Fanzine (right-wing extremism)

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Right- wing fanzines are publications about the subculture and politics of the right-wing nationalist scene .

Content

The term “ fanzine ” is made up of the words “fan” and “magazine” and mostly describes subcultural publications. “In the right-wing extremist scene, these publications provide information about music groups, recordings, concerts and other scene events. Activists and right-wing extremist groups are given the opportunity to present themselves and spread their ideas in interviews, ” explains the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution in its lexicon. The contents of the right-wing fanzines are reports on right-wing bands and political reports on nationalist groups, movements and networks. In some cases there are also comments on political developments in the publications. Right-wing extremist content is increasingly being transported via genres such as Schlager , folk music , heavy metal , black metal , gabber , hardcore , rock or dark wave , which are also taken up. A small right-wing hip-hop scene was also able to establish itself.

The fact that right-wing fanzines are used to communicate with one another and with “comrades” in the underground has long been ignored. The magazines also discuss strategies for nationalist struggle. The scene size Carsten Szczepanski also before his arrest in 1992, the KKK -Fanzine "The fire cross." Later, also during his imprisonment, he published several issues of a fanzine under the title "United Skins", which was intended to appeal to the right-wing skinhead scene and was considered the German arm of the right-wing terrorist organization Combat 18 . In these sheets, during the discussion about the armed struggle, the idea of ​​forming cells came up, as the National Socialist Underground (NSU) realized. During research, employees of the Apabiz came across a fanzine in which the NSU was referred to as early as 2002.

Creator and Distribution

In the 1990s, most magazines were still made very amateurishly and were created on the typewriter and with scissors. Today the printed magazines have meanwhile been further developed into professionally designed publications. While some right-wing fanzines have editorial contact persons, many appeared without a person responsible in terms of press law and are not listed in the ISSN . Some of the magazines have a regional reference. The distribution channels include orders via the Internet, sales at right-wing rock concerts and other events, and sales in trendy shops. Many fanzines are related to right-wing music distributors, right-wing mail order companies and labels. In addition to appearing in paper forms, electronic distribution as e-zines has also established itself , particularly with the spread of the Internet . The content is published as HTML or PDF .

Development and importance

The fanzines are both a source of information and a propagator of ideology for the radical right-wing scene. According to estimates by state constitutional offices in the middle of the 2000s, the importance of fanzines as a means of communication for the right-wing scene with regard to Internet opportunities is declining. Internet offers are usually cheaper and access for the scene is easier.

Today professionally made media portals (homepage, app, store and similar) have largely replaced traditional fanzines on the Internet.

German-language fanzines

Since most magazines appear irregularly, it is partly unclear whether some fanzines still exist. If possible, the publication period is given.

  • Amok (KKK). Texts for terminal perpetrators (1995–1997)
  • Probation officer
  • The black flag
  • The break pilot
  • The winding tower , Mülheim an der Ruhr , the most important and popular organ of the scene from 2000 to at least 2003. Could be obtained from the mailbox of the " Blood and Honor Section Finland", then from mailboxes in Duisburg, Bottrop and Mülheim / Ruhr.
  • The white wolf , for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Brandenburg
  • Enemy contact
  • Foier Frei, nationwide, no longer appears (as of 2016)
  • Forever and ever
  • Homeward
  • Love of Oi
  • North wind , Ludwigshafen
  • Ostara, Saxony-Anhalt, nationwide distribution (Ed. Enrico Marx)
  • paranoia
  • Calls to the Reich , nationwide
  • Sarra Zine
  • Sleipnir, Berlin, nationwide distribution
  • Steel storm , Pirna
  • Stahlhelm , nationwide (2002 to 2009)
  • Pride & style
  • Violence , Brunswick
  • Viva Saxonia, Zwickau (Ed. Ronny Görner)
  • Popular will

The two fanzines targeting right-wing skinheads “Feindkontakt” and “Viva Saxonia” came together in 2016 in a joint issue entitled “Brothers in Arms”.

Ostara

Ostara is published by the NPD activist Enrico Marx . According to the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, one of the best-known right-wing extremist fanzines from Saxony-Anhalt with supraregional distribution is. In addition, Marx operated the Barbarossa-Versand , at that time one of the largest mail order companies for legal rock in Central Germany, which also sponsored major neo-Nazi events such as the Festival of the Nations in Jena. Marx was the founder of the right-wing comradeship Ostara in the Harz.

Sleipnir

Sleipnir is one of the oldest and most famous magazines from the right subculture. It also pursued a cross-front strategy with contributions from left-wing extremist authors and is assigned to the New Right . The magazine has been published every two months since 1995 with a length of approx. 50 pages. It was founded by Peter Töpfer and Andreas Röhler, who have been active under the Nationale Linke logo since 1993 and later founded the “Verlag der Freunde” (VdF). Titles by right-wing authors also appeared here and international literature that denied Auschwitz was distributed. This led to a house search on November 15, 1995 in the publishing and private rooms of Töpfer on suspicion of sedition.

