Newspapers of the time of change

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In the first year of the turnaround originated in the GDR 40 to 50 new newspapers about. Often initiated by members of the citizens' movement or their environment, they should form a dissenting vote to the state press and accompany the transition to democratic conditions. A state license was still required for such a re-establishment, but this was granted after the censorship in the GDR ceased to exist .

The newspapers appeared on a local level and continually had to deal with a lack of printing capacity, a lack of paper and editorial inexperience. After West German print media were approved in the GDR, a number of titles ceased to appear due to a dwindling readership.

The still existing newspaper foundations often entered into collaborations with small and medium-sized publishers from the Federal Republic or were taken over. With the reunification on October 3, 1990, West German media companies began to produce their own publications for the East German market, including the Super-Zeitung .

The end point of this “newspaper spring” is April 1991, when the Treuhandanstalt sold the former SED district newspapers to major West German publishers. Since the monopoly structures remained with privatization, the much smaller start-ups lacked economic prospects in most cases.

Only the Oranienburger Generalanzeiger with the Gransee-Zeitung and the Ruppiner Anzeiger as well as the Altmark-Zeitung have survived to this day . All belong directly or indirectly to the Munich publisher Dirk Ippen .

List of newspapers from the time of the transition (1989–1992)

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literature

  • Jürgen Grubitzsch: The GDR's press landscape is changing . Starting points, first results and perspectives. In: Media Perspektiven. Issue 3, 1990, ISSN  0170-1754 , pp. 144-155.
  • Horst Röper : The development of the daily newspaper market in Germany after the fall of the Wall in the former GDR. In: Media Perspektiven. No. 7, 1991, pp. 421-430.