Evangelical news agency idea

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Evangelical news agency idea e. V.

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legal form Registered association
founding 1970, registered as an association since February 17, 1972
Seat Wetzlar
management Matthias Pankau (Head)

Helmut Matthies (chairman)

Branch christian news agency
Website www.idea.de

The evangelical news agency idea e. V. based in Wetzlar is a news agency . It informs the media “mainly about the evangelical movement and the evangelical assessment of church and secular processes” and also serves “communication within the evangelical area”.

History and objectives

From the beginning to the establishment

idea was founded in 1970 as an information service of the Evangelical Alliance . The reason for the establishment was a dissatisfaction in pietistic parts of German Protestantism with the Evangelical Press Service (epd), the main publication organ of the Evangelical Church in Germany at that time . People felt that their own concerns were underrepresented and sometimes distorted by polemics, and they felt that they could detect a certain political one-sidedness. After several unsuccessful attempts at intervention, the thought arose that evangelicalism needed its own press service in order to make itself heard in public.

At the initiative of the German Evangelical Alliance , nine representatives from three organizations met on May 25, 1970 to form the founding committee. On February 17, 1972, this led to the registered association idea (Information Service of the Evangelical Alliance) e. V. The German Evangelical Alliance , the Wetzlarer Evangeliums-Rundfunk and the Working Group Evangelical Missions were represented . Horst Marquardt , who was there for Evangeliums-Rundfunk, became the first chairman of the association. Since then, idea has published a regular news service, the idea press service , which appears daily.

The reports, which were initially amateurish in their journalistic style, were initially aimed at evangelical groups and leaders; they were used for internal evangelical communication. It took the association several years to overcome an initial skepticism in some evangelical groups and "to be accepted as a common voice". Thereafter, the leadership level of regional church officials emerged as a further target group in order to convey the importance and presence of evangelical groups in the church. Only later did the general press become the addressee. This was due to the appointment of the then 27-year-old pastor Helmut Matthies as editor-in-chief in 1977.

Some people saw the attitude of this “conservative theologian” as a “political issue” against which “ epd circles ” warned. Because it meant a change from the restriction to special evangelical concerns to a “broader self-understanding of journalism, according to which the mandate of biblical-Christian awareness building could be perceived in all directions , including its socio-political consequences”. Thus, Matthies forced the turn to the secular press as the addressee of the work of idea. The press releases were given a journalistic style and were transmitted by telex. Idea countered the growing discrepancy to the original mission of internal evangelical (and church) communication by dividing the publications into the previous "information service" and the new weekly magazine ideaSpektrum from 1979, which popularly prepared the basic service for the hands of pastors and church members and with extensive Comments. This division brought the breakthrough for the club.

From 1978 to 2017 Helmut Matthies was head of the agency. On February 1, 2018, he took on the honorary role of chairman.

Location within Protestant journalism

Right from the start, the relationship with the Evangelical Press Service (epd) was exciting with regard to the question of how to deal with the existence of two news services in the Evangelical Church. In fact, the epd previously had the full mandate for daily reporting in the EKD. Therefore, initially there was a fear of competition from idea. This initially subsided, partly due to the assertion of the association's chairman Horst Marquardt that one sees itself as a supplement, partly due to the initial niche existence of the information service kept alive by part-time workers. However, when some evangelical groups gave up their collaboration with the epd in favor of idea and an application was made to the EKD for a grant for idea, which in the meantime had gained recognition in some church leaderships, the relationship to the EKD had to be defined. The EKD's "Overall Journalistic Plan" from 1979 stated that "the overall mandate for current news reporting (lies) with the Evangelical Press Service". Since German Protestantism can only afford a news agency for "journalistic, church-political and financial reasons (...)", the epd should be able to fully exercise the overall mandate assigned to it.

This provision, which in particular ignored the now higher edition of idea compared to the epd, led to cooperation negotiations between the EKD and the Evangelical Alliance or between idea and the epd. These failed because neither the epd was willing to accept a division of the overall mandate nor a reduction to a purely directional organ. In this context, the idea board formulated the objective that idea too "wanted to fulfill a church-wide function [...]". Instead of connecting one service to the other, the form of “independent cooperation” emerged, perceptible in their independence and the occasional mutual acceptance of messages. The factuality of two evangelical intelligence services, which had already overtaken the "overall journalistic plan" before it was drawn up, finally moved the EKD to approve a grant that was significantly lower than the other evangelical media and thus to an "extended recognition by the official church" . This will expire in 2020.

