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strangely free

description Monthly magazine
language German
publishing company Lichtschlag Medien und Werbung KG
First edition January 1, 1998
Frequency of publication ten times a year
Sold edition 8,000 copies
Editor-in-chief André F. Lichtschlag
editor André F. Lichtschlag
Web link ef-magazin.de
ISSN (print) 1617-5336

peculiarly free (ef) is a political monthly published since 1998 with ten issues per year and two double issues. Political scientists see ideological and personal overlaps with the New Right in the journal .

Own representation

The publisher and editor-in-chief André F. Lichtschlag describes the newspaper's positions as individualistic , capitalistic and libertarian . The title of the magazine peculiarly free is derived from the terms property and freedom . According to the publisher and co-founder Lichtschlag, the title was inspired by Max Stirner's book The One and His Own . The magazine published articles about Stirner in its early years. Since the Stirner researcher Bernd A. Laska critically questioned the content, Stirner has only been shown on the "honor board" as the "icon of the magazine".

In the first year the magazine called itself in the subtitle “Marketplace for Liberalism , Anarchism and Capitalism ”, then for a few years with “Freedom, Stubbornness, Property”. The magazine presents itself politically militant: strangely free to be “on the side of the libertarian resistance”. One of the concerns of many of the magazine's authors is the criticism of state interventionism .

According to its own information, the magazine started in 1998 with 70 regular subscribers. According to the company , the circulation was 6,000 in 2012 and 8,000 in the following year. After two test runs in 2004 and 2005, the magazine has also been available for retail sale since May 2006.

According to its own information from April 2013, the magazine has a circulation of 8,200 copies, and more than 325,000 Internet users are said to visit the website per month. According to this information, 86% of the readers had a high school diploma or a university degree and "almost 50% of the readers have more than 2,500 euros net a month".

Authors

Apart from some of the publicists who have no connection to the New Right, the authors also include well-known names of the new right movement such as the co-founder of the Institute for State Policy Götz Kubitschek , the managing director and founder of Junge Freiheit, Dieter Stein , the publisher of the Blauen Narcissus Felix Menzel and the author Thorsten Hinz , as well as Josef Schüßlburner , who also appears at right-wing extremist events, Hans-Helmuth Knütter , who was, for example, a speaker for the Society for Free Journalism monitored by the constitutional protection , and the AfD politician Peter Boehringer .

reception

Political classification and reactions

In the autumn of 2012, the political scientist Thomas Gesterkamp took the view in the magazine APuZ that there are overlaps in terms of personnel and content between peculiarly free and the weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit . In 2012, Felix Dirsch also confirmed “closer contacts” with the magazine Sezession and assigned them to the New Right .

In 2012, the social scientist Hinrich Rosenbrock referred to a report by Thomas Sager from 2003 in the information portal Blick nach rechts , which peculiarly freely referred to as “right posture” and “an example of the cross-front strategy of the new right forces”. There would be overlaps, for example through Klaus Peter Krause and Gérard Albert Bökenkamp from the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, between peculiarly free and the Internet publication platform Freie Welt . According to Rosenbrock, the magazine could thus be classified as “legally liberal ”.

The political scientist Karin Priester wrote in APuZ at the end of 2010 that the minimal state libertarianism in Germany found a forum in the magazine strangely free . The ideological leading figures are the political philosophers Murray Rothbard and Ayn Rand , who legitimized selfishness and selfishness as virtues in moral philosophy. The aim is the state unhindered maximization of the benefits of new "service providers". They see the basic evil in " social democracy ", which has also attacked the CDU chaired by Angela Merkel . Since 2007, the publisher of peculiarly free , André Lichtschlag , who strives for an alliance of radical libertarian and national-conservative forces, has also been seeking proximity to right-wing extremism . Priester made this clear in interviews with the NPD chairman Udo Voigt and the national anarchist Peter Töpfer as well as two articles (from 2003-2004) by Angelika Willig , who wrote for Junge Freiheit, then from 2008 to 2009 editor-in-chief of Hier & Jetzt and thereafter was the author of the German Voice . According to the priest, social Darwinism acted as the ideological link between libertarianism and right-wing extremism, with the natural superiority of the strong over the weak and the elite over the masses.

Marc Euler describes in his dissertation strangely freely as one of the most prominent representatives of anarcho-capitalism . Andreas Kemper and Charlott Schönwetter rate the magazine as "right-wing libertarian-anti-democratic []" and " anti-feminist ". According to Lutz Frühbrodt , who wrote a study for the Otto Brenner Foundation , the alternative medium is a "right-wing publication []". The Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute for Sexual Education in Dortmund classifies ef in the category of “ultra-conservative [] to right-wing []” media. In their study , the right "courage" Nationals Alexander Haeusler and Rainer Roeser take peculiarly free under the heading "Rights Media and AFD" and speak of "a [r] radical market [n] and national conservative [n] orientation" of the magazine: "With regard to the authorship and content, intersections with the" New Right "and their media such as the" Junge Freiheit "and the" Sezession "from the new right Institute for State Policy can be identified."

