Cicero (magazine)

Cicero is a -monthly political journal in Germany, which is produced in Berlin. It was founded by Wolfram Weimer in 2004, who edited it until 2010. Since May 2012 Christoph Schwennicke serves as editor in chief.

History

In the spring of 2004, the " magazine for political culture" was founded by the journalist Wolfram Weimer, to establish in German language with the aim of a counterpart to the major U.S. magazines "The New Yorker " and " The Atlantic ". Cicero was also to be the first political magazine from Berlin. Was financed and is the project from the Ringier Publishing House, which the tabloid view and other publications out there in Switzerland. In Germany, the Ringier Publishing also publishes the art magazine Monopol.

Although in Germany since the founding of the news magazine Focus not a new political leaf could hold on the magazine market with more and TransAtlantik one of similar attempt in the 1980s had already failed once, Cicero has reached a paid circulation of about 83,000 copies.

The name of the magazine refers to the Roman writer and politician Marcus Tullius Cicero.

Employees and departments

Wolfram Weimer was the founder of Cicero and until 31 January 2010, its chief editor. On 1 February 2010, the previous time editor Michael Naumann took over the chief editor post at Cicero. In May 2012, he was replaced by Christoph Schwennicke.

The resort 's foreign policy is directed by Judith Hart. Alexander Marguier is deputy editor, before he was head of department "Company" in the Sunday newspaper. Chief political correspondent is Hartmut Palmer, longtime capital correspondent of the mirror. The business section is led by Til Knipper, department chief culture is Alexander Kissler. Constantin Magni is responsible for investigative reporting, Kerstin Schroer directs the art direction, Utz Zimmermann production. Responsible for the editorial office is Antje mountain homes. Responsible for the online editorial Christoph rope.

Besides well-known guest authors ( the cover story of the first edition written by the then Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, in the second edition it came from Martin Walser ) operates a fixed circle of journalists regularly for the Cicero, including Maxim Biller, Wolfram Eilenberger, Wladimir Kaminer and Klaus Harpprecht. For a time there was a column of German Oscar - winner Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck.

Since 2013 there is a media cooperation with tame.it

Search (Cicero affair)

In September 2005, the prosecutor had Potsdam search the editorial offices of the magazine. The occasion was the article " The most dangerous man in the world " in the April issue, in which the journalist Bruno Schirra had the Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al -Zarqawi and portrays this information quoted from confidential files of the Federal. It was a detailed evaluation report of 6 September 2004 with 125 pages and 392 footnotes. The German press criticized the raid as an attack on independent journalism, with parallels to the Spiegel affair pulled by 1962. Cicero 's chief editor Weimer and Schirra was accused of betrayal of secrets aid. FDP, the Greens and the PDS considered a parliamentary committee to do so. In October 2005, about a special session of the Bundestag Interior Committee was held, in which the politically responsible Schily should relate in non- public session to allegations of the prosecution position, the suspicion of secret treason initiated a search in Cicero was disproportionate.

On 21 and 22 November 2006, the First Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court was negotiating on the matter and ruled on 27 February 2007, searches have shown a significant interference with the freedom of the press. It was therefore unconstitutional ( Cicero judgment, Az: 1BvR 538/ 06). According to the judgment of mere suspicion is not enough that a journalist could have provided aid to the betrayal of secrets to search the premises of an editorial. For such an intervention in the freedom of the press would have rather clear evidence that a secret bearer would cause the release of proprietary information. Only then could be prosecuted for aiding and abetting a journalist. In addition, searches are not permitted if they only served to determine the identity of an informant; this was the case with Cicero. The decision of the Constitutional Court was seen by commentators as an important contribution to the protection of press freedom in Germany. From other commentators, however, criticism of this view was practiced.

The processes learned in the media wide attention as Cicero affair.

Design

An art on the cover and a long editorial, which is the authors devoted to close the four ministries " world stage " (Foreign Policy), " Berlin Republic " ( internal politics ), " capital " ( economic ) and " Salon" ( Society, Culture ) to. The magazine uses a shade of red as house color and large-sized, mostly black and white printed photos and cartoons.

So far the following special editions of Cicero appeared:

• 2006 saw the publication "Cicero Double -Edition" with a available at the kiosk b / w output as well as a request- free, 4c second edition. Both editions were editorially completely different but folded booklets.
• 2007 appeared an edition of Cicero with 160,000 individualized covers as well as the world's first 160,000 different [ evidence ?] BMW ads.
• 2008/2009 a Cicero - XXL edition appeared in double size (about 28 x 40 cm). As the " Double Edition" of 2006 was also the "XXL edition " sold at the usual price.
• 2012 appeared a Cicero Crime Scene edition, whose cover showed the crime scene commissioners their nearest Crime Scene scene. Overall, there were 20 different scene cover.