Cato (magazine)

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Cato
Name logo
description political magazine
language German
publishing company Cato Verlag GmbH (Germany)
Headquarters Berlin
First edition September 8, 2017
Frequency of publication every two months, last Friday of the month
Widespread edition 50,000 copies
(Self-reported)
Editor-in-chief Andreas Lombard
editor Hendrik Schundau
Web link cato-magazin.de
ISSN (print) 2567-112X

Cato (subtitle: Magazin für neue Sachlichkeit ) is a bimonthly political magazine in Germany . It is produced in Berlin by Cato Verlag GmbH and classified according to its content as right-conservative or new-law . The editor-in-chief is Andreas Lombard , the main initiator of the magazine is Karlheinz Weißmann .

Surname

The magazine was named after Marcus Porcius Cato the Younger , who was born in 95 BC. Born conservative politician in the end times of the Roman Republic , who was in opposition to Caesar and wanted to prevent his aspired autocracy. The cover photo of the first edition was adorned with a photo collage, Angela Merkel as "Caesar from the Uckermark ". Editor-in-chief Lombard justified the choice of the title with suspected parallels to the current political situation: "Cato was a conservative, value-oriented politician who opposed the corruption of a ruling class that only reflected itself."

environment

Right from the start, the Cato magazine project received material and non-material support from the Foundation for Conservative Education and Research (FKBF), whose chairman is Dieter Stein , the long-time editor-in-chief of the new right-wing weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit . The Cato editorial office is based in the library of conservatism in Berlin-Charlottenburg, which in turn is financed by the FKBF. The main initiator of the founding of the magazine was the historian Karlheinz Weißmann , formerly the scientific director of the Institute for State Policy , a new right think tank , from which he withdrew in 2014 after content-related conflicts with its director, Götz Kubitschek . The publisher of the weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit is the sole shareholder of the Cato magazine, which, according to its editor-in-chief Andreas Lombard, is editorially independent.

The AfD- affiliated entrepreneur Thomas Hoof sponsors the magazine with ten-page advertisements for his publisher Manuscriptum .

reception

The first edition received a number of media reviews.

Marc Felix Serrao called the magazine “a new voice of the conservatives” in the NZZ . The essay by the ancient historian David Engels from Brussels about the EU and the late Roman Republic, printed in the first edition, shows "how interesting right-wing intellectual thinking can be if it does without the pout and riot that has become common." Other texts showed a “world view painted in gray to black”.

Christoph Schröder described the magazine in the time as "Roman Right Wing". The magazine wanted to “offer conservative intellectuals a home”, but many New Right journalists would write there. Schröder is skeptical about the magazine, but it shows in places “that conservative, including right-wing conservative thinking can be clever, surprising and instructive. And that not every anti-urban, anti-civilizational or anti-modern reflex has to be evil per se ”The historian Helmut Kellershohn sees the magazine as an elitist project that specifically addresses“ the senior officers of the educated bourgeoisie, who are in charge of discourse production, in the media and others civil society institutions ”as an audience. The target group is those “circles who, to put it somewhat casually, can still relate to the name“ Cato ”because they have the appropriate knowledge.” The journalist Daniel Bax described Cato as “a mixture of a coffee -Table magazine for lovers of conservative essay writing and a glossy edition of the AfD program ”.

In an interview with the weekly newspaper der Freitag, Götz Kubitschek disparagingly called the magazine a “feel-good magazine for the conservative of affluence”.

Authors of the journal

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marc Felix Serrao: A New Voice of the Conservatives. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , September 2, 2017, accessed on September 13, 2017 .
  2. ↑ "I feel your distrust" Die Welt , October 27, 2018, accessed on January 31, 2020
  3. ↑ Markus Ehrenberg: "Cato" - we rub our eyes. Der Tagesspiegel , September 6, 2017, accessed on September 9, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Christoph Schröder: Roman right wing. Die Zeit , September 8, 2017, accessed on September 9, 2017 .
  5. ↑ As once in Rome taz , September 7, 2017, accessed on January 31, 2020
  6. ^ Johan Schloemann: Right thoughts in a new guise. Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 9, 2017, accessed on September 9, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Markus Ehrenberg: "Cato" - we rub our eyes. Der Tagesspiegel , September 6, 2017, accessed on September 9, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Frank Hauke-Streller: New conservative print magazine "Cato": "We miss a broad awareness of resources and traditions of all kinds". Kressreport , September 8, 2017, accessed on February 18, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Christoph Schröder: Roman right wing. Die Zeit , September 8, 2017, accessed on September 9, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Andreas Speit: As once in Rome. Die Tageszeitung , September 7, 2017, accessed on September 13, 2017 .
  11. ↑ "Junge Freiheit" is the sole shareholder of the new "Cato" magazine. Der Tagesspiegel , September 8, 2017, accessed on March 9, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Frank Hauke-Streller: New conservative print magazine "Cato": "We miss a broad awareness of resources and traditions of all kinds". Kressreport , September 8, 2017, accessed on February 18, 2020 .
  13. ^ Right- wing media and the middle class: Blurred Borders , taz , June 3, 2020
  14. ↑ Marc Felix Serrao: A New Voice of the Conservatives. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , September 2, 2017, accessed on September 13, 2017 .
  15. ↑ Katrin Krips-Schmidt: Sharpen your sense of realities. Die Tagespost , September 6, 2017, accessed on September 13, 2017 .
  16. ↑ Frank Hauke-Streller: New conservative print magazine "Cato": "We miss a broad awareness of resources and traditions of all kinds". Kressreport , September 8, 2017, accessed September 13, 2017 .
  17. ↑ David Begich with Gesa Ufer: New conservative magazine: "Cato" A lifestyle magazine for far right. Deutschlandfunk Kultur , September 8, 2017, accessed on September 13, 2017 .
  18. ^ Johan Schloemann: Right thoughts in a new guise. Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 9, 2017, accessed on September 9, 2017 .
  19. ↑ Philip Cassier: What is behind the new right magazine "Cato"? Die Welt , September 9, 2017, accessed on September 13, 2017 .
  20. ↑ Marc Felix Serrao: A New Voice of the Conservatives. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , September 2, 2017, accessed on September 13, 2017 .
  21. ↑ Christoph Schröder: Roman right wing. Die Zeit , September 8, 2017, accessed on January 6, 2020 .
  22. ↑ The Battle for Intelligence DISS-Journal 34/2017, accessed on January 31, 2020
  23. ^ Daniel Bax: The seducers of the people. Why right-wing populists are so successful. Westend Verlag, Frankfurt 2018 ISBN 978-3-86489-178-6 p. 140
  24. ↑ A magazine for rich radicals of Friday , 37/2017, accessed on February 18, 2020