Der Postillon

Der Postillon
Ehrliche Nachrichten – unabhängig, schnell, seit 1845 (honest news, independent, quick, since 1845)
Type Parody news organization
Format Website
Owner(s) Stefan Sichermann
Founder(s) Stefan Sichermann
Editor Stefan Sichermann
Founded 2008 in Germany
Website der-postillon.com

Der Postillon is a German website, run by Stefan Sichermann featuring satirical articles reporting on international, national, and local news in newspaper and TV format. In October 2015, the Postillon had more than 14 million visitors.[1]

Background

Stefan Sichermann, a PR expert, started the page 2008 as a hobby. Until 2011 he continued working for a PR agency.[2] The Onion was one of the inspirations for the website.[3] However the website itself claims a continuous history since October 1845.[4] The name postillion refers to French postilion and is used in the German language in traditional or literary circumstances.

After a satirical article about the closure of video-on-Demand-page Kino.to went viral on facebook and twitter, Postillon received a much broader audience.[2][3] In the meantime, Sichermann started to run the page professionally, hired some coworkers and financed the emissions via advertisements, a shop[5] and flattr donations. The social media impact of Postillon is higher than that of many official newsportals, such as Focus Online, Süddeutsche.de and Frankfurter Allgemeine.[6]

Scoops

Shortly after the death of Steve Jobs, the Postillon speculated about the technical features of the tech-guru's coffin and the enscription buried in my iTomb.[7] Angry comments of readers containing the phrase „ein Leser weniger“ (one reader less) gained notoriety as a running gag among the reader community.[2] Fans of Felix Baumgartner got angry about an Postillon entry claiming the record jump was declared invalid, since the Austrian crossed a foul line before the start signal.[8][9][10]

In 2012 German TV host Dieter Moor used a satirical notion about the delays at Berlin Brandenburg Airport without reference to the origin. The Postillon had implied, the ongoing delays would require to introduce a new form of German Future tense.[11][12] Various media asked Moor to excuse himself and to mention the joke's origin.[13] Moor acted accordingly.[12][14]

Ronald Pofalla's change from politician to the railroad operator Deutsche Bahn was interpreted by some as fake news from Postillon.[15][16][17]

Postillion claimed a landlord offering shots for each guest and German goal during Brazil v Germany (2014 FIFA World Cup) had faced ruin. The article was spread and quoted on various Russian news outlets as a true story[18] including TV broadcaster Russia-24.[19][20][21]

Awards

Content and further publications

Postillion provides classical news, a newsticker, commentaries, advice columns, opinion editorials and fake surveys. In 2012 the Postillon published various articles in form of a book.[23] Also in 2012 the first fake TV emissions followed on YouTube.[24] Further videos are published in a cooperation with Yahoo.[25] and some have been run on German Broadcaster NDR.[26][27]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Auf der-postillon.com werben. Der Postillon, abgerufen 17. November 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 Ronnie Grob: Wahre Lügen aus dem Posthorn. Medienwoche.ch, 19. Januar 2012
  3. 1 2 Gestatten: Der Postillon! Academicworld.net
  4. ↑ Der Postillon 1845–2012. Der Postillon.
  5. ↑ Pünktlich zum 166-jährigen Jubiläum: Postillon-Shop Shopillon eröffnet! Der Postillon, 28.10.2011
  6. ↑ Social-Media-Charts: RTL.de und Postillon mit neuen Like-Rekorden, meedia.de, 17.4.2014
  7. ↑ Technikjournalisten und Fanboys spekulieren über Design und Features von Steve Jobs’ Sarg. Der Postillon, 6.10.2011.
  8. ↑ Linie übertreten: Rekordsprung aus 39 Kilometern Höhe für ungültig erklärt. Der Postillon, 15.10. 2012.
  9. ↑ Michèle Binswanger: Teenager von sich selbst sexuell belästigt. tagesanzeiger.ch, 17.10.2012.
  10. ↑ Links! Zwo! Drei! Vier! (Baumgartner Spezial). Der Postillon, 20.10.2012.
  11. ↑ Neue Zeitform Futur III eingeführt, um Gespräche über Berliner Flughafen zu ermöglichen. Der Postillon, 15.8.2012.
  12. 1 2 Thomas Knüwer: Dieter Moor, der freundliche Plagiator der ARD. Indiskretion Ehrensache, 20. August 2012
  13. ↑ Niels Kruse: Wo „Titel, Thesen, Temperamente“ seine Witze klaut. Stern.de, 20.8.2012.
  14. ↑ Moor schreibt bei „Postillion“ ab. In: Der Tagesspiegel, 22. August 2012.
  15. ↑ Stefan Sichermann (2014-01-02). "Exklusiv: Ex-Kanzleramtsminister Ronald Pofalla wechselt in den Vorstand der Deutschen Bahn". Der Postillon.
  16. ↑ Lars Wienand (2014-01-03). "Pofalla absurd: Wie der Postillon das Netz doppelt trollte". Rhein-Zeitung.
  17. ↑ Jan Falk, Oliver Koch (2014-01-03). "Pofalla geht zur Bahn - Wie die Satire-Seite Postillon das Netz verwirrte". RuhrNachrichten.de.
  18. ↑ Kneipenwirt, der für jedes deutsche Tor einen Schnaps gratis versprochen hat, pleite, Der Postillon, 9.July 2014.
  19. ↑ Der bankrotte Barkeeper: Russen-TV fällt auf Postillon-Witz herein, Meedia, 11.7.2014.
  20. ↑ Video auf vesti.ru.
  21. ↑ Links! Zwo! Drei! Vier! (232), Der Postillon, 12. Juli 2014.
  22. ↑ "Grimme Online Award 2013: Grimme-Institut kürt Preisträger in Köln". Grimme-Institut.
  23. ↑ Die besten Postillon-Artikel von 2008 bis heute jetzt auch als Taschenbuch erhältlich. Der Postillon, 15. März 2012, abgerufen 22. August 2012.
  24. ↑ Postillon24 Nachrichten auf YouTube.
  25. ↑ "Postillon" geht auf Sendung Süddeutsche.de, 13.11.2013
  26. ↑ "Postillon" kooperiert mit NDR Süddeutsche.de, 9.März 2014
  27. ↑ FAZ.net: Arschkalt erwischt

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