Der Morgen

From that time on, the editorial board included journalists from both East and West Germany, most of them had come from Der Spiegel or Tageszeitung.

Under its new editor-in-chief, Der Morgen adjusted itself a new profile, and wrote a series of articles on the finances of PDS and the previous links of various politicians with Stasi.

The editors Jan von Flocken, Erwin Jurtschitsch and Michael Klonovsky were awarded Wächterpreis der Tagespresse for their courageous ‘’uncovering and handling the human rights violations by the GDR justice’’.

Although Der Morgen was appreciated by the critics for its style of journalism and had been given guarantees by its new owners, less than a year later the Springer syndicate closed it on 11 June 1991.

This decision was urged by Springer manager Erhard van Straaten, who disapproved of the liberal stance of the editorial staff of the newspaper.