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 Luxemburger Wort head office | |
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Owner(s) | Mediahuis Luxembourg |
| Founded | 23 March 1848 |
| Political alignment | Catholic |
| Language | German |
| Headquarters | 2, rue Christophe Plantin, Luxembourg City |
| Circulation | 66,158 (2013) |
| Website | wort.lu |
Luxemburger Wort is a German-language Luxembourgish daily newspaper. There is an English edition named the Luxembourg Times. [1] It is owned by Mediahuis Luxembourg. [2]
Luxemburger Wort has been published since 1848. [3] The paper was founded just three days after press censorship was abolished. The newspaper is mainly written in German, but includes small sections in both Luxembourgish and French. [3] For many years from its founding until recently, the paper was part of the Saint-Paul Luxembourg S.A. [4] which was owned by the Archdiocese. The paper has a strong Catholic leaning. [5]
It is not known exactly how the Apostolic Vicar Jean-Théodore Laurent, who had been accused by the government of provoking the 1848 Revolution and had to leave the country six weeks later, brought about the creation of the newspaper. [6]
Nevertheless, Laurent wrote to his brother that they were making use of freedom of the press. [6] In 1948, the bishop Joseph Laurent Philippe described the foundation of the Luxemburger Wort as Laurent's last great act; the director of the seminary Georges Hellinghausen described Laurent's participation as decisive. [6] The new newspaper was an aggressive Catholic opposition newspaper and, in part, combative towards the liberal state. Its creation marked the true birth of political Catholicism in Luxembourg. [6]
From its very foundation, the newspaper opposed the Volksfreund , founded by Samuel Hirsch, and the Judenrabbiner, as well as the subsidy for the Jewish congregation. In the period from 1849 to 1880, on average it published two anti-Semitic articles per week. [7]
From 1938, the newspaper opposed Nazi Germany. In 1940, after the German invasion of Luxembourg, the Luxemburger Wort was co-opted as part of the occupation. The director Jean Origer and the editors Batty Esch and Pierre Grégoire were arrested by the Nazis and sent to a concentration camp. Pierre Grégoire was the only one of them to survive imprisonment. [8] After the liberation of Luxembourg, the paper produced the headline: Lëtzebuerg as fräi! ("Luxembourg is free!"). At the same time this was one of few editions that appeared entirely in Luxembourgish; the publishing house also changed its name from German into French as a symbolic act.
After André Heiderscheid's replacement as editor-in-chief by Leon Zeches, the latter sought to 'de-ideologise' the newspaper and to distance it more strongly from the Christian Social People's Party. [9] For example, the paper increasingly started to report on initiatives, debates and congresses of other political parties as well. [9]
From 17 March 2005 to 21 March 2008, the paper called itself d' Wort: Luxemburger Wort für Wahrheit und Recht. [10]
In the period of 1995–1996 Luxemburger Wort had a circulation of 85,000 copies, making it the best-selling paper in the country. [11] The circulation of the paper was 83,739 copies in 2003. [4] In 2006 its circulation was 79,633 copies. [12] The paper had a circulation of almost 70,000 copies a day and a daily readership of more than 180,000 (print and e-paper) in 2007, [13] making it Luxembourg's most popular newspaper by both counts. [14]
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