ABC newspaper
| ABC newspaper
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| description | Children's magazine |
| language | German |
| publishing company | Publisher Junge Welt , publishing Pabel Moewig ( DDR , BRD ) |
| Headquarters | Berlin , Leipzig , Rastatt |
| First edition | 1946 |
| attitude | 1996 |
| Frequency of publication | per month |
| Sold edition | 885,000 copies |
| Editor-in-chief | Gerhard Holtz-Baumert |
| editor | Kurt Egbert Ebert, Malla Naas |
| ISSN (print) | 0001-0375 |
The ABC newspaper was a monthly children's magazine in the GDR . It was published by the Junge Welt publishing house with a circulation of 885,000 copies and was the organ of the Central Council of the FDJ and was aimed as a propaganda instrument at young pioneers and students in grades 1 to 3. It was sold directly through schools for 30 Pfennig , but also on Kiosk .
ABC newspaper in a kiosk in Dresden (bottom right)
Symbolic figures since the 1960s were two ball figures named Rolli and Flitzi, who were later joined by a little boy named Schnapp.
The ABC-Zeitung was founded on July 1st, 1946 and was the oldest children's magazine in the GDR. After the end of the GDR, it continued to appear in the Verlags-Union Pabel-Moewig , Rastatt , until issue 2/1996 .
literature
- Rudolf Chowanetz : The children's magazines in the GDR from 1946 to 1960 (= studies on the history of German children's and youth literature. Vol. 13, ZDB -ID 193898-8 ). Children's book publisher, Berlin 1983.
- Klaus-Dieter Stamm: Key words from A to Z on education, youth and society in the GDR 1949-1990 . Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2010, ISBN 978-3-8391-6533-1 .
- Marco Bertram, Gaby Falk, Hans Joachim Schneider (Hrsg.): Childhood in the GDR. With Sandmann, Frösi and Pioniertuch through four exciting decades. Edited by Gaby Falk and Hans-Joachim Schneider. Komet, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-86941-156-9 .
Web links
- The ABC newspaper. In: DDR-Comics.de, accessed on February 22, 2011 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ In addition to didactic picture series, it also contained propaganda stories that partly followed the GDR's policy of criticism of Israel : The fairy tale of the fire dragon Zion (autumn 1984). See the interview with anti-Semitism researcher Wolfgang Benz : “In autumn 1984, the GDR children's magazine ABC-Zeitung published the fairy tale of the fire dragon Zion, who lived near the land of the children of Palestine . The [ read: the] dragon was tiny and puny, couldn't spit fire, had a squeaky voice, was hungry and in every way miserable and pathetic. The children of Palestine gave him food, but they did not have enough for the little dragon Zion. He got angry, flew into the field, thrashed the ears of wheat on the stalk with his tail and ate up the whole harvest. At the complaint of the children he turned green with anger, spat fire and smoke and devastated the whole country. ”Quoted after: Thomas Klatt: Antisemitism in the GDR. Propaganda against Israel and Jews. In: Deutschlandfunk . Series of broadcasts day after day. From religion and society. Radio report from December 23, 2015, accessed on March 4, 2016 ([corrected] transcription of the radio report).