In 2007 idea was awarded the Walter Künneth Prize for press work critical of the spirit of the times.

Objectives

Following the three steps of its development, the goals of idea are to be an internal evangelical communication instrument (also in global terms) that creates publicity for evangelical organizations. Furthermore, one would like to reflect internal church processes and fill corresponding gaps in public reporting. Thirdly, one understands oneself as "'spearhead" (...), that means currents are summarized, systematized and published. One thus fulfills an ideological function ”. Idea does not claim an overall mandate based on the model of the epd: They do not want to report on everything that is happening, but see themselves as a “thematically-oriented special agency”.

“The bond with the Evangelical Alliance and its spiritual foundation” continues to form “the main signature for the work of idea”. idea is “not value-neutral, but with all the emphasis on journalistic independence in the basic connection to the biblical testimony and the understanding of faith of the Evangelical Alliance”. This premise was made clear from the start: The theological basis determines news choices and comments. This is expressed, for example, in the recourse to the Bible as a "criterion for judging events in theology, church and society". “It is asked which message is worth publishing for the 'development of the kingdom of God'”. Compared to the epd, “the mission idea is more in the foreground”. In this respect, one feels “obliged” to “use all available mass media for preaching and to report on 'the great deeds of God'”. With this one wants to provide "faith help" as well as to promote certain developments. In the face of a society that is in the process of decay , idea would like to convey spiritual and spiritual orientation. Ethically and politically, this is taking on a very conservative form. Social changes can only be seen as possible through changes to individuals.

Relationship to the German Evangelical Alliance

The relationship with the German Evangelical Alliance was never defined as binding, despite the history and the naming. "Idea is a registered association that has absolutely nothing to do with Allianz in purely legal terms" (Helmut Matthies). The link exists ideally, partly also through personal links, but not legally. So Hartmut Steeb , general secretary of the Evangelical Alliance, for example, ex officio on the board of idea. Volker Dettmar stated in 1994 that the alliance was neither binding for the orientation of the service nor intended to be the "PR body of the DEA". On the other hand, the Baptist denominational scientist Erich Geldbach explains the use of the abbreviation "idea" instead of its tender, stating that the DEA "no longer wants to fully identify with the content (through idea)". The evolutionary biologist Ulrich Kutschera, on the other hand, calls idea 2007 a “well-organized information and propaganda instrument” of the “Evangelical Alliance”.

Journalistic media and memberships

idea publishes reports from the fields of Protestant churches in Germany , free churches , the evangelical movement worldwide, theology , mission and bioethics . The offer includes a website with a news ticker, a daily online press service with daily news, around ten documentations per year, as well as a picture service and a news archive. As an agency, idea supplies secular and Christian media (press, radio, television) and publishes the news magazine ideaSpektrum every week . Idea has been broadcasting a news magazine since the end of 2005, which can currently be seen on the TV channel Bibel TV and the regional channel bw.family . The show is currently being produced every working day at Bibel TV.

organization

As a founding member of idea, the Evangelical Alliance sends its chairman as an ex officio member of the idea board. Since 2018, Helmut Matthies has been chairman of the 65-member association and Matthias Pankau has been responsible for press law.

The association is responsible for the products:

  • idea press service
  • ideaSpektrum , a weekly magazine with the Swiss edition ideaSpektrum Switzerland
  • ideaSpezial (special publications on special topics such as seniors, travel or reading)
  • idea documentaries with around twelve new publications per year
  • a weekly news magazine on television

idea press service

The idea press service appears daily as an online edition and is used by numerous Christian media, for example the websites of the EKD , the Catholic Church Switzerland, humanist.de, as well as many denominational and non-denominational Christian magazines in the German-speaking area.

idea spectrum

ideaSpektrum is one of the “most important opinion-forming magazines in German evangelicalism”. The German edition of ideaSpektrum has a print run of 34,000, the Swiss edition with a separate header has a print run of around 4,000, and has been published weekly since 1979. According to a readership analysis from 2007, each copy is read by an average of slightly more than three people, so ideaSpektrum has around 100,000 readers. Outside Germany, it is only available by subscription .

