Daily newspapers of the GDR
The 39 (1965 to 1975: 40) daily newspapers of the GDR were state-regulated according to a fixed pattern:
- The five parties represented in the People's Chamber each published a national daily newspaper.
- Three large mass organizations close to the SED each published a national daily newspaper.
- The SED as a leading force was for each of the 14 districts and East Berlin published a regional newspaper. The district newspapers appeared with different local sections (mostly one page) for a total of 218 rural and urban districts.
- The bloc parties, with the exception of the farmers' party , published regional newspapers for two or three districts each. The distribution area corresponded roughly to the countries from the beginnings of the GDR, which were later reintroduced as federal states with similar territory.
- The Domowina as the national organization of the Sorbs published its own daily newspaper - the Nowa doba .
- There were two evening newspapers, only one left at the end of the GDR.
In the first year after the fall of the Wall in 1989, around 40 to 50 new newspapers were created (see also newspapers of the time of the fall ). With the admission of West German print media in the area of the GDR, many stopped their publication.
table
| 8 national (central) daily newspapers | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| title | editor | Distribution area | Years of publication |
| New Germany | SED | entire GDR | since April 23, 1946; simultaneously discontinued: Deutsche Volkszeitung , KPD (since June 13, 1945), and Das Volk , SPD (since July 7, 1945) |
| Young world | FDJ | entire GDR | since February 12, 1947 |
| Grandstand | FDGB | entire GDR | January 1, 1947 (before that, Free Trade Union since October 9, 1945) to September 24, 1991 |
| German sport echo | DTSB | entire GDR | May 5, 1947 to April 3, 1991 |
| Farmer echo | DBD | entire GDR | July 18, 1948 to July 31, 1992 (published as of August 1, 1990 as Deutsches Landblatt ) |
| The morning | LDPD | entire GDR | August 3, 1945 to June 11, 1991 |
| National newspaper | NDPD | entire GDR | March 22, 1948 to June 30, 1990 |
| New time | CDU | entire GDR | July 22, 1945 to July 5, 1994 |
| 14 regional daily newspapers of the block parties (each for several GDR districts) | |||
| title | editor | Distribution area | Years of publication |
| The democrat | CDU | Districts Rostock, Schwerin, Neubrandenburg | December 15, 1945 to May 31, 1991 |
| The new way | CDU | Districts Halle, Magdeburg | January 1, 1946 to January 31, 1992 |
| Märkische Union | CDU | Districts Potsdam, Frankfurt / Oder, Cottbus | February 3, 1948 to February 28, 1990 |
| Thüringer Tageblatt | CDU | Districts of Erfurt, Suhl, Gera | May 1, 1946 to January 31, 1992 |
| The Union | CDU | Districts Leipzig, Karl-Marx-Stadt, Dresden | January 5, 1946 to December 1, 1991 |
| Norddeutsche Zeitung | LDPD | Districts Rostock, Schwerin, Neubrandenburg | March 4, 1946 to August 31, 1991 |
| Liberal Democratic Newspaper | LDPD | Districts Magdeburg, Halle | December 18, 1945 to June 30, 1990 |
| Thuringian national newspaper | LDPD | Districts of Erfurt, Suhl, Gera | since September 15, 1945 |
| Saxon day sheet | LDPD | Districts Leipzig, Karl-Marx-Stadt, Dresden | February 16, 1946 to July 31, 1990 |
| North German latest news | NDPD | Districts Rostock, Schwerin, Neubrandenburg | since February 16, 1953 |
| Central German latest news | NDPD | Districts Leipzig, Halle, Magdeburg | July 14, 1952 to July 1, 1990 |
| Brandenburg latest news | NDPD | Districts Potsdam, Frankfurt / Oder, Cottbus | May 1, 1951 to July 12, 1991 |
| Thuringian Latest News | NDPD | Districts of Erfurt, Suhl, Gera | April 30, 1951 to May 12, 1990 |
| Saxon Latest News | NDPD | Districts of Dresden, Karl-Marx-Stadt | April 15, 1952, since 1/2. September 1990 under the title Dresden Latest News |
| 15 SED district newspapers (sorted according to today's federal states from north to south) | |||
| title | editor | Distribution area | Years of publication |
| Ostsee-Zeitung | SED | Rostock district | since 1945 (first under the titles Volkszeitung from July 13, 1945 to April 9, 1946, Landeszeitung from April 11, 1946 to August 14, 1952) |
| Schweriner People's Newspaper | SED | Schwerin district | since July 1, 1952 |
| Free earth | SED | Neubrandenburg district | since August 15, 1952, has been published as Nordkurier since April 1, 1990 |
| People's Voice | SED | Magdeburg district | since August 1947, has appeared since January 2, 1992 under regionalized titles such as Magdeburger Volksstimme |
| freedom | SED | Halle district | since 1946, since March 17, 1990 under the title Mitteldeutsche Zeitung |
| New day | SED | Frankfurt / Oder district | since August 15, 1952, since March 17, 1990 under the title Märkische Oderzeitung |
| Märkische Volksstimme | SED | Potsdam district | since April 20, 1946, since October 3, 1990 under the title Märkische Allgemeine |
| Lausitzer Rundschau | SED | Cottbus district | since May 20, 1946 |
| Berlin newspaper | SED | East Berlin | since May 21, 1945 |
| The people | SED | District of Erfurt | since April 9, 1946, has appeared as Thüringer Allgemeine since January 13, 1990 |
| Free word | SED | District of Suhl | since August 15, 1952 (until March 8, 1956 under the title Das Freie Wort ) |
| People's Watch | SED | Gera district | since August 15, 1952, appears since July 1, 1991 as the Ostthüringer Zeitung |
| Leipziger Volkszeitung | SED | Leipzig district | since July 12, 1945 |
| Free press | SED | Karl-Marx-Stadt district | since May 20, 1946 (the Volksstimme , which appeared since November 21, 1947, was merged with the Free Press in 1963 ) |
| Saxon newspaper | SED | Dresden district | since July 10, 1945 |
| The only street-selling newspaper in the GDR | |||
| title | editor | Distribution area | Years of publication |
| BZ in the evening | (SED) | East Berlin and the surrounding area | since July 15, 1949, appeared from December 2, 1990 to July 31, 1992 as Berliner Kurier am Abend . From April 8, 1991 to August 1, 1992 a morning edition appeared as Berliner Kurier am Morgen , then as Berliner Kurier ; the evening edition was discontinued |
| Daily newspaper for the Sorbian minority in the GDR | |||
| title | editor | Distribution area | Years of publication |
| Nowa doba | Domowina | Sorbian areas | July 6, 1947 to December 22, 1990, then as Serbske Nowiny continued |
| Daily newspapers that were discontinued before the end of the GDR | |||
| title | editor | Distribution area | Years of publication |
| Acet | (SED) | Districts Leipzig, Halle | March 1, 1965 to September 30, 1975 |
| Daily review | Soviet Military Administration in Germany (SMAD) | entire GDR | May 15, 1945 to June 30, 1955 |
literature
- Barbara Held, Thomas Simeon: The second zero hour. Berlin daily newspapers after the fall of the Wall (1989–1994) . 1994, ISBN 3-89166-181-9
- Ellen Bos: Letters to the editor in daily newspapers in the GDR. On the “mass solidarity” of the press 1949–1989 . 1992, ISBN 3-531-12376-9
- Konrad Dussel: German daily press in the 19th and 20th centuries . 2004, ISBN 3-8258-6811-7