Cock: Three times bankruptcy

Publishing houses Rüdiger Hahn's small empire is probably about to come to an end.All three of Hahn's companies have been declared bankrupt in recent months. In the case of one of the companies, RH Media GmbH in Oberlunkhofen AG, with which Hahn was active in sports sponsoring, the proceedings were already discontinued at the end of October for lack of assets. The situation was different at Vierwaldstätter Verlags GmbH in Lucerne, former publisher of the TV program guide TVvier: Here, bankruptcy proceedings were opened on June 27, 2007 and are still ongoing. Finally, at Printmedien Schweiz AG in Zug, through which Hahn published Schweizer Fernsehwoche from fall 2006 to April 2007, bankruptcy was not declared until October 25. It is likely that here, too, a discontinuation decision will soon be made due to a lack of assets. Hahn had already resigned from the board of directors of Printmedien Schweiz in February, and the company has been orphaned since June. Since then, the company has had an advisor who had deposited the balance sheet.
Nothing could be learned from the bankruptcy offices about the reasons that led to the almost parallel bankruptcy proceedings. And Hahn did not want to comment "for lack of time". Thus it also remains open what the situation is regarding his private debt-restructuring moratorium. He had applied for this in February 2007, whereupon his trustee requested a six-month extension in June.
Rüdiger Hahn is a dazzling figure of German origin. In 2001, he founded Vierwaldstätter Verlags GmbH and - to the shock of Ringier, Jean Frey and Tamedia - launched the low-cost program guide TVvier, which he was able to sell to Ringier in 2004. After a two-year ban on competition, he launched Schweizer Fernsehwoche, with which he had less success.
Markus Knöpfli