At a symposium in 2015 on the “topicality of the fascism theory. Julian Bruns, Kathrin Glösel and Natascha Strobl classified historical research and current developments in the political right ”at the University of Marburg strangely freely as the“ new right ”:“ In the area of ​​ideology, classic right-wing extremist thought patterns apply in the new right. A uniform, stringent ideology or even a program cannot be established because the variation in the female actors is very multifaceted. Rather, there is a range of different positions on different topics that are more or less emphasized. That ranges, for example, from a clearly neo-liberal orientation in the case of 'peculiarly free' to publications that scratch hard neo-Nazism like 'ZurZeit'. "

Journalistic classification

The political scientist Albrecht von Lucke wrote in the taz in 2009 that there was a peculiarly free personal and content overlap with the weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit . Publications of initiatives against right in Germany seen in strange free "an example of the cross-front strategy New Right forces" and see it as "radical", "New Right [...] magazine" on. In 2012, the magazine Emma counted strangely freely among the "confessing right-wing papers like the Junge Freiheit [and the] Sezession ". Marc-Felix Serrao was of the opinion in the Süddeutsche Zeitung 2010 that a “radical, some would say brachio-liberal magazine is strangely free ”. For peculiarly free is: “Gender mainstreaming? An attempt to re-educate the feminism industry. Climate change? Hysteria. Popular parties? 'Neo-socialist exploiters' ”and the EU, the“ EUdSSR ”. The peculiar free -author Heribert Seifert was the beginning of 2008 in the NZZ , peculiarly free was a "scene organ for the so-called libertarians", the "liberal positions economic, social and cultural policy sharper [...] contour". The sound is loud, sometimes shrill, and the message is straightforward. Right-wing conservative authors would also have their say. "Reason for alarm calls about a right shift of the sheet" does not exist.

In 2004, Peter Nowak assumed on Telepolis that a "new right [...] magazine" was peculiarly free . January Engelmann wrote in 2003 in the taz , the "libertarian fanzine" strive "for his anathema against left conformity think Mr Fuhr , Nolte and Mahler ." Karen Horn called 2001 peculiarly free in the FAZ as a "radical liberal". This "unusual [...], [...]" magazine that is unique on the German [...] market offers "the liberal intellectual scene a forum for discussion". The style is sometimes "provocative in its presentation, sometimes even sensational".

In 2009 Guido Hülsmann said in his laudation on the awarding of the Gerhard Löwenthal Prize to the editor André F. Lichtschlag about peculiarly free : “And that is [...] today a wonderful opportunity that these two camps (= libertarian and new-right currents ) come together ", which according to Hülsmann are also" not hermetically separated ". In a contribution to the Intercultural Week from 2013, the theologian Angelika Strube was strangely one of the “new right newspapers, magazines and websites”, which in her opinion also include Junge Freiheit , Blaue Narcissus and the weblog Politically Incorrect . What these new right media have in common is that they actively woo Christian readers and particularly take up conservative Christian or traditionalist topics.

