Picture (in the way of writing of the publishing house PICTURE, today colloquially and in former times also officially picture newspaper) is one of the usually-criticized newspapers, in addition, the present-strongest newspaper of Europe. The boulevard sheet appears since 24 June 1952 in the Axel Springer publishing house.

History that picture

First edition

The first expenditure that picture appeared on 24 June 1952 with a total circulation of 250.000 copies. Model was the English DAILY Mirror. The first expenditure had four sides and was free of charge distributed, afterwards the sheet cost 10 Pfennig. The first Aufmacher read border with Helmstedt becomes secured!. Contentwise picture offered above all pictures, Horoskope and contemporary jokes. Contents and form were still far from the today's picture. The newspaper was called first "10-Pfennig picture newspaper". It was sold out to that-belly-load from street traders, who carried a white long raincoat, in addition a white cap with pulled up front, on which the name of the newspaper stood (this cap is today in Disney parks usual).

Adjustment to the market under editor-in-chief Rudolf Michael

Under editor-in-chief Rudolf Michael printed picture of fewer pictures and more text, the verbal eyecatcher, the headline, was introduced. Contentwise picture offered further human Interest topics and little politics. Starting from March 1953 the edition rose strongly.

Politics and picture

Under the conservative editor-in-chief Karl Heinz Hagen became politics in picture more importantly. The newspaper represented a strict anticommunism regarding the GDR and the states Warsaw Pact and stepped vehement against the German division into three parts ("three-divided - NEVER! ").

Picture as Kampagnenmacher

Under editor-in-chief Peter Boenisch gave it again to less policy and more people purchase. Picture took care of "the small man "and interspersed its complaints in reisserischen campaigns. Within six months the edition rose to four million copies.

1967 formulated Axel Springer four guidelines of the publishing house:

1. Absolute occurring for the re-establishment of the German unit and liberty.
2. The reconciliation of Jews and Germans.
3. The refusal of any kind of political extremism.
4. The affirmation of the free free-market economy.

After the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 in the USA as the fifth point the confession was added to the transatlantic partnership with the USA.

Picture and student unrests

End of the 1960er years polemisierte picture against students. Members of the student except-parliamentary opposition (APO) were called "registered mobilization ", "Politgammler ", "Radikalinskis ". 1966 recommended "police blows to picture on riot heads, around the possible still existing Grips to make loose ".

On 2 June 1967 the police dissolved by force a demonstration against the attendance of the Schah of Persia before the German opera in Berlin. The student Benno Ohnesorg was shot thereby in a backyard by a policeman. Picture reported only, it had given and directed a dead one the force reproach on the demonstrators. Their comment: "Students threaten: We shoot back" as well as "stop here the fun and the compromise and the democratic tolerance. We have something against SA methods." On the following day the population was asked for "assistance": "Help the police to find and switch the disturbers off."

On 11 April 1968 student leader became Rudi Dutschke of a worker and an admitting picture reader angeschossen. Heaviest unrests followed since the existence of the Federal Republic. Still in the same evening it came to demonstrations before the citizen of Berlin publishing house house, the distribution of the morning editions of the Springer sheets was blocked (action picture shot with). Among other things dissociated themselves the mirror, the time, trade unions and Social Democrats from Springer and the reproach, picture report partially on the 68er-Bewegung and the Viet Nam war, became loud.

Boycott against picture

The writer and investigative journalist Wallraff, which had worked for the purpose of the search several months long unidentified under the alias Hans Esser as a reporter for picture, the "picture" - manual an initiative against picture with justified its anti- picture Trilogie of the Aufmacher, witnesses of the accusation which are based on the made experiences and.

Also left German intellectual ones turned starting from 1980 against the products of the Axel Springer publishing house. Grass, Peter and Klaus Staeck did not justify the anti-picture campaign with the signature action "we work for Springer newspapers ". Further signers were Heinrich Boell, Habermas and hundreds of trade unionists and politicians. In its book the lost honour of the Katharina Blum converted Boell its own experiences with that picture to a critical novel.

Editors-in-chief

• 1952: Rolf of saved
• 1952-1958: Rudolf Michael
• 1958-1960: Oskar Bezold
• 1960-1962: Karl-Heinz Hagen
• 1961-1971: Peter "Pepe" Boenisch
• 1971-1980: prince; the quotation "I brought it simply in the sheet, which particularly interested me." attributed
• 1981-1988: Refuge Fust
• 1988-1989: Werner Rudi
• 1989-1990: Peter Bartels
• 1990-1992: Hans ago man Tiedje; it the quotation becomes "Draufhauen is better and better, all the same which the people feel." attributed
• 1992-1997: Claus Larass; it the principles "arouse no wrong emotions", "take the problems of the people seriously" and "in the heads order create" attributed
• 1998-2000: Udo 2001 said about its career in the boulevard press "behind me lie 30 years Galeere"
• since 2001: Dock Diekmann; it will the quotation "in my editorship can for everyone make, what I want" attributed

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