The mirror

This article treats the weekly newspaper The mirror. For further meanings, see Mirror (term clarifying).
The mirror
"DER SPIEGEL"-Titel 45/2004
"the SPIEGEL" title 45/2004
Description German weekly newspaper
Publishing house Mirror publishing house Rudolf August stone GmbH & CO. Kg
First edition 4. January
Feature way weekly
Sold edition
(IVW Q3/2005) 		1.113.078 copies
Range
(mA 2004) 		5,69 millions. Reader
Editor-in-chief Stefan Aust
Publisher NN
Web left mirror.de

The mirror is one the most well-known Weekly newspapers Germany. It calls itself as of "Germany the most meaning and of Europe present-strongest News magazine“. Per week approximately 1.1 million copies are sold on the average.

To a large extent recognition the mirror was once as organ of the investigativen journalism.

Table of contents

History of the magazine

Already before the First World War became of in a magazine under the name The mirror given change, those in November 1908 also Siegfried Jacobsohns Stagestage stage fused.

The first expenditure of the postwarMirror appeared to 4. January and the three of other crew powers protested against this form of the clearing-up, and got rid of of the Magazine, by it This week to the Germans delivered.

Rudolf August stone those received Publisher license and the magazine designated in The mirror over. From the first expenditure in January 1947 on was it Publisher and Editor-in-chief. The magazine appeared in the hannoverschen Indicator multistoried building. As publishers it remained active up to its death to 7. November 2002, but he firmiert still as official publishers. Present editor-in-chief is Stefan Aust. Austs contract was extended 2004 by further five years, but could reach the inheriting community at least that after three years can be quit to him.

The mirror publishing house

The publishing house has since its seat in in that Brandstwiete and there also that produces beside the main sheet Manager magazine. August stone ordered in its will at the end of 2002 that its inheriting none Check minority of 25 % to have may and shortened therefore their influence around a crucial per cent. 50,5 % of the portions of the publishing houseGetting thing "Rudolf August stone GmbH" are now in the possession of the limited partnership of the coworkers. The remaining 25.5 % that getting thing has that Hamburg medium company Gruner and year, a daughter that Bertelsmann AG. This reflects the ownership structure of the group of mirrors Family tree from January 2005 against: [ 1 ]

Development

Building of the group of mirrors in Hamburg

The magazine was from the outset disputed, already in the establishment phase came it to conflicts with the British Lizenzierungsstelle.

The mirror already possessed in the early and constitution phase a relatively large influence. After that Mirror affair the influence expanded; by those solid risen edition increased economic power, whereby also those rose journalistic power and the political influence. The mirror affair 1962 led to the fact that far circles, in special member of the recent generation and critical intelligence, engaged themselves for the week magazine and thus for the liberty of opinion and pressing (Peter Glaser).

In the era Christian Schultz Gersteins the culture part of the magazine had its high point.

After the appearance of the competition magazine Focus it came to clearly perceptible changes; the journalistic influence however was not substantially changed so far. Focus became conscious as Gegenpol and alternative to Mirror conceived; provable this is in particular at the political line and comparatively careful handling the indicator customers. Uli Baur, beside Helmut Markwort Editor-in-chief of Focus, seized the editorial line of Focus with reference to the well-known August stone word (...in the case of doubt left) clearly together: "if The mirror in the doubt left is, are we in the doubt right ".

Since center of the 90's, under the editor-in-chief Stefan Aust and possibly also under the impression of the competition, a turn of the mirror becomes too from observers neoliberalen Points of view registers. At the same time is partly reproached to the sheet to have become more boulevardesker whereby the articles were not substantially changed further in length and piece of news value. Similarly as the readership of the weekly paper The time the treatment of a topic in several contributions in the same booklet is not uniformly welcomed.

An inquiry under 1.in the spring 2005 it determined 536 German journalists that only still 33.8 % regard the sheet as their guidance medium, during for those South German newspaper 34,6 % votierten (focus 4.6 %). 1993 had tuned still two thirds of the asked journalists for the mirror as guidance medium.

