The right edge

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description Magazine by and for anti-fascists
language German
First edition 1989
Frequency of publication Bi-monthly
Editor-in-chief Alexander Hoffmann (ViSdP)
Web link der-rechte-rand.de
ISSN (print) 1619-1404

The rights Edge - Magazine by and for antifascists is since 1989 bimonthly in Hannover appearing anti-fascist magazine . She is a cooperation partner of the Internet portal Linksnet .

Content

The magazine is distributed nationwide and sees itself as "cross-stream".

In addition to political analyzes and comments, the journal publishes research results, including numerous research in the right-wing extremist milieu and its border areas. Other focal points are dealing with National Socialism and contemporary history after 1945.

A special feature are the reports on current events in the political right-wing camp, in which right-wing extremist people are often named by name and their organizations, concrete connections in right-wing networks are highlighted and development forecasts are given. Measures against every form of racism and fascism and against the organization of right-wing extremism are documented and supported.

Initiatives to educate people about right-wing extremism - such as the 2001 exhibition Neofascism in Germany  - are supported by the magazine.

history

Among the founders of the magazine belonged Juergen Trittin , who later became Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety ( Alliance 90 / The Greens ), who worked in the magazine until the Edition February / March 1993 and Klaus Harbart (1955-2005), the up November 2004 was editor. Harbart was most recently federal manager of the association of those persecuted by the Nazi regime .

In the May / June 2006 issue, on the occasion of the 100th issue, a review of the work carried out so far was published.

Criticism and reception

In the Federal Constitutional Protection Report of 1998, the magazine is classified as an "organization- independent left-wing extremist or left-wing extremist-influenced publication" because, according to the Federal Government, there are personal connections to the DKP- influenced association of those persecuted by the Nazi regime and authors from the circle of the DKP and the violent autonomous group Spectrum would have a say.

This assessment was made more precise by the federal government in 2003: According to the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, “there are indications of left-wing extremist efforts. They result from the political orientation, which largely corresponds to the left-wing extremist view of actual or supposed right-wing extremism. However, authors who are not left-wing extremists also write in the magazine. "

The Greens MP Annelie Buntenbach called the magazine "one of the most important sources of information in the fight against right-wing extremism" through the " Alliance for Democracy and Tolerance - Against Extremism and Violence".

In 2001 the magazine received a cash prize of DM 10,000 in the “Active for Democracy and Tolerance” competition organized by the Federal Government's Alliance for Democracy and Tolerance - Against Extremism and Violence .

The Right Edge is often attacked from among the people and organizations criticized by the magazine. The author Claus Wolfschlag , who comes from the spectrum of the New Right , claims that the magazine is aggressively disinformation.

For Sonja Vogel ( taz ) the magazine “fills a gaping gap in the public”, it “shows who is doing what in the right-wing scene; a task that is not without risk - and that would actually be a matter for the state ”.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Right Edge , H-Soz-u-Kult , June 29, 2001
  2. ^ Exhibition Neofascism in Germany http://www.vvn-bda.de/ausstellungen/neofa/tafel0.php ( Memento from May 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Bundestag printed paper 14/2483. (PDF; 373 kB) p. 5 f.
  4. ↑ Answer of the State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Lutz Diwell, dated August 1, 2003 to written question 39 by Member of Parliament Georg Schirmbeck, Bundestag printed paper 15/1474. (PDF; 695 kB) p. 21
  5. ↑ Major inquiry from the CDU / CSU parliamentary group , Bundestag printed paper 15/4590 of December 14, 2004, p. 5
  6. ↑ Claus Wolfschlag: On criticism and disinformation - some answers to dubious Internet reports
  7. ↑ Sonja Vogel: 25 years of “The Right Edge”: “Nazi Spy” for the anniversary . taz , September 29, 2014