Wheel world
Wheel world | |
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language | German |
publishing company | Strauss or Rad-Welt (Germany) |
First edition | 1895 |
Frequency of publication | daily / twice a week |
Editor-in-chief | Friedrich Mercks (1895–1900) Adolph Schulze (1902–1912) Fredy Budzinski (1912–1922) |
editor | Wheel world |
ZDB | 600091-5 |
The Rad-Welt was a cycling newspaper that was published in Berlin from 1895 to 1933 . In their weddings, it appeared six days a week during the summer season, with a circulation of 100,000.
history
newspaper
The first edition of Rad-Welt appeared on April 2, 1895 with a circulation of 30,000 copies. It was one of the first pure sports newspapers in the German Reich : Up until then, sports reporting took place mainly in daily newspapers , where usually only short notes and results were published.
The initiative to found the newspaper came from Reinhold Strauss, the owner of the Strauss book printing company. Numerous applicants responded to his job advertisement for an editor; the choice fell on Friedrich Mercks († 1911), owner of a bicycle repair shop in Bernburg and specialist in Gaus No. 18 (Magdeburg) of the German Cyclists' Association . After five years he left the newspaper and later became managing director of the Association of German Cycle Race Organizers . From 1902 Adolph Schulze (1852–1912) acted as editor-in-chief of Rad-Welt , until then editor of Schorers Familienblatt and Illustrierte Frauenblatt , previously a member of the criminal police . As a police officer, he had accompanied the emperor on trips abroad, which he reported in the book From the diary of a police officer . In 1905 he also founded the first sports press agency, Deutsche Sportkorrespondenz . After Schulze's death in 1912, he was followed by his deputy, Fredy Budzinski (1879–1970), as editor of the newspaper.
The Rad-Welt described itself as a “magazine for the general interests of cycling and automobilism” (this subtitle has been changed slightly over the years). The focus of the reporting was the bicycle, in its function as a sports device and as a means of transport. It saw itself as the "leading organ of the German-speaking cycling press" in fast and reliable reporting on cycling (initially mainly on the track ), but also on hiking and touring trips . From 1909, when the Berlin six-day race was held and thus the first six-day race in Europe, the coverage of this cycling spectacle took up more and more space, with these being shown hour by hour, which ensured good sales figures.
Measures hostile or friendly to cycling were reported, such as cycling bans on the one hand or the establishment of cycle paths on the other. Short stories, poems and jokes were also printed; there was the “mailbox” section, in which answers to readers were published, but not their questions. The newspaper also came up with tips on how to drive away dogs as a cyclist (with ammonia) or which clothing was practical and appropriate for women cycling.
Wheel racing sport of women, however, met with the refusal of the newspaper. Rad-Welt commented on an international match in Berlin between Germans and French : “Of the winners (sic!) Of the first Franco-German competition, we only list the first names here. In keeping with our principle of considering every person decent until proven otherwise, we assume that, despite the dubious enterprise, we are dealing with decent ladies whose families it cannot possibly be pleasant to have their names on the report be publicly named. "
In 1909 a dispute broke out between the race organizers and the professional racing drivers, which had arisen because of a driver's sanction for being pushed. In this "fight for the law", the cycling world sided with the racing drivers, who were finally able to assert their demands against the organizers. The Rad-Welt celebrated this as a success, other newspapers commented on this development critically, for example as a “lovely pile of manure” with “all the fragrances of Western Pomerania”. According to the magazine Rad und Auto, you have to be afraid to reveal yourself to better circles as a friend of cycling .
Initially, the topics of automobiles and motorcycles were covered in the cycling world . In 1899, for example, the newspaper reported on the first ride of an electric motor cab in Berlin. As motorized vehicles became more important, they took up less and less space in the cycling world , as independent publications on these topics were now appearing.
The Rad-Welt had correspondents abroad, in Austria, for example, one of them was Michelangelo von Zois . A GL von Welden reported from Paris, a Mr. Th. Gubler, a "senior teacher" by profession , from Basel . The reporting from Great Britain was in the hands of sports journalist Stella Bloch , while Christian Mayböll reported from Denmark. The Bayern correspondent was called Schmidt-Gummy von der Pegnitz . Other employees were Richard Braunbeck (brother of Gustav Braunbeck ), Paul Simmel and Max von Werlhof. Two employees - Eva von Kraatz and Elisabeth Krickeberg - provided translations and stories.
