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Abend Zeitung, shortly AZ, is a great Munich tabloid newspaper with regional and supraregional reporting. A regional edition is also published in Nuremberg.
History
Founded by Werner Friedmann, 16 June 1948 as a street selling newspaper. The goal was to provide a anchored in Munich tabloid newspaper to read, which also appeals to the intellectual circles. In consequence, the evening newspaper until today, for example, about one (compared with other tabloids) unusually large part of culture and a little longer texts.
Editor today Anneliese Friedmann and Dr. John Friedmann, the wife and son of the founder. Buser is CEO Ulrich, editor-in-chief since 2008 Arno Makowsky. The main distribution area of the nationwide newspaper is Munich, and the adjacent parts of Upper Bavaria. With the Nuremberg edition of the evening newspaper, the nordbayerische room supplies. The political attitude of the leaf is considered liberal.
Editors
- Walter Tschuppik (1948/49)
- Rudolf Heizler (1949 1961)
- Flade Udo (1961 1986)
- Uwe Zimmer (1987 2000)
- Kurt Röttgen (2000 2005)
- Michael Radtke (2005 2007)
- Arno Makowsky (2008)
Structure
One of the most famous authors of the evening newspaper counted Sigi summer, between 1949 and 1987 more than 3,500 columns wrote. Regular Kolumen write currently Munich Mayor Christian Ude, moderator Juergen fly, health expert Hademar bank Hofer, Django Asül comedian and film critic Ponkie. Daily appears in the local section of the newspaper a drawing of Franziska Bilek. Among the former employees of AZ include Helmut Fischer, Erich Böhme, Bernd Dost, Peter Glotz, Michael Graeter, Hans-Juergen Jacob, Michael Jürgs, Frank Plasberg, Marie Waldburg, Jan-Eric Peters, Andreas Petzold, Rafael Seligmann and Claus Strunz.
The AZ currently divided into seven departments:
- Politics, led by Anja Timmermann and Markus Jox
- Page 3 under the direction of Matthias Mouse and Michael grill
- Economy headed by Heiner winner
- Local headed by Georg Thanscheidt and Katharina Rieger
- Culture, headed by Volker Isfort and Adrian Prechtel
- Sports, headed by Gunnar Jans and Michael Schilling
- Living under the leadership of Michael Henry and Timo Lokoschat
Deputy chief editors are Gunnar Jans and Georg Thanscheidt. Heads of service are Charles Dittrich, Gerrit fist and Annette Zoch.
Weekly published a leisure part, a travel section, a real estate section, an automotive magazine, the movie-reporting "CinemAZ" and the magazine AZ 50plus. In every issue there is a service site, which is the subject turns Money & Rights, nature, family, health, knowledge (in cooperation with the TV world of wonder) and Digital dedicated. Through a daily "dialogue" trying to AZ, communication with the reader and to the readers-sheet loyalty.
In recent years, the Munich evening newspaper - like many other newspapers - Circulation lost. The AZ now has a range of about 320,000 readers (Media Analysis 2006). The circulation of the total output is around 225,000 copies (IVW IV/2006). It lost the evening newspaper compared to the fourth quarter of 1998, approximately 16.5 percent of their sales edition. Strikingly for a tabloid newspaper is that a relatively large part of the edition distributed through subscriptions and the readership a relatively high income and education levels.
References
- Christian Adler, Munich Abendzeitung 2003 - 2003