Criticón

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Criticón

description German political magazine
First edition 1970
attitude 2007
founder Caspar von Schrenck-Notzing
Frequency of publication quarterly
ISSN (print) 0011-1597

Criticón was a quarterly, right-wing conservative German subscriber magazine that was published by Caspar von Schrenck-Notzing from 1970 . The magazine was last published in Bonn .

In 2005 the magazine was renamed Neue Nachrichten . From 2007, the magazine was still temporarily accessible as an online platform with a changed content orientation.

history

The magazine was founded in 1970 by Caspar von Schrenck-Notzing as a voice against the '68 cultural revolution and saw itself as the mouthpiece of the intellectual right. The founder and longstanding publisher was also responsible for press law. Armin Mohler had a major influence on the content and design . Criticón saw itself as a demanding theoretical body that found its audience among right-wing conservative educated elites. His appearance contributed significantly to the development of the New Right in Germany.

The name is derived from a novel of the same name by the Spanish Jesuit Gracián . The protagonist of the book, Critilo, served as the namesake for Schrenck-Notzing's pseudonym. In 1980 it merged with the Protestant-conservative magazine Conservative Today , which was published by Klaus Motschmann as the press organ for the Frankfurt Round Table , and has since been subtitled by this name. Like Hanns Klatz, Motschmann became permanent editorial staff. Since 1987 Criticón has been distributed in newsagents.

At the beginning of 1998 Gunnar Sohn (formerly the Association of Free Citizens ) took over the magazine as the new publisher. The Bonn political scientist Ansgar Lange became the new editor-in-chief . Both turned Criticón into a paper for business- oriented liberalism and corporate issues. Due to the new direction and the resulting target group, the magazine was renamed New Message in 2005 . On page 12 of the first edition, the editors emphasize that they have “ sharpened the journalistic line of the paper ordoliberally ”. The print edition ceased to appear in 2007 with issue 4.

organization

The magazine, which has been published quarterly since 1994, previously bimonthly and consisting of around 50 pages in A4 format, was distributed by SPS-Verlagsservice GmbH and pan-Verlagsservice in the magazine trade as well as by subscription. The circulation in 1993 was around 8,000 copies per issue.

Political positioning and criticism

The right-wing conservative magazine, which saw itself as libertarian- conservative after its takeover by Sohn , pleaded for the homogeneous nation state before turning to libertarianism , sought, following the conservative state theorist Carl Schmitt , a political homogenization of society and provided theoretical tools for a law and order state. In other points too, such as the return to the nation, the dismantling of the welfare state, and criticism of immigration , she largely followed the theorists of the Conservative Revolution and the New Right .

Especially in the 1970s and 1980s, according to critics, the paper served as a forum and point of contact between neoconservatism and right-wing extremism . The organ sometimes took a cautious position on party politics, for example in 1989 for Die Republikaner , 1992 for the German Social Union and in 1994 for the Federation of Free Citizens .

Despite the consistently low circulation, Criticón was considered an important leading medium. Conservative authors, including Ernst Nolte himself, took a stand in the historians' dispute, among other things . This gave the magazine the right counter-role to the liberal weekly newspaper Die Zeit in this academic dispute . Is known Criticón for the author portraits. After the takeover by Gunnar Sohn, the subtitle Magazin für Mittelstand, Marktwirtschaft und Freiheit was added. From then on, the paper was increasingly devoted to economic policy issues.

Well-known authors

Among the writers who have written for Criticón over the years

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Astrid Lange: What the Right Read . Munich 1993, ISBN 3-406-37404-2 .