Süddeutsche Zeitung

The Süddeutsche Zeitung ( SZ abbreviation ) is the largest German national subscription daily newspaper with a circulation of 400 647 copies. It is published in the Süddeutsche Verlag in Munich, since it the Information Control Division of the American occupation forces in 1945 had issued a so-called " key opinion-leading " newspaper license to print.

Specific to the SZ is the weight that it accords, in recent years the culture. The features section immediately follows the political part. Besides the commentary side light up on the front page is the "Page 3" a special feature of the SZ, as it is written THE PAGE THREE. Here regularly appear great narrative and background articles. On the fourth side, the opinion page, you will find a daily written by famous authors of the SZ editorial. Also, Fridays seem a side dish with a selection of English-language article in the New York Times and the SZ-Magazin, a weekly supplement on Saturdays and Thursdays, for the support of the Munich region, the event leaflet SZ -Extra.

The SZ has domestically editorial offices in Augsburg, Berlin, Dresden, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Karlsruhe, Nuremberg, Regensburg and Stuttgart.

In summer 2005, German journalist called the Süddeutsche Zeitung in a large-scale survey as " the leading medium " number one - before the mirror. In the study journalism in Germany of the communication scientist Siegfried Weischenberg said 34.6 percent of 1536 representatively selected journalists that they attacked regularly for SZ, to obtain information or to find topics suggestions (multiple answers were possible).

• 3.1 History

• 4.1 Editors
• 4.2 Deputy Chief Editors
• 4.3 Known editors and authors
• 4.4 Major components of the SZ and SZ-Magazin

• 7.1 SZ Library and other products of the publishing house

• 8.1 Advent Calendar for good works of the Süddeutsche Zeitung eV
• 8.2 House of the Present

History

The Süddeutsche Zeitung considers itself the successor to the 1848 published until 1945 Munich Latest News. Several years ago, the historical name of the SZ was revived as the title of the local section.

The first issue appeared on Saturday, October 6th 1945 under license award No. 1 of the news controlling the military government Ost for the price of 20 cents. The blade is thus one of the newspapers of the licensed press. This first license for the publication of a newspaper in Bavaria after the Second World War, was granted August Schwingenstein, Edmund Goldschagg and Franz Josef Schöningh.

From the foreword on page 1 of the first edition:

In August 1949, the SZ uncommented published the letter to a person who used the pseudonym Adolf Bleibtreu. This was taken with regard to the Jews the regret expressed that " we do not all gassed ". A demonstration of applied Holocaust survivors against the SZ, where also flew paving stones, scattered the Bavarian police with the baton.

Development since 2000

Since the crisis began in the advertising market of daily newspapers in 2000, the situation deteriorated rapidly the SZ. It had new partners are brought on board: With 18.75 percent bought the West German media holding ( Stuttgarter Zeitung, etc.) in the SZ issuing Süddeutsche Verlag, which, in turn, to approximately 44 percent of the Media Union GmbH Ludwigshafen ( Rhein Pfalz, etc. ) belongs. But the North Rhine-Westphalian issue had to be discontinued for reasons of cost, as is the youth supplement now. There were numerous layoffs. The economic situation has since reversed: the deficit in 2002 amounted to 76.6 million euros; 2003 we had a surplus of 0.6 million euros and 2004 re- increase of 37.1 million euros.

The SZ-Magazin became embroiled in May 2000 in a scandal after it was revealed that the magazine had published fake celebrity interviews by journalist Tom Kummer. Woe questionable relationship with the relationship between reality and fiction (see borderline journalism ) had been known for some time.

A serious reshuffle saw the feature editorial in the spring of 2001 First alternated four well-known feature - editors of the Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung. Franziska Augstein, Thomas Steinfeld, Ulrich Raulff and Lothar Müller. As usual in such cases, the person concerned did not comment on the dismissals. Other commentators suspected an increasing discomfort of the editors on the leadership style of FAZ editor and feature - manager Frank Schirrmacher. For this was already the third round of termination under the aegis Schirrmacher.

In return, SZ- chief Hans Werner Kilz had its part to accept an exodus of profiled Feuilleton editors after only a few weeks in March 2001. With department head Claudius Seidl, Niklas Maak, Georg Diez, Edo Reents, film critic Michael Althen and the media boss Alexander Gorkov left a "very close-knit group in the arts section of the SZ " the house and went to the FAZ. Kilz responded by setting young writers like Alex Rühle and Sonja Zekri.

