2008 with the introduction of the new page and page concept. Since the death of Roswitha Ditzen-Blanke, he has been responsible as a publisher for the entrepreneurial orientation of the Ditzen Group's publishing houses and prepares them for the digital future.
From June 2005 to December 2014, Jost Lübben was editor-in-chief, who had worked for the Nordsee-Zeitung since 1984 and wrote his master's thesis in 1992 and his dissertation in 1998.
From October 2009 the Nordsee-Zeitung will appear in a layout that was developed by the qualified designer Peter Johansmeier.
In autumn 2013 the website of the Nordsee-Zeitung was revised, since then a paywall has ensured that a large part of the editorial content can only be read after paying a fee - even for subscribers to the printed edition.
With a much stronger focus on digital developments and innovative cross-media topics, NORDSEE-ZEITUNG filled the position of editor-in-chief. Since January 2015 Christian Klose has held the position of Dr. for NORDSEE-ZEITUNG, Kreiszeitung Wesermarsch and Zevener Zeitung. Jost Lübben taken over. Klose continued to convert and expand the modern regional newspaper with a sub-local focus and a general editorial office, especially in the digital environment. At the end of September 2017, Klose moved to Heilbronner Demokratie as deputy editor-in-chief .
On November 1, 2017, Christoph Linne succeeded Christian Klose as editor-in-chief.
During the time of the coronavirus pandemic, "the Nordsee-Zeitung reinvented itself for readers and with this in mind also reorganized the reporter teams". The newspaper was "adapted to the changed conditions and needs". In the second part of the newspaper a "large package of topics" was offered, "which shed light on the effects of the health crisis specifically on the region". Under the title "Blickwinkel" there were also tips from experts, stories about everyday heroes and important service information. "All further events on site, in town and country" were reported in the third part of the newspaper - not completely sorted and without the interesting contributions of the freelance workers from the municipalities of the district. "Overall, we always have in mind to offer you ... many articles ... that are primarily entertaining, provide variety and with which you can get other thoughts."
Edition
The Nordsee-Zeitung , like most German newspapers in recent years to rest lost. The number of copies sold has fallen by an average of 2.7% per year over the past 10 years. Last year it decreased by 4.6%. It is currently 47,773 copies. The share of subscriptions in the circulation sold is 86.8 percent.
Development of the number of copies sold
North Sea editorial group
The press house of the Nordsee-Zeitung in Leher Hafenstrasse houses the editorial team of the NZ as well as the “Redaktionsgemeinschaft Nordsee”, which produces the cover pages for six other local newspapers in the Elbe-Weser triangle , namely: Bremervörder Zeitung (Bremervörde), Cuxhavener Nachrichten (Cuxhaven ), Kreiszeitung Wesermarsch (Nordenham), Niederelbe-Zeitung (Otterndorf), Stader Tageblatt (Stade) and Zevener Zeitung (Zeven).
Subsidiary or sister papers of the Nordsee-Zeitung are the Zevener Zeitung and the Kreiszeitung Wesermarsch (Nordenham). The sheets are produced in the Nordsee printing center, which produces other newspaper titles under contract printing, including the Cuxhavener Nachrichten . In the North Sea printing center (Am Grollhamm, next to the A27 motorway exit Geestemünde), around 100,000 newspapers are printed every night. The Cuxhaven News is the first to be printed. The Nordsee-Zeitung is the last sheet to leave the press - so it can be updated until midnight if necessary.
The Nordsee-Zeitung's Sunday journal ("Advertisement for Bremerhaven and the surrounding district"), which is independent of the Nordsee-Zeitung publisher , is also produced in the Nordsee printing center.
Press in Bremerhaven
NZ-Verlag and numerous other companies are owned by the Ditzen-Blanke family, who de facto have a monopoly on the media market in the seaside city of Bremerhaven . There were few other providers. A Bremerhaven edition of the Cuxhaven weekly newspaper "Elbe-Weser aktuell", which had been published for a good six months, was discontinued in 2000 after the Nordsee-Zeitung countered this edition with its own newspaper, the Bremerhavener Kurier, and the publishers of both papers agreed to stop both issues at the same time. On July 23, 2008, the Havenblatt was published for the first time by an independent publisher. The paper was discontinued after eleven issues.
North Sea printing center
The Nordsee printing center, Am Grollhamm, has been able to print four-color newspapers throughout since it went into operation on September 23, 2008.
At the beginning of the operation of this print shop, the supply in large parts of the district of Cuxhaven was initially disrupted: The Cuxhaven circular gazette was often not included with the paper or in the wrong number. In the city of Bremerhaven, too, newspapers were sometimes only delivered around noon. The "starting difficulties in the North Sea printing center" were due to the fact that the cross-folding system shredded the paper webs, the data did not arrive at the machine that made the printing plates or "sheet damage was done" in the platesetter , the newspaper said. The imagesetters for the printing plates (from Krause-Biagosch GmbH) "are the world's first devices of this type in daily use".
Regional pages
In the Nordsee-Zeitung there is a daily Bremerhaven section and a district section. In the district of Cuxhaven , the Cuxhavener Kreisanzeiger has always been distributed daily as part of the newspaper. In the past, every Thursday subscribers alternated every two weeks in the northern district of Cuxhaven with the northern Cux and in the southern district with the southern Cux . Since March 17, 2009, the Cuxhavener Kreisanzeiger has been published daily in four versions: Northern Edition, Central Edition, Southern Edition and Bremerhaven Edition. The first circle indicator page is the same for the four issues - with important topics from the whole circle. On the following three pages, six half-pages report in the same place from the municipalities of Langen, Land Wursten, Bederkesa, Land Hadeln, Nordholz, Cuxhaven (city), Schiffdorf, Loxstedt, Beverstedt, Hagen, Osterholz district and Bremervörde district. The subscribers receive the news of their region and the neighboring regions.
