Weekly mail
| Weekly mail | |
|---|---|
|
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| description | German weekly magazine |
| publishing company | Berlin publishing house |
| First edition | December 22, 1953 |
| attitude | December 23, 1996 |
| Frequency of publication | weekly (wednesday) |
| Sold edition | 1.2-1.3 million copies |
| Editor-in-chief |
Rudi Wetzel (1953–1957) Hans Otten (1957–1961) Siegfried Meißgeier (1961–1965) Dieter Kerschek (1966–1967) Kurt Neheimer (1967–1983) Klaus Polkehn (deputy 1969–1991) Brigitte Zimmermann (1983–1991 ) Mathias Greffrath (1991–1994) Mathias Döpfner (1994–1996) Jürgen Busche (1996) |
| editor |
Hermann Leupold (until 1967) Rudolf Barbarino (1967–1983) |
| ISSN |
0509-0652 |
The Wochenpost ( newspaper for politics, culture, business, entertainment ) appeared between December 22, 1953 and December 23, 1996 with 2,244 issues and, with a circulation of around 1.3 million copies, was one of the weekly newspapers with the highest circulation in the GDR .
Profile and history
The model for the GDR weekly newspaper was Die Grüne Post . Its content was a mixture of television programs, advertisements , puzzles , politics and culture and was thus aimed at the whole family . The cartoonist Willy Moese drew several comic series. Other well-known rubrics were the court report by Rudolf Hirsch and private advertisements. For many years, Horst Rittner edited the chess column, in which commented games and chess compositions alternated.
The author Heinz Knobloch , who was part of the founding editorial team and was a columnist until 1991, played a decisive role in the success . The editorial contributions had a consistently high and largely neutral level of journalism.
In 1990, Gruner + Jahr took over the Berliner Verlag and with it the weekly post.
In December 1996 the weekly mail was discontinued. From January to May 1997 it appeared as a supplement to Die Woche , which also disappeared from the press market in 2002.
literature
- Heinz Knobloch: The smile of the weekly post , Jaron Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89773-050-2
- Klaus Polkehn: That was the 'Wochenpost' , Christoph Links Verlag, Berlin 1997, 375 pages, ISBN 3-86153-141-0 ( on Google Books )
Individual evidence
- ↑ weekly mail. xpapers.de, accessed on July 14, 2015 .
- ^ A b c Regine Sylvester: Proximity to the everyday life of the readers. berliner-zeitung.de, December 10, 1996, accessed on July 14, 2015 .
- ↑ a b DNB 010382224
Web links
- Chess compositions from the weekly mail on the PDB server
- The 'weekly mail' is discontinued, the 'week' would like to benefit from it Die Zeit in 1996 through the discontinuation of the weekly mail
- Comics in the weekly mail