Along with the news magazine Der Spiegel and the newspapers of the Axel Springer AG announced the Süddeutsche Zeitung beginning of August 2004 for their return to the classical spelling of what the FAZ had already decided in August 2000. In 2006, the SZ- editors spoke with FAZ and mirrors to a common conservative interpretation of the new Duden from, the first is in its 24th edition in many cases back to the old letters and / or these " recommends" using the yellow colored deposit. Since then, the principle applies in the SZ: old letters, where it is permissible according to Duden; is new, where the old no longer allowed or no longer listed.

In July 2006, reported among others in the industry service kress, the SZ planning to launch a Sunday edition, these plans were laid in November 2008 for an indefinite period on ice.

In November 2006, the SZ lost along with the FAZ a lawsuit against the literary magazine pearl. The newspapers filed a lawsuit against the resale of the summaries of their literature reviews on the online bookseller buecher.de, which they saw violated their copyrights.

From 2007, the magazine publishing company Süddeutsche Zeitung (MVG ) is responsible for all magazines and supplements.

Effective February 29, 2008 sold four of the five remaining shareholder families in December 2007, their share of the publishing house of the SZ to the West German media holding company, so that their share ramps up to a total of 81.25 percent.

Accordingly, the composition of the " editorial board of the Süddeutsche Zeitung " changed. It now has: Eberhard Ebner ( spokesman for the group Wurttembergischer publishers), John Friedmann (Chairman), Thomas Schaub ( Media Union) and Christoph Schwingenstein. The editorial board " determines the fundamental substantive orientation and appearance of the Süddeutsche Zeitung and falls important personnel decisions " (according to SZ of 13 March 2008).

For July 9, 2012 the layout was revised, with paper size and line spacing maintained and the previous Helvetica, Times and Excelsior have been replaced by corporate fonts.

Support development

The Süddeutsche Zeitung was bucking the trend of many other newspapers in the past decade, stabilize their circulation. Paid circulation has declined by 3.1 percent since 1998. The proportion of subscriptions on paid circulation is 71.7 percent.

Development of sold copies

Süddeutsche.de

Süddeutsche.de (formerly sueddeutsche.de ) is the Internet portal of the Süddeutsche Zeitung. The articles are made up of own contributions from the Süddeutsche.de editors, from texts that are taken over by the Süddeutsche Zeitung and from agency reports.

On 18 December 2006 launched the web portal for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, then still sueddeutsche.de, with new design, concept and editor. By 2006, Helmut Martin Jung was editor in chief, he was succeeded by Hans- Jürgen Jakobs, who previously headed the media side of the Süddeutsche Zeitung. In December 2010, Stefan Plöchinger new Chief Editor. Since 2006, the editorial staff has grown to 25 permanent staff editors and more than ten overallists. In November 2011, the site had 35,085,245 visits and 189,821,740 page views. The end of 2013 should receive a paywall Süddeutsche.de.

History

On the 50th birthday of the Süddeutsche Zeitung launched on 6 October 1995 the Internet version under the name " SZonNet ". The project went from SZ- Text Archive (now DIZ - Documentation and Information Center Munich) under the direction of Schmitt from Hella. At the beginning there were no own editors, but selected contents of the print edition have been taken. 1996 wrote Oliver Bantle from the SZ- Science Department, the first journalistic online concept. This Focus on science went online in the fall of that year with Angelika Jung - Huettl as an editor. They created the first journalistic content that were not in the newspaper. Editorial responsibility lay with the then leader of the SZ Science Department, Martin Urban. In the spring of 1998, the travel journal went into the net. Wenke Hess wrote the concept and implemented it as an editor.

The economic management, first went to the SV Tele Radio GmbH, later on the SV New Media GmbH, whose Managing Director Gerhard Andreas Schreiber was, both subsidiaries of the Süddeutsche Verlag. Prior to the 1998 election the focus was policy online. It was designed under the leadership of Heribert Prantl, head of domestic policy and now also a member of the Editorial Board. The editors were Oliver Bantle ( internal politics ) and Thomas Becker (Foreign Policy). Messages, files, interviews and commentary complemented the leaf. The online articles were under the editorial responsibility of the political departments of the newspaper. In 1999, a cultural magazine of Bernd Graff into the net. The conversion of the former Fax Service SZ- financial in an online business editor with Paul Katzenberger, Hans von der Hagen, Martin Hesse and other editors led to a significant increase in the newsroom.

