Ordinari postal newspaper
| Ordinari postal newspaper
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| description | Bremer Zeitung |
| language | German |
| First edition | 1632 |
| Frequency of publication | weekly |
The Ordinaries Post newspaper was in 1632 in the wake of the general newspaper founded wave founded in Germany newspaper and the first newspaper of Bremen.
After initially changing titles, the title Ordinari Postzeitung prevailed in 1633 . The newspaper was published by a Bremen printer, some sheets are provided with the printer initials “JKo” or “JKö”. But it can no longer be clearly identified who it was; It was probably a member of the Köhler family, whose male relatives Jacob, Jost, Johan and Jasper all worked in the Bremen printing industry. The surviving copies were found in northern Germany, the news came from this area, the orientation was Pro-Swedish. All of this speaks for Bremen as the place of origin of the newspaper.
Editions have survived from the years 1632, 1633, 1635, 1637, 1638 and 1641. They were compiled by the Institute for German Press Research at the University of Bremen and are in the holdings of the State and University of Bremen, whose digital collections are available online here. The last surviving copy dates from 1641. It was not until 1694 that there was evidence of a newspaper in Bremen again. - The newspaper appeared weekly and had a length of approx. 4 pages.
Like the other early newspapers, the Ordinari Post newspaper was composed of reports from various locations that were sent to the printer. Most of the booklets thus contained reports on political and military events; Events that took place in other locations, but not in Bremen, as the reports came from outside. The publisher got his news mainly from Braunschweig , the Netherlands , Frankfurt am Main and Cologne , although reports are from more places. The trade barriers associated with the military events were of great importance not only for the city's merchants. The reports were listed in the order in which they were received by the printer and were passed unedited on to the reader.
literature
- Elger Blühm: A postal newspaper from the Thirty Years War. On the early history of the Bremen press. In: Heimat und Vokstum. Bremen contributions to Low German folklore. 1964/65, pp. 76-96.
- Else Bogel, Elger Blühm (Hrsg.): The German newspapers of the 17th century. An inventory. Bremen 1971, supplementary volume 1985.
- Holger Böning, Johannes Weber: The first newspapers in Bremen. In: Astrid Blome, Holger Böning (Ed.): New every day! 400 years of newspapers in Bremen and north-west Germany. Bremen 2005, pp. 27-29.
Web links
- The digitized "Ordinari Postzeitung" in the digital collections of the State and University Library Bremen .
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Holger Böning, Johannes Weber: The first newspapers in Bremen. In: Astrid Blome, Holger Böning (Ed.): New every day! 400 years of newspapers in Bremen and north-west Germany. Bremen 2005, p. 27.
- ↑ See Else Bogel, Elger Blühm (Hrsg.): The German newspapers of the 17th century. An inventory. Bremen 1971, supplement 1985, p. 81.
- ^ Elger Blühm: A postal newspaper from the Thirty Years' War. On the early history of the Bremen press. In: Heimat und Vokstum. Bremen contributions to Low German folklore. 1964/65, p. 90.