Edition east

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Edition Ost (spelling: edition ost ) is a book publisher founded in 1991 and based in Berlin . Edition Ost has been part of the Eulenspiegel publishing group since 2002 .

Edition Ost mainly publishes literature on GDR topics. According to Udo Baron ( Lower Saxony Office for the Protection of the Constitution ), former functionaries of the GDR's power and rule apparatus publish their historical images here. Erich Honecker published his “Moabiter Notes” there, a few weeks before his death. Frank Schumann is the publishing director .

Reviews

The political scientist Michael Lühmann summarized the publishing program in 2007 in Die Zeit : “Praise and cheers for the Ministry for State Security (MfS) and the National People's Army of the GDR (NVA), paired with pamphlets against the West German judiciary alternate with diatribes Western secret services from ”. "The offensive whitewashing the SED dictatorship in the finally program is the edition east, trying to undress from the horrors of the socialist regime, with its publications, the German Democratic Republic." "For the colorful Themenpotpourri the falsification of history , a team of authors is responsible, the one who's who of GDR oppressive apparatus is the same. ”“ But the books and authors of edition ost apostrophize precisely this freedom, contrasting the historically guaranteed mainstream with a brutal focus on historical revisionism. The publisher offers the sectarian circles of former Stasi cadres a stage that they use more and more aggressively. "

According to Manfred Jäger from Deutschlandfunk , Edition Ost was often accused of being a specialist publisher specializing in apologetics for former GDR functionaries from the SED, NVA and state security. For example, from Hans Bentzien's book on the popular uprising in the GDR of June 17, 1953 , which appeared in the series, the reader learns information about the mentality and limitations of an intelligent SED functionary; the author does not deal with the results of historical research.

According to the historian Sven Felix Kellerhoff , the SED's propaganda lies from the Cold War are warmed up in rows in the publisher's books and the Stasi and GDR crimes are played down by “history falsifiers ” like Siegfried Hähnel .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Udo Baron : The GDR in the mirror of German left-wing extremism Publication of the Lower Saxony constitution protection
  2. ↑ Lühmann, Michael: "Rosa-Rote Scheinwelt" , in: Die Zeit , August 17, 2007.
  3. ↑ Dradio 2003 review by Manfred hunter Hans Bentzien : What happened on June 17? Prehistory - history - background. edition ost Berlin 2003, 208 pages
  4. ↑ Sven Felix Kellerhoff : The top agent in the anteroom In: Die Welt , August 26, 2013
  5. ^ Siegfried Hähnel - a typical Stasi career , Die Welt , September 20, 2010