DER Spiegel

DER Spiegel
Periodicity Hebdommadaire
Kind General practitioner
Diffusion 1 076 000 ex.
Go back to foundation
Town of edition
Director of the drafting
Editor Stefan Aust
DER Spiegel
0038-7452


DER Spiegel (The Mirror) is largest and the most influential weekly magazine of investigation, created by in -.


Synopsis

Leading line

DER Spiegel is a large magazine of investigations and investigation . The model of Spiegel, but also its leading line is very similar with the titles américians such as Time or Newsweek. However, its articles are excavated than those of the latter. A number counts approximately 200 pages with a ratio contenu/publicity of 2 per 1.

History

The creation of the magazine

Couverture du premier numéro de Der Spiegel (1947)
Cover of the first number of DER Spiegel ()

With the initiative of the British occupant, a new weekly magazine, Diese Woche (This Week), the day for some numbers in November sees . But following a dissension with the British, the principal German editor, , recovers the magazine and the name gives him of DER Spiegel. The first edition of Spiegel is published saturdays 4 January with . Augstein then cumulates the functions of editor of the magazine (and this until its death it 7 November ) and of editor.

Afterwards , the magazine is the joint property of Augstein and John Jahr, then of Augstein and Richard Gruner (). In , Augstein repurchases the shares of Gruner for 42 million Deutsche Mark) and becomes the single owner. This situation does not last since Gruner and Jahr repurchase 25% of the title in . In , Augstein restructures the newspaper and proposes to the employees to become shareholders about it.

In , the free magazine to move into its own building with the c?ur of the old man .

Businesses and Scandals

Der Spiegel has a long tradition of investigation, in particular on the political m?urs, and calls itself Sturmgeschütz der Demokratie (the rifle of attack of the democracy). At the beginning of the Fifties, following a charge of Spiegel, the German federal Parliament sees constrained throw an investigation into the corruption of members of the Parliament at the time of the choice of (preferably with ) like sits of the German federal government.

This incident then cements the image of the magazine like sentinel of the democracy. In , DER Spiegel publishes an article concerning the low state of preparation of the German armed forces. The Minister for defense, Franz Josef Strauss, figure of the right-hand side of the time celebrates, launches then investigations on Spiegel. The offices of the magazine and that of Augstein are then ransacked by the police force and several journalists are stopped under the load of treason. Although it does not have any legal authority for that, Strauss is ensured even of the arrest of the author of the article, Conrad Ahlers, on the ground , during its holidays. Without legal base, this business shakes the government then of and Strauss are constrained with the resignation.

Spiegel is then seen like the bastion of the freedom of the press which makes fall the administration rather than to fold under the political pressure. Since, DER Spiegel played a very important part in many scandals and political businesses.

Critical

One of principal criticisms made with Spiegel relates to the language used by the magazine. It is indeed known to have developed its own journalese.

In the writer Hans Magnus Enzensberger publish its test " Die Sprache of Spiegels » (The language of Spiegel) in which he criticizes what he names one " pretended objectivity ». Wolf Schneider, one eminent journalist and linguist uses the quotations of the magazine as example of bad German style.

To counter this image, DER Spiegel recently joined the rows of the guards of language with the heading " Zwiebelfisch "of its Web site. This heading even generated a best-seller in bookshop.

Couverture du 30 octobre 2004)
Cover of )

Some criticize, in particular the biographer of Augstein and the writer Otto Köhler, old feather of the magazine, also reported bonds between Spiegel and of old (of former officers in particular). They reproach the magazine for having distorted historical reality and protected some of them in order to obtain information on while having, at another time, exposed the past Nazi of public personalities.

Certain politicians did not hide their aversions with respect to the magazine: Franz Josef Strauss called " Gestapo of our time "and the Socialist qualified it " Scheissblatt "(literally break into leaf of shit).

Development

The diffusion and the influence of Spiegel were fast. In , the magazine drew with 15 000 specimens. This pulling increased to 65 000 in then 437 000 in . In , it reaches a plate of 900 000 specimens. Since, its diffusion fluctuated a little but without much change. The barrier of the million readers is crossed in , probably because of the arrival of new readers of following reunification.

The influence of the magazine rests on two pillars. The first is the moral authority established by the journalism of investigation of the first years of Spiegel, reinforced by many scoops in the years them ). The second pillar is the power of the publisher of the Spiegel which diversified much: production of programs of television (since ), publication of monthly magazine To manage Magazin, publication of four out of the ordinary annual.

In , with the creation of the weekly magazine X-ray, centered on the right, Spiegel sees appearing its most dangerous rival.

Online Spiegel

The magazine on line Online Spiegel was created in . Initially accessible to the users from , the Web site is created approximately six months later. It rapidemment becomes the magazine on line more consulted in (in approximately 40 million visitors per month in ).

The contents, produced by a drafting specific to the site are supplemented by information resulting from other news services. The site proposes a selection of free articles on line and the remote loading paying of the magazine to the format Pdf. , an international version in English, "International Spiegel", is launched.

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