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The
Swiss Tamedia group is a newspaper and book publisher,
competing with Ringier and the
NZZ group.
the group
Tamedia is a public company based in Zurich. A dominant
interest is held by the Coninx family.
It operates in four business sectors: newspapers, magazines,
electronic media (radio, television, online), printing
& logistics.
It was founded by German printer and publisher Wilhelm
Girardet (1838-1918), who had expanded from printing works
in Essen to launch the General-Anzeiger in Leipzig,
Elberfeld, Hamburg, Chemnitz, Düsseldorf and Duisburg
in 1886, the General-Anzeiger für Hamburg-Altona
in 1888 and the Neue Hamburger Zeitung in 1895.
In 1893 he joined with nephew Hugo Isenburg, Fritz Furrer
and former Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ)
editor Fritz Walz to form a partnership in Zurich, launching
the Tages-Anzeiger that year. Otto Coninx married
Wilhelm's daughter Berta in 1905 - becoming Coninx-Girardet
- and gained control of the Tages-Anzeiger during
the next decade before becoming a Swiss citizen in 1926.
Girardet's son retained control of the family's German
printing and publishing interests.
Otto's son Werner (1911-1980) directed the Swiss interests
for much of last century, rewarded with the revenue that
allowed him to build one of Switzerland's finest private
art collections (much of which is now housed in the Coninx
Museum).
The Tamedia corporate site is here.
studies
There are no major English-language studies of Tamedia.
Werner Coninx features in Max Frisch's novel Montauk
A valuable resource for the group's free daily newspaper
activity is provided by Piet Bakker's Free Newspaper research
site.
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