According to the information community to determine the distribution of advertising media , idea Spektrum had a sold circulation of 27,331 copies in the 2nd quarter of 2014.

In 2008 the online magazine idealisten.net was launched. The print magazine of the same name for young Christians has been published every six months since 2010 as a supplement to ideaSpektrum .

Regional editions

Since 2006, idea has offered its own regional pages to complement ideaSpektrum . In addition to a news section, various reports and reports, readers will find regional special pages for the areas West, Southwest, Hesse / Bavaria, North and East .

idea television

With the news program "ideaHeute", idea wants to provide information on topics and events from a Christian perspective. The program has been broadcast on Bible TV at 7:55 p.m. on weekdays since April 2013 . The new format is a further development of the previous weekly magazine “ideaFernsehen”.

Congress of Christian Leaders

In cooperation with the company tempus Zeit- und Lebensplanung (Giengen), idea is the organizer of the "Congress of Christian Leaders", which has taken place every two years since 1999.

financing

idea is financed “primarily through subscriptions and advertisements in the weekly magazine ideaSpektrum as well as on the Internet”. The association sells its advertising business through itszeichen stellen Wetzlar GmbH . Furthermore, idea "as the central voice of evangelicals and groups closely related to them" is now expressly regarded by the Evangelical Church in Germany, along with many other media, as part of evangelical journalism and has received financial support from it since 1982. In the 2008 budget year this totaled 138,000 euros; for the 2010 budget year 132,000 euros were set. On November 15, 2017, the EKD Synod decided to cut the annual grant from 132,000 euros for 2018 to 90,000 and for 2019 to 60,000 euros and to cancel it entirely from 2020. Unlike commercial news agencies, idea is also dependent on donations. For example, Peter Hahne , who actively appealed against the cancellation of the EKD's funding, donated 40,000 euros to idea , according to the Christian Publicists Working Group.

Controversy

As an exponent of “ecclesiastical alternative journalism”, which is committed to the conservative spectrum in German Protestantism, idea has given rise to controversial assessments.

From a perspective critical of evangelicalism, Volker Dettmar (1994) criticizes the commitment to the faith base of the Evangelical Alliance and in particular the concept of mission as a yardstick for reporting. This brings a pedagogical element incompatible with journalism into the reporting. The selection and processing of the information are also clearly committed to a political conservatism , which is based on the spectrum of the CDU / CSU and results in a “one-sided politicization of internal church issues”. Using selected examples, he complains about a “structured news deficit” at idea, especially when it comes to conflict issues. Thus one addresses “often only points of conflict outside one's own area such as the assumed politicization of the church and the exit numbers, conceals contradictions and false reports, leaves out contradictions to one's own point of view, marginalizes critical evangelicals, ignores undesirable developments in one's own camp, withholds denials of attacked persons, preferentially or publishes only opinions that are identical to its own [,] and often does not provide the information that would enable one to criticize the opinions presented. This not only contradicts the requirements of agency journalism, but also raises general doubts about journalistic honesty ”. Erich Geldbach (2005) similarly criticizes the "boundaries that are always associated with the reports against supposed or real church political opponents", which cause a "strong sense of belonging" in their own clientele. The news agency wanted to " show the flag in view of the opposed church-theological ' pluralism ' and advertise with unambiguity and a spiritual profile and thinks that it has this".

The historian Wilhelm Ernst Winterhager , on the other hand, stated in 1993 that the journalism cultivated at idea, with its clear accentuation, "with all its attachment to the biblical point of view, faces current questions of life". If the German Pietists were previously criticized for their lack of social engagement, it is now "the type and direction of the socio-political commitment that arouses the displeasure of critics and makes them accuse conservative one-sidedness". Although the evangelicals are committed to conservative values ​​on ethical issues (without equating both), the representatives of the 'left', social reform wing also have their place in the reporting . Furthermore, denouncing undesirable ecclesiastical developments would only express tensions that existed in Protestantism anyway. Through the pointed evangelical positioning, with the idea of ​​giving these circles a voice, their alienation from the church was stopped and new bonds were created - it should therefore be viewed as a loyal service to the church as a whole.

