Swiss time

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Swiss time
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description Swiss newspaper
publishing company Schweizerzeit Verlags AG
First edition 1979
Frequency of publication fortnightly
Sold edition 12,955 (previous year 13,911) copies
( WEMF circulation bulletin 2018)
Widespread edition 12,955 (previous year 13,911) copies
(WEMF circulation bulletin 2018)
Editor-in-chief Ulrich Schlüer
Web link www.schweizerzeit.ch

The Swiss time is a nationally conservative newspaper in Switzerland . It appears biweekly.

The publisher is Schweizerzeit Verlags AG, founded in 1979 by SVP politician Ulrich Schlüer and based in Flaach . In terms of content, the magazine is closely related to the SVP and in particular the AUNS and represents strongly conservative positions. The WEMF - certified circulation is 12,955 (previous year 13,911) sold / distributed copies.

As editor in chief held sway until 2015 Ulrich Schlüer, from 1 October 2015 until the end of July 2016 Olivier Kessler , then again Ulrich Schlüer. According to the legal notice, employees of the newspaper include the SVP National Councilor Luzi Stamm , the Bern SVP Councilor Thomas Fuchs and the psychotherapist Christa Meves . The publicist Roland Baader, who died on January 8, 2012, was also an employee . In addition, the Swiss time offers many conservative Swiss journalists and politicians a platform, including Christoph Mörgeli , Natalie Rickli , Lukas Reimann and Gregor A. Rutz . Speeches by the former National and Federal Councilor Christoph Blocher are often published during the Swiss period . The FDP member Giatgen-Peder Fontana is Chairman of the Board of Directors.

In the early 1980s, when Schlüer was a member of the Working Group on Southern Africa (ASA), articles on apartheid policy in South Africa appeared during the Swiss period , which have already been described as "tendentiously in favor of the white government in South Africa".

Publications by Jürgen Graf , who later denied the Holocaust , were also often used between 1990 and 1992 on questions of asylum policy. Graf had previously worked as an interviewer for asylum seekers for six months and described his impressions in a book that was later heavily criticized in the NZZ and praised during the Swiss era. Even before Graf began to work as a Holocaust denier, he was no longer an issue for the Swiss era .

In connection with the EEA vote in 1992, Schweizerzeit published a special free issue of 360,000 copies that were distributed to households in German-speaking Switzerland. She is also involved in popular initiatives by enclosing signature sheets with the issues.

An article in Schweizerzeit on January 13, 2006 caused an indirect sensation in the public eye . In it Ulrich Schlüer reported that two rejected asylum seekers, suspected of having committed assaults, murders, kidnappings and explosive attacks, were wanted from Albania by Interpol the Swiss Asylum Appeal Commission was granted refugee status. In this context, Schlüer spoke of a constitutional state that was degenerating into a "scum-protector structure" . When the then Federal Councilor Christoph Blocher addressed this case in a speech, he described the two asylum seekers as “criminals” instead of “alleged criminals”. Various media and politicians accused Blocher of having disregarded the presumption of innocence and not pointing out that the asylum appeals commission did not consider the allegations of the Albanian judiciary to be credible.

With regard to the question of right-wing extremist vocabulary in the Swiss era, various media pointed to links to the New Right : “The new Federal Council report on“ Right-wing extremism in Switzerland ”by Urs Altermatt and Hanspeter Kriesi also mentions Schlüer's paper; The “Schweizerzeit” is not referred to there as a right-wing extremist publication, but as a platform for various authors of the German New Right. “There are close contacts with the New Right in the Federal Republic of Germany. Various employees of the German magazine ' Criticon ' are regular authors [...], for example Gerd-Klaus Kaltenbrunner , Günter Rohrmoser and Hans Graf Huyn . The magazine 'Criticon' ... is considered to be the real intellectual body of the German New Right. Hans Graf Huyn was even hired as a permanent employee of the 'Schweizerzeit' in 1993, "write Altermatt and his assistant Damir Skenderovic in the Federal Council report."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b WEMF circulation bulletin 2018 , p. 44 (PDF; 796 kB).
  2. ^ A b c Leonhard Neidhart : Out for the AUNS: And the angry old gentlemen? ( Memento from May 15, 2006 in the Internet Archive ). Article in the political blog by political scientist Leonhard Neidhart about the AUNS, Schlüer and the Swiss era .
  3. ↑ On our own behalf. We regret to inform our readers that Olivier Kessler will be leaving the «Schweizerzeit» publishing house at the end of July 2016. In: Swiss time. 3rd July, 2016.
  4. ↑ Imprint & contact addresses. In: Swiss time website .
  5. ↑ Leonhard Neidhart : End for the AUNS: And the angry old gentlemen? ( Memento from May 15, 2006 in the Internet Archive ). Article in the political blog by political scientist Leonhard Neidhart about the AUNS, Schlüer and the Swiss era : "Ulrich Schlüer is particularly fond of Christoph Blocher, whose speeches in the 'Swiss era' are printed and distributed with special brochures."
  6. ↑ Giatgen-Peder Fontana, the commercial register and company data.
  7. ↑ Jürgen Pfister: Switzerland and South Africa during apartheid: controversy and “agenda setting” after 1998. In: ETHZ .
  8. ↑ From «Asylum Expert» to «Auschwitz Denier». In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . December 30, 1999.
  9. ↑ From «Asylum Expert» to «Auschwitz Denier». In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. December 30, 1999: «In the 'Swiss era' and the Auns letters, asylum policy was no longer so present from 1992 onwards. There are also no more advertisements for Graf's “Ship of Fools”. (...) Had the name Jürgen Graf disappeared from the 'Swiss era' (...) »
  10. ^ Ulrich Schlüer: smear campaign of the NZZ. Once a world sheet. In: Swiss time. January 7, 2000.
  11. ↑ Ulrich Schlüer: New failure of the Asylum Appeals Commission. Scum protection. In: Swiss time. January 13, 2006.
  12. ↑ Blocher's Problems with the Justice. Politicians and the Federal Supreme Court describe statements made by the Justice Minister on the asylum case as unacceptable. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. January 29, 2006: «‹ That doesn't work either. Two Albanians who are there, criminals. One has two murders under his belt and 15 robberies under his belt. ›He relied on an article that his party colleague Ulrich Schlüer had published under the title‹ Abschaum-Schutz› in the ‹Swiss Era ›."
  13. ^ Harsh reprimand for Federal Councilor Blocher. Criticism of the Council of States' GPK because of false statements in Albisgüetli speech. , In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. July 11, 2006; Blocher lied! In: look . July 11, 2006; Question time. Ask Vermot-Mangold Ruth-Gaby. Problematic statements from Federal Councilor Blocher. In: parlament.ch. March 13, 2006; Federal Councilor Blocher is reprimanded. ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Schweizer Fernsehen 10vor10 . July 11, 2006 (video). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.srf.ch
  14. ↑ Klaus Bonanomi : Patrouille patriotique In: Klartext . July 10, 2007.