Tatort Schule (magazine)
Tatort Schule was a school newspaper that appeared in Leipzig from 1990 to 1993 .
The establishment of the paper was initiated by the Leipzig City School Council, which also financed the first issue, published in July 1990. This is why the monthly magazine addressed the student body from all over Leipzig from the start and not just, as is usual with school newspapers, to the students of a school. The circulation was 1,000 to 2,000 copies.
The editorial board soon made itself independent of the city student council and was itself the editor of Tatort Schule from September 1990 . The paper was primarily financed through advertising, because the selling price was only 50 pfennigs and later even fell to 20 pfennigs for every 24–32 page issue in A5 format.
Tatort Schule was a typical product of the time of reunification , in which many GDR citizens exercised their newly won democratic freedoms with enthusiasm, as did the pupils in this specific case. School newspapers were previously not allowed in the GDR - like all independent press products. This was also the reason why the editorial team did not want to be tied to an interest group or association and mistrusted all organizational structures. Precisely for this reason, the content of the Leipziger Zeitung was also more political than is generally the case with school newspapers. Education and local politics took up a large part, and from time to time contributions on democratic theory were also published. Otherwise there were short stories, poems, comics, caricatures and numerous travel reports.