The weekly newspaper "Junge Freiheit"

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The weekly newspaper "Junge Freiheit". Critical analyzes of the program, content, authors and customers is a scientific and journalistic anthology published in 2007 by the SPD politicians Stephan Braun and Ute Vogt at VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften with a large number of contributions and the like. a. from right-wing extremism research . It was published in the course of the Junge Freiheit ruling by the Federal Constitutional Court (2005) to further advance a political and scientific debate with the new right-wing weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit . The work was largely positively received in German feature articles and specialist reviews.

Content of the anthology

The anthology consists of 24 essays, written by a “multidisciplinary” collective of authors. a. Wolfgang Gessenharter ( Helmut Schmidt University / University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg ), Helmut Kellershohn ( Duisburg Institute for Linguistic and Social Research ), Helmut Lölhöffel ( look to the right ), Anton Maegerle , Thomas Pfeiffer (Department for the Protection of the Constitution of the Ministry of the Interior in North Rhine-Westphalia ), Fabian Virchow and Regina Wamper belong. The book offers a chronology, is devoted to the program, the understanding of history, the authors, the strategy and the advertisers of Junge Freiheit and, last but not least, records counter-strategies.

reception

In a book review in the Zeitschrift für Politik, Stefan Kubon called the work a “successful start to the required debate”. The authors use numerous citations from the JF for their analysis, and there is also an “inclusion of relevant secondary literature”. Kubon emphasized the predominantly coherent “contextual interpretations”. The bottom line is that “the anthology for research undoubtedly marks a decisive advance”.

For Astrid Geisler (taz) an "excellent volume" was created that "takes the newspaper apart". In particular, the article "about the JF Internet campaigns and the struggle for the sovereignty of opinion in the Wikipedia online lexicon " had been traced in "strikingly accurate". It was shown how "new right actors at Wikipedia systematically try to improve the image of Junge Freiheit and to put their opponents [such as Stephan Braun] in a bad light".

In the Süddeutsche Zeitung , Wigbert Benz stated a sober and factual analysis of the authors.

The SPD politician Mathias Brodkorb ( terminus on the right ) criticized the Berlin Republic for the fact that conclusions are sometimes incomprehensible and that some interpretations have nothing in common with "science [...]".

Samuel Salzborn wrote in a review for the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance that the journalistic-scientific work covered a "broad spectrum of topics" and was "largely [for] accuracy". He was critical of the contributions to political education and youth work, as they did not fit into the overall concept and “well-meaning interventions would make the paper known in the first place”. Salzborn identified “theoretical reflections and systematic findings in right-wing extremism research”. In addition, a “broad source and primary material basis was taken into account”.

Robert Chr. Van Ooyen called the essay on counter-strategies a "key chapter".

Campaign of the JF

The publication of the book led to a campaign by Junge Freiheit , in which JF editor Felix Krautkrämer wanted to prove the authors of the anthology supposedly left-wing extremist contacts. The weekly newspaper then had to sign several cease and desist letters.

output

  • Stephan Braun , Ute Vogt (Ed.): The weekly newspaper "Junge Freiheit". Critical analyzes of the program, content, authors and customers. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-531-15421-3 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Stefan Kubon: Book reviews [Braun / Vogt] . In: Zeitschrift für Politik 54 (2007) 4, pp. 481–483, here: p. 483.
  2. ^ A b c Stefan Kubon: Book reviews [Braun / Vogt] . In: Zeitschrift für Politik 54 (2007) 4, pp. 481–483, here: p. 482.
  3. ↑ a b Robert Chr. Van Ooyen : Braun / Vogt: The weekly newspaper "Junge Freiheit" . In: Ders .: Public Security and Freedom. Studies on the state, police and defensive democracy . 2nd expanded edition, Nomos, Baden-Baden 2013, ISBN 978-3-8487-0446-0 , p. 267.
  4. ^ Stefan Kubon: Book reviews [Braun / Vogt] . In: Zeitschrift für Politik 54 (2007) 4, pp. 481–483, here: p. 483.
  5. ^ Astrid Geisler : Struggle for Image . In: taz Magazin , August 11, 2007, p. VII.
  6. ↑ Wigbert Benz : Deeply looking backwards. The strange understanding of history of the "Junge Freiheit" . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 22, 2007, p. 8.
  7. ^ A b Mathias Brodkorb : The young freedom and their opponents . In: Berlin Republic 1/2008.
  8. ^ Samuel Salzborn : Reviews [Braun / Vogt] . In: DÖW-Mitteilungen , episode 184, December 2007, p. 11.