Border Peace Notebooks
| Border Peace Notebooks
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| description | Journal for German-Danish Dialogue |
| publishing company | Self-published |
| First edition | 1953 |
| Frequency of publication | quarterly |
| Sold edition | 1500 copies |
| Editor-in-chief | Matthias Schartl , Levke Bittlinger, Ruth Clausen, Ilse Friis, Gerret L. Schlaber, |
| editor | ADS-Grenzfriedensbund e. V. |
| Web link | www.ads-flensburg.de/gfh |
| Article archive | www.ads-flensburg.de/archiv |
| ISSN (print) | 1867-1853 |
The Grenzfriedenshefte are a historical-political journal in the Schleswig border region. They appear every six months (previously quarterly). The thematic focus is on the conditions in the German-Danish border region. The magazine strives for high scientific standards as well as topicality and sees itself as a magazine for German-Danish dialogue .
history
The Grenzfriedenshefte was launched in 1953 as a member magazine of the Grenzfriedensbund. Based on the Kiel Declaration of 1949, the Grenzfriedensbund wanted to “do German cultural work in a European spirit” and, in contrast to the conservative border associations, sought a dialogue with the Danish side from the start. The Grenzfriedenshefte, conceived as a quarterly journal, should serve these programmatic goals. The conception of the Grenzfriedenshefte went back largely to two of the founding members of the Grenzfriedensbund, the school councilor Detlef Hansen and the Flensburg library director Hans Peter Johannsen . Johannsen from Northern Schleswig also took over the editing of the new magazine. Under his leadership, a clear focus of the booklet was on social and literary-cultural areas. A hallmark from the beginning was that numerous Danish authors also wrote for the border peace notebooks. In 1961 the editor changed to Ernst Beier, who opened the magazine thematically clearly. In the 1960s and 1970s, historical, social and political issues came to the fore in the border peace notebooks. Progressive and critical voices also received a forum. This concept was pursued further when, after 20 years, Beier passed on the editing to the historian and grammar school teacher Jörn-Peter Leppien . Under his leadership, the GFH expanded its position as the most important historical-political specialist journal in the German-Danish border region, and the scientific profile of the Grenzfriedenshefte was significantly sharpened. Their size increased to over 300 pages annually. In the 1980s and 1990s, the magazine became a recognized publication organ that was also highly valued by the Danish authorities. Even in the new century, the Grenzfriedenshefte have continued their line and repeatedly brought uncomfortable topics into the discussion.
content
In the first decade, social and literary-cultural topics of the German-Danish border region played the main role, although history and current politics were also strongly represented. Since the beginning of the 1980s, a focus of the Grenzfriedenshefte has also been on the long neglected coming to terms with the National Socialist era in the region. The Grenzfriedenshefte performed pioneering work in the processing and communication of the history of National Socialism . In many other areas, too, the editors of the Grenzfriedenshefte have repeatedly put their fingers in open wounds and taken up previous taboo topics, thus preparing the ground for new German-Danish understanding and renewals. The 3–6 articles in the main part form the main focus of the booklet. In addition, there is a look around with current reports, mainly from the border press and reviews of books with mostly historical topics.
literature
- Lena Möller: The border peace books 1953-2008. A mirror of the times or a sign of the politics of history? In: Grenzfriedenshefte . No. 1 , 2010, p. 7–42 ( ads-flensburg.de [PDF; 738 kB ; accessed on August 16, 2018]).
- Lothar Hay, Jörn-Peter Leppien, Matthias Schartl, Gerret Liebing Schlaber: 60 years of border peace books . In: Grenzfriedenshefte , Vol. 60, 2013, Issue 1, pp. 3–10 ( online ).
Web links
- Grenzfriedenshefte on the website of the ADS-Grenzfriedensbund e. V. .
Individual evidence
- ↑ The history of the border peace books - continuity and change. In: Website of the ADS Grenzfriedensbund e. V., Working Group German Schleswig. Archived from the original on November 12, 2013 ; accessed on August 16, 2018 .