East Frisian courier
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| description | German daily newspaper |
| publishing company | Ostfriesischer Kurier GmbH & Co. KG |
| First edition | July 2, 1867 |
| Frequency of publication | Monday to Saturday |
| Sold edition | 11,046 copies |
| ( IVW 2/2020, Mon-Sat) | |
| Editor-in-chief | Heidi Janssen |
| executive Director | Charlotte Basse (from 2004), Victoria Basse (from 2007) |
| Web link | ostfriesischer-kurier.de |
The Ostfriesische Kurier (OK) is an East Frisian daily newspaper rich in tradition , which is based in the city of Norden , and appears from Monday to Saturday in Berlin format . The sold circulation is 11,046 copies, a decrease of 26 percent since 1998.
history
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The company's founder, Diedrich Gerhard Soltau (born November 30, 1836 - March 17, 1894) received a business license from the city of Norden on January 21, 1861. A few years later, Soltau received the concession to publish a newspaper in return for a deposit of 2000 gold thalers. On July 2, 1867, the first East Frisian Courier appeared . In 1868 Soltau founded the bathing newspaper there on the island of Norderney, opposite the city to the north .
In 1922, the founder's sons divided the company into Otto G. Soltau ( Norderneyer Badezeitung ) and Heinrich Soltau ( Ostfriesischer Courier ).
After much turmoil in the war and the Nazis' co-ordination with the press, the Ostfriesischer Kurier did not appear in the years 1945 to 1949, but only again afterwards, after freedom of the press had been established in autumn 1949.
Dietrich Gerhard Soltau died in 1953 after a long illness. Thereupon his wife Irmgard, née Lattmann, from Goslar, took over the responsibility for the publishing house with 64 employees at the time. After her death in 1973, the management of the company went to her eldest daughter Ursula Basse-Soltau (1928–2017) and the publishing director Heinrich Siever. He left the Ostfriesischer Kurier in 1976 and became managing director of the Ostfriesen-Zeitung in Leer.
The termination of the Emder Zeitung's wage printing plunged the company into an existential crisis between 1979 and 1981. After the newspaper printing plant there was destroyed in the course of the bombing of Emden in 1945, Norder Verlag had completely focused on newspaper production. Around a third of the 100 Norder employees worked on the Emden contract in 1979. In June 1981 the last Emder newspaper was printed in Norden.
In 1981 Christian Basse (1954–2018) joined the company's management as a member of the fifth generation. In December of that year, the publishing house sold its properties in the city center and built a modern printing and publishing house in the Leegemoor industrial park in the south of the city. Since then, supra-regional marketing has been taking place under the Soltau-Kurier-Norden logo and under the new name of SKN Druck und Verlag GmbH & Co.
Ostfriesische Pressedruck GmbH was founded in 1985 with the participation of SKN in Emden. In addition to the Ostfriesischer Kurier, the Emder Zeitung was printed there again.
In 1998, SKN left the Ostfriesen-Zeitung in Leer as a partner. The remaining OZ shareholders decided in principle against newspaper printing in East Friesland and outsourced the printing of the newspapers to Oldenburg.
In the years 1999 to 2001 the print shop of Ostfriesische Pressedruck GmbH in Emden was expanded with a volume of 25 million DM. In May 2001 an issue of the Ostfriesischer Kurier appeared for the first time consistently in the 4c Euroscale.
In 2005, SKN took over the shares in the company Dunkmann from Aurich in Ostfriesische Pressedruck GmbH. The publishing and title rights to Norderneyer Badezeitung were bought back in 2011 by SKN Druck und Verlag in Norden.
After Christian Basse's death, the management is in the hands of his daughters Charlotte Basse and Victoria Basse, who have been members of the management since 2004 and 2007, respectively.
Cooperations
Nordwest-Zeitung in Oldenburg provides the supraregional cover of the newspaper . In addition, the courier cooperates with the neighboring newspapers Ostfriesen-Zeitung and Anzeiger für Harlingerland .
distribution
The Ostfriesischer Kurier appears in the city of Norden / Ostfriesland. Today, the Kurier is the most widely read daily newspaper in the city as well as in parts of the former northern district and has a sold circulation of 11,046 copies. Places that belong to the main distribution area of the courier are: Norden , the islands of Juist and Baltrum , the municipalities of Großheide and Dornum and the joint municipalities of Hage and Brookmerland . On the island of Norderney , however, the subsidiary newspaper Norderneyer Badezeitung is the leading publication in terms of circulation, in the communities of Krummhörn and Hinte it is the Ostfriesen-Zeitung . In the Norderland , i.e. the listed municipalities without the Krummhörn and Hinte, the courier claims a market share of 90 percent.
The editorial office of the courier is in the north. SKN maintains a customer center in the pedestrian zone in the north of the city. The "OK" is published by Ostfriesischer Kurier GmbH & Co. KG, which belongs to the publishing house SKN Druck und Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, which also publishes the monthly Ostfriesland Magazin as well as numerous books with regional reference and is also active in contract printing ( Printing in the Emden district of Constantia ). The initials SKN stand in the company name for the words "S" for Soltau (name of the company founder), "K" for Ostfriesischer Kurier (oldest product of the company) and "N" for north (company headquarters).
Edition
The East Frisian courier , like most German newspapers in recent years to rest lost. The circulation sold has decreased by an average of 2.2% per year over the past 10 years. Last year it decreased by 3.3%. It is currently 11,046 copies. The share of subscriptions in the circulation sold is 86.6 percent.
Development of the number of copies sold
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ according to IVW ( details on ivw.eu )
- ↑ a b ostfriesischer-kurier.de: History , accessed on January 5, 2016.
- ↑ a b c skn.info: Company history ( Memento from October 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ according to IVW , second quarter 2020, Mon-Sat ( details and quarterly comparison on ivw.eu )
- ↑ 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 )