Thüringische Landeszeitung
The Thuringian newspaper (in short: TLZ ) is the only daily newspaper still published from GDR times with full editorial in the new federal states, which did not emerge from a SED organ. Based in Weimar newspaper is part of the Spark Media Group, formerly WAZ media group belonging newspaper group Thuringia ( ZGT ) which also includes the Thüringer Allgemeine newspaper Ostthüringer Erfurt and Gera include. It has an estimated circulation. of around 41,000 copies.
History
The newspaper was founded in September 1945 with the permission of the SMAD Weimar by the Liberal Democratic Party politician Hermann Becker, who was her profiled ester publisher. The first issue appeared on September 24, 1945 in Weimar with the headline reconstruction through democracy - on the way to freedom. The TLZ then appeared in the entire state of Thuringia as a newspaper of the Liberal Democratic Party, but in only five issues in the months of September to October. As of December 12, 1945, approval of the SMAD for three editions per week could be achieved. The newspaper had a circulation of 50,000 copies, which was, however, reduced by the SMAD in May 1946 to 17,000. Before the then upcoming municipal and parliamentary elections, the local editions were prohibited. The TLZ still received only a fraction of the allocations to paper and printing capacity, received the SED newspapers. It was only in May 1951, the TLZ could appear five times a week. Its distribution area they retained even after the local government reform and the formation of the districts in East Germany in 1952, essentially.
The newspaper was published at the beginning in the traditional publishing Weimar rumen, which was still referred to by the expropriation of the Soviet occupation authorities so. In this until 1943, the General Thuringian newspaper Germany had appeared. The name of supported several traditional newspaper publishers TLZ made reference to this earlier paper. It had been founded in 1849 on the programmatic name of the revolution, was the second half of 1849, Germany, 1911-1920 Weimarische country newspaper Germany, 1921-1943 ( after emergence of Saxe- Weimar -Eisenach in the new state of Thuringia ) General Thuringian newspaper Germany.
The publisher and the Liberal Democratic Party member of parliament Hermann Becker placed on July 18, 1948 at the TLZ - title page a conference speech of the Jena Philosophy Professor Hans quiet course to the freedom of science. In connection with this, Becker was arrested by the NKVD and spent seven years in detention and forced labor in Vorkuta.
First editor in chief was Hans Klein, the on July 16, 1947 Erich Gaenschalz succeeded. This was removed from his post in December 1948 by the SMAD. As of December 19, 1948 Willy Klotz was editor in chief, as of February 2, 1949 Heinz Kostka.
From summer 1949, the TLZ to have differed little more of the SED newspaper The people in the way of their reporting. As a regional newspaper of the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany ( Liberal Democratic Party ), the TLZ subject during the time of the Soviet occupation zone and the GDR, like all other media censorship. In addition, the newspaper had as LDPD Party newspaper, but also because of the paper shortage in the GDR, to live with support limitations. The paper quota was allocated to 1989 by the district leadership of the SED. A new new TLZ subscription you usually received only after the death of former subscribers.
The TLZ turned from the outset especially to the educated middle class. The weekend supplement "meeting place" was in Thuringia newspaper landscape as a cult. She was double-sided created with breakage, and culturally interested Thuringian they had not infrequently in bound form in the " cupboard " alongside the classics. The cultural- political supplement appears today every Saturday in the TLZ.
After the political changes in 1990, the newspaper became independent. The Thuringian Latest news, the national newspaper of the block party NDPD and the Thuringian Tageblatt ( GDR CDU) were adopted in 1990. In parallel, the TLZ was acquired together with the Thüringer Allgemeine Zeitung and the Ostthüringer of the WAZ Media Group, which were summarized in the newspaper group Thuringia. In 1991, the merger with the Thuringian daily mail ( Wende newspaper ). The two chief editors Dieter Woiton ( TLZ ) and Hans Hoffmeister (since 1991 editor of Daily Mail ) remained equal until retirement Woitons. Since 1993 Hoffmeister is the sole editor in chief. In 1996, the TLZ the Thuringian branch of the daily newspaper of Lower Saxony Hessian General ( HNA), which appeared as a means German General with the regional editions of Eisenach press and the Eichsfelder Tageblatt in western Thuringia.
On March 1, 1994, the STS is presented with a new layout, in July 2000, launched the online platform tlz.de. The TLZ brought on the initiative of the chief editor Hans Hoffmeister out a now 15 - volume edition about villas in Thuringia, what Hoffmeister from the German National Committee for the monument monument Prize 2001. Hoffmeister was also the initiator of the association Friends of Weimar European Capital of Culture 1999. Uniquely in Thuringia are the caricatures of the newspaper, which come since 1992 by the famous cartoonist Nel ( Ioan Cozacu ).
The TLZ to date has nine regional editions, but not in every county of Thuringia. The main editorial office is based in Weimar. Local offices are also located in Weimar, Eisenach, Erfurt, Gera, Gotha, Heiligenstadt, Jena, and Mühlhausen / Bad Langensalza. Since 2010, the TLZ cooperates content reinforced with the other newspapers Thüringer Allgemeine (TA) and Ostthüringer newspaper ( OTZ) of the newspaper group Thuringia ( ZGT ). The Internet offers the three newspapers are congruent and in the print editions, a growing number of the item is exchanged.
Since September 1, 2013 Bernd Hilder is chief editor of the TLZ.