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sham strike

description City newspaper
First edition November 23, 1990
attitude July 5, 2007
Frequency of publication monthly or fortnightly
Sold edition 25,000-30,000 copies
Editor-in-chief collective, changing editorial team
editor Association for the accompaniment of public discussions in the inner city districts e. V .; previously other registered associations
Web link www.scheinschlag.de
ZDB 1106621-0

Scheinschlag (with the changing subtitles: Zeitschrift für Mitte, Zeitschrift aus Mitte, Zeitung für die Berliner Innenstadt, Berliner Stadtzeitung and Zeitschrift für Berlin ) was a free district newspaper for the former Berlin district and now Berlin-Mitte and the neighboring areas. The paper was published from 1990 to 2007. The main focus of the newspaper was reporting on local politics, primarily housing politics, as well as on the independent art and literature scene.

history

The idea for the newspaper project came about in the times after the political change in the GDR and in the eastern part of Berlin, when a round table in Berlin-Mitte was supposed to mediate between the interests of the squatter scene and the district. Originally, the paper, which first appeared in Steinstrasse in Berlin-Mitte, was supposed to be called Steinschlag , but it was abandoned after the clashes between the squatter scene and the police had become more militant after the mainzer Strasse was cleared . The first issue appeared on November 23, 1990.

The Scheinschlag was sold through display stands in the streets of Berlin-Mitte and the neighboring areas as well as in pubs, cinemas and other facilities.

Initially the newspaper appeared monthly, since 1992 biweekly. At the beginning of 1999 they returned to the monthly publication. After several moves, the newspaper had its editorial offices in Ackerstrasse since August 1994 , and public editorial meetings were held in the Village Voice pub on the same street.

The original aim of the magazine makers was to get funding through advertisements. For this purpose, a circulation of at least 25,000 copies was planned from the outset. However, the advertising business always fell short of expectations, so that the newspaper had financial problems from the start. An important source of income was the redevelopment supplement published by the Mitte district office, which was enclosed with the magazine and since 1996 has been called stadt.plan.mitte . It was written for many years by Ulrike Steglich, who was also responsible for the editing and layout of the Scheinschlag.

After the financial difficulties could no longer be solved, the newspaper was shut down in the summer of 2007. After the newspaper ended, the Club of Polish Failures moved into the editorial offices on Ackerstraße after it had to vacate its previous premises on Torstraße.

content

The focus of the magazine was the housing policy in Berlin-Mitte and the neighboring areas. Renovation and modernization projects in the district were regularly analyzed here. Since 1996, the inner city plan of the Berlin Senate has been critically scrutinized under Senate Building Director Hans Stimmann . The sham provided a forum for local initiatives.

Furthermore, the Scheinschlag reported on art and culture. The focus here was on independent projects. The regular articles in the magazine included a column written for several years alternately by Hans Duschke and Bov Bjerg . Falko Hennig reported regularly on events in historic Berlin a hundred years ago.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Sabine Schuster: Finally, 17 years of Scheinschlag history. Grab the right moment and the chance. In: Scheinschlag. 6/2007 ( Scheinschlag.de ).
  2. ↑ a b c Chronicle. 1990 to 2000 through the sham glasses. In: Scheinschlag. 11/2000 ( Scheinschlag.de ).
  3. ↑ a b Kerstin Decker : Newspaper: Summer in front of the balcony. In: Tagesspiegel . August 6, 2007 ( tagesspiegel.de ).
  4. ↑ Falko Hennig : The Berlin Kiezblatt “Scheinschlag” no longer appears: free of charge, but not for free. In: Berliner Zeitung . August 8, 2007 ( Scheinschlag.de ( Memento from March 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive )).
  5. ↑ Gertrude Schildbach: Failure more beautifully. The Polish Failure Club closes. In: Scheinschlag. 4/2007 ( Scheinschlag.de ).