Obwalden weekly paper
| Obwalden weekly paper | |
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| description | Swiss weekly newspaper |
| publishing company | Neue Luzerner Zeitung AG |
| First edition | 1975 (until 1981 as D'r Lungerer ) |
| attitude | August 21, 2009 |
| Frequency of publication | friday |
| Sold edition | 4,389 (previous year 4,512) copies |
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| Widespread edition | 4,389 (previous year 4,512), large print run 14,316 (previous year 14,385) copies |
| (WEMF circulation bulletin 2009) | |
| Editors-in-chief | Gottfried Burch, Peter Ming, Ruedi Wyss, Gusti Demuth, Markus Villiger, Elisabeth Zurgilgen , Primus Camenzind |
The Obwalden weekly newspaper with the subtitle Independent Obwalden local newspaper was a Swiss newspaper in the canton of Obwalden . It was founded in 1975 and appeared in Lungern under the title D'r Lungerer until 1981 , then as the Obwalden weekly newspaper in Sarnen . In August 2009 it expired as an independent newspaper, but has since continued to appear as a special page in the local section of the Obwaldner Zeitung ( Neue Obwaldner Zeitung until September 2016 ).
history
The Lungerer newspaper pioneer Gottfried Burch (1897–1981) published the Brother Klausen calendar annually for decades and the village newspaper Der Lungerer Bote every week . His son Kari Burch later took over the publishing company, which was closed in 1973. At the beginning of 1975, the Giswil printer owner Josef “Sepp” Küchler enabled 78-year-old Gottfried Burch to start over. He founded a press association in Lungern and published the newspaper D'r Lungerer as a news paper for the upper part of the canton.
After the sudden death of Gottfried Burch in 1981, the newspaper was renamed Obwaldner Wochenblatt , and Peter Ming took over the editorial management. In the following year, Küchler Druck was able to take over the publishing rights for the 100-year-old local newspaper Der Obwaldner (formerly: Der Obwaldner Volksfreund ). With over 7,000 subscribers, the weekly newspaper had a monopoly in Obwalden for a long time. When the Luzerner Tagblatt ceased operations in 1992, the publishing rights of Josef Küchler went to the Luzerner Zeitung .
In 1993 the Obwaldner Wochenblatt merged with the Neue Obwaldner Zeitung . However, there was still its own editorial office in Sarnen, and the weekly was published as an independent newspaper on Fridays.
On August 21, 2009, the last independent edition of the newspaper appeared as No. 24 in the 35th year with a circulation of 4,584 copies. After that, the newspaper was shut down for economic reasons. Since August 26, 2009, the Wochenblatt no longer appears as a separate newspaper, but has been integrated into the Neue Obwaldner Zeitung (since September 19, 2016: Obwaldner Zeitung ). At the same time, the separate editorial office in Sarnen was dissolved. Since then, mostly on Wednesdays and Saturdays in the regional section of the newspaper, a page or two has the title “Obwaldner Wochenblatt”. The content of these pages does not come from the newspaper editorial office in Stans, but is submitted for publication by readers, associations, organizations and companies.
editorial staff
Editorial management:
- 1975 to 1981: Gottfried Burch
- from 1981 Peter Ming, then Ruedi Wyss and Gusti Demuth
- 1994 to 1998: Markus Villiger
- 1998 to 2001: Elisabeth Zurgilgen ; Zurgilgen also redesigned the weekly paper.
- 2001 to 2009: Primus Camenzind
Other employees among others:
- Sepp Reinhard , photographer
- Former pastor Karl Imfeld : columnist in the Obwalden weekly newspaper
- Romano Cuonz
- Melk von Flüe: Sports division; later editor-in-chief of the Obwalden and Nidwalden newspapers
Web links
- Title page from May 1, 2009 , an edition from the last year (PDF; 512 kB)
Individual evidence
- ^ WEMF circulation bulletin 2009 ( Memento of July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). P. 11 (PDF; 3 kB).
- ↑ a b Bea Zai: It all began in a Lungerer office - On our own behalf: To the last “Obwalden Wochenblatt” in its previous form. In: Obwaldner Wochenblatt. August 21, 2009, p. 4.
- ↑ Niklaus von Flüe : Obwalden , Section 5.4 Culture and Education. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- ↑ Portrait of Elisabeth Zurgilgen at Lava-Verlag (PDF; 363 kB).
- ↑ Obwaldner Wochenblatt is discontinued. In: advertising week. July 9, 2009.
- ↑ Imprint of the edition of March 16, 2007 , accessed on January 29, 2017.