The Mecklenburg
Der Mecklenburger ( ZDB-ID : 1418199x) was a monthly magazine published on behalf of the Landsmannschaft Mecklenburg , which was published in Hamburg from 1951 to 1957 and had its readers among the Mecklenburgers who fled to the Federal Republic of Germany after the war . It is part of the refugee and expellee press.
The publisher was initially the working group of the Mecklenburgers in Hamburg. In the subtitle, the magazine called itself Heimatblatt für alle Mecklenburger , later Die Bundeszeitung für alle Mecklenburger . It was published by the publishing house Krüger & Nienstedt of the Hamburg publisher Richard Parbs. On April 1, 1957, the magazine was merged with the local newspaper Unser Mecklenburg of the Bremen publisher Friedrich Wilhelm Giebel . For a transition period until the end of 1957, the names of both papers appeared in the head of the newspaper, since 1958 only Unser Mecklenburg.
The editors of the magazine described their editorial program in a self-advertisement as follows: Der Mecklenburger, the national newspaper for all Mecklenburgers, entertains them with articles from the past and present of Mecklenburg , local stories in High and Low German , shows you pictures from the old homeland and from the Landsmannschaftlichen events, informs them about all events of the Landsmannschaft Mecklenburg, family events in the homeland, all important events in the homeland, gives you the latest refugee regulations and the information for the business owners expropriated at home.
Of the Low German literary classics, John Brinckman , Johannes Gillhoff , Fritz Reuter , Felix Stillfried and Rudolf Tarnow were represented in the paper with excerpts from their works. Authors such as Gerhard Böhmer , Walter Lehmbecker , Gerd Lüpke and Helmut de Voss provided essays on the culture and history of Mecklenburg . Stories by the writer Friedrich Griese appeared in the sheet. For reports from the Mecklenburg homeland, the paper relied on the GDR district and district press and the Information Office West (IWE), a collection point for GDR information in the West Berlin district of Zehlendorf, supported by the federal government .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Der Mecklenburger , Hamburg, year 6, 1956, issue 6, p. 15