DAZ (newspaper)

This article covers the Leipzig weekly newspaper in the early 1990s. On the left-wing socialist weekly newspaper in West Germany in the 1950s and 1960s, see Die Andere Zeitung . For other newspapers also abbreviated with "DAZ" see Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung .

The DAZ (subtitled Die Leipziger Other Zeitung ) was the GDR's first independent weekly newspaper, which appeared from January 17, 1990 to April 1991. The Connewitzer Kreuzer, from which the monthly city magazine kreuzer emerged, appeared for the first time as a cultural supplement to the DAZ .

The publisher was DAZ Zeitungsgesellschaft mbH. The DAZ was a development of the Leipzig post-reunification period . Supporters of the New Forum decided to publish an independent newspaper, not least because the newspaper market in Leipzig was dominated by papers from former GDR parties - above all the Leipziger Volkszeitung of the SED  - which were bought by West German corporations after 1990. Heidi Bohley, co-founder of the New Forum, was editor of the DAZ . Christian-Hans Schulz, co-partner of the kreuzer, also belonged to this editorial team. The editor-in-chief was Jan Peter, later co-founder and publisher of kreuzer.

The DAZ was not an announcement organ of the New Forum, but structurally and content-wise independent. As the Leipziger Wochenblatt, the DAZ reported on current politics, economics, culture and social issues; its content also included eco and women pages. For the Leipzig citizens' movement at the time, the DAZ was an important information medium that distributed news that could not be read in the major newspapers. In the early days, the DAZ had a circulation of 40,000. The paper brought Stasi revelations, environmental issues, subculture, town hall scandals, losers from the turning point and other things from the perspective of the normal citizen. The DAZ editor Wolfram Kempe wrote about the problems of the time of reunification: “In 1990, the new media no longer had to deal with the collapse of the system; instead, letters were written against the manifestations of the annexation of the GDR to the Federal Republic, against the arrogance of the historical victors , against robbers and soldiers of fortune and turning necks. All in all, brave, but lost. And too late. ”Falling sales brought the DAZ to an early end. The DAZ's slogan was: “Nothing new in the West. In the east the DAZ. "

Walter Ulbricht's blooming landscapes

The DAZ discovered a text written by Walter Ulbricht in 1961, the year the Wall was built, in which he promised the population of the GDR “ blooming landscapes ”: “As socialists, we are aware that by 1965 there will be an abundance of food in the socialist camp shall be. What is in store for the trade, this ever more powerful surge of food and luxury goods from all over the world, of clothes and shoes, of wonderful new materials, of kitchen and washing machines, cars, of arts and crafts and jewelry, of cameras and sports equipment! "

Other publications with the same or similar name

Under the same or a similar title, more than a dozen newly founded periodicals appeared in East Germany during the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall. In Berlin (see Die Andere ), Magdeburg, Eisenach and other cities in the GDR, weekly magazines and newspapers with the title Die Andere appeared from January 1990 onwards , without their makers having agreed with one another. The great and fundamental desire for change in the time of the fall of the wall should have been expressed. At the same time, this “otherness” alone did not represent a basis for the journalistic work in the long run. None of these new foundations survived 1992.

literature

• Hong-suk Ko: Citizens 'Movements and the Public (CD-R): New newspapers were founded by citizens' movements after the political upheaval in East Germany . Dissertation, Leipzig 2004, DNB 971704260 .
• Peter-Hugo Scholz: It was DAZ . In: Leipziger Blätter , 1994 No. 25: 12-15, DNB 1030867720 .

Web links

• The Leipzig Environmental Library has all the issues of the DAZ in its holdings: Research.
• The House of History of the Federal Republic of Germany lists the DAZ in its catalog (PDF)

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Leipziger other newspaper - DAZ. In: nochweiter.de. Retrieved August 19, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Everything started with megalomania. (No longer available online.) In: taz. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; Retrieved August 19, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ Sven Jahny: Bohse, Reinhard. In: archiv-buergerbewegung.de. Retrieved August 19, 2015 . 
4. ^ Catalog of the German National Library, GND 123088380 ; Retrieved August 19, 2015.
5. ^ Christian Hans Schulz. In: chs-film.de. chs-film christian h. Schulz, accessed on August 19, 2015 . 
6. ↑ JP Vision. In: janpetervision.com. Retrieved August 19, 2015 . 
7. ↑ No blooming press landscape. Retrieved August 19, 2015 . 
8. ^ History of the telegraph. In: telegraph.ostbuero.de. Retrieved August 19, 2015 . 
9. ↑ Walter Ulbricht dreams of paradise. Retrieved August 19, 2015 .