It’s the first time in 43 years – not even police searches or occupations by activists could prevent it. But now, for the first time in the history of taz an output failed. A power outage prevented her from appearing on Wednesday. The spontaneous failure of the power supply paralyzed the newspaper’s servers, wrote deputy editor-in-chief Katrin Gottschalk in a late Tuesday evening publish text online. Neither a printed nor a digital edition could have been produced.
Gottschalk goes on to say: “Thanks to external service providers, we were able to avoid major damage to the infrastructure.” However, the Berlin-based editors had not received their data by the time of going to press. “All systems are now running and we can say with certainty: Tomorrow we will work on the best possible one again taz – digital and printed,” says the message, which is dated 11:05 p.m.