Tempo (newspaper)

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tempo
Front page from January 11, 1933
description German daily newspaper
publishing company Ullstein Verlag, Berlin
First edition September 11, 1928
attitude August 5, 1933
Frequency of publication daily (several issues)
Editor-in-chief Gustav Kauder

Tempo. Berliner Abend-Zeitung was a daily newspaper from Ullstein Verlag that appeared from 1928 to 1933. Its distribution area was Berlin and the surrounding area.

history

The first edition of Tempo appeared on September 11, 1928 , which at the time, according to the Ullstein publishing house's advertisement, was supposed to represent “Germany's most modern newspaper type”. However, the newspaper became an economic and conceptual failure and always remained below 150,000 copies. On August 5, 1933, Tempo was the first sheet of the Ullstein publishing house to be discontinued.

concept

In the Ullstein house, Tempo was conceived as a newspaper for readers of the younger post-war generation in order to offer them a new, fresh paper that, in tone and presentation, as well as in topicality and speed, reflects the lifestyle of the Weimar Republic and Berlin 1920s should meet. The political orientation of the newspaper was liberal-democratic , like all Ullstein products.

The newspaper

Tempo appeared in the Berlin format on pinkish-brownish paper and was an evening newspaper based on the American model. Three different editions appeared daily between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m.

The most important rubrics were the political part, "Stock market and economy" and "Tempo in sport". This was followed by the culture section, divided into “The World of Thoughts and Adventure”, a page with serial novels , popular science reports, as well as photos from all over the world and the section “Under the Lights of Berlin” with regular columns, theater and cinema reviews, puzzles and fashion tips . The last page has the latest news.

Employee

As chief editor was Gustav Kauder used, the political editor and deputy editor of the BZ am Mittag from the same publisher. Manfred George was in charge of the features section . Kurt Tucholsky and Erika Mann were among the best-known regular authors .

literature

  • Jochen Hung : "The newspaper of the time". The daily newspaper Tempo and the end of the Weimar Republic, in: David Oels / Ute Schneider (ed.): “The whole publishing house is simply a bonbonniere”. Ullstein in the first half of the 20th century . Berlin 2014, pp. 137–159. ISBN 978-3-11-033708-2
  • Walther G. Oschilewski : Newspapers in Berlin . Berlin 1975, p. 171.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carl Jödicke : When advertising was still called Propaganda , in: Joachim W. Freyburg (Ed.): Hundert Jahre Ullstein 1877–1977, Ullstein Verlag, Berlin 1977, pp. 119–150, here p. 141f.
  2. Fritz Wentzel: Speed ​​is always trump , in: Joachim W. Freyburg (Ed.): Hundred Years of Ullstein 1877–1977, Ullstein Verlag, Berlin 1977, pp. 34–74