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page considers the DuMont Schauberg book and newspaper
publishing group.
It covers -
introduction
Cologne-based DuMont Schauberg - unrelated to the
former US DuMont broadcasting network discussed elsewhere
on this site - is a leading German regional newspaper
and book publisher. It has around 4% of the German newspaper
market but dominance in Cologne, with the two leading
dailies.
It
is controlled by the DuMont family and traces its origins
to the printery employed by Holy Roman Empire postmasters
the Thurn & Taxis family.
holdings
Newspapers and magazines include -
- Kölner
Stadt-Anzeiger
- Kölnische
Rundschau
- Köln
Express
-
Mitteldeutsche Zeitung
- Bergisches
Handelsblatt
- Kölner
Wochenspiegel
- Brühler
Schlossbote
- Wochenende
- anzeigen-echo
- Extra
Blatt
- Werbekurier
- Schaufenster
- Blickpunkt
am Sonntag
- Lokale
Informationen
- Blickpunkt
- Lokalanzeiger
- Werbepost
- Bergisches
Sonntagsblatt
- Sonntags
Post
Book
publishing imprints include -
- DuMont
Literatur
- DuMont
Kunst
The
group's printing interests include Halle-based Mitteldeutsche
Druck- und Verlagshaus.
DuMont has stakes in commercial radio broadcasters
- Radio
Köln
- Radio
Leverkusen
- Radio
Berg
- Radio
Rur
- Radio
Euskirchen
- Radio
Erft
-
Radio Bonn/Rhein-Sieg
It
also has a stake in commercial television station nrw
(North-Rhine Westphalia).
Studies
There are no major English-language studies of the DuMont
Schauberg group or its flagship publications.
The major German study is Kurt Weinhold's Verlag M.
Dumont Schauberg, Koln: die Geschichte eines Zeitungshauses
1620-1945, eine Chronik 1945-1970 (Cologne: Dumont
1969).
Chronology
1763 Gereon Schauberg becomes printer for Thurn- und Taxis
family's Kaiserlichen Reichs-Ober-Post-Amts-Zeitung
1802 Schauberg launches Kölnische Zeitung
1805 Marcus DuMont buys Kölnische Zeitung
and printery
1876 Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger launched as supplement
to Kölnische Zeitung
1949 Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger relaunched after
closure in 1945
1956 DuMont Buchverlag established
1957 magnum literary magazine launched
1964 daily Express launched
1966 magnum ceases
1990 takes stake in Halle Freiheit, renamed Mitteldeutsche
Zeitung
1995 AroPrint founded
1998 DuMont Literatur imprint established
1999 Schibsted launches Cologne free metro paper 20
Minuten Köln
2000 DuMont responds with Kölner Morgen
2001 DuMont Literatur und Kunst Verlag founded
2001 closes Kölner Morgen after Schibsted
closes 20 Minuten Köln
2002 closes new media specialist RegioInformation GmbH
2002 closes City-Guide Köln portal
2006 buys 25% of Haaretz
for €25m
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