Horizont (GDR magazine)
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description | Socialist weekly newspaper for international politics and economics |
Area of Expertise | politics |
language | German |
publishing company | Berlin publishing house |
First edition | 1st November 1968 |
Frequency of publication | weekly 1968–1983 monthly 1983–1989 weekly 1989–1991 |
Sold edition | 100,000 copies |
Editor-in-chief | Ernst-Otto Schwabe |
ISSN (print) | 0863-4521 |
Horizon - Socialist weekly newspaper for international politics and economy was in the GDR moved journal of international politics. It first appeared in the Berliner Verlag on November 1, 1968. It was published weekly until April 1983. From 1983 to 1989 it appeared monthly; from 1990 on again weekly. With the issue 24/1991 the publication was stopped.
The long-standing editor-in-chief from the founding in 1968 to the fall of 1989 was Ernst-Otto Schwabe , who was said to have such good contacts with the GDR leadership that Hans-Otto Bräutigam, as head of the permanent representation , sought talks with him as an unofficial diplomatic communication channel.
literature
- Simone Barck , Martina Langermann, Siegfried Lokatis (eds.): Between “Mosaic” and “Unity” - Magazines in the GDR . Christoph Links, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-86153-191-7 (conference contributions to a conference from October 1998, organized by the Center for Contemporary Research , Potsdam).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gunter Holzweißig: Class enemies and "relaxation friends" - Western media in the crosshairs of SED and MfS . Series of publications by the Berlin State Commissioner for the Documents of the State Security Service of the former GDR, Berlin 1995, p. 46.