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...circulation was 1 million in 1989," says Reiner Oschmann, of Neues Deutschland. "Now it is half a million. I'm surprised that we managed to keep even that many, and we expect to have a further decline...
...Oschmann, 42, became deputy editor after Honecker fell. He is part of a reformist team that is trying to save the paper, but concedes that the job is nearly hopeless. ND's power in the past was based on its status as a party organ. "The circulation was artificially high in the old days," Oschmann says. "It was thought 'fit' to subscribe to Neues Deutschland even if it was never read. That, thank God, is no longer the case...
...million subscribers, and collapse is imminent. Berliner Zeitung is a takeover target of powerful West German publishing houses. Regional newspapers from Leipzig to Rostock are in similar straits. "During the past few months, we were able to do what we wanted for the first time in our careers," says Oschmann. "We had freedom that we never had before. But it won't last...
Many young, frustrated East Germans viewed Modrow as a potential Gorbachev of the G.D.R. "Everybody was waiting for the old men to go so we could start changing things," Oschmann said. "We thought of Modrow as one of those who would lead the change." Wistfully, he added, "We never dreamed it would happen this quickly and leave the party so far behind...
...into the Dresden operation in hopes of finding a reason to drive Modrow out of the Central Committee. What they found was an incorrupt politician who worked hard, lived modestly and jogged six miles every day. "The Old Guard hated him because he was so unlike them," said Reiner Oschmann, deputy editor of the once mighty party daily, Neues Deutschland. "He did not preach water and drink wine, as they did." While Modrow built an admirably efficient electronics industry in Dresden, top party leaders feared his popularity and resented his failure to render the obsequious flattery that they had come...
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