German General Newspaper (Kazakhstan)
| Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung Общая Немецкая Газета |
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| description | Weekly newspaper |
| Headquarters | Almaty |
| First edition | 1966 |
| Frequency of publication | weekly |
| Sold edition | approx. 1,000 copies |
| Editor-in-chief | Olesya Klimenko |
| Web link | www.daz.asia |
The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung ( Russian Общая Немецкая Газета ) is a weekly newspaper in Kazakhstan . It appears in German and Russian with a print run of around 1,000 copies.
The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (DAZ) was founded in 1966 under the name of friendship as the “newspaper of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan ” and at that time appeared every day except Sundays. After the end of the communist dictatorship in the 1990s, it was changed to a weekly publication rhythm. At the beginning of 2000, the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Kazakhstan launched a public competition to obtain the paper. The aim was to find a new editor and adapt the traditional paper to the new economic and political realities. The new publisher was the "Association of the Social Associations of the Germans of Kazakhstan" together with the Kazakh state. In the course of the restructuring of the German minority, the association was renamed into a social foundation with the name “Association of the Germans of Kazakhstan 'Rebirth'”, which now acts as publisher.
DAZ readers today are primarily people of German origin in Central Asia, (late) repatriates , language students, German studies students, those interested in Central Asia, German-speaking tourists and German expats .