In 2007 Ulrich Kutschera together with the "Evangelical Alliance" made idea the largest evangelical faction of German creationism . Hansjörg Hemminger noted that Idea never missed an opportunity to present creationism based on the US model as a serious alternative to science. Robert Schmidt praised idea as one of the few media that gave the "small number of scientists who publicly criticize evolution" "opportunities for access to statements" under the conditions of one-sidedly dominated discourses in the mass media characterized by the effects of power. almost entirely without scientific content ”.

Regina Wamper , employee at the private Duisburg Institute for Linguistic and Social Research , classifies the tendency of idea in dealing with Judaism into a predominant tendency in evangelicalism to represent solidarity with Israel, but with a "very instrumentalizing trait", there one Jewish mission is advocated. One appeals “positively to so-called Jewish-Christian communities that practice Christian missions among Jews in Israel”. She points out that authors from ideaSpektrum also published in the weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit (JF), which is part of the Neue Right , but did not deal with the subject of "Israel" there. “The conflict that inevitably arises from the opposing positions of JF and 'idea' on this question is faded out”; the “topic of ' Christian Zionism '”, which is significant for the evangelical movement, appears in this case to be “not as relevant” as what they believe to be the “alliance with the JF”. The politician and right-wing extremism expert of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania SPD, Mathias Brodkorb , criticizes Wamper's article in the SPD- related magazine Berliner Republik as the only one from the otherwise recommended anthology by Braun / Vogt on the basis of "obscure (er)" methodology: "What doesn't fit, is (...) made to match by Wamper. This has nothing to do with serious science ”. The Hamburg political scientist Aram Ziai, on the other hand, attests to Wamper that "with this work she impressively demonstrates the explanatory potential of a methodically precisely applied critical discourse analysis on an important subject area - and thus, in a scientific manner, puts the serious intellectual arsonists of the Junge Freiheit in the spotlight" - like the theologian and social scientist Norbert Copray.

According to Helmut Matthies, some, including Junge Freiheit , obtain ideas with permission to print and can then print whatever they want; the author then apparently ends up in the author list. But idea editors did not write any guest contributions for Junge Freiheit .

In December 2009 Helmut Matthies, who appears as a speaker at the annual celebrations of the JF and B. 2006 against an exclusion of JF turned from the Leipzig Book Fair, the by JF mitvergebenen Gerhard Loewenthal price . In his acceptance speech, Matthies called the JF "one of the best conservative papers". The acceptance of the price was criticized among others by the head of education of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany (EKM). There is a risk "that the taboo border in the gray area on right-wing extremism will be shifted further down"; Matthies let “the entire idea editorial team balance on the ridge to the right-wing extremist milieu”. Then there was a conversation between Matthies, the idea chairman Horst Marquardt and EKM bishop Ilse Junkermann. As a result, the EKM announced that there was still a "different assessment" of the price acceptance. However, “agreement was reached” that “Christian belief is incompatible with right-wing extremism. The Evangelical Church in Central Germany is far from identifying Idea and Pastor Matthies with right-wing extremism. "

In the course of an investigation into religious topics with inherent “structural affinities” to right-wing extremism, Stefan von Hoyningen-Huene comes up with the “enemy image of a necessarily violent 'Islam'”, “which is repeatedly rumored in different forms in idea spectrum”. Likewise, he thinks in some idea reports - he names those about the "Evangelical Collection Berlin" - that he can recognize "national tones". Wilhelm Ernst Winterhager, on the other hand, emphasizes idea's support for German reunification in the years before the fall of the Wall . At that time idea was severely scolded as “forever yesterday” and “politically one-sided”. In retrospect, however, this has proven to be correct. In dealing with the Stasi problem, it was possible to speak of a “'memorable coalition' between Spiegel and idea”.

