Salzburger Volkszeitung

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Salzburger Volkszeitung
Salzburger Volkszeitung, Logo.png
description Austrian daily newspaper
publishing company SVZ GmbH & Co KG
First edition 1865
attitude 2014
Frequency of publication every day except Sunday
Sold edition 8,500 copies
(Industry estimate)
Editor-in-chief Konnie Aistleitner
editor Martin Aistleitner
Web link svz.at (offline)

The Salzburger Volkszeitung  ( SVZ ) was the smallest daily newspaper in Austria with an estimated circulation of 8,500 copies . In March 2005 the SVZ was sold by the ÖVP Salzburg to the Upper Austrian Aistleitner group of companies. Until then, it was one of the last Austrian daily newspapers to be party-owned. It appeared daily from Monday to Saturday and served the city and state of Salzburg with its reporting .

The Salzburger Volkszeitung was cooperative members of the Austria Press Agency .

history

1865 to 1945

The paper was founded in 1865 by representatives of the Catholic Church under the title “Salzburg Chronicle” . From 1882 the newspaper appeared daily. After 1900 the Catholic press association in Salzburg took over the publication of the newspaper, which gradually managed to assert itself in the competition on the regional newspaper market. The position of the Salzburger Chronik in 1934 was about as strong as that of its social democratic counterpart, which was banned during the time of Austrofascism .

On the night of 11 March 12, 1938, stormed Nazis before connecting the editorial offices of the newspaper in Austria. The Nazis continued to run the paper as the Salzburger Zeitung and the Salzburger Landeszeitung until May 1945 .

From 1945

After the end of the Second World War , the press association received permission to publish its newspaper again. The paper appeared under a new name on October 23, 1945 as the Salzburger Volkszeitung . The abbreviation SVZ has stood for this name since 1967. In 1968 the SVZ was with the Salzburger people messenger , the newspaper of the ÖVP - Farmers' Federation , collapsed and appeared as a weekly newspaper.

From November 3, 1971, the SVZ was able to appear again as a daily newspaper, but it had lost its editorial independence. As part of the newspaper ring of three ÖVP party newspapers, the SVZ, unlike many other papers, survived the decline of the Austrian party newspapers.

In cooperation with the Kärntner Volkszeitung and the Tiroler Nachrichten , the SVZ was produced in an editorial office in Klagenfurt . Every manuscript had to be transmitted to Carinthia at great expense. The printed edition (then eight large-format pages; from 1976: small-format) was then transported by truck over the night via Katschberg and Tauern to Salzburg.

The two sister newspapers in Tyrol and Carinthia were closed at the end of January 1990 due to financial difficulties. The SVZ could only be continued thanks to the special federal press funding introduced this year.

Since June 1, 1993, the SVZ has been produced in editorial cooperation with the Neue Volksblatt from Linz . Shortly before, the Klagenfurt SVZ editorial office had been closed. The majority of the newspaper was owned by the Salzburg People's Party and, along with the sister newspaper Neues Volksblatt from Upper Austria, was the only remaining newspaper of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) .

After the Salzburg VP's defeat in the state elections in March 2004, the SVZ had to make massive savings. The People's Party saw itself no longer in a position to cover the SVZ's deficit due to the lower party support. The federal government cut the newspaper's press funding in 2004 by around 300,000 euros to just under 1 million euros. The size of the newspaper was reduced from 32 to 24 pages. At the end of 2004, three of the nine editors were cut. Editor-in-chief Helmut Mödlhammer , local director Konnie Aistleitner and cultural director Ernst Strobl left the SVZ.

The paper entered into a far-reaching cooperation with the Volksblatt of VP Upper Austria. The areas of domestic and foreign policy were taken over directly from the New Volksblatt from Linz. The entire administration, including subscription and advertising sales, was also outsourced to Linz. The local, culture and sports departments remained in the Salzburg editorial team and were looked after by six editors (as well as interns).

From January 3, 2005, the newspaper was headed by Harald Haidenberger and appeared entirely in color with at least 24 pages (4c).

The last print edition was published on July 7, 2014. On that date the newspaper went bankrupt.

End of the party newspaper

The Salzburger Volkszeitung was sold on March 7, 2005 by VP Salzburg. The new owner is the Aistleitner Holding . This group of companies, based in Perg, is owned by Martin Aistleitner , who is a VP functionary in the Perg district party leadership . The chief editor of SVZ is the brother of the new owner, the former SVZ local manager, Konnie Aistleitner. According to the editor-in-chief's plans, the paper should be run as a local bourgeois daily newspaper. In order to get rid of the image as a party newspaper, the cooperation with the Upper Austrian Volksblatt (which is still owned by the ÖVP) was ended, writes the SVZ on its website. The newspaper is now produced entirely in Salzburg.

The last confirmed circulation figures came from the 2nd quarter of 2002. According to the ÖAK, the SVZ had a widespread circulation of 12,376 copies and a sold circulation of 10,167 copies, which, however, continued to decline afterwards. According to industry estimates, it recently sold around 8,500 copies a day, created by just under a handful of employees. This made the SVZ the smallest daily newspaper in Austria.

Employee

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Neues Volksblatt
  2. ^ Aistleitner Holding