Zeitdienst (magazine)
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| language | German |
| First edition | 1948 |
| attitude | 1987 |
| ISSN |
1013-8838 |
The Zeitdienst was a magazine published by Theo Pinkus at Limmat-Verlag Zurich . The weekly magazine was founded in 1948 after the Second World War. In 1987 it stopped its appearance again.
ideology
The Zeitdienst was the magazine of the Zurich communist youth and systematically presented the anti-authoritarian ideas of the Swiss new left, consisting of young communists, left- wing socialists and independent radicals of the organization progressive workers, pupils and students (FASS) . The Czechoslovak reform movement was supported, and the Invasion of the Warsaw Pact states rejected on August 21, 1968. As early as 1948/49, the "Zeitdienst" had taken a position for Yugoslavia and against the anti-Tito agitation.
Looking back, Werner Egli wrote in 1987:
“Without being a slave to our left parties, the ZD has always been an open platform to discuss all this and to justify demands that belong to a socialist world. It was founded in 1948. That was the time when the "Cold War" was still raging, anti-communism was doing its worst and it was difficult to get factual reports about the Soviet Union. We may also point out that our newspaper tried to get factual reports on it. Our newspaper received a boost in the 68's and statements were made on these positive events in large meetings. When the " Extra-Parliamentary Opposition " did not yet have its own newspapers, it had the right to host us for a long time. Our political position has always been uncompromising and that is why we were never «dear child» at the NZZ ! "
History of publication
From the first edition (“sample number”) in 1948 (1st year) to No. 34 from 1970 (23rd year) the magazine was called Zeitdienst: Independent Socialist Information . The first editor was Hugo Kramer . From No. 35 from 1970 (23rd year) to No. 25 from 1987 (40th year) it was called Zeitdienst for socialist information and discussion and was published by the "Editorial Commission of the Zeitdienst publishing association"; with the No. 25 from 1987, the publication was discontinued. The magazine was always published by Adolf Fehr in Zurich.
Individual evidence
- ^ German-language magazines , Hans Banger Verlag 1988, ISBN 3878560095
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↑ On the first page of the first edition from 1948, you can read about the motivation behind the “Genossenschaft Zeitdienst”:Source: Zeitdienst: independent socialist information , sample number, August 1948, front page.
“Genossenschaft Zeitdienst, Zurich, in August 1948 [paragraph] Dear friends of opinion, you have certainly often enough felt with us the lack of thorough orientation about the events of the time and the predominance of completely one-sided reporting on the issues of Swiss and international politics. We are far too dependent on the tendentious information of the big news agencies and propaganda centers, whose influence on public opinion becomes the longer, the more pernicious. Even those who seek to orientate themselves factually and try to form a well-founded judgment on the various issues of the time and controversial issues often enough feel in the dark and then make more or less emotional decisions. [Paragraph] Our Zeitdienst cooperative seeks to remedy this problem, which is incompatible with democratic knowledge formation, as far as possible. It wants to publish a weekly documentary service that has a double task: [Paragraph] 1. To editors and private individuals, especially to people in public life, to functionaries of the labor movement and professional organizations and, more generally, to politically active and interested men and to provide women in the labor force with information material from politics, business and intellectual life that is otherwise not or only with difficulty accessible to them; and [paragraph] 2. of the capitalist-reactionary tendency propaganda that floods us to create a counterweight, however modest, and that from an intellectually and materially independent side, by researching and reporting facts and factual expressions of opinion. [Paragraph] This temporary service is carried out with the cooperation of a number of knowledgeable friends of Dr. Hugo Kramer , journalist in Vésenaz-Geneva edits; it is to come out weekly, in a limited edition, reproduced and with an average of 5-10 pages. [Paragraph] …"
- Zeitdienst cooperative, Zurich office - ^ New Left Opposition to Swiss CP. Radio Free Europe Research, October 7, 1969, accessed January 13, 2016 .
- ↑ Fritz J. Raddatz 1980
- ↑ Werner Egli: Resignation - a foreign word . In: Zeitdienst for socialist information and discussion , No. 25, 1987, p. 288.