literature

  • Volker Dettmar: Interest and information. Comparison of the press agencies "Evangelical Press Service" and "Information Service of the Evangelical Alliance" , Frankfurt 1994.
  • Horst Marquardt: Article idea in: Evangelical Lexicon for Theology and Congregation , Volume 2. Wuppertal 1993, p. 945, Sp. 1.
  • Gerd Rumler: Article idea in: Evangelisches Gemeindelexikon. Wuppertal 1986, ISBN 3-417-24082-4 , p. 265, column 1.
  • Wilhelm Ernst Winterhager : idea - Two decades of alternative ecclesiastical journalism. In: Church contemporary history. International half-yearly publication for theology and history (KZG) 6 (1993). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen; ISSN  0932-9951 , pp. 523-541; also in: Helmut Matthies (ed.): The media challenge. Christians and journalism. Brunnen Verlag, Gießen 1994, pp. 156-172.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Under VR 736 at the register of associations at the Wetzlar District Court.
  2. ↑ According to the electronic register of associations: July 4, 1972 (but without guarantee).
    Horst Marquardt: idea . In: Helmut Burkhardt and Uwe Swarat (ed.): Evangelical Lexicon for Theology and Congregation . tape 2 . R. Brockhaus Verlag, Wuppertal 1993, ISBN 3-417-24642-3 , p. 945 .
  3. ↑ a b Klaus Engelhardt: Mandate and Market - Overall Journalistic Concept 1997. (No longer available online.) Evangelical Church in Germany , archived from the original on December 5, 2011 ; Retrieved May 19, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ekd.de
  4. ↑ Winterhager, pp. 523-526
  5. ↑ Arbeitsgemeinschaft Rundfunk Evangelischer Freikirchen: Pioneer of evangelical journalism: Horst Marquardt, co-founder of many evangelical works, turns 80 ( Memento from October 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Winterhager, pp. 526-527
  7. ^ A b Volker Dettmar: Interest and information. Comparison of the press agencies “Evangelical Press Service” and “Information Service of the Evangelical Alliance” , Frankfurt 1994, pp. 85–89
  8. ↑ Winterhager, p. 529
  9. ↑ Winterhager, p. 532
  10. ↑ Winterhager, p. 533
    Volker Dettmar: Interest and information. Comparison of the press agencies "Evangelical Press Service" and "Information Service of the Evangelical Alliance" . Frankfurt 1994, pp. 89-91, 140.
  11. ↑ Federal President: idea has a firm place in the media landscape , idea.de, article from February 2, 2018.
  12. ↑ Dettmar, p. 94f.
  13. ↑ Winterhager, p. 535
  14. ↑ Dettmar, p. 97
  15. ↑ a b Winterhager, p. 537
  16. ↑ EKD cancels idea's financial support . idea notification dated November 15, 2017, accessed on November 16, 2017.
  17. ^ Idea report from June 18, 2007, also published by KSBB and EAD .
  18. ↑ Dettmar, p. 139 quoted by Helmut Matthies
  19. ↑ Winterhager, p. 526; Dettmar, p. 126ff.
  20. ↑ Winterhager, p. 528.
  21. ↑ a b Dettmar, p. 137
  22. ↑ Dettmar, p. 135 reproducing an interview with idea editor-in-chief Helmut Matthies.
  23. ↑ “On the evangelical side, there has been an equivalent organ for several years, the information service of the Evangelical Alliance 'idea'. In contrast to the Evangelical Press Service, idea is more focused on the mission concept. ”From: Nicola Herbig: Church or Commerce? Analysis of the journalistic function of Protestant private radio editorial offices at the intersection of the systems religion, mass communication and economy in the FRG. Contributions to communication theory, 16; LIT, Münster 1999, p. 128, with reference to: Manfred Redelfs: Evangelical Church and private broadcasting. Decisions, concepts, structures. Steinkopf, Stuttgart 1990, p. 53.
