Liberal (magazine)
| liberal - The magazine for freedom | |
|---|---|
| description | liberal magazine |
| language | German |
| First edition | 1959 |
| Frequency of publication | quarterly |
| Editor-in-chief | Mertzlufft is different |
| editor | Karl-Heinz Paqué , Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger , Manfred Richter , Bettina Stark-Watzinger , Michael Link |
| executive Director | Andrea Wasmuth |
| Web link | www. Freiheit.org/thema/liberal |
Liberal - The Magazine for Freedom is a quarterly publication that has been published since 1959 and is published by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom . The founding was liberal by the two FDP politicians Karl-Hermann Flach and Hans Wolfgang Rubin .
Origin, title and content
Liberal has been published with changing titles since 1959 (1970: Contributions to the development of a liberal order ; 1984: Vierteljahreshefte für Politik und Kultur ; 2012: Debatten zur Freiheit ) at the following places and in the following publishers: Verlag Das Freie Wort, Bonn: Liberal-Verlag ( until 1979), Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft (1980–1984), Sankt Augustin: Wirtschafts- und Informationsdienste-Verlagsgesellschaft (1985), Sankt Augustin: Comdok (1986–2002,2) and Berlin: Liberal-Verlag (2002,3 -2012.1).
Liberal was initially published quarterly, and since 1965 monthly. Since the 1970s, editorial support has been provided liberally by committee members and employees of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, who also regularly became active as authors.
In the beginning, the magazine was “mostly inward-looking”. Rubin wrote that it was a "political-literary magazine supported by active liberals". The aim of the current issues is to initiate and continue debates about liberal politics in the past and present and to convey information. The contributions are essays, statements, documentation, book reviews and book advertisements.
There were fundamental changes in appearance in 2012 and again in 2017. The new edition of Liberal 2017 was designed by Corps Corporate Publishing Services, a subsidiary of the Handelsblatt publishing group . "The aim of the relaunch is to firmly position liberal as a significant voice in Germany's political discourse, to convey political education and to get readers excited about the idea of liberalism," said Wolfgang Gerhardt , then Chairman of the Board of Management of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation.
On the part of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, editor-in-chief Anders Mertzlufft has been responsible for the magazine since 2019. The “Debattenmagazin” appears as a printed version and in tablet format (as an iPad version or Android version). Liberal is free by subscription. The editions since 2012 can be downloaded.
Editors and editors
editor
- from 1959: Gerhard Daub (until 1968), 1959 Karl-Hermann Flach (1961–1973), Hildegard Hamm-Brücher , Hans Lenz (until his death in 1968), Peter Menke-Glückert (from 1965), Werner Maihofer (from 1971 ), Hans Wolfgang Rubin, Klaus Scholder
- from 1981: Ralf Dahrendorf (from 1983), Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, Peter Menke-Glückert (until 1983), Jürgen Morlok , Hans Wolfgang Rubin, Klaus Scholder (until his death in 1985)
- from 1987: Wolfgang Mischnick
- from 1991: respective board members of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation
Managing Editor
- 1992-2002 Barthold C. Witte
- 2003–2011 Hans Barbier
- 2011–2015 David Harnasch
Overall management / editor-in-chief
- 2012–2018 Kirstin Härtig (Kirstin Balke)
In addition to the publishers and editors-in-chief, there are also responsible editors, who in many cases are employees of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom. The authors are politicians as well as journalistic or academic experts in the field of liberalism, its history and philosophy in the past and present.
Web links
- Liberal on the website of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Liberal". The Friedrich Naumann Foundation magazine goes to the kiosk . In: horizon . June 5, 2012 ( horizont.net [accessed July 3, 2019]).
- ↑ liberal - The archive. All online editions of liberal - the magazine for freedom. Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, accessed on July 4, 2019 .