Atuagagdliutit

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Atuagagdliutit of October 6, 1884

Atuagagdliutit / Grønlandsposten (short: AG) is a national newspaper in Greenland . Since 1952 the oldest newspaper in Greenland has been published in the two languages Greenlandic and Danish and since 1993 it has been published twice a week (Tuesday and Thursday). The editorial office is based in Nuuk (Danish: Godthåb ). To this day, the publication is financed to a large extent by state subsidies.

history

Atuagagdliutit was founded in 1861 as the first Greenland newspaper by the Danish Inspector for South Greenland , Hinrich Johannes Rink . She had a major influence on the development of the modern Greenlandic written language and the promotion of Greenlandic culture and identity. Accordingly, in addition to practical advice on seal hunting and fishing, the content of this period included political reports that were intended to motivate Greenlanders to participate in politics. The newspaper also provided children with suitable literature in their language for the first time. The Atuagagdliutit also contained illustrations by local artists such as Aron von Kangeq and thus contributed significantly to the support of Greenlandic art. In line with its goal of political education and the emancipation of Greenlanders, the newspaper was free for Greenlanders, only Danes had to pay for it. This is also expressed in the name of the newspaper: Since the Greenlandic language had not known a word for “newspaper” up to then, the artificial word atuagagdliutit was invented, which roughly means “something worth reading”, “distributed reading material” or “free newspaper”, literally “with which something readable is provided ”, can be translated. Other previously unknown terms of modern life were also coined in Greenlandic by the editors of the Atuagagdliutit . In the first decades Rasmus Berthelsen (1861–1873), Lars Møller (1873–1922) and Kristoffer Lynge (1922–1952) were the editors of the Atuagagdliutit .

Because of the difficult transport routes, the Atuagagdliutit initially only appeared twice a year: the newspapers had to be laboriously delivered by dog sled and kayak or umiak .

During the Second World War , the Danish-language newspaper Grønlandsposten ("The Greenlandspost") appeared in Greenland . In 1952 it merged with Atuagagdliutit to form the bilingual newspaper Atuagagdliutit / Grønlandsposten . The abbreviation has been AG since then , previously the abbreviation atu was more common. The AG was a Danish state newspaper until 1953, after which it was published by Grønlands Landsråd . In 1979 this task was taken over by the new Greenland self-government. It was not until 1980 that a second national newspaper appeared in Greenland , Sermitsiaq, which until then had only appeared locally .

Since September 2011, AG has been printed next to Sermitsiaq in Holbæk in the print shop of the Danish media company Trykkeriet Nordvestsjælland . Both newspapers share the online edition sermitsiaq.gl .

literature

  • Heike Braukmüller: Greenland - yesterday and today. Greenland's path of decolonization . Weener, Ems 1990, ISBN 3-88761-043-1 .
  • Ernst Meier: Newspapers in Greenland . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1960, p. 110 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heike Braukmüller: Greenland - yesterday and today. Greenland's path of decolonization . Weener, Ems 1990, ISBN 3-88761-043-1 , p. 198 .
  2. ^ The first Eskimo newspaper. Anthro Base, accessed March 18, 2008 .
  3. ↑ Atuagagdliutit Grønlandsposten in Den Store Danske
  4. ↑ Nordvestnyt: Grønlandske aviser trykkes i Holbæk ( memento from February 17, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), published by erhverv på nettet (epn.dk) on September 15, 2011, accessed on September 20, 2011 (Danish).