At times the bike world appeared with a daily circulation of 100,000 copies and held a monopoly position among the public interested in cycling. In 1900, the Rad-Welt was printed six times a week from April 1 to September 30, and twice a week from October 1 to March 31. A single issue cost 5 pfennigs, whoever subscribed to the newspaper for six months (January to June) and had it delivered paid one mark for the entire period. During the war years , Budzinski's cycling world was edited “from the field”, appeared twice a week - Wednesday and Saturday - and was sent to “thousands of cycling enthusiasts through the field post”.
Until 1922 the editorial and publishing house of Rad-Welt was located in SW Berlin at Lindenstrasse 16/17. The newspaper was produced in the Strauss printing house at the same address. Other publications by Budzinski such as the biographies of famous racing drivers appeared in the same publishing house . In later years he remembered “all typesetters who appeared slightly tarnished in the typesetting shop on Sunday evening to hand-type the Monday edition with which I went to the racing driver's café Josty at 2 o'clock in the morning , to the 'hero of the pedal' to deliver the latest news ”.
In the 1920s and the further emergence of spectator sports, the newspaper lost its outstanding importance, as there were now a number of sports newspapers on the market. In 1922 it was sold to the publisher Guido Hackebeil by the owner of the Strauss book printer "for a price for which a year later he couldn't even have bought a box of matches". Budzinski left the editorial office and switched to the association organ Bundes-Zeitung . The new subtitle of the newspaper was Rad-Welt mit Motoren-Welt. Official organ of the association Dt. Velodrome, the industrial ring for professional road cycling (Ibus) ...; Publication organ of the Association of German Motorcycle Racers . In 1933 the newspaper, the name of which had been modified several times, was discontinued. Reporting on cycling in the Nazi state was only to be carried out by the newspaper Illustrierter Radrenn-Sport , from 1935 the association organ Der Deutsche Radfahrer .
Sports album
From 1902 onwards, in addition to the current newspaper, the “ cycling yearbook ” sport album of the cycling world was published annually - probably on the initiative of Budzinski - in which the sporting events of the year were summarized. In particular, it was used to print numerous photos (which the term album indicates), which was hardly possible in day-to-day business due to time constraints.
The sports album mainly contained reports on cycling races , biographies of successful cyclists and statistics from last year's races. In the second issue there was a 50-page article by Michelangelo von Zois on the subject of "How do I become a racing driver". Some issues reported on the Gordon Bennett Cup as well as on motorcycle races, which were mostly held on cycle tracks . A permanent section of the sports album was entitled "The Dead of the Racetrack", which was characterized by "unctuous obituaries" like this on the occasion of the death of Thaddäus Robl :
What still shone
in the morning Sinks into the dust at sunset;
No one can escape fate,
the fastest racer is death! ''
In 1915, 1916 and 1917 the album was called the War Album of the Cycling World and many racing cyclists were shown in uniform. A double volume was published in 1918/19, and four years from 1924 to 1927 were combined in one volume. The last edition came out in 1929.
The texts and statistics published in the sport album are still used today as the (sometimes only) source for publications on cycling in the decades of its publication.
literature
- Renate Franz : Fredy Budzinski. Cycling journalist, collector and chronicler (= series of publications of the Central Library of Sports Sciences of the German Sport University Cologne . Volume 7 ). Sportverlag Strauss, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-939390-43-5 .
Web links
- Rad-Welt in the journal database of the German National Library
- Sport album of the bike world in the journal database of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eugen Wagener: Prehistory of the German sports press . In: Karl-Heinz Cramer (Ed.): Association of German Sports Journalists: Anniversary Book - 75 Years of VDS 1927–2002 . Jump 2002, p. 15 .
- ↑ slub digital: tourbook of the district # 18 (Magdeburg) of the German Federal Cyclist. .
- ↑ a b Sport-Album der Rad-Welt , 19th year, Berlin 1921, p. 94.
- ↑ Helmut Kümpfel: The idea of sport in the mirror of the German press . Phil. Diss. Munich 1949, p. 49 .
- ^ Franz, Fredy Budzinski , p. 17f.
- ^ Daniela Schaaf: The sexualization of sport in the media. Herbert von Halem Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-86962-301-6 , p. 60 ( limited preview in Google book search).
- ^ Franz, Fredy Budzinski , p. 26.
- ↑ Radfahr-Sport , February 24, 1899, p. 14.
- ↑ Sport-Album der Rad-Welt , 19th year, Berlin 1921, p. 101 f.
- ^ Franz, Budzinski , p. 17.
- ^ Franz, Fredy Budzinski , p. 37.
- ↑ a b Compare the information from the German National Library
- ^ Franz, Fredy Budzinski , p. 41.
- ^ Franz, Fredy Budzinski , p. 43.
- ↑ a b Franz, Fredy Budzinski , p. 20.
- ^ Franz, Budzinski , p. 21.