Luxemburger Wort
The Luxemburger Wort for truth and right, with a circulation of around 67,000 copies, the leading newspaper in Luxembourg. It is since 1848 by the St. Paul printing company, today Saint -Paul Luxembourg sa issued, which is majority owned by the Archdiocese of Luxembourg and the Christian Social People 's Party-affiliated.
History
The first edition of the Luxemburger Wort appeared just three days after the introduction of the freedom of the press in the German Confederation in 1848, the, founded by the Apostolic Vicar of Luxembourg, Johannes Theodor Laurent and Eduard Michelis St. Paul printing company.
From the beginning, fought against the newspaper co-founded by the Samuel Hirsch friend of the people and the Jewish rabbis and the Subsidium for the Jewish community. In the period from 1849 to 1880 appeared on average per week, two anti -Semitic articles.
From 1938, the editors turned against the Third Reich. In 1940, after the invasion of the German troops in Luxembourg, the Luxemburger Wort has been brought into line. The then director Jean Origer and the editors Batty Esch and Pierre Gregoire were arrested by the Nazis and died in concentration camps. Pierre Grégoire survived the captivity as the only. After the liberation of Luxembourg headline of the newspaper: Luxemburg as fräi! ( German: " Luxembourg is free!" ). At the same time, this was also one of the few issues that have been published exclusively in Luxembourgish, the press publishing translated simultaneously protest his name into French.
Between 17 March 2005 and 21 March 2008, called the newspaper d ' word: Luxemburger Wort for truth and justice.
The Publishing House passed 11 January 2010 its Director and Chief Editor Léon Zeches who has for 42 years represented the newspaper with his political commentary. To him, the Director General Paul Lenert followed. Since September 2013 directs General Paul Peckels the publisher. Editor in chief since November 2013 Jean -Lou Siweck, who was previously an economic adviser to Prime Minister Jean -Claude Juncker.
The Luxemburger Wort has been one of the main sponsors of the Tour de Luxembourg and the Luxembourg yellow jersey sponsors there.
Languages
The newspaper writes mainly in German language, part of the article ( about 16 %) is in French, a very small fraction ( about 2%) in Luxembourgish.
According to a study by Euro Mosaic, in which the word was studied together with the daily paper, which accounts for texts in Luxembourgish in these newspapers only 2% of the total. This 2% broken down as follows:
- Title Page 0.1 %;
- Editorials, news, sports 0.0%;
- Art 0.8 %;
- Local News 6.1%;
- Unterhaltungstips 50.6 %;
- Careers 1.9%;
- Advertising 9.5%;
- Birth Announcements, 81.8 %;
- Bridal Show 80.1 %;
- Obituaries 52.8 %.