Editorial board

Members of the editorial board of the magazine are: Stefan Blankertz , Hardy Bouillon , Gerd Habermann , Hans-Hermann Hoppe , Guido Hülsmann , Robert Nef , Erich Weede .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Belltower.News : Lexicon: Strangely free
  2. ↑ Patrick Keßler: The “New Right” in the gray area between right-wing extremism and conservatism? Protagonists, programmatic and positioning movements. LIT Verlag, Berlin 2018, p. 193
  3. ↑ Patrick Keßler, p. 192 f.
  4. ↑ a b Bernd A. Laska: Max Stirner - godfather of "peculiarly free"? In: peculiarly free. Marketplace for liberalism, anarchism and capitalism . tape 11 , 2000, pp. 381–383 ( lsr-projekt.de ( memento from July 18, 2013 on WebCite ) [accessed February 24, 2014]).
  5. ^ Christian Fuchs, Paul Middelhoff: New rights: Up to the last, right angle. www.zeit.de, May 12, 2018
  6. ↑ Patrick Keßler, p. 193
  7. ↑ Patrick Keßler, p. 193
  8. ↑ Stefan Dietl: "Adolf, please get in touch !" Jungle.world, June 6, 2019
  9. ↑ Thomas Gesterkamp: For men, but not against women - essay . Subject: Mannsbilder. Ed .: bpb . No. 40 . APuZ , Bonn September 24, 2012, p. 6 ( bpb.de ). - ( bpb.de PDF)
  10. ↑ Felix Dirsch: Authentic Conservatism: Studies on a Classical Current of Political Thought . Lit Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-643-11530-0 , pp. 248 ( books.google.ca ).
  11. ↑ Hinrich Rosenbrock: The anti-feminist men's rights movement. Mindset, networks and online mobilization . Ed .: Heinrich Böll Foundation . 2nd Edition. tape 8 , 2012, ISBN 978-3-86928-073-8 , pp. 47 ( gwi-boell.de [PDF; 2.4 MB ; retrieved on February 20, 2017] Writings of the Gunda Werner Institute).
  12. ↑ Tomas Sager: Representatives of the extreme right and right-wing conservative spectrum are campaigning against the NRW constitution protection. Mobilization. In: look to the right . August 21, 2003, accessed on September 3, 2012 (availability is subject to a charge / quoted from the peculiarly free online archive).
  13. ↑ Karin Priester: Fluid boundaries between right-wing extremism and right-wing populism in Europe? Subject: extremism . Ed .: bpb . No. 44 . APuZ, Bonn November 1, 2010, p. 38 ( bpb.de ). - bpb.de (PDF).
  14. ^ Marc Euler: Social capital: A bridge between the individual and society . BIS-Vlg., Oldenburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-8142-2003-1 ( staff.uni-oldenburg.de [PDF; accessed on February 20, 2017]).
  15. ↑ Andreas Kemper, Charlott Schönwetter: Reproduction of male power relations in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia . In: Andreas Heilmann et al. (Ed.): Masculinity and reproduction. To the social place of historical and current masculinity productions . Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-658-03983-7 , pp. 271–290, here: p. 276.
  16. ↑ Lutz Frühbrodt: Content Marketing. How “corporate journalists” influence public opinion (= OBS workbook 86). A study by the Otto Brenner Foundation, Frankfurt am Main 2016, p. 70.
  17. ^ Ina-Maria Philipps, Ulrike Schmauch , Uwe Sielert , Karlheinz Valtl, Joachim Walter: Campaigns against emancipatory sexual education. In: Zeitschrift für Sexualforschung 29 (2016) 1, pp. 73–89, here: p. 76 doi: 10.1055 / s-0042-102438 .
  18. ↑ Alexander Häusler, Rainer Roesner, The right «courage» citizens. VSA-Verlag 2015, p. 132.
  19. ↑ Julian Bruns, Kathrin Glösel, Natascha Strobl : Die Identitären , PDF manuscript Symposium “Currentity of the Fascism Theory . Historical research and current developments in the political right ”, Marburg, July 10, 2015, p. 3 ( www2.bdwi.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this note. PDF; accessed March 26, 2017).@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www2.bdwi.de  
  20. ↑ cf. also Julian Bruns, Kathrin Glösel, Natascha Strobl , Die Identitären. Handbook on the youth movement of the New Right in Europe , Unrast, Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-89771-549-3 , p. 144 f .: at ef , “authors from the New Right are also welcome”. The enemy is "always clearly on the left" with the magazine. It is an attempt, exclusive in the German-speaking area, to “link new right ideology and libertarian thinking”.
  21. ↑ Albrecht von Lucke: Pirate Party and "Young Freedom" - The Shallows of Freedom. The interview with the “Junge Freiheit” exposes the pirates: Freedom alone is not a party program. The Pirate Party must clarify its concept of freedom as quickly as possible - seriously. In: The daily newspaper . September 18, 2009, accessed January 25, 2017 .
  22. ↑ Thomas Sager: Representatives of the extreme right and right-wing conservative spectrum are campaigning against the NRW constitution protection. In: Blick nach Rechts No. 17/2003, August 21, 2003.
  23. ^ Robert Andreasch: Munich: Scandal in the Gasteig . In: aida , January 14, 2011, accessed June 29, 2013.
  24. ↑ Simone Rafael: After the portal locks on the Internet: The hatred continues here . In: Netz gegen Nazis , September 12, 2012. Retrieved June 29, 2013.
  25. ↑ The Masculist Conspiracy . In: Emma , Spring 2012 edition, April 1, 2012.
  26. ^ Marc-Felix Serrao: The opponent from Grevenbroich. Strangely free: Germany's only radically liberal magazine continues to fight for capitalism . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , No. 50, March 2, 2010, p. 17.
  27. ↑ Heribert Seifert: Against Wischiwaschi liberalism. The journals "Eigenümlich frei" and "Schweizer Monatshefte". In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . February 22, 2008, accessed September 3, 2012 .
  28. ↑ Peter Nowak: Right fun guerrilla on the Internet , Telepolis from August 5, 2004.
  29. ↑ Jan Engelmann: No heat at the business school. In: the daily newspaper , February 22, 2003.
  30. ↑ Karen Horn: A voice for freedom. A small magazine is at the forefront of the radical liberal scene in Germany. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . August 13, 2001, archived from the original on November 21, 2010 ; Retrieved September 3, 2012 .
  31. ↑ Patrick Keßler, p. 194 f.
  32. ↑ Angelika Strube: Right-wing extremist attitudes do not stop at church doors! In: Intercultural Week. 2013.