Weltwoche celebrates its 75th anniversary
Weltwoche has an anniversary to celebrate. The weekly newspaper has now been in existence for 75 years. In interviews, portraits, commentaries and anecdotes, Weltwoche reviews its history and great minds in an anniversary issue to be published on November 20.
Weltwoche has an anniversary to celebrate. The weekly newspaper has now been in existence for 75 years. Founded by Karl von Schumacher and Manuel Gasser during a train journey to Paris, Weltwoche was first published in November 1933. In an anniversary issue published on November 20, Weltwoche reviews its history and great minds in interviews, portraits, commentaries and anecdotes.
To mark its 75th birthday, the weekly magazine has also launched a new website. In future, digitized content from previous years will also be available on the website. Around one newspaper volume is digitally accessible for each decade.
Former editors-in-chief Jürg Ramspeck and Rudolf Bächtold, former features editors Hugo Lötscher, Peter Rüedi and Wolfram Knorr, and correspondents Peter Hartmann and Hanspeter Born all have their say in the anniversary edition of Weltwoche, which will be published on Thursday. The founder of the Society section in Switzerland, Margrit Sprecher, and people journalist Hildegard Schwaninger also bring 75 years of world history to life.
Three quarters of a century of "contentiousness and disrespect", as the publisher described Weltwoche in a press release, earned it a few refusals of congratulations. Zurich's mayor Elmar Ledergerber saw no reason to congratulate her. Likewise Doris Leuthard and Pascal Couchepin. Federal Councillors Hans Rudolf Merz and Moritz Leuenberger had at least signed off, as Weltwoche also reported.
To mark its 75th birthday, the weekly magazine has also launched a new website. In future, digitized content from previous years will also be available on the website. Around one newspaper volume is digitally accessible for each decade.
Former editors-in-chief Jürg Ramspeck and Rudolf Bächtold, former features editors Hugo Lötscher, Peter Rüedi and Wolfram Knorr, and correspondents Peter Hartmann and Hanspeter Born all have their say in the anniversary edition of Weltwoche, which will be published on Thursday. The founder of the Society section in Switzerland, Margrit Sprecher, and people journalist Hildegard Schwaninger also bring 75 years of world history to life.
Three quarters of a century of "contentiousness and disrespect", as the publisher described Weltwoche in a press release, earned it a few refusals of congratulations. Zurich's mayor Elmar Ledergerber saw no reason to congratulate her. Likewise Doris Leuthard and Pascal Couchepin. Federal Councillors Hans Rudolf Merz and Moritz Leuenberger had at least signed off, as Weltwoche also reported.
