Schlesisches Wochenblatt

The weekly magazine is a weekly newspaper from Opole for the German minority in Poland, which is a bilingual publication with articles in German and Polish.

Chief editor of the newspaper was with a break mid-90s, when Andrzej Firecracker headed the editorial staff, through April 2010 Engelbert Miś. Since issue 942 ( 23 - April 29, 2010 ) is Till Scholtz - Knobloch chief editor. The paper is aimed primarily at Polish citizens who are committed to the German minority. Since most members of the German minority in Opole Voivodeship live and the German minority is also politically the most highly represented, she reports focus on this region. Is distributed by the Wochenblatt.pl but also about the Associations of the German minority in other parts of Poland.

As a newspaper of the German minority in Poland, the weekly paper is supported by the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa ) in Stuttgart, which sends among other young journalists from Germany as editors and media owners in the Opole editors.

As with all major German-language media outside the German language area includes the Wochenblatt.pl the Working Group International Media Assistance ( IMH ), the network of German foreign media.

History

For legal reasons, took place in April 1991, the renamed since 1990 as the first newspaper for the German minority in Poland appearing Upper Silesian news in Upper Silesian newspaper. This was associated with the collection at the official organ of the minority, which in March 1993 founded the " Silesiapress " GmbH for this purpose. From February 1995 to January 2011 was the title of Silesian weekly. The current circulation is about 6,500 copies, but each of which go back 20 to 30 percent.

Mid-2010, a merger of the newspaper office of the Silesian weekly paper has been announced with the television and radio editorial Pro Futura for 2011, the 2012 will be completed and will bring the dissolution of the former publisher, the publisher Silesiapress, with him. Inter alia produced per Futura the shipments Silesia and Silesia News Journal. The merger will be, inter alia, thereby use resulting synergies. Even before the merger completed editing a revision of the design and a change of name Silesian weekly paper in 2011 was done in weekly.

The name change of the long-standing title in weekly paper ( legal Wochenblatt.pl - this name is not communicated ) with simultaneous introduction of a new design was done with the output 980 ( 3/2011 ) of 14 - 20th January, whereby issues of relevance for all Germans in Poland are to experience a stronger emphasis. The district created by the Association of the German minority in Silesia in Racibórz Oberschlesische voice appears not since once a month with eight sides, but two weekly with four sides.