With Patrick Illingerstraße the online edition was in 2000 for the first time a chief editor; the editorial was renamed sueddeutsche.de. Helmut Martin -Jung was the first managing editor. During this time, Susanne Herda and Nicola Holzapfel came to the editorial office. At the same time the number of technical staff increased at the supervising SV subsidiary South -Data. The increased number of employees and the increased space requirements associated meant that the editors put on the cattle market in rented office spaces. After staff reductions Illingerstraße left the online edition at the end of 2001, on the editor in chief items followed him CvD Helmut Martin -Jung after. Strategic considerations led to the end of 2006, the size of the team to increase again under the new editor Hans- Jürgen Jakobs. Jacob remained until the end of 2010, chief editor of suedddeutsche.de - he took over after the division line of the business section of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, together with Marc Beise. In February 2011, Stefan joined Plöchinger, the Spiegel Online came, his work as the new Chief Editor of sueddeutsche.de to.

Since 10 December 2007 sueddeutsche.de limited, the comment of online articles on the period from Monday to Friday 8 to 19 clock. In support sueddeutsche.de stated, the comments of the " Suedcafé " members would be "frozen" outside of these hours, there is no moderation was possible. In order to raise the quality of discussion, a stronger facilitation of pages of the newspaper was necessary. The SZ was responding to a ruling by the Landgericht Hamburg, which prescribes to control advance comments on controversial topics. It is criticized that the part of the editors, readers comments are also often not taken seriously, when reference is made to clear error in the annotated reports. However, this purpose is available for every article, a contact form, which should be used for such cases.

In early 2012 the site was renamed Süddeutsche.de and the logo adapted to the writing of the Süddeutsche Zeitung. On November 26, 2012 was a comprehensive redesign; Since then the typeface of the printed output can also be used for the online presence.

Employee

Editors

• Werner Friedmann (1951-1960)
• Proebst Hermann (1960-1970)
• Hans Heigert (1970-1984)
• Dieter Schröder (1985-1995)
• Gernot Sittner (1989-2006)
• Hans Werner Kilz (1996-2010)
• Kurt Kister (2011 -present)

Deputy Chief Editors

• Wolfgang Krach
• Heribert Prantl ( Member of the Editorial Board )

Well-known editors and writers

• Franziska Augstein
• Immanuel Birnbaum († 1982 Head of Foreign Policy)
• Thilo Bode ( foreign correspondent )
• Constanze von Bullion ( correspondent for Berlin and Brandenburg)
• Rudolph Chimelli ( reporting and analysis )
• Matthias Drobinski (internal political editor for churches and religious communities )
• Karin Friedrich (1953-1992 social issues in the local section )
• Holger Gertz (page -3 reporter and sidelight Author)
• Axel Hacke ( columnist, book author )
• Hans Heigert († 2007 Editor in Chief )
• Hans Leyendecker ( investigative journalist )
• Joachim Kaiser ( music and theater critic)
• Ursula von Kardorff (* 1911, † 1988, journalist and publicist, from 1946 to 1988 worked for the SZ)
• Hans Ulrich Kempski († 2007 Reporter)
• Stefan Kornelius ( Head of Foreign Policy)
• Franz Kotteder ( Culture and reports )
• Andrian Kreyenfeld ( line feature )
• Lothar Müller ( critic in the arts section )
• Ernst Müller -Meiningen junior ( 1946-79 )
• Christoph Neidhart ( Japan and South Korea correspondent )
• Nikolaus Piper (Ex - Head of Economics, author )
• Peter Pragal (Western correspondent in East Berlin 1973-79 )
• Heribert Prantl ( Head of Domestic Policy, author )
• Annette Ramelsberger ( Head of Department Bavaria, book author )
• Herbert Riehl -Heyse († 2003 Reporter)
• Gustav Seibt ( feuilleton editor )
• Thomas Steinfeld ( line feature )
• Rainer Stephan (Ex - sidelight author, book author )
• Hermann Unterstöger ( columnist, language critic )
• Thomas Urban (Eastern Europe correspondent, author )
• Carlos Widmann ( freelance writer )
• Johannes Willms
• Willi Winkler
• Joachim Käppner

Known components of the SZ and SZ-Magazin

• The daily grazing light on the top left on the front page
• Page 3 - Daily report on changing themes on the third page of the newspaper
• Opinion page - comments are marked as opinion and published by the news separately on this page.
• Garnish with excerpts from the New York Times every Friday
• Russia Today quarterly supplement

Political orientation and editorial independence

According to her, the Süddeutsche Zeitung editorial statute seeks " free and democratic society forms by liberal and social principles ." She is described as "moderate left".