This diversification is made possible by the technology of the Druckzentrum Nordsee. In the new printing machine, the printing plates can be exchanged very quickly and automatically for the next issue. This makes it possible to offer advertisers advertisements for a single region. On the adopted pages in the other regions, pictures or other articles can be found instead of the advertisements. The Bremerhaven subscribers who have not received a Kreisanzeiger so far will now also receive the Kreisanzeiger (Bremerhaven edition), which mainly contains the messages from the Kreisanzeiger Mitte edition. The regional pages of the South CUX and the North CUX are no longer produced.
At the beginning of October 2009, the regional pages were redesigned again: In the district part, only the first page is produced nationwide. The remaining four district pages are designed regionally for the integrated / unified communities . A year later, the editorial team wrote: “There was criticism that we were no longer being informed from all communities in the old Wesermünde district.” Therefore, the regional pages were adapted again; because "optimization is a process that never ends."
Pages of the district part from October 2, 2010 to April 8, 2013:
(each district of Cuxhaven on p. 1, district of Cuxhaven with reports from the communities that do not have a page of their own in the respective issue on p. 2)
City edition : Langen, Land Wursten, Schiffdorf, Loxstedt;
Northern edition: Langen, Nordholz, Land Wursten, Bederkesa;
Middle edition: Bederkesa, Langen, Schiffdorf, Beverstedt and
southern edition : Schiffdorf, Beverstedt, Loxstedt, Hagen.
Uniform district part from April 9, 2013:
In April 2013 the division of the newspaper into four issues was abandoned. "Now there is the entire district part in one issue - whether as a subscription or in retail." Since then, the newspaper has reported from the district on eight pages. The first of these pages reports on "topics from the Cuxland that affect everyone". The other seven pages report from eight (total) congregations - every day two congregations are summarized on one page. Every day, the editorial team decides which communities they are.
In this new design, customers in kiosks throughout the district will also receive the same issue. Before the new conception - regardless of the location in the distribution area - the city edition was always sold at the kiosk. The same applied to forwarding shipments. Here, too, from April 2013 the same newspaper will be sent out as the reader would have read at home. Former editor-in-chief Jost Lübben emphasized that with this adjustment, the print edition would reflect on its strength compared to the Internet and “provide information about life in the municipalities and districts. We are at home here and know our way around. ”That is why the Nordsee-Zeitung is focusing even more on local reporting.
See also
literature
- Nordsee-Zeitung - political and economic organ for Bremerhaven and the Lehe district. Bremerhaven 1947, September 20 ff.
- Jost Lübben : The Nordwestdeutsche Zeitung 1895 to 1933/45. Dissertation Uni Oldenburg, 1998. (Jost Lübben was editor-in-chief of the Nordsee-Zeitung until December 31, 2014.)
- Upheavals and turning points , 120 years of NORDSEE-ZEITUNG / Nordwestdeutsche Zeitung, ISBN 978-3-944552-80-4 , Carl Schünemann Verlag Bremen
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ according to IVW ( details on ivw.eu )
- ↑ The idea of the cigar manufacturer, in: Nordsee-Zeitung v. December 14, 2016
- ^ Harry Gabcke , 150 years of Bremerhaven 1827–1977, Nordwestdeutscher Verlag Ditzen & Co, Bremerhaven 1976. P. 74
- ↑ Sitting innocently . In: Der Spiegel . No. 53 , 1949 ( online - with quotations from the Nordsee-Zeitung).
- ↑ Arne Krone, Turbulent Birth of a Newspaper, Part 25 of the series “Pioneers of the Seaside City”, Nordsee-Zeitung from August 18, 2008
- ↑ Peter Johansmeier played a key role in shaping the appearance of the Nordsee-Zeitung from October 2009.
- ^ “Heilbronner Voice”: Christian Klose deputy editor-in-chief
- ↑ The editorial staff of NORDSEE-ZEITUNG
- ↑ "This is how we are reinventing ourselves for you", editorial by editor-in-chief Christoph Linne on March 18, 2020
- ↑ "This is how we are reinventing ourselves for you", editorial by editor-in-chief Christoph Linne on March 18, 2020
- ↑ according to IVW ( online )
- ↑ according to IVW , second quarter 2020, Mon-Sat ( details and quarterly comparison on ivw.eu )
- ↑ according to IVW , fourth quarter in each case ( details on ivw.eu )
- ↑ Scientific seminar paper on the editorial group Nordsee hausarbeiten.de
- ↑ Online offer of the Havenblatt ( Memento from February 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Nordsee-Zeitung , October 7, 2008, p. 11.
- ↑ The new dimension in newspaper production . Special supplement of the Nordsee-Zeitung , October 20, 2008
- ↑ a b Even closer to the reader. In: Nordsee-Zeitung , October 2, 2010, p. 25.
- ↑ a b c Everyone reads everything: Uniform district part. In: Nordsee-Zeitung , April 9, 2013, p. 17
- ↑ Change of editor-in-chief