    Likewise, the Protestant theologian and EZW editor Matthias Pöhlmann, who sees the     idea as an example of the “specific type of evangelical journalism”, “that 'confronts a public to be evangelized'”: Matthias Pöhlmann : Section 4. Evangelical Journalism in the 20th Century (pp. 711–715) within Gerhard Müller:  Journalism / Press, III. Protestant journalism and press . In: Theologische Realenzyklopädie (TRE). Volume 27, de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1997, ISBN 3-11-015435-8 , pp. 704-718., Here p. 714 with reference to Volker Dettmar: Interest and Information. Comparison of the press agencies "Evangelical Press Service" and "Information Service of the Evangelical Alliance". (= Diss. Frankfurt a. M.), Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1994, p. 254. Dettmar, however, states on p. 131 about the self-image of idea: “The service performs a function of proclamation in the evangelical sense. However, this does not mean a direct mission or evangelism through idea, but means their 'stimulation and promotion' ”.
  24. ↑ Dettmar, p. 136
  25. ↑ Dettmar, pp. 143, 137
  26. ↑ Quoted in: Dettmar, p. 137
  27. ↑ Erich Geldbach: Free Churches. Heritage, shape, effect. 2nd edition, Göttingen 2005, p. 324.
  28. ^ A b Ulrich Kutschera: Creationism in Germany: facts and analyzes ; LIT Verlag, Münster 2007, p. 21.
  29. ↑ idea board. In: idea.de. Archived from the original on May 4, 2012 ; accessed on June 10, 2018 .
  30. ↑ idea takes six new members into its sponsoring group. In: idea.de. June 10, 2018, accessed June 10, 2018 . Imprint. In: idea.de. Retrieved June 10, 2018 .
  31. ↑ Michael Hausin: State, Constitution and Politics from the Perspective of the Evangelical Movement within German Pietism , Diss. Rostock 2000 / Grin 2010, p. 32.
  32. ^ Matthias Pöhlmann: Section 4. Evangelical Journalism in the 20th Century (pp. 711–715) within Gerhard Müller: Art. Journalism / Press, III. Evangelical Journalism and Press , in: Theologische Realenzyklopädie , Volume 27, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-11-016295-4 , pp. 704–718, here p. 714.
  33. ↑ Media data 2008. (pdf, 2.53 MB) In: idea.de. January 17, 2008, p. 2 , archived from the original on July 12, 2008 ; accessed on June 10, 2018 .
  34. ^ Information community to determine the distribution of advertising media eV (IVW): list of editions 2nd quarter 2014 ; P. 267 (pdf; 1.13 MB)
  35. ↑ Protestant media under one roof: idea eV ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Press release of the Evangelical Church in Germany for Protestant Church 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ekd.de
  36. ↑ Five minutes of Christian news . Medienmagazin pro , March 20, 2013
  37. ↑ About us - self-image. Retrieved May 21, 2010 .
  38. ↑ Registered since December 22, 1988 at the Wetzlar District Court under HRB 1099.
  39. ↑ Winterhager, p. 523
  40. ^ Christof Vetter: Protestant media under one roof. Journalistic partner stand on the media mile at the Kirchentag. In: ekd.de. May 31, 2007, accessed June 10, 2018 . - The EKD also includes Protestant Internet work (church online, church television), the EKD's radio work, other radio and television providers (such as Bible TV and Evangeliums-Rundfunk), but also the church production and media sales companies Eikon and Matthias-Film as well as the Protestant monthly magazine chrismon , the Protestant monthly magazine zeitzeichen , the Evangelical Press Service (epd) as the oldest news agency in Germany and the weekly church newspapers.
  41. ↑ Budget 2010. (PDF) (No longer available online.) EKD, p. 21 , archived from the original on December 5, 2011 ; Retrieved on 19 May 2010 (Section 4, Section 41, budget item 4125). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ekd.de
  42. ↑ The fight for idea . In: ideaSpektrum 47.2017, p. 24
  43. ^ Pastor Horst Marquardt: Donations. In: idea.de. Retrieved September 5, 2012 .
  44. ↑ Ulrich Weiß: Read through? Pass on! (pdf, 3.8 MB) Christian Publicists Working Group , March 2017, p. 24 , accessed on December 10, 2019 . Thomas Klatt: EKD and “idea” - dispute over Protestant media portal. In: Deutschklandfunk broadcast “day by day”. December 5, 2017, accessed December 10, 2019 .
  45. ↑ Dettmar, pp. 236, 243, 245, etc.
  46. ↑ Dettmar, pp. 237-239, 273
  47. ↑ Dettmar, p. 237
  48. ↑ Geldbach, p. 324
  49. ↑ Winterhager, p. 541
  50. ↑ Hansjörg Hemminger: Creationism - the better science? Materialdienst 5/2007, p. 168.
