Lidové noviny

The Lidové noviny ( German: People's Daily ), also called short " lidovky ", is a Czech newspaper.

History

The Lidové noviny was founded in 1893 in Brno by Adolf Stransky, making it the oldest existing still under the original name Czech newspaper. In the 1920s, the newspaper received its reputation as the newspaper of the intellectuals. The editorial staff in Brno was the time less and less important as they competed with Prague. After the establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, many of the editors were deported and replaced by German or German - friendly editors. After the paper was set to be short in April 1945, she went from May 1945 to press. In February 1948, the former editor in chief Ferdinand Peroutka was dismissed and replaced by a communist, which the newspaper was soon out its image as a non-partisan journal. This led to the setting in 1952.

In January 1988, the paper was published for the first time, then still in the underground, with a foreword by the president of Czechoslovakia and later the Czech Republic Václav Havel. Despite all the problems with the regime, the newspaper appeared almost regularly in their first year. Since January 5, 1990, she reappears legally and from April of the same year again daily. Today the Lidové noviny belongs to the Rheinisch- Bergische Verlagsgesellschaft, which produces, among other things, the Rheinische Post. It has a circulation of about 70,000.