Chronology

  • : The mirrorForerunner, This week, appears under British license and sells themselves very well; Edition: 1.500.
  • 4. January : The mirror, expenditure 1, appears in Hanover. Again rapid paragraph, sales is limited by British paper dispatchings; Edition: 15.000.
  • : The mirrorStatute.
  • : so mentioned Mirror committee: Bribery uncovering with Members of the Bundestag up; Tuning for instead of Frankfurt/Main as Federal Capital; Hearing of August stone as a witness, appointment to journalistic Professional secrecy over the confidential sources of the information.
  • Schmeisser affair : Hans's Konrad Schmeisser, former agent in the French secret service, had stated, Adenauer, Ministerialdirektor bright horn and Consul General Reifferscheid were for the French secret service actively and a French agent with secret messages supplied (Mirror, NR. 28/1952).
  • /: Hans Magnus Enzensberger analysis over The language mirrors
  • : Beginning of the debate around those Emergency acts, from later (, , (CDU) came out.
  • : Edition actually spread: 437.000 copies.
  • : Caused defense ready (based up Fallex 62) appears in The mirror NR. 41, and solve those Mirror affair out.
  • : Search of the MirrorPublishing house in and the editorship in Bonn; Warrants of arrest; Reproach: Suspicion of the Landesverrats, the nationaltraitorous Falsification and that assetbribery.
  • 7. November : Abyss of landesverrat in the country (Adenauer in the Bundestag)
  • 9. November : BVerfG, judgement: No provisional arrangement
  • Franz Josef bunch: They are the Gestapo in the Germany of our days [...] I was forced to act against it.
  • : Karl Jaspers, Where the Federal Republic floats; Jaspers practices sharp criticism to that Emergency acts, those the population in the case one outside state of emergency did not leave choice to refuse itself force and power. internal state of emergency cannot occur at all, because this contrary-runs the thought of a democratic state: The emergency act robs it the remaining legitimate from the people, then however no longer legal means of the resistance.
  • 5. August : MirrorDecision of the Federal Constitutional Court; Constitutional complaint of the Mirror fails.
  • : Those Emergency acts becomes part of the Basic Law.
  • : Edition actually sold: 953.000 copies.
  • THE MIRROR employs at the beginning of the 70's scarcely 900 persons employed, of it approximately 400 in the editorship, 100 in the documentation as well as scarcely 400 in the commercial and technical departments.
  • : Establishment of the manager of magazine, that of a subsidiary that MirrorGroup is published.
  • : Number of readers: approx.. 6 million - this corresponds approximately 12 per cent of all humans living in the FRG and Berlin West over 14 years.
  • Portion of the foreign edition of the total circulation: 10-15 per cent - The mirror a publication with intensive rezeption is abroad.
  • Edition actually sold: 923.000 copies.
  • Willy Brandt: A shitting sheet.
  • : Classification of a correspondent because of bad-willing injuries of the legislation that GDR.
  • : Locking of the office in the GDR after a critical reporting over obligationadoptions, which was laid out as interference into the internal affairs of the GDR.
  • years: High points of the investigativen journalism ':
  • : With 1.050.000 copies exceeds the actually sold edition for the first time the million-border.
  • Antje Vollmer: "at the end of the era August stone has The mirror at meaning lost and at power won ".
  • : First edition of Focus appears, to a hundred percent daughter of Burda; "Competition -, not Gegenmedium to the mirror" (Helmut Markwort). The mirror suffers from an edition minus of over 10% and a decrease of the sold indicator sides over over 12%.
  • : Number of readers: over 7 millions.
  • Diversification: Mirror TV, Mirror Special (1/5 of the conversion of 1996, 542 millions. DM).
  • THE MIRROR was in the first half-year 1996 the German magazine with the highest incomes from selling and Announcements; gross proceeds of 330,74 millions were obtained. DM, that is scarcely a million. more, than that Star (place 2) to obtain could and is likewise still present Picture on Sunday (place 3) and Focus (source: Kress report).
  • : 50. Birthday (= 2.649 expenditures).
  • Actualization of the layout: appears continuous colored.
  • 7. November : Death of the publisher Rudolf August stone
  • 6. August 2004: Together with that Axel Springer AG announces the publishing house, to the old German Orthography return to want, how it was laid down last in the Duden of the yearly 2000. A conversion of this announcement does not seem planned however.
  • 9. August: For the first time an expenditure with different title pages appears. On that Cover the magazine is in Cube to see, which is delivered in eight different versions. The three visible surfaces of the cube show each mark another eye number in each case. In accordance with the title topic "principle : The MIRROR exists from now on also as e-PAPER, as digital expenditure, which is completely alike to the expenditure for print.
  • 4. July 2005: Price increase around 40 cent on now 3,40 € (subscription 3,20 €). This is justified with general cost increase and sinking. In order to hold the quality of the magazine, this adjustment is necessary.

Mirror on-line one

Mirror on-line one became based. It belongs to a hundred percent daughter together with manager magazine on-line one to the SPIEGELnet AG. Its own editorship team, some provides the contributions by the press agencies is taken over. Some articles of the expenditure for print are also on-line available. Since drives Mirror on-line one a strict Austerity course. Authors are paid not after "mirror tariff", but after the own "mirror on-line tariff". Since calls of archives contributions are liable to pay the costs.

On-line ones are with exception of the title topic of parts later printed mirrors free of charge available, (not to confound with the liable to pay the costs e-PAPER). These articles appear in the following week also in the printed magazine.

Editor-in-chief is a conservatively oriented journalist Mathias Mueller von Blumencron.

The mirror in the criticism

. That did not prevent it however to publish in the magazine. In the 60's the magazine was called "picture newspaper for intellectual ones" - a defamation term, which is applied today to various printer certifications and which became the winged word in such a way.

The journalist and writer Erich Kuby published 1987 on the occasion of the 40-jaehrigen of existence a critical analysis of the news magazine under the title "the mirror in the mirror". Wolf cutter the magazine calls "the highest Verhunzer of the German language". As negative examples of bad German quotations from that play in its style booklets Mirror a large role. Those Mirror-on-lineColumn "bulb fish" the author Bastian crimp at present probably is the most well-known forum, in which cases of doubt of the German language are represented.

In the start time of AIDS turned out The mirror into the criticism, there it in interviews, z.B. with Peter Gauweiler and in published reader letters area for demands like the taetowierung of HIV infected humans and preventive mass internment of homosexuals gave. A motive, later of - just as disputed - the critical werbekampagnen of Benetton one took up. They were printed likewise numerously in the magazine.

Trivia

  • "only they kriegten a sheet for lieschen Mueller and were dissatisfied. Now they have a sheet for Dr. Lieschen Mueller and are dissatisfied.“
  • Of the "assault gun of the democracy" to the "spray gun that
     

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