  51. ↑ Robert Schmidt: Gods and designers stay outside . In: Gerhard Besier (ed.): Religion-Staat-Gesellschaft  7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2006, pp. 173f., 180-184
  52. ↑ Regina Wamper : The Christian image of Jews and Judaism in the young freedom. In: Stephan Braun, Ute Voigt (ed.): The weekly newspaper "Junge Freiheit". Critical analyzes of the program, content, authors and customers. VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2007, p. 155; and almost word for word in Regina Wamper: Evangelicals in the Junge Freiheit. The Cross with the Nation: Christian Anti-Semitism in Junge Freiheit . Unrast Verlag, Münster 2008; P. 70. In her doctoral thesis on Messianic Jews , the Protestant practical theologian Stefanie Pfister also refers to the fact that idea publishes the support of mission to the Jews widespread in evangelicalism, for example with the thesis: " Anti-Semitism is to withhold the Gospel from Jews". Stefanie Pfister: Messianic Jews in Germany. A historical and religious sociological investigation ; LIT, Berlin / Münster 2008, p. 17.
  53. ↑ Wamper 2007, 155f and Wamper 2008, 70f
  54. ^ Mathias Brodkorb : The young freedom and their opponents. In: Berlin Republic . January 2008, archived from the original on March 8, 2011 ; Retrieved March 9, 2011 .
  55. ^ Journal Peripherie 117, 30th year 2010, Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot, Münster, p. 136. He refers to the follow-up publication with the same content: Regina Wamper: The cross with the nation: Christian anti-Semitism in the Junge Freiheit , Unrast Verlag , Münster 2008, ISBN 978-3-89771-747-3 .
  56. ↑ Norbert Copray: The right-wing scene is successful. Their ideas reach into the middle of society. Publik-Forum No. 12, 2008, p. 58. He states that Regina Wamper's follow-up publication was an excellent research that also uncovered the discussion about religion in the right-wing scene.
  57. ↑ Dirk Wingender: Ethically, I am conservative. Idea director Helmut Matthies on legal allegations and his story. Mittelhessen.de, November 12, 2014, accessed on November 27, 2014 .
  58. ↑ See [1] , [2] .
  59. ↑ Helmut Matthies: Löwenthal is a role model for me . Excerpts from the acceptance speech by Helmut Matthies on the laudation by Church Councilor Rolf Sauerzapf, JF 51/09 on December 11, 2009.
  60. ↑ See e.g. B. EKM's head of education criticizes the head of the Evangelical news agency idea for accepting a prize for “Young Freedom”: “The taboo border in the gray area on right-wing extremism is being shifted” . EKM press release of December 28, 2009, then via epd z. B. Criticism of the award for idea ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger December 28, 2009; several articles on this in JF, including: Christian Vollradt: Helmut Matthies should renounce. Löwenthal Prize: The Thuringian church functionary Christhard Wagner asked the idea boss to return his award ; JF January 8, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ksta.de
  61. ↑ Clarifying encounter between the Evangelical Church in Central Germany (EKM) and the Evangelical News Agency idea . EKM press release of January 21, 2010.
  62. ↑ Stephan von Hoyningen-Huene: Religiosity in right-wing extremist youth. Lit-Verlag, Münster 2003, p. 46ff. This is in contrast to "substantive agreement in normative and ethical statements" and "concrete practice of religious people and their organizations".
  63. ↑ Stephan von Hoyningen-Huene: Religiosity in right-wing extremist youth. Lit-Verlag, Münster 2003, p. 51. The political scientist and ARD editor Oda Lambrecht and the political scientist and NDR editor Christian Baars also speak with reference to agency texts, which z. B. headlines "Muslim infiltration", of a "campaign against other religions": Oda Lambrecht, Christian Baars: Mission of God: Fundamentalist Christians in Germany. 2nd Edition. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2009, p. 137 ff.
  64. ↑ Winterhager, pp. 539-541

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