Hunsrück Forum
| Hunsrück Forum: Journal for Democracy & Peace
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| description | Political science |
| First edition | 1983 |
| editor | Peace initiative Rhine-Hunsrück-Mosel |
| ISSN |
0179-2040 |
| ZDB | 1060673-7 |
The Hunsrück-Forum (spelling: HUNSRÜCK-FORUM) was the publication of the Hunsrück peace movement from 1983 to 1995 .
In connection with the NATO double decision and the plans for the stationing of cruise missiles in the Hunsrück , a broad counter-movement arose, which in the conservative political environment had only limited opportunities to reach a wider audience.
Since January 1983 the peace initiative Rhein-Hunsrück was planning to publish its own publication by the Hunsrück peace movement in order to create a counter-public to the actual press monopoly of the Koblenz Mittelrhein-Verlag . According to the peace initiative, the Simmern local editorial office of the Mittelrhein-Verlag, which published the local section "Hunsrücker Zeitung", as well as the Koblenz editorial office, which was responsible for supraregional reporting, used their monopoly-like position for one-sided reporting.
At the end of March 1983, the first self-published edition called "Hunsrück Forum" appeared. The editors wrote in the imprint of the first edition u. a .: "With this magazine we want to submit and summarize information that we miss here in the daily press." The distribution took place through a few sales outlets in shops and businesses in the region as well as some church institutions and by post to subscribers.
The Hunsrück Forum reported on issues relating to the peace movement and what was happening in the Hunsrück. The construction plan for the cruise missile position Pydna near Hasselbach , which is publicly available in the USA, was printed in one issue . Environmental issues were also increasingly taken up. There were repeated investigations into suspected crimes against state security.
In October 1995, issue number 64 was the last issue of the Hunsrück Forum.
literature
- Martin Hoffmann Black Texts: Political Censorship in the FRG - 1968 to the present day against left-wing bookshops, publishers, magazines and printers: Documents of the counter-public, Amsterdam 1992
- Ulrich Sarcinelli, Jürgen W. Falter and Gerd Mielke Political Culture in Rhineland-Palatinate Hase & Koehler 2000; ISBN 978-3775813907
- Sabine Zinn-Thomas Strangers on site: Self-image and regional identity in integration processes. A study in the Hunsrück Transcript-Verlag 2010; ISBN 3-8376-1395-X