Between November 1999 and June 2000 the nearby AGN Markarian 421, abbreviated Mkn 421, located at a redshift of z=0.031, was observed with the Cherenkov telescope 'CT1' of the Hegra collaboration. During this period Mkn~421 showed several prominent flares and was in general more active in the TeV region than it had been during the years before. The Hegra CT1 instrument was equipped with a new mirror of twice the original size in autumn 1998. A new, sophisticated Monte Carlo simulation has since been carried out for CT1 with this larger mirror, using time resolved photoelectron response simulation for an optimal simulation of the trigger decision. This thesis describes the analysis of the new Monte Carlo data and the extraction of the energy spectrum and light curve of Mkn 421 in 1999-2000 for energies above around 750 GeV as well as the improvement of the data analysis with respect to quality criteria, treatment of night sky background noise and the estimation of impact parameters and energies. Fitting a pure powerlaw spectrum, Mkn 421 showed a time-averaged power law spectral index of 2.90 +- 0.08(stat.) +- 0.16(syst.) in 1999/2000. The maximum flux above energies of 1 TeV was 6.42 +- 0.89(stat.) +- 0.35(syst.) x 10^(-11) cm^(-2)s^(-1), which corresponds to more than four times the flux of the Crab nebula. This maximum was observed on MJD 51662.9 (April 29, 2000). In contrast to the preliminary results for 2001, which have so far displayed even higher flux levels and an energy spectrum with a cutoff energy of 2.3 +- 0.9 TeV, the 1999/2000 spectrum does not contain enough events to distinguish between a pure power law and a cutoff spectrum.
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Between November 1999 and June 2000 the nearby AGN Markarian 421, abbreviated Mkn 421, located at a redshift of z=0.031, was observed with the Cherenkov telescope 'CT1' of the Hegra collaboration. During this period Mkn~421 showed several prominent flares and was in general more active in the TeV region than it had been during the years before. The Hegra CT1 instrument was equipped with a new mirror of twice the original size in autumn 1998. A new, sophisticated Monte Carlo simulation has since...
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