According to information from the Lobbyismusagentur Deekeling Arndt Advisors the German Atomic Forum took effect on the date of publication of a potentially nuclear- critical report in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. The originally planned publication on the association between childhood cancer and nuclear power plants to have been shifted to a time after the 2009 federal election. Heribert Prantl, a chief editor of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, denied on demand, that there had been such an influence.

Layout

In the early years from 1945, the Süddeutsche Zeitung had usually only a circumference of 4-6 pages, and therefore used a 6-point font in five columns to accommodate a lot of text. Headings were initially set in Fraktur National, as no alternatives were available.

In the 1950s, the Süddeutsche Zeitung then received their characteristic appearance with Excelsior as the main font and sans serif headlines, the latter only in Gill Sans and from 1965 in Helvetica. Some text elements were also set in Times. The characteristic structure of the first pages, with a report on page 3 and editorials, commentaries and cartoons on page 4 was introduced in the mid 1960s by the then editor in chief Hermann Proebst. The lead sentence in 1984, replaced by phototypesetting and since 1987, an editorial system will be used. In June 1988, the Süddeutsche Zeitung moved to the larger Nordic format, now with 6 columns of text.

On 9 July 2012, the layout has been changed in many details. The main text has since been set text in the newly developed by Henning Skibbe and Nils Thomsen font SZ, which was derived from the Excelsior. For headlines since the matching, newly developed SZ Sans being used. These new fonts can now be used on digital editions, and replace many of the up to 20 journals that were previously available on some front pages.

Related Publications

In addition to the print edition of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, there are still published in various media

• The Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin always appears on Fridays as a supplement of the Süddeutsche Zeitung.
• Jetzt.de, the youth page and website of the Süddeutsche Zeitung
• Süddeutsche Zeitung Audio: Articles and commentary from the Süddeutsche Zeitung to Listen and Download
• Süddeutsche newspaper archive with all editions of the Süddeutsche Zeitung since 1992, archive search and research service.
• Süddeutsche Zeitung TV: under the title " Süddeutsche.TV " (formerly "S- Zett " ) are broadcast since 1993 in a dctp windows program on VOX magazine programs and reports.
• Süddeutsche Zeitung Knowledge: From December 11 2004 to 22 May 2009 appeared monthly the knowledge magazine SZ knowledge. with the claim, prepare scientific topics understandable. The adjustment was based on the lack of prospect of sustained economic success due to declining advertising revenues and not according to expectations, support development.

SZ Library and other products of the publishing house

Under the pressure to open up new revenue sources, broke new ground with various marketing measures. Were encouraged these activities, which are referred to as product line expansion, of similar actions in Italy and Spain. The most successful, first launched in 2004 as a test, was the establishment of a Süddeutsche Zeitung library ( " 50 great novels of the 20th century " on a weekly basis ), which was launched with branchenunüblichen conditions:

• Designation of the series based on real rankings as time library.
• Offer of the first volume to each purchaser or subscribers of SZ on 20 March 2004.
• Very low price compared to those in the book industry usually calculated prices: less than 5 euros for hardbound books.
• Expensive consumer advertising: weekly multiple four-color ads and ad paths in the SZ and SZ-Magazin; during the year then also ads in other magazines ( Brigitte, mirrors, etc. ), which usually can not be calculated for the low -priced goods " book" in this massing.
• Mixture of best sellers and long sellers ("Name of the Rose" ) with more favorable licenses ( obsolete edition of Kafka's "Amerika" ).
• Placement on the market as a high-quality selection with canon character through editorial put up advertising on the first page and the first page of the arts section of the respective Saturday edition, the publication date of the respective band; additional " editorial " advertising the day before. As authors acted the editors of the SZ, which are said that they had compiled the original big license shopping list.
• The benefit of all outlets that are available to a newspaper distribution: mainly kiosks, petrol stations, kiosks and bookstores.
• Interested license purchases for the rightholders with the argument of the earth; thus reducing the risk, if a title should probably sell worse. There were 80,000 complete series, even sold a total of more than 11 million books. In Austria, this series was also expelled under the same name, here from the daily newspaper Der Standard on which the Süddeutsche Verlag was involved until 2008 with 49 percent.

Starting with Breakfast at Tiffany's ( Truman Capote ) is stopped from 21 April 2007, a further 50 volumes on ( per one euro more expensive).

Following the same pattern, a CD -Klassik edition was launched on 20 October 2004, the Emperor Piano, a collection of 20 CDs, will be discussed at the 14 pianists such as Daniel Barenboim, Alfred Brendel and Glenn Gould by the music critic Joachim Kaiser. This activity is accompanied by additional radio stations. Until April 2005 here 75,000 editions were sold. The SZ Classic has been extended to the end of October 2006 century violinist, recordings of 16 great violinists.