With reference to national revolutionary actors such as Jean Thiriart, the magazine tries to establish an alliance of nationalist “communists” with right-wing extremists and neo-Nazis

The white wolf

The White Wolf is one of the oldest continuously existing neo-Nazi fanzines. The editor is David Petereit , deputy state chairman of the NPD Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . It was founded in 1996 in the JVA Brandenburg / Havel by a group of imprisoned neo-Nazis. They were given paper and copiers and were initially able to reproduce and distribute a publication published as a circular for prisoners under the title The White Wolf . Carsten Szczepanski , who almost beaten to death an asylum seeker in 1992, played a key role in the founding . In 1994 he was recruited as an undercover agent (code name "Piato" or "Piatto") by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution.

In 2001 the White Wolf published an article copied from the Hamburger Abendblatt , which dealt with "foreigners' quarters" in Hamburg. It was printed there in 1999. The article did not match the style of the publication in any way. The website Publikative.org pointed out that Süleyman Taşköprü was shot dead in Hamburg by the right-wing terrorist terrorist group NSU in the same year .

In 2002, during the nationwide series of Ceska murders , the magazine thanked the then publicly unknown NSU for a donation. In issue no. 18, under the foreword, is printed in bold : "Many thanks to the NSU, it has borne fruit." This is followed by a winking smiley and the slogan based on the jargon of the RAF: "The fight continues ..."

Central organ

The central organ appeared from 1997 to 2002 and was of particular importance in the free comradeship scene . The magazine was published by Klaus Bärthel from Ludwigslust in "Wolf-Verlag" with a circulation of 2,000 to 4,000 copies. Behind the medium was a circle to which the protagonists of the free comradeship scene Christian Worch and Thomas Wulff belonged.

In 2001 the magazine ran the headline “ National Liberated Zones ! Comrades, create them for you! ” And strengthened the character as a fighting term in the scene. Bärthel and two other magazine makers then had to answer for sedition before the Ludwigslust district court . You were represented by a lawyer by Jürgen Rieger . In 2003, the district judge acquitted all three of the charge of sedition.

German-language web portals

Much of the content of the fanzines is distributed on web portals, which have in fact replaced the function of printed publications in many cases.

literature

  • Kurt Möller, Nils Schumacher: Right baldness. Right-wing extremist orientation and scene contexts - entry, stay and exit processes of skinheads. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-531-90603-4 .
  • Christian Dornbusch, Jan Raabe (Hrsg.): RechtsRock, inventory and counter-strategies. Unrast Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-89771-808-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution - Glossary. In: www.verfassungsschutz.de. Retrieved November 14, 2016 .
  2. ↑ IDA-NRW :: RechtsRock. In: www.ida-nrw.de. Retrieved July 26, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b c White Wolf |. In: publikative.org. Retrieved November 10, 2016 .
  4. ↑ a b memoria et conscientia: Skinhead Fanzines. In: denktag2006.denktag-archiv.de. Retrieved November 10, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Kurt Möller, Nils Schuhmacher: Right bald heads: Right-wing extremist orientation and scene contexts - entry, retention and exit processes of skinheads . Springer-Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-90603-4 ( google.de [accessed on November 10, 2016]).
  6. ↑ Right-wing skinhead music scene | Look to the right. In: www.bnr.de. May 26, 2016, accessed November 10, 2016 .
  7. ↑ antifa: Reiko Schmiedel - right agitator and arsonist | Antifa in Leipzig. In: www.inventati.org. Retrieved November 10, 2016 .
  8. ↑ bnr.de
  9. ↑ Constitutional Protection Report Saxony-Anhalt 2003. ( inneres.sachsen-anhalt.de ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) PDF; 1.1 MB)
  10. ↑ Enrico Marx: Right-wing extremist sausage seller . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . ( mz-web.de [accessed on November 13, 2016]).
  11. ^ Anti-fascist press archive and education center Berlin e. V .: apabiz.de - Profile - Sleipnir. In: www.apabiz.de. Retrieved November 10, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Toralf Staud: Nazi Propaganda: Ministry downplayed right-wing propaganda from prison . In: The time . March 3, 2016, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed November 10, 2016]).
  13. ↑ a b SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg Germany: Right-wing terrorism: Did the neo-Nazi scene know about the NSU murders in 2002? In: SPIEGEL ONLINE. Retrieved November 10, 2016 .
  14. ^ Suspicion against NPD MPs . ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed on November 10, 2016]).
  15. ↑ Thomas Grumke, Bernd Wagner: Handbook right-wing radicalism: People - Organizations - Networks from neo-Nazism to the middle of society . Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-322-97559-1 ( google.de [accessed on November 10, 2016]).
  16. ↑ Stephan Braun, Alexander Geisler, Martin Gerster: Strategies of the extreme right: Backgrounds - Analyzes - Answers . Springer-Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-531-15911-9 ( google.de [accessed on November 10, 2016]).
  17. ↑ Stephan Braun, Alexander Geisler, Martin Gerster: Strategies of the extreme right: Backgrounds - Analyzes - Answers . Springer-Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-531-15911-9 ( google.de [accessed on November 10, 2016]).