Nacht-Express

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Nacht-Express
TypeDaily newspaper
PublisherExpress-Verlag, G.m.b.H
Founded7 December 1945
Language German
Ceased publication30 April 1953
City East Berlin
CountryEast Germany
OCLC number 11992519

Nacht-Express was a daily tabloid newspaper published in East Berlin, East Germany, between 1945 and 1953. It was one of the five East German newspapers of which licenses were owned by non-partisan or non-official individuals.

History and profile

Nacht-Express was first published in Berlin on 7 December 1945. [1] [2] Its license holder was a private individual who had no party affiliation or no governmental post. [3] Therefore, the paper was allegedly independent. [4] The publisher of Nacht-Express was Express-Verlag, G.m.b.H based in East Berlin. [1] The paper sold 250,000 copies in its first year. [5] Nacht-Express was an evening newspaper which focused on entertainment-oriented news. [2] [3] It rarely covered public affairs and political news. [3] In the front page it featured world news which was taken from Soviet sources, British sources, Associated Press and United Press. [4] The paper had detailed sections for sports and for the fiction, criticism, or light literature. [2] Paul Wiegler was the editor of the latter section. [2]

Rudolf Kurtz was the founding editor-in-chief of the paper. [2] One of the contributors was Hannolore Holtz who wrote on cultural and entertainment news. [6] The paper ceased publication on 30 April 1953. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Catalogue. Nacht-Express". Library of Congress. Retrieved 9 May 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Wolfgang Schivelbusch (1998). In a Cold Crater Cultural and Intellectual Life in Berlin, 1945–1948. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. pp. 166–168. ISBN   978-0520203662.
  3. 1 2 3 Maryellen Boyle (1992). Capturing journalism: Press and politics in East Germany, 1945-1991 (PhD thesis). University of California, San Diego. pp. 80–81. ISBN   979-8-207-71090-7. ProQuest   303985575.
  4. 1 2 W. Phillips Davison (Spring 1947). "An Analysis of the Soviet-Controlled Berlin Press". Public Opinion Quarterly . 11 (1): 41, 46. doi:10.1093/poq/11.1.40 (inactive 26 September 2025).{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of September 2025 (link)
  5. ↑ H.W. Paul (February 1959). "Propaganda in the East-German Democratic Republic". Gazette. 5 (1): 61. doi:10.1177/001654925900500106. S2CID   145717879.
  6. ↑ Deborah Barton (2019). "In the Presence of the Past, in the Shadow of the "Other": Women Journalists in Postwar Germany". In Karen Hagemann; et al. (eds.). Gendering Post-1945 German History: Entanglements. New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books. p. 321. ISBN   978-1-78920-192-5.
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