Luxemburger Wort
Luxembourgish daily newspaper
Luxemburger Wort
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Type | Daily newspaper |
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Owner(s) | Saint-Paul Luxembourg S.A. |
Founded | 23 March 1848 |
Political alignment | Catholic |
Language | German |
Headquarters | 2, rue Christophe Plantin, Luxembourg City |
Circulation | 66,158 (2013) |
Website | www.wort.lu |
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Luxemburger Wort is a German-language Luxembourgish daily newspaper . There is an English edition named the Luxembourg Times . [1]
History and profile
Luxemburger Wort has been published since 1848. [2] The paper was founded just three days after press censorship was abolished. The newspaper is mainly written in German, but includes small sections in both Luxembourgish and French. [2] The paper is part of the Saint-Paul Luxembourg S.A. [3] The paper is owned by the archbishopric and has a strong Catholic leaning. [4]
From its very foundation, the newspaper opposed the Volksfreund , founded by Samuel Hirsch , and the Judenrabbiner , as well as the subsidy for the Jewish congregation. In the period from 1849 to 1880, on average it published two anti-Semitic articles per week. [5]
From 1938, the newspaper opposed Nazi Germany. In 1940, after the German invasion of Luxembourg , the Luxemburger Wort was co-opted as part of the occupation. The director Jean Origer and the editors Batty Esch and Pierre Grégoire were arrested by the Nazis and sent to a concentration camp. Pierre Grégoire was the only one of them to survive imprisonment. [6] After the liberation of Luxembourg, the paper produced the headline: Lëtzebuerg as fräi! ("Luxembourg is free!"). At the same time this was one of few editions that appeared entirely in Luxembourgish; the publishing house also changed its name from German into French as a symbolic act.
After André Heiderscheid's replacement as editor-in-chief by Leon Zeches, the latter sought to 'de-ideologise' the newspaper and to distance it more strongly from the Christian Social People's Party . [7] For example, the paper increasingly started to report on initiatives, debates and congresses of other political parties as well. [7]
From 17 March 2005 to 21 March 2008, the paper called itself d' Wort: Luxemburger Wort für Wahrheit und Recht . [8]
In the period of 1995–1996 Luxemburger Wort had a circulation of 85,000 copies, making it the best-selling paper in the country. [9] The circulation of the paper was 83,739 copies in 2003. [3] In 2006 its circulation was 79,633 copies. [10] The paper had a circulation of almost 70,000 copies a day and a daily readership of more than 180,000 (print and e-paper) in 2007, [11] making it Luxembourg's most popular newspaper by both counts. [12]
Editors
- Edouard Michelis (1848–1854) [13]
- Nicolas Breisdorff (1854–1885) [13]
- Jean-Baptiste Fallize (1884–1887) [13]
- Andreas Welter (1887–1889) [13]
- Jean Origer (1924–1940) [13]
- German occupation 1940–1944
- Jean Bernard (1945–1958) [13]
- Alphonse Turpel (1958–1967) [13]
- André Heiderscheid (1967–1986) [13]
- Léon Zeches (1986–2009) [13]
- Marc Glesener (2010–2012) [13]
- Jean-Lou Siweck (2013–) [13]
Footnotes
- ↑ https://luxtimes.lu/
- 1 2 "Media" (PDF) . Grand Duchy of Luxembourg . Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 November 2014 . Retrieved 14 November 2014 .
- 1 2 David Ward (2004). "A Mapping Study of Media Concentration and Ownership in Ten European Countries" (PDF) . Dutch Media Authority . Retrieved 11 February 2015 .
- ↑ Romain Kohn (2003). "Luxembourg". In Ana Karlsreiter (ed.). Media in Multilingual Societies. Freedom and Responsibility . Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe . Vienna . Retrieved 22 January 2015 .
- ↑ Tanja Muller: „Nichts gegen die Juden als solche …“ (PDF; 1,1 MB) Forum für Politik, Gesellschaft und Kultur, No. 312, November 2011. p. 54ff.
- ↑ Edda Humprecht: Luxemburger Wort für Wahrheit und Recht. Institut für Medien- und Kommunikationspolitik.
- 1 2 Kollwelter, Serge; Pauly, Michel (October 2015). "Diskussionsforum Luxemburger Wort?" (PDF) . Forum (in German). 355 : 43–44.
- ↑ D' Wort: Luxemburger Wort für Wahrheit und Recht in the Zeitschriftendatenbank (ZDB)
- ↑ Media Policy: Convergence, Concentration & Commerce . SAGE Publications. 24 September 1998. p. 7. ISBN 978-1-4462-6524-6 . Retrieved 1 December 2014 .
- ↑ "List of represented titles" (PDF) . Publicitas International AG . 15 September 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 May 2015 . Retrieved 5 May 2015 .
- ↑ "d'Wort" (PDF) . Saint-Paul Luxembourg. 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 October 2007 . Retrieved 6 August 2007 .
- ↑ "Media pluralism in the Member States of the European Union" . European Commission . 17 January 2007 . Retrieved 6 August 2007 .
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Zeches, Léon (December 2014). "Fast so alt wie der Luxemburger Staat" (PDF) . ons stad (in German). No. 107. pp. 16–21 . Retrieved 3 September 2019 .
External links
Media related to Luxemburger Wort at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website (in English)
- Official website (in German)
- Official website (in French)
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