Weekly newspaper (Poland)
| Weekly paper
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| description | newspaper |
| publishing company | Pro Futura |
| First edition | 1990 |
| Frequency of publication | weekly |
| Editor-in-chief | Rudolf Urban |
| editor | Pro Futura |
| Web link | wochenblatt.pl |
The Wochenblatt is a weekly newspaper from Opole for the German minority in Poland , which appears in two languages with articles in German and Polish.
description
The newspaper's editor-in-chief was, with one interruption, in the mid-1990s when Andrzej Kracher was in charge of the editorial department, until April 2010 Engelbert Miś . Till Scholtz-Knobloch has been editor-in-chief since issue 942 (April 23-29, 2010); since August 2015 Rudolf Urban. The newspaper is primarily aimed at Polish citizens who profess to be part of the German minority. Since most of the members of the German minority live in the Opole Voivodeship and the German minority is also the strongest politically represented here, it focuses on this region. Under Rudolf Urban, the Wochenblatt returned to the concept of mainly reporting from the Opole voivodeship. Content from Eastern Upper Silesia, Lower Silesia or Warmian-Masurian has decreased significantly. The weekly newspaper is distributed in the normal distribution in Upper Silesia, but is available elsewhere through the associations of the German minority.
As a newspaper for the German minority in Poland, the Wochenblatt is supported by the Institute for Foreign Relations (ifa) in Stuttgart, which among other things sends young journalists from Germany to the Opole editorial team as editors and media managers.
history
For legal reasons, in April 1991, the renaming of 1990 as the first newspaper for the German minority in Poland appearing Upper Silesian News in Upper Silesian newspaper . Linked to this was the elevation to the official organ of the minority, which for this purpose founded "Silesiapress" GmbH in March 1993. From February 1995 to January 2011 the title was Schlesisches Wochenblatt. The current circulation is around 6500 copies, of which however 20 to 30 percent decrease.
In mid-2010, a merger of the newspaper editors of the Schlesisches Wochenblatt with the television and radio editors Pro Futura was announced for 2011 , which will take place in 2012 and will result in the dissolution of the former publisher, the Silesiapress publishing house. Pro Futura produces u. a. the programs Schlesien Aktuell and Schlesien Journal . With the merger one wants to u. a. use the resulting synergy effects . Even before the editorial consolidation was completed, the design was revised in 2011 and the name Schlesisches Wochenblatt changed to Wochenblatt .
The name change from the long-standing title to Wochenblatt (juristic Wochenblatt.pl - this name is not communicated, however) with the simultaneous introduction of a new design took place with issue 980 (3/2011) from 14. – 20. January, whereby topics with relevance for all Germans in Poland should be given greater weighting. The Upper Silesian Voice, created by the District Association of the German Minority in the Silesian Voivodeship in Racibórz , no longer appears once a month with eight pages, but every two weeks with four pages. Rudolf Urban has been editor-in-chief of the Wochenblatt since August 2015.