Excellent!
Excellent! was a tabloid that was developed by Burda-Verlag especially for the new federal states .
Excellent! was developed by the journalists Franz Josef Wagner and Günter Prinz . The title came onto the market in East Germany on May 2, 1991 with an initial circulation of 500,000 copies. On July 24, 1992 it stopped its publication again. A prominent supporter of the newspaper was the London media tycoon Rupert Murdoch , who co-financed the newspaper with Burda. A well-known employee was the writer and television presenter Else Buschheuer , who wrote “Super Else” as a gossip columnist for Super! wrote.
The tabloid was known and controversial for its extremely pointed articles and headlines. On the second day of its publication, Franz-Josef Wagner was the headline with the headline that has become famous and the image of Super! has coined: "Angeber-Wessi slain with a beer bottle - all of Bernau is happy that he is dead."
In February 1992, Super! , the investigative journalist Günter Wallraff was an "influence agent" of the GDR State Security. Wallraff successfully fought the reports in court.
The editor-in-chief was initially Franz Josef Wagner and then the former Bild editor-in-chief Peter Bartels .
Web links
- Idiot the idiot . In: Der Spiegel . No. 39 , 1991, pp. 262, 266 ( online - September 23, 1991 , about the power struggle between Super! And Bild).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sandra Dassler: Death in Bernau and the "Super!" Newspaper: The ghost of unity . In: Potsdam's latest news . May 3, 2011 ( pnn.de [accessed May 11, 2018]).
- ↑ JUDGMENT: Günter Wallraff . In: Der Spiegel . tape 47 , November 16, 1992 ( spiegel.de [accessed May 11, 2018]).
- ↑ Alexander Kühn: Franz Josef Wagner - The Big City Indian . In: Stephan Alexander Weichert, Christian Zabel (Hrsg.): Die Alpha-Journalisten. Portrait of Germany's spokesman . Herbert von Halem Verlag, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-938258-29-3 , pp. 358–365, here p. 365.