With these additional activities that make the same advertising among potential target groups, the SZ redeemed in 2004, additional sales of 26 million euros (SZ 23 April 2005).

On 5 March 2005, the SZ- Cinematheque launched, a collection of 100 movies by great directors on DVD. Accompanying is in the weekend edition of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the current film of known individuals from the world of film, as discussed, for example Caroline Link and Volker Schlöndorff. Everything happens according to the pattern of SZ Library including free copy at the start of every buyer. Here to mid-April 2005 already 20,000 complete series and a total of 600,000 DVDs were sold. ( For a critical assessment of this collection see article movie history. ) Meanwhile, the Cinematheque has been added to the SZ- boy Cinematheque, SZ- Cinemathek screwball comedy, SZ- Cinemathek Série Noire, SZ- Cinemathek dream women, SZ- German thriller, SZ- political thriller and SZ Berlinale.

In June 2005, it went on with the SZ- disco, in September with the children's book series Young Library, in January 2006 with the SZ- crime library; it appeared in time for the 2006 World Cup, the SZ- WM library, sold the audiobook edition SZ Library, the narrator, in October 2006, the SZ- wine bar, the wine in the fall of 2006.

Under the heading Süddeutsche Zeitung Edition wide variety of books are brought to the market, partly consisting of secondary use of editorial work ( raking light, reports from page three).

With the Süddeutsche Zeitung library (since 2007: Süddeutsche Zeitung Shop) an online mail order company was set up, selling the above objects, bypassing the trade directly to the end customer.

In the spring of 2011 ( including, but Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi ) published for the first time ten volumes of Südddeutsche Newspaper Library graphic novels, followed by a further ten volumes in 2012 ( including, but Sandman by Neil Gaiman ). The series was told in March of the following year a sequel to eight new volumes in which Detectives were presented ( including, but From Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell).

Other publishing projects

Advent Calendar for good works of the Süddeutsche Zeitung eV

1948 initiated Werner Friedmann fundraiser of the Süddeutsche Zeitung support needy families and individuals who are appealing for donations in the SZ every year before Christmas. From 1953 to 1959, and in the 1970s had Karin Friedrich the management of the SZ- relief operation. In 2008, almost 5.6 million euros from readers of the Süddeutsche Zeitung were donated for a good cause.

Home of Today

The home of today is the result of an architectural competition of the same name and an experimental residential building on the site of the National Garden Show 2005 in Munich, in cooperation with the City of Munich, the Bavarian construction GmbH and the mining company land conservation Bayern eV as a non-profit project by the Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazine realized.

Winners of the Süddeutsche Zeitung in journalism awards

Theodor Wolff Prize

Henri Nannen Price

• 2005: sidelight
• 2005: Freddie Röckenhaus, along with Thomas Hennecke by Kicker sports magazine
• 2006: Kurt Kister
• 2007: Markus Balser, Hans Leyendecker, Klaus Ott
• 2010: Marc Baumann, Martin Langeder, Mauritius Much, Bastian Obermayer, Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, special award for the contribution of "Letters from the Front"

Guardian Prize of the German daily press

• 2001: Special Award for Hans Leyendecker
• 2003: Tomas Avenarius
• 2007: Hans Leyendecker and Nicolas Richter
• 2013: Christina Berndt, together with Jürgen Gückel from Göttingen Tageblatt and Heike hair Hoff of the newspaper ( taz)

Axel Springer Prize

• 2006: Steffen Kraft
• 2007: Editorial Team Jetzt.de

Grimme Online Award

• 2006: Jetzt.de

Süddeutsche Zeitung and high-rise debate

In 2004, the SZ was itself the subject of local political conflicts in Munich. It was about the new corporate headquarters in Munich Zamdorf. The building should arise as a skyscraper. Against the urban impact of this and other high-rises, however, a citizens' initiative locked to the ex - Mayor George Kronawitter and Hans- Jochen Vogel. An initiated by referendum they finally brought on 21 November 2004 the decision: With 50.8 percent of votes decided the Munich, that in the city no high-rise may be higher than the Frauenkirche. For the Süddeutsche Verlag, this meant that the plans for the corporate headquarters were again knocking down. The SV- skyscraper was eventually built to a height of 99.95 meters.

Paid circulation of daily newspapers in Munich

Distribution of daily newspapers in Munich