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Aachener Zeitung
Building of the Aachener Zeitungsverlag at the Dresdener Straße in Aachen
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatRhenish
PublisherZeitungsverlag Aachen
Editor-in-chiefBernd Mathieu
Founded1946 (1946)
LanguageGerman
HeadquartersAachen
Websitewww.aachener-zeitung.de
Building of the Aachener Zeitungsverlag at the Dresdener Straße in Aachen

Aachener Zeitung (lit. Aachen Newspaper, AZ) is a daily newspaper published in Aachen, Germany. It is printed, alongside the daily de [Aachener Nachrichten], by the de [Zeitungsverlag Aachen] in the Rhenish format.

History

The AZ was founded in 1946 as Aachener Volkszeitung by Jakob Schmitz, de [Josef Hofmann (polititian); Josef Hofmann], de [Albert Maas] and Johannes Ernst, first printed on 22 February 1946. It was the first free paper published by Germans after World War II. The paper was printed initially only two or three times a week, but daily from 1 September 1949 every working day. The paper was named Aachener Zeitung on 6 March 1996.

Bernd Mathieu is the current editor-in-chief, of the Aachener Zeitung from 1995 and of the Aachener Nachrichten from 2003.[1] He is a member of the jury of the journalism prize Theodor Wolff Prize.

Awards

Journalists of the Aachener Zeitung and the Aachener Nachrichten were awarded prizes:

  • Medienpreis Entwicklungspolitik 1997: Manfred Kutsch, Kleine Hände, krumme Rücken
  • Theodor Wolff Prize 2007, Marlon Gego, Am Ende der Illusion
  • (nomination) de [Nannen Prize] 2010: Oliver Schmetz and Stephan Mohne, category Investigation
  • European Newspaper Award, several times, last in 2012

References

  1. ^ "Interview mit Bernd Mathieu – Aachener Zeitung / Aachener Nachrichten" (in German). Netzwirtschaft. Retrieved 10 November 2016.
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