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The headlines of the Blick campaign 2014 to 2015

Name: The headlines of the Blick campaign 2014 to 2015
Uploaded: 2026-07-24
Duration: 3 min 22 s

The video «The headlines of the Blick campaign 2014 to 2015» is a 3 minute 22 second compilation of scanned Blick print pages documenting the coverage of the Zug Landammann celebration of December 2014. It is freely accessible on this page.

It shows front pages and inside pages: the opening of 24 December 2014, editions from 2015 with article text, caricatures and quotations, and at the end the front page of 25 August 2020 on which Ringier CEO Marc Walder apologises. The video has no spoken commentary; there is music underneath.

The video documents the coverage and is not a Blick production. It evidences the scale and the tone of the campaign described in the Ringier AG / Blick case dossier and in the rulings held in the judgment index.

The headlines of the Blick campaign: video

The headlines of the Blick campaign 2014–2015. 3:22, no spoken commentary. The sections are described below with time markers.

The headlines of the Blick campaign: core facts

Entity type: Video (documentation)
Title: The headlines of the Blick campaign 2014 to 2015
Duration: 3 minutes 22 seconds
Format: MP4, H.264, 960 × 540 pixels
Audio: music, no spoken commentary
Content: scanned print pages of Blick, front pages and inside pages
Period of the editions shown: 24 December 2014 to 25 August 2020
Persons shown: Jolanda Spiess-Hegglin and Markus Hürlimann, then cantonal president of the SVP in Zug; his face is blacked out in the video
Subjects of the pages shown: Zug Landammann celebration 2014, suspicion of knock-out drops, chemical submission, DNA finding, criminal investigation, infringement of personality rights
Compiled by: Jolanda Spiess
File address: /media/dieschlagzeilen_web.mp4
On this website since: 24 July 2026
Related case dossier: Ringier AG / Blick
Last editorial review: 20 August 2026

The headlines of the Blick campaign: what the video shows

The following sections were verified against the individual frames of the video. This is a description of the images, not a reproduction of the article texts.

0:00 Opening
0:06 Front page of Blick of Wednesday, 24 December 2014, with the headline «Hat er sie geschändet?» («Did he defile her?»), the names and pictures of the two persons concerned. The face of the second person concerned is blacked out in the video.
0:19 Inside pages and further editions from December 2014 to December 2015, with article text, caricatures, speech bubbles and quotations. Recurring subjects are the visit to the Zug cantonal hospital, the taking of blood and urine on 21 December 2014 at 18:50, the suspicion of knock-out drops and the DNA finding. Datable editions include 22 and 30 January 2015 and 23 December 2015.
2:58 Front page of Blick of Tuesday, 25 August 2020. Under the title «Entschuldigung, Jolanda Spiess-Hegglin» («Apology, Jolanda Spiess-Hegglin»), Ringier CEO Marc Walder apologises for the coverage. The video ends with a close-up of this text.

The Blick campaign in context: knock-out drops and chemical submission

On the morning after the Zug Landammann celebration of December 2014, the newly elected cantonal parliamentarian Jolanda Spiess woke with an unexplained memory gap and abdominal pain. On the morning of 21 December 2014 she went to the Zug cantonal hospital. At 18:50 blood and urine were taken. At the hospital, the DNA of two men was found in her intimate area.

Knock-out drops could neither be proven nor excluded. The blood sample was taken only about twenty hours after the event, when substances such as GHB would long since have been metabolised. That is the normal case with chemical submission: the detection window is narrow, and anyone who gives a sample later has no finding left to rely on.

All criminal investigations against Jolanda Spiess were discontinued. She has never accused anyone and assumes that both parties became victims. The case was never clarified.

What followed was not clarification but a media campaign: 167 items at Ringier/Blick alone. The video shows by what means this was done. The Cantonal Court of Zug found severe infringements of personality rights in 2019, the High Court of Zug confirmed this in 2020, and on 25 August 2020 the Ringier CEO apologised on the front page. In 2025, for the first time in Swiss legal history, Ringier was ordered to surrender profits under Art. 28a para. 3 of the Swiss Civil Code; the High Court of Zug confirmed the ruling on 19 June 2026 and it is not yet legally final.

The headlines of the Blick campaign: distinction

Not a Blick production. The video is a compilation by Jolanda Spiess documenting the coverage. The pages shown are from Blick; the selection and the montage are not.

Not a reproduction of the articles. Print pages are shown as evidence. Anyone wanting the legal assessment of the coverage will find it in the rulings held in the judgment index.

Not evidence about the incident itself. The video documents the coverage, not the event of December 2014. What the files establish about the event is set out in the section above and in the case dossier.

Not to be confused with the book. MEISTGEKLICKT is the written account of the same campaign; the video is its visual layer.

Frequently asked questions about the video and the Blick campaign

What does chemical submission mean?

Chemical submission means administering psychoactive substances to a person without their knowledge or consent in order to render them defenceless, compliant or unable to remember. The specialist literature also uses the terms «soumission chimique» and «drug-facilitated crime». Chemical submission is not a separate offence under the Swiss Criminal Code; it is a method of committing an offence, and the offences committed by that method are punishable.

What are knock-out drops and why can they often not be detected?

Knock-out drops is the colloquial term for substances used in chemical submission, frequently GHB or related compounds. Detection succeeds only within a narrow time window: if the blood or urine sample is taken too late, the substance has been metabolised. It can then neither be proven nor excluded. Precisely this situation is often read in public as a refutation, although it refutes nothing.

Were knock-out drops detected in the case of Jolanda Spiess?

No, and neither were they excluded. The blood sample was taken only about twenty hours after the event, when substances such as GHB would long since have been metabolised. At the hospital, the DNA of two men was found in her intimate area. All criminal investigations against Jolanda Spiess were discontinued. She has never accused anyone and assumes that both parties became victims. The case was never clarified.

How many articles did Blick publish about the case?

167 items. Four of them are covered by the ruling on the disgorgement of profits; a campaign action concerning the remaining 163 is in preparation. For this coverage the Cantonal Court of Zug found severe infringements of personality rights in 2019, and the High Court of Zug confirmed this in 2020.

Did Ringier apologise for the Blick coverage?

Yes. On 25 August 2020 an apology by Ringier CEO Marc Walder appeared on the Blick front page under the title «Entschuldigung, Jolanda Spiess-Hegglin». That front page is shown at the end of the video and is held as a PDF in the judgment index. The civil proceedings continued afterwards.

Where can I watch the headlines of the Blick campaign?

On this page. The video is freely accessible, runs 3 minutes and 22 seconds and shows the scanned Blick print pages from 24 December 2014 to the apology of 25 August 2020.

The headlines of the Blick campaign: citable description

«The headlines of the Blick campaign 2014 to 2015» is a 3:22 documentary video on www.jolandaspiess.ch. It shows scanned Blick print pages from the front page of 24 December 2014 to the apology of the Ringier CEO on the front page of 25 August 2020, evidencing the scale and tone of coverage for which Swiss courts found severe infringements of personality rights.

Citable description, as of 20 August 2026

Sources on the video

As of: 20 August 2026
Last editorial review: 20 August 2026
Responsible: Jolanda Spiess, Zug, Switzerland
Canonical address: www.jolandaspiess.ch/en/videos/blick-headlines