Lausitzer Rundschau

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Lausitzer Rundschau
Type Daily newspaper
Format Tabloid
Owner(s)LR Medienverlag und Druckerei GmbH
Founded20 May 1946;78 years ago (1946-05-20)
Language German
Headquarters Cottbus, Germany
OCLC number 269184555
Website Official website

Lausitzer Rundschau (German : Lusatian review) is a daily regional newspaper published in Cottbus, Brandenburg, Germany. It has been in circulation since 1946.

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History and profile

Headquarters of Lausitzer Rundschau Sitz der Lausitzer Rundschau.jpg
Headquarters of Lausitzer Rundschau

Lausitzer Rundschau was founded in Bautzen and first published with a cover price of 15 pfennigs, on 20 May 1946. [1] It was a regional media outlet of the East German ruling party, Socialist Unity Party, and the editor-in-chief was Paula Acker. [2] In 1952 the offices of the paper moved to Görlitz, the largest town in the Upper Lusatia region. [1] The paper consisted of eight pages. [1] On 5 August 1952 the paper moved to its current headquarters in Cottbus. [1] The paper was owned by the Socialist Unity Party before German reunification. [3] [4] In the mid-1950s Lausitzer Rundschau supported bilingual education in East Germany. [5] The paper was called Lügenrudi (German: Liar Tom) when it was published in East Germany. [4]

Following the unification the daily became part of the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. [3] [6] [7] The company also owned other newspapers, including Saarbrücker Zeitung . [8] [9]

As of 2012 Lausitzer Rundschau was published in tabloid format by a subsidiary of the Saarbrücker Zeitung Group, [10] [11] LR Medienverlag und Druckerei GmbH. [12] In September 2012 the majority share of Saarbrücker Zeitung Group was acquired by Rheinische Post Mediengruppe. [13] In April 2018 the LR Medienverlag und Druckerei GmbH was sold to the Ulm-based company Neue Pressegesellschaft which is part of the Ebner Group. [14]

The paper serves the states of Brandenburg and Saxony [10] and has 13 editions. [7] [15] Since 2 March 2006 LR-Woche, a free weekly tabloid, has been delivered with the paper. [16]

The daily publishes extensive reports on neo-nazi activity in the region. [10] The offices of Lausitzer Rundschau has been target for the attacks by right-wing extremists in Lübbenau and Spremberg. [10] [17]

In 2000 Simone Wendler became chief reporter who was awarded for her article entitled "graft and corruption in Cottbus?".

The circulation of Lausitzer Rundschau was 100,000 copies in January 1954. [1] In the second quarter of 2003 the paper sold 136,259 copies. [8]

By 2024, circulation dropped to 47,000 copies sold.

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